The Republican journal., 1881-02-03
NUMBER 5.
Editorial Notes.

The government is collecting facts concerning
the Indian sign languages Win this include the
Indian signs in front of the tobacco stores?
Rousing boy from his slumbers at half past
four in the morning cost New Jersey farmer Just
$500 The indignant youth set his employers
barn on fire
The Philadelphia Times thinks it is wrong to
kiss and tell of it. The editor of that paper was
recently married. We don't see that any further
comment is needed
The Maine Fusionists whose only object is to
get office and fight the Republicans will contest
the city and town elections in March Boston
Journal
Well, they will have to do some fighting before
they get the offices
Wisconsin woman on her travels left an un-
derskirt behind her in the room herself and hus-
band had occupied at a hotel But that is not the
most extraordinary part of the story There were
$500 sewed up in the lining of the skirt 1t was
recovered by its owner, who got her greenbacks
back
Mrs, Valera q Stone of Maiden has lust pre-
sented to the Massachusetts, Homeopathic hospital
the sum of s., 900 for the founding of permanent
Tree bed, to be known as the Stone Free Bed
That's hard name for bed if it is free The
Boston Herald suggests that 1t be called Free
Stone bed
large cusk, snatched from It's waery home in
Lake WlnniplseCgee, contained full length lead
pencil, nicely sharpencd one end rubber tipped
and embelished with the trade mark of A. ",
Faber, No. J, best quality.
That's our pencil We thought another kind of
a cus-k had it
In "a Poetical Bouquet of the United States, ="
eulled by Mark F. Bigney, editor + the New Or
leans City Item, we lind the following
MAINE.
Timber and tonnage sailors and he sea-
Lakes, rivers, mountains-these belong to thee
Work to thy sons is worship-conq nquest-gain-
For wise men are those 'Manacs of Maine.
It is little strange since our postal facilities
make the dispatch Of seeds and flowers so easy
and inexpensive, that New England florists do
not sell twenty hve per cent. Of the flower seeds
garden seeds and plants that are used in New Eng
land The florists in New York. Rochester and
even Detroit steal the trade right away because Of
their superior enterprise Boston Journal
And we may add, as the result ofexperience, su
perlor seeds.
Dr.. II. VI. Harlow, superintendent Of the Maine
Insane Asylum, i'm his annual report, has the follow
ing say concerning alcoholic stimulans As cause
for INSANITY
Perhap. single cause is 50 prominent and un-
mistakablc easily traced from effect back to cause,
or from cause to effect is this potent influence
In certain constitutions it leaves masked trail,
its steps are open and plain from the first indulgence
to the eliminating point, when the long bent bow
loses its elacticity, and the poor ensaved victim il
left wrihing in his own agony, from which no
earthly power can cNtricate him. Could the use of
alcohol, eithcraS luxury or medicine be stricken
from the land many a room i'll our lunatic hospitals
would he vacated and many an i'll to which flesh is
heir, deprived of its yitalizng power In the ami
NAL economy, alcohol is monster hydra headed
evil, spending lis chief force upon the cen
tres, and lerangng every part Of the vast nturotic
system 1t should never be used in health, and
am persuaded after many years Of observations
that it seldom does any permanent good, even in
sickness Where one life is saved hy it, thousands
are destroyed by it, use.