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Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

Massachusetts is, on the whole, an admir- able State, but the Fall River Hera5d talks about ''the brave, heroic, liberty loving Mi hilists, D and the Newburyport Germ says, perhaps Secretary Blaine will live to con- mend the assassination of the Czar as not only the greatest blessing to Russia, but the most heroic and brilliant deed of the best of menn
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

Owners of gas stock will find comfort in MT. Edison's statement that it is not possible to run out gas by electricity; that there will always be need for it for domestic purpos- es, and that gas companies, especially in small places, have an independent field.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
Electric Lights In London. From tha T0ndOn NeU9


 The electric lighting which is about to be- gin in the city is the largest and most i'm portant experiment of the kind which has yet been carried out in London Hitherto the electric light has been used, as on the Thames Embankment and Waterloo bridge, in conjunction with gas but in the city the thoroughfares selected are to be lighted by electricity alone. The Embankment lights are put out and the gas lamps lighted at 10 in the evening; in the city the gas will not be used at all, the electric lighting being con- tinued all night The first district begins
 with Blackfriars bridge, and extends along Bridge street, Ludgate Hill, the north side of St. Paul's church yard, and down Cheapside
 as far as King street. The distance is f,648
 yards, and is to be lighted by the Brush sys- tenn, which is in use in Palace Yard. At King | street the Siemens system will begin, and will extend along the rest of Cheapside, the Poultry, Mansion House street, King Will liam street and Adelaide Place, and across London bridge. The same system will be extended down King street, Queen street and Mansion House street. The whole length of street covered by the Siemens light will be I,521 yards. Another district to the south of these will be lighted by the Jablochkof lamps, like the Embankment. It will i'm clude Southwark bridge, Queen Victoria street, distance of ,703 yards. The exper- iment is to be continued for year, at an out lay of about e6, 900. There is a curious diff ference in the three systems. The Siemens system, for which the lofty lamp-posts are now being erected near the Mansion House, has the smallest district, but will cost for the year e3, 72o; the Jablochkoff, which has a somewhat larger space to light, is to do it for
 E2, 930, while the Brush, which covers more space than the first and rather less than the second, is to cost only e1, 1,410. The whole experiment is now to be tried under condi- tions which will afford a fair test of the three systems but, to make the comparison with gas at all fair, an equal area should be lighted with the shadowless burners, so that the amount of light got from the gas may be as nearly as possible the same as that which will be given by the electric lights,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

The director of the Bureau of Statistics at Vienna has made some interesting researches concerning the comparative longevity of women and men in Europe. He finds that out of 1O2, 1881 individuals who have passed the age of 90 years 6O,3O3 are women, and only 42. 52S are men. In Italy 241 alleged centenarian women are found for Al men of that age.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

St. Louis is to have joint stock cremation society, $1O,Ooo capital, shares 1925. It is expected to be profitable, since the cost of cremating body will be but $s, whereas the charge may be $4o. The furnace will cost $3, 900.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
Education for Lighthouses.


 Why should not lighthouses learn to spell out their own names? Such is the latest idea of our scientific men, and the last word of the advanced edueationists. Some dis functions there are at present but too many of those sttowers along the steep" which, in spite of the poet Campbell, Britannia does need, are furnished with fixed lights, and these have been more than once confeunded with the ordinary gleam from seaport town, even a village on the cliff. It might bs thought that the glare of our bea- cons, with all their costly apparatus and null tiplied refectors, could never be mistaken for an ordinary lamp, yet Professor Tyndall night, that fin certain conditions Of the at- mosphere candle in lantern and the cleo tric light were undistinguishable by mere appearance, so that Shakes peare's "How far that little candle throws it's beams!'' had scientific basis. It is now proposed that by system of ''group fiashes'' every lighthouse in the United King dom should indicate it's own identity. Tele- graphists are aware how numerous are the combinations which may be made by group ing and regrouping the short and long "dashes'' of the Morse system, and the helio- graph has applied the same principle to the flashes of the sun. On this principle it is to be hoped that finally every lighthouse in the kingdom will be able to spell out it's name to benighted and bewildered sea- men, instead of, as now, simply making fits mark" Scores of wrecks may thus be avoid ed. The 'fog horns" or 'sirens' s'-''such names mingled Pare also to be sent to the new night school, and, instead of the hoarse bellowings which are now their only utter ance, are to be endowed with the gift of more or less articulate speech. These are Sir William Thompson's excellent proposals, and they have received the approval of the Trini- ty House.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

Byington writes to the Norwalk Gasette that among the one thousand, more or less, competitors employed at the government printing office, there are three young lady competitors, who have regular cases in the main composing room in the office and work by ''the hour" exactly like ''any other man. 7" During the past six months these three enter prising young misses have, by actual meas urement, set more type than any three men employed on the same character of compo- sition
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
German Court Ceremonies.

In plaln-golng England Prince has to be
 married very much like anybody else. But in Prussia the court still lives in an old fash | toned world, which lower mortals have not yet presumed to enter. A KIng's marriage l is a ceremonial of itself and a Prince must | submit to wearisome ordeal of forms The | Hof-Prediger's duties at an end the Hof- Mar 1 schalFs begin, and doubtless that stern func- tionary will scorn to intermit on this occa- sion one jot or little of the medieval cere-
 monies which three years ago attended the weddings of Prince Williams sister and cou- 1 sin. ''La Cour" is form which has ever
 been dear to the Hohenzollerns. While the | Emperor and Empress sit in state the guest walk past them in silent fle-the ladies first,
 the gentlemen next, and the less distinguish
 ed courtiers in the order which has been as- | signed them. At one time the sovereign, to
 indicate his superiority, used to play whist l and chess while the procession swept along I on it's stately march. But of late years he has contrived to bear the irk | some ceremony without recourse to any
 such pastime. Supper is less undesirable I form; but it, too, is a ceremony. The place of every human being is in Prussia fixed by some law, written or traditionary, and at the | royal table is apportioned in exact accord | ance with the particular individuals rank in the table of precedence. Even the great mo- bles and princes who hand the soup plates and pour out the wine are as much hereditary off, hclalS as IS the grand carver In the queens Scottish household or the pipe-bearer in the seraglio of the Sultan. There being no
 Holy Roman Empire, there are of course no
 electors to surround the Emperor as he ''sits
 in Kaiser pomp and pride;" but the duty of attending on his wants is too lofty to be yet intrusted to the ignoble hands
 of untitled footmen Supper over, the
 medieval ''Fackeltanz" begins. As the
 royal personages sit on the dais-the ladies on
 the right, the gentlemen on the left, of the
 Emperor and Empress-the Grand Marshal.
 bearing lighted taper, approaches Behind
 him are the Cabinet Ministers, and at their
 backs come the married couple. After they
 have solemnly walked around the room to the
 music of polonaise, the Emperor takes up
 the march as the escort of the bride. Then
 follows the Empress, and so on until the hall
 has been paced in circuit 22 times, and every
 guest has conventionally danced with the
 bride and bridegroom. The last ceremony of
 all is the most curious. The brides garters
 are distributed to the assembled guests. But
 as these articles of toilet limited by nature,
 scarlet ribbons embroidered with her initials
 serve their places, and enable the royal lady
 to gratify every assistant in the laborious
 operation of marrying an imperial husband
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
How to Cure a Cold.

A medical journal tells how one% man was cured of cold: He boiled little worm- wood and horehound together and drank freely of the tea before going to bed The next day he took five pills. put one kind of plaster on his breast another under his arm, and still another on his back. Under advice from an experienced old lady he took all those off with an oyster knife in the after
 noon and slapped on a mustard plaster in- stead Then he put some hot bricks to his feet and went to bed. Next morning another old lady came in with bottle of goose oil, and gave him 8 dose of it on a quill, and an aunt arrived about the same time with Q bundle of sweet fern, which she made into a tea and gave him every half hour until noon,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
MORNING. MARCH 8. 1881
Sorrnal all0 Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY m HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building.
 JOHN D. oARRINGToN. EDWARD E. oARRINeToN. JOHN B. -oARRINaroN, JR.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

Carriages and Wagons for Sale.
 EA0 BEACH WAGON, also 4seat Rockawayi N3&@SS9 three secondhand Phatons Top Carraret shIfing top, patent wheels also secondhan Wagons FRepairins of all kinds promptly attended to and at the Lowest Prices Carriages and Wagons Stored and 0GbI a.as A -o0'''.. D. ToBIN. 1o4 HOWE STREET
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

The British Court of Appeal has just de
 cided case involving the question of the Alabama award. The owners of a ship cap tured by the Alabama were insured for e15,- GOO, war risk, which sum on the destruction of the vessel they recovered from the under
 writers. The real value of the vessel and cargo being e21, 900, the owners obtained the difference, 96, ,000, ,out of the Alabama award, under the law of the United States. There upon the underwriters brought an action against the owners for the sum received by them from this government. When the case
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23

The so-called ''stay law" of 1878. which provided that the savings bank commission CTS of the State of Massachusetts might limit or regulate the payment of deposits in time and amount as seemed best for the well fare and security of the deposito1s in any savings bank, has ceased to be effective. The law has been applied to twenty-four institutions for savings in the State, holding in all $2s, ,376. 419 of deposits. All these banks except two have now resum- ed business on stable footing. The law has served it's purpose, though it has been bur densome to the depositors, and the savings banks commissioners do not regret that it has apsed It has cen the source of a good deal of controversy, the bank managers wish ing to retain their funds as fully as possible, while the commissioners have insisted upon their paying their depositors all they could without sacrificing their securities.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-23
Established I845.

NNHE subscriber returns thanks for the liberal pat
 1 ronage bestowed on him for the past thirty-fye years, while engaged in the Trunk, Harness and Sad dlery business at Exchange Building, and begs to inform the public that about March 1st he will open with full stock of the class of goods al 9S ORANGE STREET, where he hopes by strict atten- tion to business secure share of their patronage
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07
ALLLS[7N'S CAREER IN NE
V4DA.

1t seems not to be generally known
that there is reward offered by a Ne
vada sheriff for the arrest of the stage
robber known as Chas. Allison, who
now lies in the county Jail, for ofenses
committed in that state. From what
can be learned there seems to be no
doubt that Charles Allison was the
man who was known in Nevada as
Charles Ennis. If this be true Allison
has led a checquered existence. He
has peculiar knowledge of the man.
acles that held his limbs prisoner
when he was brought to Denver. He
made his first appearance in Nevada
IN 1879, as agent for an eastern firm
that manufactured manacles and hand
cuffs. He got into some kind Of
trouble at Carson, and in order to
raise money enough to get out of town
he pawned his manacles, raising fifty
dollars on them. He afterward be-
came brakeman on one of the rail-
roads running through Nevada, max
ing home in Eureka. Nevada was at
that time the scene ofexciting events.
Allison, alias Ennis, was an actor in
some of these scenes. He committed
some indiscretlon that made his ab-
sence from Eureka as necessary to his
health as it was to his liberty. He did
not consider long for a means of get
ting away from Eureka. He walked
into livery stable, held up the man
in charge and compelled him, on fear
of his life, to saddle horse. The
livery man having no desire to give
room to a bullet from Allison's pistol,
betook himself to the nearest stall
with alacrity and saddled the fastest
horse. Allison was overtaken before
he had gone far, and on trial he was
sentenced to seven years imprison-
ment. But Allison didn't 60 to Jail.
He made his escape through the win
dow of the car saloon, and although
the train was stopped and vigilant
search was made tor the escaped
prisoner, he was not to be found. A
rather peculiar incident connected
with AlIison's arrest and escape was
that pair Of the very manacles that he
had brought to Nevada, and pawned
in Carson City, were placed upon his
ankles. -Denver Tribune.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

In some contested cases where the
town site claims and mining claims
come in conflict, the Secretary OF the
Interior has decided that all land
claims should be entered with a reser-
vation in favor of mining claims, and
all mining claims With reservation
in favor of land entries. This, espec-
ally where placer mining is pre-aient,
will hardly prove satisfactory, and
does not settle the question.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07
THE MINERS FLOWERS.

Far up the mountains mossy side
In shade Of the spruce pine wood,
4 found the daisys laughing face
And the columbine's crimson hood;
And the violets 50 fresh and prim
Reflect the heavens blue
While buttercups catch all the light
And shine with brilliant hue.
They wake the memories Of youth
For oft in boyhood's day,
gathered these in eastern dells
To mako o spring bouquet.
Ny mother cherished them with care,S
She loved the wildwood flowen;
Ny sistel twined them in her hair
For many childish hours.
May not these flowers hint convey
What wealth the rocks may hold?
See this bedecked in SILVER lace
And that arrayed in "gold"
Whence got this purple king his sword
Encased in shining sheath?
It b an exhalation from
The "lodes" that lie beneath.
Look whore in yonder grassy nook
That ruby" flower blooms,
And this beside the foaming brook,
The peacock tints" assumes.
But ah in vain for me "you show
Though cheering much l need;
If there is "pay" meath where you grow
have not found thu lead W
irwin, Colo, June, 1881. C. Il. n.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

The Elk Basin Consolidated Mining
company, of the Ruby district, have
filed their papers of incorporation.
The principal Office will be located in
Denver. The Board of Directors is
composed Of David A. Gage, Eugene
K. Stimson, VIM. Gilburn, George H.
Holt and Roderick Gurley.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

A fellow named Buekskin Joe" 4"
who claims to have practiced tight
rope walking all his life, proposes to
stretch a wire across the Grand Canon
of the Arkansas, and make the trip in
September next:
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07
CATS.

| SfA"S' W ANA
the attributes were parceled out among
the animals, the catgut the gift of
music. She got it by violins.
No one knows where cats come
from, but since the fashion of seal
skin sacques came in everybody knows
where most of them go to. But this
Is kept profound secret among the
owners of seal garments. They set
the seal Of secrecy upon it. Purr-
haps they are wise.
The cat has nine lives-that is to
say, she lives nine times longer than
she ought. This suggests a problem,
which lovers of mathematics there
are those, alas! who love them-can
puzzle over.
If it takes nine taifors to make one
live man, and nine lives to make one
cat, what does a catamount to? Cor
respondents sending answers will
please inclose a three-cent stamp, not
for publication, but for the use of the
compiler Of this autentic history.)
The cat is not subject to tax. Eff
forts have been made to insert a clause
in the dog law to include cats, but
thus far the cats have inserted their
cwn claws.
Not only do they escape tax, but
1.-THE taxidermist also. They do their
own stufdng.
At the time of the food Father
Noah endeavored to keep the cat out
Of the ark, but the Cat got her back
mp and passed in under the guise Of a
camel.
Until recently, every ship has since
that time carried cat.
Many stories are told of the sea-
faring cat, including. .pine-tails, which
are often red. ..-A
| In Egypt cats were regarded as
Hcred animals. To kill one was
an offense punishable with death.
The cat remembers this, and to this
day takes lence on the slightest prov
ocatlon.
Formerly. when cat died, all the
inmates of the house went into NOUN
ing. Now the household go out into
the night and erect bootjacks to Its
memory. They don't wait till morn
ing.
The Egyptians worshipped cat
headed deity, and mariners, who
cling to old superstltions, still set up
cat heads in their ships.
The Egyptian cat lived in a dark
age; the modern cat closes her exist
ence in a sausage.
Cat skins were favorite dress-trlm-
ing in the middle ages, whence arose
the proverb that skinned cat is bet
ter than it looks.
The cats kin are now exclusively
used as trimming for back fences.
A catkin is a young cat, and is
great on the spring. In the spring
she may be seen among the topmost
branches of the willows.
Cats were introduced into England
from the Island of Cyprus. They are
not found in the cypress now; only
on willows.
In ancient Wales cat fetched the
same price as a calf. Her modern
walls now fetch a whole cowhide in
the shape Of boot leather.
Cats are Baptists by profession, bat
those who idulge their predictions
during early kittenhood seldom sur
vive.
Cats are very newsical. They are
all base singers. The nocturne is
their favorite composition.
Nox is their especial deity. Rocks
always accompanies their concerts.
Cats do not open their eyes until
nine days old. Do they ever close
them again. Nein. Throw boot-jack
at a sleeping cat and you will be con-
vinced of this.
Cats are supposed to be accompllces
of witches, which IS probably because
they love the darkness rather than
light.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

Considerate Father" You should
eat graham bread, my son; it makes
bone" Responsive youth, " HIM,
I'm bout all bones now"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

Colorado's production Of coal in
creased from 1850 tons in 1859 to
s7s, 200 in 1880
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

A great many more things might be
said about the cat.
But silent be, it is the cat.-Berkon
Transcript.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-07

Mrs. Mackey is known in Paris ~
re the Arizona mine"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
THE NEW SPEAKER.
ONE PARTICULARS ABOUT GEN. KEIFER,
NOW HEAD or TIE HOUSE.

ONE PARTICU LARS ABOUT GEN. KEIFER,
NOW HEAD OF THE HOUSE.
Joseph Warren Keifer, who has
been elected Speaker, is an Ohio man.
He represents the Eight District in
Congress, and his home is in Spring
field. Gen. Keifer was borne in Clark
county, Ohio, January 30, 1886. His
bOyhOod and youth were mostly spent
on a farm. He received a common
school education, topped off at Antioch
College. In 1858 he was admitted to
the bar, and practiced law in Spring
field until the beginning of the war.
He entered the Union army and was
commissioned major of the Third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April p.
1861 was promoted to lieutenant
colonel, same regiment, February p,
1862 September 20, he was appoint
ed colonel Of the Tenth Ohio Infantry.
He served in the campaigns in West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Georgia, and was wounded
severely May 5, 1864, at the battle of
the Wilderness. On November 30.
1854, he was brevetted brigadier-gen-
eral for gallant and meritorioUs SER
vices in the battle of OPequan, Fish-
er's Hill and Cedar Greek, Va, and
on December %, President Lincoln
assigned him to duty as brigadier-
general He was appointed major
general by brevet "for gallant and dis
tinguished services" during the cam
paign ending in the surrender of Gen.
Lee. and was mustered out of service
June %, 1865. After four years mill
tary experience, he resumed the prac-
tice of law in his old home. In 1869,
he was in the Ohio Senate. He was
commander of the department q. A.
r. during 1869 and 1870, and in 1873
was made vice cOmmander-in-chi of
that organization. In 1878 he resign
ed from the Board of Trustees Of the
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors home,
position he had occnpied from the
date Of its organization, May 8, 1872.
He was a delegate at large TO the ma
tional Republican convention held at
Cincinnati. lie made his first APP
pearance on the stage Of national at
fairs as a member of the XLVth Con-
gress, and was reelected TO the
XLVIth and XLVIIth Congresses.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The English edition of Hdrper's
Magazine will comprise 10000 cop
les.
Mr.. Talmage says hell is strewn
with tobacco leaves. But that's all
right. Men smoke when they get to
hell, though they never did before.
In accordance with the facts: A
party of San Juan ranchers made
bonfire of an Apache Indian, and the
coroner's jury returned a verdict of
''Overcome by the heat"
Cornelius Vanderbilt is putting up
buildings for a charitable society.
This LAYS young AstOr in the shadow,
for in after years brief Congressional
hOnorS viii be over-topped by the
house that Vanderbilt.
a bogus priest, going by the sever
al names of Davis, David or Daniels,
has been imposing upon the unWary
citizens of Texas and Kansas. Fer de-
cency's sake we trust this man Is not
David Davis in disguise.
George Law was hard, selfish and
stingy. A correspondent states that
occasionally his wife's pastor pene-
trated his seclusioR ana obtained some
llA4HS uOi'a11oLy ou1 IAAAS "oS
the result of perseverance against OBJ
stacles.
'sMy dear child" observed a good
deacon to an urchin who was polish
ing a eats back with blacking brush
on the Lords day, "have you never at
tended Sunday school ~ 'Naw," re-
spOnded ~ gamin frankly, 81 don't
go to places of amusement. Brook
lyn Eagle.
''Papa," remarked the infant terri
BILE, who was mounted on the back of
the old gentleman's chair engaged in
making crayon sketches on his bald
head, "it wouldn't do for you to fall
asleep in the desert, would it 2" "Why
not, my darling ?" 'Oh, the ostriches
might sit down OH your head and hatch
it out. ut.'-Brooklyn EdqIe.