Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-16

pears from an autograph letter from him ac- | companying said picture" They also express
 their gratitude ''to the giver, who has thui linked her name with that of the illustrioul President of the Lost Cause"
 Dr. Stephan, the chief of the German Posta
 and Telegraph department, gave a novel bal
 in Vienna lately. All the servants were | dressed in the costume of positions. In the | course of the festivities a post-wagon, fully equipped, with harness and driver, was driven into the dancing saloon. The guests danced around telegraph pole adorned with many colored ribbons. Envelopes containing bon bons were distributed among them from let
 ter boxes exactly like those upon the Berlin street corners. Werner Siemens, the invent or, who is called the German Edison, provided
 for the occasion a novel electrical lighthouse.
 The dancers were given keys to the door of the tower, some of which had the magic quality of causing the lamp to send forth a
 brilliant flame. The couples possessing the right keys waltzed in the glow of the sudden illumination, but those who could not make
 the tower respond were obliged to retire from
 the floor amid the amusement of the specta-
 tors. At 1 o'clock fanfare of positions
 horns gave the signal for supper.
 The case of 8 man living at Milton, N. H.,
 is cited as an illustration of the false economy
 that places the daily or weekly newspaper
 among the things that can be cut of to reduce
 expenses. This man has two large ice houses and during the winter he stored both full of
 ice He supposed all other ice houses were
 full, for he 'sgot along without the papers, :"
 and so did not know the general state of
 things Recently he was called on by Ports
 mouth man who offered him 5000 for his ice
 just as it lay in store. He did not let the
 offer grow stale, but picked it up eagerly and
 cried "done." In day or two better offers
 began to come in and had to be refused, and
 even as high as $2,OoO was sent from the
 door. The economical gentleman felt pretty
 sore and wondered he hadn't heard about
 things; but his wrath boiled over when with
 in two weeks the purchaser of the ice turned
 it over to Boston ice company for $5, 600,
 clearing just $5 1000 by the operation. A daily
 newspaper costing $8, $1O or $12 year, or even a weekly costing $2 year, would have
 been fair investment for that man.
 According to the London Medical Press,
 those timid persons who are haunted by 3D. prehensions of being buried alive, and who make testamentary provisions against such a contingency, may now take courage, for sci ence has supplied an infallible means of de- korp Spiv, -ba quilted the mortal frame. Electricity epa- bles us to distinguish with absolute certainty between life and death, for two or three hours after the stoppage of the heart the whole of the muscles Of the body have completely lost their electric excitability. When stimulated by electricity they no longer contract. If, then, when Faradism, as the treatment with indaced currents of electricity for remedial purposes is called, is applied to the muscles of the limbs and trunk. say five or six hours af- ter supposed death, there be no contractiIe response, it may be certified with certainty that death has occurred, for no faint, nor trance, nor coma, however deep, can prevent the manifestation of electric muscular con- tractility. Here, 1t is claimed, there is no possibility of mistake, as there certainly was when the old tests were employed.
 English rituaIsts have lately been a2itated by two cases of fragrant sacrilege. AIayman, instead of swallowing a holy wafer given him by his parson, pocketed it, that he might reproduce it in court as witness to the illegality of the communion service in his church. The wafer was produced in court. The ritualists held day of humiliation to avert the wrath of Jesus from the country for handed the wafer back; the archbishop of Canterbury expressed an opinion that it was very wrong to trif1e with the wafer, so the court gave 1t up to the deputatiop, who sol emnly brought 1t to the visible head of the church; and he, the archbishop of Canterbury, retired to his closet, got on his knees and swallowed it. The external storm was ellayed: the church had peace. In the other case, the chaplain of the workhouse, in administering the sacrament to an inmate, spilled some of the wine over her apron. He told the wo- man that the soiled part of her apron must be cut cut, as the wine had been conseorated. aud the part stained must not remain in use, 50 he cut out the piece and rev erently burned it. The guardians called him to account for destroying rate payers proper ty, and he pleaded that the apron was now out and worthless, besides having become too holy to be worn profanely.