Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-09-15
Miscellaneous Matters.

Our modern men of wealth enjoy them
selves better than the Crastuses of Rome; ;
they revel in luxuries undreamed of in the
days of the Caesars; they plough the seas
with yachts swifter and far more luxurious
than the barge in which Cleopatra welcomed
and won Anthony, and their feet, high
melted coursers put to shame the fiery
steeds of the Olympian games.
The Mobile Register very naturally and
reasonably expects to the suggestion of q
portion of the northern press that the re-
union of exconfederates be discontinued.
We feel, it says, that the south has as much
right to be proud of the valor Of her sons
as the north has, and that each section
should do full justice to the heroism of the
other, as we believe, is growing to be the
case.
The fish commissioners of Maine have
put 10000 young sea-salmon into the
Kennebec river, as many more into the
Presumpscott and 800, 900 into the Penob.
scot this year. They also put SO, 600 land
locked salmon into each of these rivers,
100, 900 shad into the Kennebec, 10O. 600
into the Penobscot and 2, 100000 whitefish
into the Rangley lakes.
The st. Louis clergyman who attended
the Irish convention at Chicago last week,
when he got home, speaking Of the ingenu-
ity of the Chicago reporters, said: Men
came to the Palmer house in disguise; and
one enterprising journalist scaled the fire.
escape, but he was not rewarded for his
pains, for not word or sentence dropped
his way. When he made man, God never
contemplated reporter. The conditions
through which man must pass to meet the
demands of nineteenth century journalism
~ lok% 6ok q
ton"
Under the law of 1873, apunishment was
imposed for sending through the mail ANY
postal card upon which indecent or scurril-
Gus epithets may be written or printed.
In 1876, for some reason not given, the
words "or scurrilous" were omitted. 1t has
accordingly been decided that the bill COL
lector who wrote to delinquent: "You
have got to pay this bin, and you may twist
and squirm, but you can't cheat this man, "
was not amenable to the law.
They fancied they had struck the most
remarkable crank" of the century in
Brooklyn, the other day. A person of re-
spectacle appearance and pleasing mien en- :
tered the assessors Office, and, having ex-
amined the list of personal assessments,
asked quietly to have the amount of Seth
Lows assessment raised from 81 900 to
SIC, 1000; that is, he wanted to have Mr..
Seth Low pay ten times as much taxes.
When his reason was asked, and his au-
thority, he said calmly: Il am Seth Low. "
Mr.. Low, however, strange it may seem, is
not insane. He is posing as candidate
for mayor.
Some idea of what American missions
are, and have for some years past been do
ing, in Asia Minor, was recently given in
London by the Rev. DR.. Trowbridge, an
American, who is president of the Central
Turkey college, at Aintab. In Asia Minor
there have been established over 400
schools, which are attended by about 49,
600 pupils, and besides these there are
high schools and seminaries for the train
ing of girls. There are also four American
colleges-one at Constantinople, one at
Beyrout, one at Aintsb, and one at Khar-
poof. At the college Of Aintab the pupils
| first study the English language, after they
have acquired some mastery of which they
go on to history, algebra, chemistry. -geol-
ogy, political ECONOMY land mental philos-
ophy. In connection with this college there
is medical department, together with q
hospital at which 500 patients have been
] treated since last autumn.