Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-01-20
MiscellaniOuS Matters,

The.New York stock exchange has LOO
members. A seat was sold recently for
100000
Another ship load of amnestied commu-
nists have reached Brest, and twenty three
still remain in New Caledonia.
Louisville's bank clearings for 1880 ex-
ceeded those of 1879 by $44, 000, 900, or
nearly 60 per cent; 1878 by $S3, 900, 900, or
nearly 40 per cent, and those of 1877 by
$40. 200, 900, or about 80 per cent. This is
certainly most remarkable expansion
Since the crematory furnace was erected
in Gotha, Germany, thirty bodies have
been reduced to ashes in it. Some of them
were forwarded from Dresden, others from
Leipsic and Munich, and one from Vienna.
Eleven Gothans were cremated. The cost
of the cremation of body is about SIG,
much higher than in Italy. The prejudice
against cremation is reported as rapidly dis
appearing, and the American Consul at Son.
most of those who have chosen cremation
instead of burial belong to the nobility, the
army, and the learned professions.
The total appropriation for the New York
city government for 1881, exclusive of state
taxes, is 1927, OS3, 562, the sum appropriated
last year, after making the same deduction,
was $26,O96, $3.50, an increase for 1881 of
1896, 1893 on the net expenditures of the
city. Of this sum, third is spent on
the interest of the city debt with the small
sum for the redemption of bonds falling
due.
An exchange says: ave have received a
story entitled "A Dark Deed, which is re-
specially declined. The first chapter
opens with, 1T is midnight This is all
right. 1t is often midnight-a least seven
times week-but the author forgot to add,
and silence brooded over the city, This is
fatal oversight. Silence always broods
over a city when it is midnight in works of
fiction-but no where else. We can't print
story in which silence doesn't brood at
midnight"
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes sent this lit
tie verse to the Inter Ocean, of Chicago, as
Christmas sentiment:
see the living tide roll on;
1t crowns with flaming towers
The icy cape of Labrador,
The Spaniards' land of flowers,
It streams beyond the splintered ridge
That parts the Northern showers
From Eastern rock to sunset wave,
The continent is ours!
Partisan: 1t is most marvellous that per-
sons who have made up their minds to
commit suicide, and who are not mad,
should SO often choose public places for
carrying out their terrible intention. It is
not long ago that an occurrence of this
kind happened in public library concern
ing which one of the assistants remarked to
me thatit showed great deal of want of
consideration" What he would have said
of the young man at Schwatzenburg in Sax
ony, lately, who killed himself in ball
room with surprise" cigar filed with
dynamite, am at a loss to conjecture.
The lights were extinguished, the walls
gave way, and the young man was blown to
pieces" Yet they say the German nation,
unlike the French is opposed to sensation.
Mr. Whittier writes that he hopes that his
readers will find that he has "tried to make
the world little BETTER" and that some
thing may be found in his writings ito
awaken Above of freedom, justice, peace,
and good will-something which shall sug-
gest, however family and imperfectly, in
the Christian ideal Of love to God and hu-
mainly"