Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
Miscellaneous.

OF the greatest cities Of Europe, book
producing Leipsic furnishes by far the
largest proportion of self -murderers. Be.
| tween the years 1875 and 1878 London
registered an annual average of only eighty
| five suicides for every million of inhabit-
ants; Berlin, 2S9; Vienna. 2S5; Paris, 200;
| and Leipsic the enormous figure Of $50, at
the same rate. 1t will be further interest
ing to note what effect the more rigorous
application of the socialists 1.w will have
on this startling habit.
1t seems odd to read this, in the Ciucin-
natl Gazette, from Northern man in the
south: with the negro, the time by day
is employed in lolling in the shade, and by
stealing melons. and attending distracted
meetin,' and the air of these soft, still
nights is filled with the triumphant tones
of 'Brer Washington and 'Brer Battles as
they 'rastle in prah;' while ever and anon,
without sound of warning, without a halt
in the 'rastle,' the weird negro melodies
float out
'sDe big Bethel Church, hits bound to win:
Oh Lawd grab de mo'ners"
There is bill pending before the Geor-
gia legislature to punish Mormon mission
aries for preaching their belief in that state.
number of converts in the northern part
of Gecrgia, where there are regularly or
ganized Mormon churches, with polygamy
omitted. In as much that the Georgia
Mormons neither teach nor practice that
offensive doctrine, the bill meets with op-
position on the grotind that it would inter-
fere with religious freedom.
The superintendent of mails at Chicago
1re
which should become general throughout
the department. In all cases where COM
plant is made by regular subscribers of de-
lay or failure to receive newspapers, that
officer pastes upon the next paper mailed
to that address the following notice: Com
plaint is made that newspapers to this ad-
dress do not reach destination promptly.
All employees handling this package will
please see that the same is properly for
warded." In this way the evil is traced to
its source and remedied.
Concerning very disagreeable old per-
son who may have done his best to be a
Christian, but who does not seem to have
made crowning success of it, the Con-
gregationalist remarks: ''He was cross
and fretful at home. He was a terror to
his wife and children; still be was deacon
t
no means wholly bad. On the other hand,
Monochrome, Of all the places in the world
the very place which should be a little
heaven below And, worst of all. he was
typical to a certain extent, of great many
men who, though not as bad as he, never
theless stand in great need Of reform in
this particular"
Sea captains are loud in their complaints
of the adventurous fools who distinguish
themselves by crossing the Atlantic in small
boats, and are calling upon ship owners to
take some action to preven5 these enter
prises, from which nothing new or good is
to be obtained, since the experiment has
already been tried successfully. Every
ocean or off coast is mortally obliged to
keep off fer It, to see if he can aid case
of distress, and a good many captains have
lost much valuab lime of late in their mis-
placed attention to the dory Little Western,
which is now on the sea.
In speech to his constituents at Leeds,
Mr.. Herbert Gladstone, fourth son of the
premier. said: "One of the most satisfac.
tory points in the foreign outlook is the
increasing friendship between England and
America. If anything is any more satis-
factory than the outburst of British SYM
pathy with President Garfield, it was the
manner in which he outburst was receiv-
ed in America"
| Rarely, :. is to be hoped, has political
| prejudice, in the case of man whom ra-
| tions love, survived as it appears to have
done in the town of D lmfriea, Scotland,
where Robert Burns lived and where he
died. 1t has been proposed to erect there
suitable monument in memory of him
and in testimony of the fame which,
through him, the town has acquired; but
Burns was anything but q Tory in politics,
and hence the local Conservatives have re.
fused to give the enterprise any of theil
support. Stiff Scotch Churchmen, who, as
has been appropriately said, have infinitely
more ground, on the score of theology, fol
objection to Burns and the example he LEFT
to the world have taken widely different
est admirers and apologists of Burns ii
Dumfries.
| A person of an inquiring mind and fail
literary style might produce an entertain.
ing brochure, if his taste so inclined him
! upon the birth, development and decay of
| the masculine bow. In former days the
pig tailed and silver shoe -buckled gallant
swept the earth with his hat in his obeis-
ance to woman, and by the empressment OF
| his dorsal curves expressed the profound.
est Difference and alteration. Since thai
time, however, this pleasing fashion has
degenerated, though a succession of mods
jerks and other galvanic actions, uxtil to.
| day, when bravery meets beauty, he
snatches off his hat and looks into it, and
goes his way in the belief that he has paid
the whole tribute of polite salution which
modern society demands of its slaves.