Morris tribune., 1882-01-19
Facts aud Fancfes.

The rapacity Of lawyers has received Il
fresh illustration in the contest over the
will of E. P: Christy, the negro minstrel.
He left property valued 1T $500, 600, but It
has all gone-eIcerta few thousand dollars,
into the capacious pockets of the attor-
neys.
IT Seems q tntie anomalous that the mem
bership of the Grand Army Posts should
be increased instead of lessened by lapse
or time. Iu Massachusetts 2,OO0 aeees-
slons have been noted during the past year;
III Ohio the numbers have increased from
1900 to 5000 members. Even in Kansas an
increase is manifest, twenty-five Posts hav-
ing been organized since July.
Portland to day contains $4,000 people,
and has wholesale trade extending into
every portion of the Northwest, and only
limited by lack of railroad communication
from doubling its scope. The jobbers here
carry stocks of groceries, dry goods, and
hardware of but little less magnitude than
those carried by San Francisco houses.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner is now in the
south Of France, and has been eating straw
berries in Avignon. ITO be sure, he writes,
they are the small, seedy, Swiss variety,
of which it takes q great many to make q
mouthf1l: But strawberry is a straw
u
aud come in of winter morning from q
walk in the abounding sun with hand full
Of roses and see on the breakfast table even
the humblest strawberry, ia more pleasing
than stalled OK and snow in New Eng-
and"
The German official report of the Franco.
German war has at last been completed in
twenty volumes. The last volume declares
that the chief object OF the campaign was
the construction of the empire" To
achieve that obj ect the Germans made i'm
mense sacrifice g. The money l1sses can
not be computed, but some idea of the
number of lives sacraiiced may be obtained
from the figures published. though probab-
ly below the truth. They show Ine total
loss to be 6,247 officers, doctors, and army
officials, and 124,453 private soldiers. It
was dear price to pay for empire,
The Christmas mail, delivered by the
carriers in New York city, was enormous,
and over taxed that we'll disciplined force
Over $50, 900 Christmas cards were delivered
and the Intervention Of Sunday and half
holiday collected tons of business letters,
so the carriers had ut least 100000 letters
to begin with yesterday morning. Several
OF, the carriers took as many as l 200 letters
OF, on O. one fonte. and in seven or eight deliy-
" ~'NJ sA@'S'oa "oouo O"oaey 7uSo LILIES
each. .
Sir Garnet Wolseley, in letter to Mr..
Masset, says: Il am one Of those who
have always felt that anything great done
by our cousins on the other side of the At
lantic is q family achievement. only
wish more Americans would come here,
and more Englishmen travel in the United
States; for am certain that we have only
to know one another well, to join hands on
all occasions. as members OF the same clan
the same family. IL all the English speak.
ing provinces in the world were Joined to-
gether in one confederation, no Bismarck
or king dare Gre shot in any part of the
world"
Ordinarily there are ffty-twe Sundays in
year, just as many as there are weeks
The coming year, however, win contain
fifty three Sundays Already dur
Ing the nineteenth century we have had
fourteen years that have had tifty-three
Sundays apiece, and there ale to be four
more, including 1882, making a total of
eighteen. They are as follows: 1904.
1903, 1916, 1920, 1926, 1882, 1887, 1749.
1s48. 1854, 1860, 1865, 1876, 1876, 1882,
1883, 1888. and 1899. Ten of them ap-
pear at intervals Of six years, and seven oR
them appear ct periods of five years, They
are every year that begins on Sunday and
each leap year which begins on Saturday.