The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-01
CURRENT NOTES.


it Of this good.natured and lazy.tGihpered
beverage; andyet report comes from
Louisville, KY, that q caslk Of beer cx.
ploded the other day, producing a shock
that severely injured several persons. II
is only a few days ago that We noted the
explosion ola hince pie, and now another
luxury has turned against us. Where
willthi thing stop?
THE following is the explanation Of the
origin of the saying, "Ir the mountain will
not come TO Mahomet, Mahomet must go
to the mountain" When Mahomet first
declared his system of religion to the
Arabs, they asked for such proofs Of his
miraculous power as the Christians
claimed for Jesus and Moses. Mahomet
judiCiously replied that If lie granted
theirrequest it would he tempting God,
and would provoke his wrath. However,
in obedience to their entreaties, he com.
manded Mount Sofa to come to him. As
the mountain refused TO obey his man.
date, he exclaimed; "God is merciiul |
Had it obeyed my words, it would have
fallen on us TO our'destruction. I will
therefore goto the mountain, and thank
God that He has had mercy on stiff.
nccked generation" lllyGf gg .4i
THE United States Government PAYS
every year from six TO eight hundred dol.
Tors each 10 two newspapers in every
State Tor publishing the laws passed by
Congress. No selfsuprortlng paper can
afford TO print SO much matter for so small
APPLIANCE. The results that the amount
thus expended Is simply an annual sub.
sidy used 70 sustain struggling partisan
newspapers. The laws are published"
in insignificant rural weeklies, except in
few places, in the Southern States,
where small daily papers announce them.
selves with great dignity as the "OGlcial
papersofthe United States" In no sense
whatever,is there any true "publication''
of the'lGws under tho act requiring this
annual expenditure. Yet an effort to re-.
peal the law'by clause in the Deficiency
Appropriation bill gave rise Monday to o
violent discussion, many Republican mem.
bers insisting that 1t should be sustained
merely for the benefit Of the party during
the coming campaign. A direct appro-
priatiOn to the Republican General Com.
mittee would be more honest measure,
and the amount could probably be ex-
pended with much better effect
MIR. GARFIELD's bill, introduced in the
House Of Representatives on Monday,
provideSIor.a record of naturalizations in
the State Department. All papers grant.
ing citizenship are TO be forwarded to
that department for registry before they
are issued to applicants by the courts;
and tho Secretary Of State may issue du.
plicate certificates to men who have lost
the first. A list Of all naturalzations is to
be published each year. This seems to
be good plan; and the obvious objection
that it would prove cumbrous, slow, and
expensive in practice win seem the less
iormidablethe more it Is considered. Add
one further provision Of more importance
than all the rest, that no certificate of nat
uralization shall be issued save by courts
OF record OF tho United States, and it will
establish anational system of comforting
citizenship which will do away, with one
OF the most extensive forms of fraud in
elections, and will restore to the title
"Americap citizen n,uclio Of its old dig,
nifty. ''-''E - 81 ~ = 70