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Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

It doesn't require 8 pair of horses to dral ] ont O rraISoreln1e Av'sto-~~" Nr-- VI -1T -----s---~4 e-4>.oAo~---4r-so 4v,.s- 2,eees.
 ''The Parlor Cattle Car Company hap been incorporated in Cincinnati, and ''Boudoir hog cars" are expected next.-Bost0n Post
 Man with his coat off struggling with a piece of steak calls out to the proprietor ]: ''Say, don't the horns go with this ere piece of meat ?"- WAeeEng Leader
 To the query of Danbury dentist to an applicant for new set to what sort of teeth she wanted she said, Something that won't show dirt. .''-Dan6,ay Neaos.
 A young lawyer wished to cite an authori- ty on case he was conducting, and not be- ing able to remember it, his opponent wittily remarked, Though lost to cite, to memory dear.'
 He was too solemn preacher; he didn't suit in Nevada. The chairman of the fare well committee expressed it well. Said he; Now you can git, pard we ain't agin relig- ion out here, and it rifles us to see a feller spilin' it. Git.''
 1t all depends on how you look at these an- cestors- One little aristocratic girl was yesterday boosting that her forefathers came over with the Pilgrims, when another wee maiden, whose widowed mother had recently old duds I've got bran new father "-O1 City Der77ck.
 Last Sunday little girl came home from church and failed to repeat the text to her mother as customary. The good mother cast her deep, expressive eyes responsibility on her forgetful child. ''How could I, mamma, remember such long text, when every lady In the congregation had on bran new dress that was too sweet for anything? Oh, man. ma, you'd ought to have been to church !'' And all thoughts of the text were forgotten as she described what she saw to her loving mother.-Iurne1 FdHs Reporter
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
The Assistant CIerkship.

l There was never more favorable time fo1 Fairfield county to secure the Assistant Clerk ship of the House than at the coming Leeis
 lature. What is more, Mir. A. ". Paige of
 Sherman, who appears to be the leading can-
 didate, is 8 most deserving and acceptable as-
 pirant for the-position. Of his general quail fications we have already spoken most favor ably and our judgment has been cordially ap- proved by such papers as the Palladium, JOURNAL AND COURIER, Norwich Bulletin. Meriden Repu66can, and many others throughout the State. Besides being quick. apt and ready on-hand reader. with an excellent voice, of the proper age and pos sessed of the requisite physical qualifications. MT. Paige will bring to the position an un- usual familiarity with legislative duties ac- quired during his services in minor offices in both branches of the General Assembly.
 In his previous connection with the Lepis- 1ature MT. Paige has been uniformly courteous and accommodating, winning the good opinion of those with whom he came in contact, and making personal friends among the leading Republicans of the State, iand now has the support of nearly all the Republican mem bers from Fairfield county.
 From Messenger in the Senate, which po- sition he occupied last session, to Assistant Clerk of the House is in direct line of prefer ment and other things being equal, if party service is to count, more deserving candi- date cannot be found in the county if in the State. Upon looking over the field, we think Fairfield county cannot do better than to unite sohdly on Mir. Paige and press his cleo tion
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Town Pump.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The town pump on the Green when in good condition is a public blessing and a most obvious auxiliary in favor of public health. But it is now disabled and made useless, the water in the pipes being frozen There should be a suitable person appointed to attend to the same OBSERVER
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

There is one recommendation in Mayor Robertson's very appropriate inaugural ad- dress to which we would call special atten- tion. This is 'tEfort and inducement which will tend to the establishing of this (the man. ufacturing) interest within our boundaries should be encouraged and fostered, as noth- ing has contributed more to the interest, wealth and prosperity of our city than our manufactures
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
EDITORIAL NOTES,

One Nevada paper believes the office of Chaplain of the State Legislature ought to be abolished because prayers at five dollars each are too expensive, and another believes that
 prayer are wasted on the Nevada Legisla- ture anyway"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

The city of Philadelphia, which has more population than the States of Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware put together, has not had United States Senator for tbir- ty years, and some of the inhabitants of the city feel bad about it.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
A Look Ahead.

The most important problem which will fall to the new administration will be the Southern question good deal by MT. Hayes course. it is true, but neYerthe- less essentially the same problem with which General Grant struggled eight years. and which he received as a legacy from his pred ecessor. How shall the people of the old slave States be brought fully to accept the re- suits of the war to look upon the black mans right to vote as just as good as the white mans, to respect the right of every man to his own judgment in politics and to the expression of his own views; to cultivate tolerance, that fine flower of high cultiva- tion; to permit the national division of the voting clement into two parties, which is the only healthful condition of things in popu- lar form of government The state of the country cannot be regarded as satisfactory
 until it is just as safe, respectable, and com
 fortable for man to bea Republican in the South as it is for man to be a Democrat in
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

csasss, .----. t.4 ttilel 1.lIeaii.s soue ol she taxes on the nat1onal banks. They believe if this were done it might be possible and even certain to place three per cent. bond at par, because such legislation would not only en- courage the banks to take three per cents as the basis of their note issue rather than withdraw their circulation, but what would be of even greater importance, it would re- move entirely the fears which capitalists here and abroad entertain about the future of our fnancesn
 Of course no such measures can be expect ed from the present Congress, and in view of this fact and the uncertainty concerning the future it would seem wiser to settle the mat ter at an extra session. There is time for much to. happen between now and the extra session if one should be called, and what ought to be done might be much palmer then than it is now. But it is quite plain now. we think, that if MT. Woods bill, or any like it Is passed, it will be mistake.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
The Tale ofthe Inemectu.l u.

we ,aasa trrom the Macon tGal TelegraphI
 listing clerk at the Brunswick fre;ght saous daeas shas Just previous to the alarm of fire T,1es day nlght 9 hen jumped upon the w;n5es- 5es- seat outside the window, and by peoE;ne Enaow os, the glass, attracted attention within. this Tba 6a ndow tha bem was ralsed, but instead of enterinr ing it with her left foot. A fr;sn.5ise scratch. gathered in the fowl and placed her gno1a nano buthcase poo to roost she retained the pos;t;o, put was evidently uneesy for some ;sl.,on, ps;ss, ha,.a hbanany cry of fire was sounded and .hs consumed in s5ns. sne depot blazed up and was that the hen came over to alsrm Ipw 1ps thought tired to initiate the scratching of ,,asl sn, ana rasping her toes on her winc - match by
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

One objection urged against the Jews of Germany by their prosecutors is that they as- pire to form an an-powerful aristocracy of intellect as well as of wealth. Herr Stoeker asserts that in the higher schools of Berlin there are 4,674 scholars belonging to the Lutheran and other Christian faiths while there are in them 1 4sS Jews the latter race only forming two per cent of the total population-furnishing nearly one-third of the most advanced scholars of the city This is certainly uncomfortable
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
E. E. SANFORD, d24 19S and 2O4 Elm St. Ionti1ae Livery Stab1es

A I'VE arc prepared st short notice to fur1,ish
 the best Carriages, either close Or eneal for Balls, Weddings and Christeninas. -e1 z. .. e. IT IS our intention to have good Carrtagea 9rsssf1l for the liberal psfro1inge in tie ,sl. wA t Iope M oy strlnf .stention to the pas1te of or1z 20 merit continuance of the fayorr rS
 aI BARKER a RANSps
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
Jollrnal anu Gouriier.
Monday Morning, Jan. 8, 1881.
THE FUNDING SCHEME.

l The prospect that the Wood funding bill
 or. indeed, any funding bill, will be passed 1 by the present Congress does not seem SC 1 bright as it did before discussion of the mat
 ter began. The Washington correspondent
 of the New York Hera1d sets forth some ot the difficulties in the way of action upon the
 matter at this session
 In the House the Democrats are not all
 agreed upon Mir. Woods bill, and some of
 them oppose it because they wish to attain other objects aside from refunding the debt,
 such as in some cases larger issue of green
 backs, in others measures hostile to the na-
 tional banks, and in yet others greater is sue of silver dollars. The Republicans gen.
 orally doubt whether three per cent. bond can be put on the market at par. They be- ieve that to try it and fail would be injurious to our credit. They do not believe in the Democratic plans for conducting the finan- ces, and they see, moreover, that in few months a Republican administration will have the cooperation of a, Republican Congress and say, not entirely without justice, that under such circumstances it will be much ea- sier than now to perfect funding measure "AICu S1ldn D6 COu6lSt6uG W1bn the pest ana lasting interests of the country
 If MT. Wood should get his bill through the House it will meet with a critical recep- tion in the Senate. It is thought probable that the Republican Senators will get Secre- tary Sherman called before the Finance com mittee to express his views, and Mir Sherman does not conceal his dislike of Mr. Woods bill nor his belief that it will not serve the purpose. It is not impossible that the bill may be very essentially changed in the Sen ate Finance committee before it is reported to the Senate. and it has then to be discussed at length in the Senate and returned to the House. and the 4th of March is so near at hand that it is not easy to see how all this can be done and a bill be finally adopted which Mir. Sherman would advise MT. Hayes to sign. For it is not to be forgotten that if, in the opinion of Secretary Sherman, funding bill should go to the President with impossible, or, in his opinion, injudicious provisions, he would urge it's veto on the ground that to throw the measure over to an extra session would entail only temporary and comparatively insignificant loss on the Treasury, and be much smaller evil than to commit the new administration to measure likely to fail.
 The correspondent also says: s.Among clear headed financiers here there is desire for a funding bill which shall combine with the measures for placing bonds at lower rate of interesta body of cognate legislation calculated to improve the credit of the coun- try and place the finances on a secure and permanent basis. These men, of whom there are unfortunately not too many, would incorporate in 8 funding bill a clause repeal ing the legal tender quality of the green backs, another stopping or at least greatly checking the coinage of silver dollars and putting a stop to the issue of silver certif-
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
Cows Teeth,
SO"S IOCUus Ignorance Stalking Through the Land


 rFrom Pecks Milwaukee S n.l
 A couple of Third ward citizens met each other on the sidewalk last Monday morning as they were starting for their places of business, and one of them, who resides on Van Buren street, asked the other, Jack on their upper jaw The Jackson street man was little astonished at the question, as there had been nothing said about COWS, but replied promptly: s'Why, of course they have front teeth on their upper jaw how could they bite off grass if they hadn't?"
 The Van Buren street man said it was not a question of logic, but question of fact and If the Jackson street man did not know whether COWS had front teeth on the upper jaw or not, he ought to say so. ''I did not ask you for your opinion" he said; 'I asked if you knew"
 The Jackson street man was little net tied at this, and replied with some warmth. He said if he had child 3 years old who would ask such question as that, he should be afraid the child was an idiot.
 'You would?"
 q certainly should
 'Then," said the Van Buren street man, ''as it is such a simple question, of course you can tell me whether COWS have got front teeth on their upper jaws or whether they have not"
 'sWhy, of course they have"
 ''They have, eh ?''
 'eYes"
 'Tll bet you $1O they haven't" said the Van Buren street citizen, pulling out rol' of bills, and peeling off couple of fves shaking them at his neighbor. ''Put shut up."
 ''There is some internal thing" said the other, susr have known it, too, the such an internally id
 ''No catch at al' other, Eff their UT haven" he hot
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

The San Francisco Alto has been making a computation ofwhat Kearneyism has cost Cal ifornia. There has been decrease of $33.- 900, 900 in banking capital, the improvements of property have been checked, the number of depositors in the savings banks has fallen of, the loans of the banks have been less this year than the repayment of borrowers, there is no new railroad building in the State, and the home capitalists are transferring their business to New York California is the only State that is not sharing in the pros perity of the country.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03
HALF FROZEN.

It doesn't require pair of horses to drag nI,+ O r,aisareh1e Aw;s+o>oo Ne.- V ' 1r
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

The Springfield Union thinks that if such thing as decent, reputable and trust worthy matrimonial agency could be estab- ished for bringing together the husbandless women of the East with the wifeless men of
 West it might do a stroke of business
 ! would be of immense benefit to both
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

Yennor expects blockades of snow "in the United States" about the 7th and Sth of Jan uary, and rainy days during the month will be exceedingly few. He further prophecies as follows: The second quarter will open with heavy snow falls, and terminate with cold snap. The middle of the month will bring snow falls which will terminate in mild CT weather toward the end of the third quar- ter This thaw, which will be interrupted by a brief cold spell, will extend from about the 18th of the month into February. The rec ord of this month Twill show it to have been severe one, and the general conditions of the weather will probably remind us of some of what are called s'real old fashioned win. ters E ZEE
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
PaDer Plates.
iFrorn the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.I
The latest application of paper is the
adoption of paper plates by some of the
great restaurants and cafes in Berlin.
The innovation was first introduced dur
ing the summer of last year by the adj
venturous landlord OF uch-frequented
open-air restaurant Every customer
who ordered bread and butter, rolls,
cakes, buns, or simil lar articles had them
served to him on little paper plate,
made of light 1apier n'ache, adorned
with pretty border in relief, and hav-
ing, at the first glance a great similarity
to porcelain. Guests, walters and hosts
were all well-pleasod with the novelty;
it saved the walters many a deduction
from their wages on account of
breakages, which the deftest and clever
est of kettiaerS can scarcely avoid when
he handles hundreds of pieces of crock
cry in single afternoon and evening.
The paper plates were SO cheap that the
landlord did not care to assert his own
ership over them, and the customers
were allowed TO carry them away, like
the pretty serviettes of thin paper used
III so many restaurants III Holland
There are also a considerable saving of
the time lost, and the chances OF acct
dent incurred in the cleaning of earthen-
ware pottery. The success of the ex-
pertinent has been so marked that the
new species of plates are likely to be in
troduced into a great number of restau-
rants.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
Watches Which Gain or Lose.

A watch which varies in a regular
manner is superior to any whose varia-
ton is uncertaiu, and where its variation
comes to be familiar, the watch may vie
with the most delicately adjusted ships
chronOmeter. Suppose, for instance,
your watch gains a minute a month.
Take into consideration the fact that in
your watch the balance wheel (by which
it is Fegulated) makes five oscillations
every second, which equals 1872, 200 per
day, SO that your watch, exposed to all
the vicsisitudes which heat and cold oc-
casion, the varying weight of the air and
shaking to which it is subjected by car
rying, has not varied over minute
month or two seconds a day. 1t has only
acquired with each vibration of the bal
ance a variation of asssixteen thousandth
part of a second. Judge, then, what
must be the extreme perfection of the
mechanism of your watch. A watch
cannot go for an indefinite period with
out being repaired or cleaned. At the
expiration of certain time the oil dries,
dust accumulates. and "wear and tear
are the sure results to the machinery,
the functions becoming irregular and
frequently ceasing TO act altogether.
Persons possessing fine watches, and de-
sirous Of preserving them as such, should
have them cleaned once III every two
wears
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
Rather florid.

The Tallahassee FlOridi0n contains
the following remarkable statement:
We saw yesterday at the drug store OF
W. A. Rawis the skull of a Florida
celebrity, odd Joe, gigantic alligator
which since 1887, has inhabited the
island near the old United States marine
hospital, at the junction of the St. Marks
and Wakulla rivers, in Wakulla county.
This island, which was the home OF the
monster, has been known az Joe's
Island for many years. The old fellow
who has been a target for innume1able
harmless shots all his life, at last fell a
victim to the skill of Mr.. James L..
Oliver, on the 9th day Of October, A.
D., 1880. When dissected his stomach
contained hog weighing about seventy
five pounds, five large six-by-eight inch
chunks of wood, three time rocks,
weighing three or four pounds each, a
brass howitzer loaded. and chop-axe,
with small piece of handle, 1t beng
mostly digested. The axe was used oy
fishermen for cutting the heads OF fish
off. and. being missed, it was supposed
some one had stolen it His length was
only thirteen feet, his circumference that
of a large fierce. When first noticed on
the Island of Joe he was large ALI
gator, forty-four years ago. He at times
disappeared for months, but when he re-
turned would take up his abode Oh or
near Joes Island, his old home. .
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
The Cars Funeral.

The Emperor of Russia was buried with inn
posing ceremonies at st. Petersburg, ON the
21st inst. The whole route of the procession
was lined by troops of the garrison, immediately
behind whom the public were permitted to
stand. The route taken was from the great
plain in front of the winter palace by the admir-
atty quay and English quay to Nicholaivsky
bridge, crossing which the procession took a
street on the line of the island of Vassileostrof
across Tootschkoff bridge and by Alexander
park to the fortress, entering the gate called
1vaneskaia. The funeral car was bier of
ebony and silver on wheels, With heayily-carved
silver spokes. and superstructure of black and
silver; the whole was canopied by superb ma
terial encircling the columns of the bier. The
coffin of the illustrious deceased was almost hid
den by golden pail lined with white satin, and
the last car itself was drawn by eight LACK
horses completely shrouded in sable draperies.
-Four general aides-de-camp stood at each cor
ner of the catafalque, the polished metal wheels
of which ghstened in the sunlight Sixteen
general officers held the silken cords of the can
opy. Behind the bier of his murdered sire
walked Alexander III. in his imperial solitude
bearing alone his filial sorrow and his state
cares, and symbolizing in this last respect his
unique position. The emperor was dressed in
generals uniform, wearing the ribbon of st,
Andrew,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
An Era of sassiuafiOn.

A telegram from Tiflis states that an attempt
has been made to assassinate the governor OF
Baku.
On the oath inst, Sophie Pieoffski, female
Nihllist, was arrested at st. Petersburg. She
is the daughter of the councillor of ministry OF
the domains, and confesses having given the
signal to Hartman for exploding the mine under
the train near Moscow and also to having sig
nailed Roussakoff TO speed the fatal bomb which
shattered the cars limbs.
Colonel Dorjibky, the officer who was wound
ed at the time the car was murdered, has been
granted pension of 5000 roubles.
parcel was received at London on the 23d,
from Manchester, addressed to Sir William
Harcourt, who requested the police to open it.
The box was found to contain a loaded pistol.
This attempt upon the life of Harcourt has
caused profound sensation
bomb with a lighted fuse attached was
placed outside the royal theater at Madrid, on
the night of the 23d, but was discovered by the
police before it could explode.
The police have disarmed secret store of
1,600 rifles outside the barriers of Madrid.
A bomb with fuse attached was found in
front of the Duke Osuna's palace, Madrid, on
the night of the Dist inst. One explosion near
Alcala street caused undesirable confusion,
the people running away frantically. Arrests
were made, which lead to the discovery of a
large petard full of powder and glycerine near
the church San Justo.
Several editors and managers of Paris news
papers have been imprisoned and heavily fined
for publishing articles applauding the assassina-
ton of the czar.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-02
Confirmed and Nominated.

Postmasters confirmed by the senate on the
22d: James G.. Sherman, Menominee, Mich.
Charles Esselinger. Manitowoc, Wis; James o.
Raymond, Stevens Point, Wis; Justus L. Moak,
Watertown, Wis; VIM. III. Hartman, Waterloo,
Ia; VIM. G. Conley, Manchester, Ia; Geo.
Crane, Dubuque, Ia; Edward Russell, Daven-
port, Ia; John Kennedy, Hastings, Mimi.
Francis W. Seeley, Lake City, Mimi; Eden N.
Leagins, Faribault, MINI.
The senate confirmed the following nomina-
tons on the 21st: Levi P. Morton, of New
York, envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary to France; S. Dana Horton of Ohio,
secretary of the United States commissioners
to the international monetary conference at
Paris. Receivers of public moneys: Henry H.
Gritfiths, at DeS MONIES, Ia; William Fl. Som
ers at Beatrice, Neb.; Henry r. Pearce, at Wa
tertown, Oak. Registers Of land offices: Hen.
ry Cousins, at Florence, Arizona; Henry W.
Dwight, at LIE Grande, Oregon
The president nominated Thos. Wilson, of
the District of Columbia, for United States
consul at Client; Thomas t. Douglas, for post
master at Mansfield. Ohio; Charles Esslinger,
for postmaster at Manitowoc. Wis; Ronello
W. Berry, for collector of internal revenue,
Idaho.