Morris tribune., 1881-04-07
Facts and FancieS,

Chicago has 800 churches and 5000 sa-
looms.
The California vintage for 1880 is esti-
mated at over ten and half million gall
Ions by the state Viticultural commissioners.
Of this product $500, 900 gallons were dry
wines, 100000 sweet wines, and $50, 600
brandy. The total value of grape culture
was So, 100000.
Switzerland was visited, according to sta
tistics collected by the Alpine Club of Italy,
by l 100000 tourists in 1879. Of these
100000 came from Germany and Austria,
2S0,000 from England, 200, 900 from France
and $4,000 from the United States. The
foreign travel is estimated to pay the Swiss
$40, 100000 annually.
Wife given to literature and the drama. to
her husband George, what is the mean
ing of the expression Go to, you meet with
so frequently in Shakespeare and the old
dramatists?" Husband mot reading man)
q don't know. I'm sure, my dear, unless
-well-perhaps he was going to say-but
thought it wouldn't sound proper. -
The Volunteer Review, new journal
just started in London in the interest of
rihemen and volunteers, frankly comedies
the superiority of Americans in rifle shoot
ing; and remarks that in team match of
America against Great Britain, although its
patriotism and good wishes would be on
one side, it would respectfully ask permis-
sion to put whatever little money it chose
to risk on the event on the other side of the
water.
Pittsburg is afflicted now with a terrible
disease-an epidemic of sore eyes-followed
by a profuse discharge lastingfor day or
SO, the eyelids swelling and being infamed
when the discharge ceases. While the eyes
are affected a blush haze appears before
them, now and then changing to prismat-
ic ring. The disease lasts but few days,
and is seldom followed by any bad effects.
Pi,tsburgers are at loss whether to charge
own climatic situation. Meanwhile there
is blood in the eyes of most of them.
Secretary Lincoln has adopted what may
be called the heroic remedy in his treat
ment of Office seekers. He has posted this
being possible for the ..Secretary of War to
hear personal APPLICATIONS for clerkships, etc.
he directs that no person be admitted to see
him for that purpose. Applicants will file
their papers with the chief clerk, who will
submit them" 1t is to be feared that this
coldblooded bulletin will convince many
palpitating patriots that the heart of the son
of Abraham Lincoln is not so soft as his
fathers was.
Boston has developed another child tor
turer. He is only ten years old. but it is
charged that few days ago, he lassoed a
playmate and hung him to a lamp post.
When tired of his cruel sport he let his VIC
tim down and ran away. Taylor was badly
choked, the marks of the rope being visible
on his neck when he got home. The po-
lice have learned that he has been in the
habit of torturing others of his playmates by
this and like methods. Jesse Pomeroy, a
similar character, it will be remembered,
was sent to the peniteniary for life, from
Boston, a few years since.
Morganatic wives do not share the rank,
titles, or estates of the husband, and the
children, if not really legitimate, are not re-
garded as of the rank of children of full
marriage; neither can they succeed to the
property or the dignity of the father