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Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
Tea Drinking.

No article on tea could omit mention of
DR.. johnson and his great partiality for
that beverage. In his review of Hanway s
"Tea and its Pernicious Consequences,
he proclaims himself as "a hardened and
shameless tea drinker, who has for many
years diluted his meals with only the in
fusion of this fascinating plant; whose ket-
tie has scarcely time to cool; who, with tea
amuses the evening, with tea solaces the
midnights, and with tea welcomes the
morning."
"Bozzy" says that he supposes no one
ever enjoyed with more relish the fragrant
leaf than johnson. The quantities he
drank of it ut all hours were SO great that
his nerves must have been uncommonly
strong not to have been relaxed by such an
Incorporate use of IL.
It is related of him, but not by Boswell,
that while on his Scotch tour the Dowager
Lady Macleod, having repeatedly helped
him until she had poured out sixteen cups,
then asked him if a small basin would not
be more agreeable and save him trouble. II
wonder madame" he answered, roughly,
why all the ladies should ask me such ques-
tions. 1t is to save themselves trouble,
madame, and not me"
On another occasion he said: "What a
| delightful beverage that must be that pleases
all palates at time when they can take
nothing else-at breakfast" Croke men
tions that the doctors teapot held two
quarts.
Five-o'clock tea is by no means modern
! invention. 1t is of Swiss origin, and is
mentioned in the "Almanach des Gour-
mands." about o'clock in the evening
the lady of the house makes, in the middle
of the drawing room, some very strong tea,
softened by few drops of very rich cream
slices of bread and butter are served with
it. Such is the Swiss tea in ali its simple.
ity;but in rich houses there are added cakes.
preserved fruits, and even ices. It is
served every day, and it is the only meal to
which strangers are invited.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

ONE of the things most discouraging to
lovers of liberty is the readiness manifest.
ed by unthinking editors and unthinking
readers to abrogate or diminish the priv
ileges by the United States as an asylum
for political offenders from abroad, and
this at the suggestion of those whose great
pride, is in the permanance of des-
potic institutions, and whose great
est fear is that the people will
learn to govern themselves, as in the
United States. Every lover of republican
government, ever yhater of tyranny, should
sympathise very strongly with exiles who
have risked life and fortune in resistance
to tyranny, and in every endeavor, however
mistaken or futile, to secure liberty for
their fellow countrymen. Martyrs of lib
erty should not only have the protection of
a secure asylum, but be cordially welcomed,
as they were, IN the earlier, not To say bet
ter days of the republic, to country where
safety and freedom are assured. The
country that harbored Kosciusko and Kos
suth must take 40 back steps towards the
Cancellation of Imperialism, in whatever
form it may exist. The American, unless
he be craven bastard, and an almost in
conceivable snob, will notallow our free.soil
to become hunting ground of hereditary
tyrants.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

,, from the place in which we had nailed MIN,
when, to our great relief, we heard shout
from Tapping.
"Hallo!" answered Shelvocke.
Its all right. sir. She's splendid hip.
We've got the Frenchmen under matches,
and liberated the prisoners.
"What's the name of the vessel?"
"The Hanover, bound from London to
Jamaica. She was captured this morning
at three o'clock by French privateer, and
has prize crew Of fifteen men, who were
ia king her to Havre. There are forty of
her crew and the master aboard"
"Is she much damaged?"
"Her foretop- mast is in halves, sir, and
the royal mast head rests on the forecastle.
Her lower standing rigging is good deal
cut up, but can't see anything above her
tops. She has three men killed and one
slightly wounded
Very well, Mr.. Tapping. While this fog
holds, shall fire musket from time to
time, which you will please answer. Let
the liberated men turn to, and refit as well
as they can."
As soon as the sun reached the meridian,
the fog began to thin down in the west.
One could see it breaking up into masses
like the clouds around the brow of a
mountain, glimpses of the sky shining
AMID the intervals, and the sparkling of
the open waters; while, astsrn of us, it
was as thick as cream, and the ship invisi-
Bile. We were all of us anxious for sight
of the recapture, and every eye was turned
aft as the vapor thinned down upen the
ship, revealing first her hull and next her
courses, until presently her main-royal yard
oozed out, then the whole of her lay ex-
posed; and a fine great ship she looked. as
her large black shape was thrown into
strong relief by the solid snow white bodies
of vapor which were slowly rolling and
settling away down in the east.
I have been in many an engagement, but
this was the first and the last, and only
time saw ship captured in a fog.-From
AN Ocaan Free Lance"
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

New ZEALAND correspondent of one
OF the English printing trade journals COM
plains that types cast in the United States
are fast superseding those of English make
and styles in Australia, New Zealand, and
In fact all the islands constituting Polyne-
sia. The journal in question comments on
this announcement in a rather doleful vein
and then admits that so far as job and fancy
styles of types are concerned the complaint
will apply to England itself. as well as to
her south sea colonies. 1t says it is con-
stantly in receipt of specimens of printing
from all the principal establishments in
the United Kingdom, and that nearly every
card and circular received shows that it is
printed in part if not wholly with types of
American manufacture.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

BISMARCK and Blaine are in accord in re-
gard to extending governmental aid, or SUBJ
sldIsIng the merchant marine of their res
pective countries. Bismarck has memorial
lied the German legislature upon this sub
ject, and referring TO the example of France
In this direction he says that German ship
Ping and German commerce caunot hope
for furtker developement as against the
competition of other nations, aided by pub
lie friends and assistance. On the day
the freight trade is given over to foreigners
mortal blow will be dealt to all the indus
tries of the country. 1t would be an an
omaly, from national standpoint, to cede
the transport trade TO industrial rivals. 1t
is not an exaggeration to assert that before
the expiration of year after the promul.
CATION of tho French bounties bill, the
French merchant service will receive con-
siderable augmentation, and that it will
share with England the transport trade of
the Atlantic, as also the trade with South
America, East India, Australia and other
colonies. 1t is given out that the state de-
partment officials think that the people of
the United States would do well TO give
this subject some reflection in view of the
fact that our flag is fast disappearing ,f,om
the seas.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

found them all in most admirable shape. The
competent financial clerk, Mr.. Nixon, has them
all so arranged that there is nothing to criticse
or correct
On Tuesday at p M, Secretary Blaine
sent to Minister Lowell, at London: ''The ply
sicians give an encouraging report of the
presidents condition. Pulse and temperature
are slightly diminished since morning. The
pus is flowing freely. His appetite is improved
and he has been able to sit up with comfort
and lie on his wounded side.
The report of the supervising inspector gen
eral of steamboats, will show less number of
deaths than last year, except from the disaster
to the city of Vera Cruz and Alpena. These
vessels went down in storms which no amount
of inspection would have enabled them to sur
viye. For the eighth district, which includes
Lake Michigan, Huron, Superior and part OF
Erie, the report will 9 ow 8 deaths from fire,
II from collisions, go from shipwreck, 4 from
accident and 2 from miscellaneous causes-a
total for the district of 90.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

Lucy Stone says: The waste of time,
the waste OF strength, and the waste of
health which women accept on account of
health is appalling. The shoes of women
have pegs for heels, half way under the
foot, Of which they walk with a lettering,
hobbling gait, like Chinese women. Fr1lls,
fringes, cords, straps, buttons, pullbacks,
and flounces, supposed to be ornamental,
but which have no other use, bnrden and
deform even our young girls. If the rising
generation is to be healthy, there must be
o return to simpler, as well as more be-
coming styles. We need artists who can
devise simple and beautiful dresses, which
shall secure the wearer the free and nm.
trammelled use Of the whole body,
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

THERE has been a great deal of falling
off in the business of the Erie canal this
year, owing to the fierce competition of the
railroads. One of the largest canal towing
companies in the state has decided to wind
up because business has dwiudled to such
a point that there is no profit in it. But
the New York Bulletin says: That in the
nature of the case the decline must be tenn
porary. The railroad war, as it is called,
may be terminated ut any moment in
which case the freight which they are just
now carrying for next to nothing will find
its way back to the water route over which
1t has always been transported cheap
est. 1t is only question of brief time.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

REFERRING to the recent war between
the great railroad lines, whereby rates we're
Temporarily brought down without sense OF
reason, it is observed that the facts that
these break' occur periodically, and that
all the through lines can afford to carry
passengers and freights for little or moth
ing during part of the year without seri-
ously hurting their profits or diminishing
the value of their stocks, show conclusively
that the regular tariff of charges as agreed
upon are too high.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

THE decision of the supreme court of
Minnesota, on the application for a writ of
prohibition against the bond commission,
Will probably not be promulgated for at
least week or ten days. 1t is the general
impression among those who have given
most attention to the subject, that the writ
will not be issued, and that no decision
may be expected on the question of the
amendment of 1860, though that has been
one of the principal topics of discussion
before the court.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

The newspapers are trying to find an oc-
cupation for ex-senator Conkling. Various
things arenamed-forgetting that he was ed
ucated for the law-but the cutest of all, is,
that newspaper be purchased and Mr..
Conkling installed as editor. Then there
would be music in the air, provided he
could be persuaded to violate the imper-
sonality of journalism and fight his own
battles in its columns.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
The Great Wisconsin Scandal.

The committee of Methodist clergymen ap-
and Miss Kate Northrup, met at Knapp, Wis,
on the 4th. Two Witnesses swore positively
that they saw the act of adultry, and two others
swore to circumstances under their own OBJ
servation strongly confirming the charge. To
this Mr.. Atwater and Miss Northrup interposed
a sworn denial of the main charge, and pro-
duced evidence of previous good character.
Great astonishment was created by the decision
of ths committee that the elder was innocent of
the accusation. AS soon as it was known a
warrant was Issued for Mr.. Atwaters arrest
to answer to the crime of adultry with Miss
Northrup. A trial in a court of justice, what
ever may be the result, will give greater satis-
faction to those who seek only justice, than an
ecclesiastical finding.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.

The Parry house at Beach Haven, n J.,
burned and the guests lost all their property
The loss on the building will reach $4,000
The loss of 25O boarders is considerable.
1rofgar, Indiana, had bad fire. Fourteen
business houses burned, leaving only three in
the town. Sparks from railroad train set the
fire. Loss $50, 900. Insurance small.
Mr.. T. G. Smith, farmer living near Ches-
ter, Pa, told his grandson, little fellow of ten
years, to go and get some green corn for the
horse. After some little time, not seeing or
hearing anything of him, they commenced look
ing for him, and his grandmother soon found
him hung to pole by a bride rein, his toes
jsst touching the ground. They suppose he
was playing and got fast and could not help
bip,Solf
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
Death Of an Old General.

Gen. Robert Patterson of Philadelphia d:od
on Sunday evening last i'll the 9Sh yesr of =
age He had been suffering over two weeks
from BriGhts disease and fatty degeneration
of the heart. Gen. atterE Oh was general o.
divisions in the war of 1912; was alec gener-
al in the Mexican wer, and also "a major-g ger :
eral in the civil war. He leaves number O.
immediate descendants ard considerable
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

MAUD S. the famous trotter has made a
mile in two minutes aud ten and quarter
seconds (2:10 1-4)-and confidence is felt
that she is the animal that is destined to
do the same work in two minutes,
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

A Boston man took occasion to remark to
ms wlte: My dear, the Infinite is always
silent. LIS the Finite only that speaks"
She came from Cape Cod. and was accor-
dinglya dull woman, who didn't take hints
but she never forgot the remark, and lone
atterward when some friends expressed a
wish to visit the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
she turned to her husband and asked. !.
"What days, my love. is the asylum of the
infinite open TOR the reception Of visitors.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
Sensational Suicide in Massachusetts,.

bly, shocked by the news that Judge Colt of the
Massachusetts, supreme bench had been found
dead in his Office, having committed suicide
He had his Office in the rear of a savings bank,
and in the evening Treasurer Day returned from
supper to the bank and entered the judges
room. He found Judge Colt lying CD the floor,
and near his right hand five barreled revolver,
which belongs to the bank, and which was kept
on the treasurer's desk. Day at once sum-
moned medical aid. Life was extinct, though
tie body was warm The revolver had been
placed against the right temple. The ball
passed upward, and out of the top of his head,
the floor at the dead mans feet Judge Colt
was born October 8, 1916. He was appointed
to the supreme bench in 1865. He had filled
several important offices, and at his death was
trustee of Williams college. For some time
he had been in very poor health.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
FOREIGN FLASHES.

In trial of shesf binding machines in con-
nection with the Royal Agricultural society
held at Derby, England, there were twenty
secured the first prize, a gold medal. A New
York manufacturing firm received a silver
medal.
In the house of commons Forster. chief Sec
retary for ireland, replying to various ques-
tons, stated that John Dillon had been released
because report was received that further
confinement would endanger his life. This
report, on Investigation, was confirmed by OH
er doctors. Under the circumstances it was
not thought necessary to ask Dillon to sign any
condition
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

AT no year since the war has fruit been
so scarce and so poor as it has the
present season.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
The Terrible Heat.

aay afternoon and Sunday morning. In about
sixty cases death was either caused or has
tened by the heat which prevailed last week.
Such was the opinion of physicians by whom
the certificates were signed.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

LORD LoRNE, after giving the Winnipeg
gers taste of his quality, departed for the
far west and will not reach Winnipeg on
his return until the 11th of September.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

It is understood in Washington that tho pres
ident will be off Of his sick bed by the middle of
September, and that he will be able to re-
sumo executive business by the time congress
convenes.
Col Hugo Won Ulrich, who recently arrived
here from Mexico, claims that he has been
swindled out of s 900 worth of opals by an
unregenerate real estate dealer of Anoka ceun-
ty, who decided 14O acres of poor land and
$3.50 mortgage for the opals.
Mir. Geo. Riggs, one of the we lthiest and
most prominent residents Of the national capi-
tai, has been lying at the point of death, and
was expected to die almost momentarily by his
physicians. He is reported to be q little easier,
but is not expected to recover.
II is said that an effort is being made to in
duce Attorney General Devens to withdraw
as candidate for appointment on the United
States supreme bench in favor of Judge Gray,
of Massachusetts, in which event tits thought
ne would be appointed chief justice of the
Massachusetts supreme court s
The treasury officers who have taken
charge Of the accounts Of Mr.. Buroh, the late
Secretary Of the senate, report that they have
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18

The great alarm of the British govern
ment over Fenian torpedoes is pronounced
without adequate cause.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
CTRRENy EVENTy

G. J. Frey has given the Wesleyan Female
college Of Macon, Ga, $50, 900, making in all
100000.
Mr.. Hay, leading merchant of Waterloo,
Iowa, has failed; also A. J. Maloy and G. P.
Comstock of Chicago.
The New Hampshire house, by vote of 1863
to 8, has indefinitely postponed the bill to es-
tablish general railroad law.
Philadelphia has disposed of her white ele-
phant, the exposition building, for $57 600
The structure originally cost 81 100000.
Miss Anna Dickinson exploded bomb in
the temperance convention at Ocean Grove by
critlcisising the efforts of the temperance peo-
pie to save fallen men and allowing fallen wo-
men to take care Of themselves.
The widow of ex-President Milard Fillmore
is lying at her home in Buffalo dangerously ill
from stroke of apoplexy suffered Sunday
evening. She is wholly unconscious, and her
physicians give up all hopes of her recovery.
VIM. G. Fargo, president of the American
and an annuity of 81 5, 900 to his widow His
two daughters, Georgiana and Helen, each re-
ceive one-third of the remainder The other
third is divided among grandchildren.
During race at Norwich, Conn, Trottine
Park, between the horses Of Joseph McCann,
of Newark, N. j., and John Mcnamara, Nc
Canns horse won the first heat When he
on the fence, breaking his right arm and sever
al ribs, the ends oe the broken ribs piercing
the ungs
Elder James White, founder Of the Seventh
Day Adventist church, and president of their
publishing association and college, located at
Battle Creek, Mich, died recently, at Battle
Creek Of fever, aged sixty years. He was
direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first
white child born to the Pilgrim fathers,
The Brooklyn socialists in mass meeting
protested against the extradition of Leo Hart
man, such course they believe having been
contemplated by the authorities, and adopted a
resolution to the effect that it would be dis
grace to the country if the government should
deliver up the revolutionary hero to certain
death while he found refuge as political exile
even in a British monarchy
Winona Republican,: Rev. j. B. Cotter, of
Winona, was elected president of the National
Catholic Total Abstinence Unicn, at their ses-
sion recently held in Boston. This is a de-
served tribute to one of the most earnest and
able men in the temperance work-a man
whose quiet devotion to the good of his fellow
men, 80 long recognized by his co-workers in
Minnesota, finds also fitting recognition at the
hands of the National Union.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
CURRENT NEWS.

The contract for the bridging, piling, truss
ing, and all other timber work on the Chippe-
wa Valley & Lake Superior railroad and Red
Cedar branch to Red Cedar Falls, has been let
to @. G. Smith of La Crosse.
A correspondent asks sundry questions re-
gardiug cheap rates from Boston, the answers
to which are as follows: The cheap-rate tickets
from Boston hold good only for few hours
after the passenger arrives in Chicago No
road but the Grand Trunk is now selling round
trip tickets. The roads do not touch at Mag
ara. No stop over tickets are issued.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
The Presidents Condition

Wednesday was bad day for the president
His pulse ran uo to 1Os with high fever and
hope began to die out, but in the evening he
was better and slept we'll. The old wound
made by the bullet has entirely healed, and its
mouth is partially covered with. new formed
skin.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
Terms: s2.oo per Year In Advance.

The president is able to sign such docu-
nments as require his signature.
Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
British View Of Population.

IlCW Vi
From the London Spectator.
The gigantic iskting strength of Prussia,
before which nations have gone down, was
| developed before her population exceeded
| IL, 100000. Napoleon conquered Europe
with 2S, OOO, 600, and was crushed when he
controlled 50,0O0.000. Britain emerge
from the great war in which she defeated
him with l6,000.000 only-less than half
| her present numbers-of whom nearly half
| were disaffected Irishmen. If the United
| Kingdom were reduced in the next ten
years by passion for emigration to 20, ,000,-
| 900, but had in the interval been compelled
| by some grand panic to adopt a stringent
conscription, she would, as far as material
strength is concerned, hold her empire
twice as easily as she does now, and be in
fnitely more secure. Organization for war
is not noblest object, or indeed, unless
independence be endangered, noble one
at all, but 1t is q rough test of national
strength, as national strength is estimated
| by historians, and ST. tested. Prussia
under Frederick, with her 5000, 900, was
stronger than the United Kingdom is now.
He kept 10000 splendid soldiers fighting
for seven years, for much of the time against
allied European monarchieS. disposing of
1,2 4, 900 white soldiers. Could we, with
our institutions do itp Our great past his
tory, "of which Jingoes are always talking
was transacted by five or six millions of
people. We were not five wnen We held
| down France for half a century, and not
| ten when we founded the marvellous gloup
of colonies, who, with only 5000 defeated
US, and now, as the United States, bid de-
fance to the world. That, we shall be told,
is because of their increasing numbers; but
the facts would not be altered, now that
they have reached the level imperatively
required for the development of their pos
sessions, if they never increased a man.
A great fleet would make the Union more
putent in the world than another 90, 600, 600
Of wheat producers.
Germany has nearly 400, 900 shoemakers
and coblers, or nearly ninety to every
10, 900 of her population. This is greater
proportion than in any country except
Italy and England. Italy takes the lead of
all. Then come in order namely, England
/ Wales, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Dem
mark, France, the United States and Swe
den. 1t is q curious circumstance that
warm Italy should have within fraction
j of 100 coblers to 10000 Of the population,
and cold Sweden less than eighteen.
aChinese BARRIERS shave without lather.' =
This reminds us that our old schoolmaster
used to lather without shaving. One is said
| to be as painful an operation rs the other.