davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
UNPARALLELED.

Nothing is so hard to bear prosperity, so they say but the truth is that it is other peoples prosperity which IS hard to bear, not your own.-N. y. Herald.
 We'll said child, If the hairs of our heads are all numbered, the numbers must get awfully mixed up, for lots of women wear hair that grew OF some one elses head. - DansgtL6 AdUerttseT.
 A wealthy kleptemaniac, arrested for steal ing the other day, with tears in her eyes pro tested that she wasn't responsible, as she-had inherited theft from her father. The latter had been an Indian agent.-Phitddapit Chronicle -Herald.
 Uncle Ned lost a dollar the other day, and when he went home he called up his oldest son. Come heah, boy, and set down. Dis am queer worl', anyway, boy jis' wen yo' think yo' am layin' on feathers an walkln' on roses-slap an dar yo' is, flat in de mud, playin tattoo wid yo' heels on mex to nuf- n'."-ON CIty Derrick.
 A Hartford man went to a lawyer for ad- vice. After receiving the retaining fee the lawyer said: State your case 7" ''Wen, sir, " replied the client, "a man told me to go to h., and I want your advice" The attor- ney took down volume of the Connecticut statutes, and after turning over few leaves, answered: Don't you do it. The law doesn't compel you.'
 4 prominent physician says that if mothers did not take up the senseless prattle of ba- bies and hurl it back at them under the plea that it IS ''baby talk" children would learn sooner how to talk plain. They repeat the tumble of syllables that they first hear. That's the idea! Instead of saying of soapy water: ''I doesn't fink it tastes dood, " you can just as well have Mir. twe-year-old ob- serve: "The taste of soap combined with aqueous fluid is not agreeable to me."-B0s- ton Post
 ''Love me little. love me long"
 Sang the dusty miller
 To his wheat art, and his song
 Did maize and thrill her.
 Bid me barley hope Oh. give
 Me grain of comfort
 1 would ost on thee and live
 Holding to some fort.
 ''In your ryes now love looks shine,
 There lies cereal pleasure,
 Oh hominy joys are mine,
 Filling up my measure"
 Came the maiden's corn-full laugh
 At the milleris Awning:
 You can't winnow girls with chsf-
 Sir! to you good morning"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
HAVEN CONN., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3l, 1889.
Friday Morning. March 31. 1882.
THE NEW COMET.

| The first comet of the year has been re-
 ported. It was first seen by Mir. c. s. Wells,
 the assistant at the Dudley Observatory at
 Albany It is in the constellation Hercules. | It is called bright comet, has a tail about | five minutes in length and a nucleus nearly equal in size to star of the eighth magni-
 tude. It is now a telescope comet, and too small to ke visible to the naked eye, although
 it is increasing in size. It was seen on the
 night after Mr. Wells saw it by Mir. Wendell
 at Harvard College Observatory. It then
 had circular head about half minute in
 diameter we'll defined nucleus, and it's tail
 was from eight to ten minutes long, very
 rapid growth for two days, having nearly doubled it's length since discovery. Its right ascension just before midnight was 17h.
 54m., and it's declination 350 9 min. north
 The astronomer of the Providence Journal says that this comet is travelling at rate which almost takes ones breath away to think of it. It was first found in the constellation Hercules, but it has now passed into the con stellation Lyra, and is near the bright star Vega, it's present right ascension being 18h. 12m. and it's declination go I'm. north. But as it travels about two million miles day, it will soon leave the domains of Lyra and by the middle of April it will be found in Draco. The Journal astronomer continues: ''The comet does not reach perihelion until the 10th of June, and there is every prospect that it will greatly increase in size during April and May, will soon become visible to the naked eye, and will be superb object in the heavens. Its speciality is it's near ap- proach to the sun at perihelion, one astrono- mer calculating the distance between sun and comet as one hundred thousand miles, and another fixing it at ten million miles, while both agree in thinking the approach very near one. The comets of 1880, 1S43 and 1880 resembled the present one in their near approach to the sun. As we safely passed through the danger at tendant upon their audacious invasion of the solar territory, we need have no dread of any catastrophe from the perihelion of the new comet. Astronomers ask for no greater treat than to watch the effect of the near ap proach of this body of gossamer ightness to the mighty sphere that rules our system There is therefore pleasant prospect before us for months to come in following the course of the new conner, it's nucleus in creases in brightness and it's tail spans the heavens in magnificent proportions, and as, obeying the laws that regulate it's cratic it seems to plunge headlong to- wards the sun ''
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
Worth Considering.

from t1e 1ArIIOru COuEAANl
 The Parallel road charter passed the House yesterday, as was expected. The vote was 125 yeas to 91 nays, and there were g ab- sentees An immense lobby has been at work in its behalf, and the shrewd parties who made the draft of the charter roPed in nearly every town in eastern Connecticut, naming it as on one or another of the various proposed lines. It is not believed that, if chartered, the road would ever be built be- yond New Haven, but by timely yagueness of layout the hope has been excited all over the eastern part of the State that the road might go that way. Never mind about future disappointments; the thing Is to carry the bill now The Senate is naturally a more temperate body than the House, and moreover Is not so made up that the sort of argument can carry it. It will be more likely to sit down and give the case an unprejadiced hear ing. That is all that it requires. There is no call for new road. We have railroads enough now, as We showed the other day, for the State and for all the business that goes or wants to go through the State. The Consolidated road is in better condition, financially, and as regards facilities fo- ex- tending the utmost accommodation at the lowest possible rates than any other road
  against it's management nobody has ever charged them with appropriating the earn ings to their own use or surreptltlously dl- viding them among the stockholders. The public get the benefit of all the improve ments that are made upon the road. There Is less ''water" in the stock than in that of any other important road in the country. It has gone through two great eras of stockwater- ing without any attempt, directly or indi- rectly, at watering its stock It Is a good road with great possibilities for being the best railroad in the country, if not in the world. giving to the public the most accom- modation for the least money. Now Is not the time in the interests of outside, hostile, personally aggrieved parties for the State to strike a staggering blow at one of the best and most important interests that 1t has created.
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad can easily transact all the passenger and freight business between New York and Hartford and New London, and with the New York and New England can handle without difficulty all the through business be- tween New York and Boston. The Consol- dated road, whatever fault may be found with it, is acknowledged to have been hon estly managed in the interest of its stock holders. It's stock has never been a football for Wall street spectators. It has paid it's dividends regularly, has carried passengers at reasonable rates, and has for years been the largest single taxpayer of the State, hay ing literally paid millions of dollars into the State treasury.
 It Will be wise for the General Assembly to consider what it will profit the State to have killed the goose which for so many years has laid the largest golden egg.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31

Massachusetts House of Representatives by tie vote, the speaker following his usual practice of not voting The debate has been very long and full and the vote brought out nearly the whole membership of the House. It is thought that the matter will not be con- tested further this year.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
HECK ER'S PERFECT BAKING POWDER.
A FAIR TEST.

To the Editor Of the Journal & Courier:
 Sir:-The contract for supplying the United States government with seventy-fve thousand (75, 5,OOO) lbs. of Baking Powder during the en- suing year has been awarded to Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder, it having been tested by pr. Ed ward G. Love, analytical chemist for the government, and recOm- mended by him for it's excellence and because it contained a higher percentage of gas (which means it will make lighter bread and bis cuit) than either the "Royal'' or the other cream tartar baking powders winch he examined. The samples analysed by Dr. Love were furnished by the government com- missiOners, and were without the manufacturers label or name, and designated with a number known only to the commissioners.
 It will thus be seen that when Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder submitted to an impartial test it's superiority is acknowledged, and the popular verdict so emphat- ically expressed in it's favor is fully sustained,
 GEO. V. KICKER < CO.,,
 2O3 Cherry St., N.Y VI
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31

writer in the London Eco1sOmist has been looking into the causes of the recent rapid variations in the gate for money, and reduces
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
84 Church Street.
PaImer's Hair Tonic
 and Restorer.

The great success of Palmer's Hair Tonic and Restorer is owing to this fact It is entirely different from all others. It contains no Me- ta1lic or Mineral poisons, Lead OF Sulphur, andleaves no stain on the skin or linen. 2 his elegant prepa- ration makes the Hair grow freely aud fast; keeps it from falling out. removes Dandruff and Itching and makes the Hair strong. 1t gives life and vigor to the Hail, supplying aud feeding it's roots with new vii tality and actually restoring it by the process of nature. 1t is highly recommended by most eminent Physicians, Bankers C1ergymen, and is highly prized by the ladies. Price, 50 cents per bottle. For sale by all druggists
 Geo. c. Goodwin x Co.,, Boston, and Richardson x Co.,, New Haven, Ct., Agents. ma6 d&w1m
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
Tine Career of RussIa's Pet General.

General Skobeleff supplies striking illus tration of the doctrine of heredity. He is a soldier born of soldiers. Not only is his father general of distinguished ability, but his grandfather rose by sheer force of fight Ing capacity from the ranks to first rank as generaln the Caucasus. From youth upward Michael Dimitrievitch has been man of war. When only Is he took so energetic a part in some disturbances at the university that his attendance at that seat of learning was sum marily dispensed with, but not before he had acquired a mastery of several languages and an omnivorous appetite for reading; There are few better read men in Europe than the general who made himself the idol of the Russian army before he was three and thirty.
 Wherever he went he carried his books with him, and read, for instance, the account of the massacre of Cabul in 842 when sitting in his garden at Bokhara, not knowing but that the next day he might have to share the fate
 of Flphinstone How he has found time to read amid the exciting life he has led is mystery which Lieutenant Greene does not profess to solve. After his dismissal from the University he was sent with regiment of the guards to assist in suppressing the Polish insurrection. That was in 1863, when he was IS. Skobeleff returned with his regiment to St. Petersburg, but soon sickened of the sybaritism which is in vogue with guardsmen elsewhere than in London. lie
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31

Kwong Xxi Chin, who was member of the Chinese educational commission in this coun. try, denies that many of the Chinese come over here as coolies or slaves They could not so come in great numbers because the Chinese government is opposed to it and does all it can to prevent it. All the emisrants leave by way of Hong Kong, where they are examined by the English harbor master as to whether they go voluntarily, and are also in- structed as to their rights and privileges. ican consul. The six companies he says are misunderstood They ought rather to be called associations. They are not formed for trade or profit, but for the sake of looking after home, such as adjusting differences aud de- ciding questions and claims one with anoth- CT, and securing justice between parties with out going to law, if possible. He also says the cheapness of Chinese labor is exaggerat- ed. He quotes an advertisement in a Cali fornia paper for Chinese laborers in which they are offered $1.15 per day, with wood, water, cooking and transportation free Their pound, costs them eight or nine cents in this country. Their meat and fish, which they always eat with rice, costs them as much as it costs other people, as does their liquor, opium and tobacco. So that they cannot live for nothing.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31

One of our contemporaries professes to be pained because Representative Robertson of this city did not explain to his colleagues and thu public why he dared to vote against the Parallel road scheme We are informed that both the representatives of this city had their reasons for their vote ready for statement, but, like many others, they found no oppor- tunity to present them to their patient col leagues and waiting public. As we under stand Colonel Robertsons position, he voted as he did because he does not believe that any more railroads are needed in this State, or that if another is built it should be started under such loose and dangerous charter as is asked for. And we think he is right
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The supporters of the Parallel road scheme do not find much comfort in the fact that the majority in their favor in the House was the smallest ever gained by any of the Parallel schemes since they were first brought to the attention of the Legislature, as far back as 1865.
 Hon. Carroll D. Wright, chief of the Mas sachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, stirred up the French Canadians in hIs report last year, and this year the Fall River people are much disturbed by his comments about the condition of the operatives employed in that
Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-31

Some English clergymen do not relish any interference with them by the State. A rec tor in Derbyshire was lately directed, as the result of proceedings against him, to enter the burial of a dissenter in his register, un- der the burials act peremptory writ of mandamus was issued, to which the rector made answer that it had been registered by the curate of church in the parish. This was regarded as not sufficient obedience to the writ, being merely constructive, and application was made to issue an attachment against him. The court held that the attach ment must be made absolute, saying it feared the reverend gentleman had "a rooted dislike of modern legislation" The facts in the case were recited at some length. The clergyman had opposed the aL plication for mandamus: he had taken issue upon the re- turn to the writ; on failing a peremptory mandamus had been issued, to which there not obeyed, but had persuaded somebody else to do what he had been ordered to do. How ever, as the clergyman's counsel appealed to the court to allow the defendant an oppor- tunity ''of avoiding martyrdom,' the writ was allowed to lie ip. the office for a week, during which time the defendant must obey the mandamus encounter the conse- quences of disobedience."
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-08
Short of Meat.

A Methodist minister travelling in
Michigan was entertained by family,
whose hospitality was greater than their
means, and who We're short OF meat. In
order to spread good dinner for the
parson, it WAS decided to slay the pet
hen which belonged to the little boy Of
the family. This was sacrifice, but
the interests of religion and hospitality
seemed to demand it, and so the birds
neck was wrung, After dinner the mi
MISTER WAS asked to lead in family de-
votions, which with true clerical cour-
tesy he consented to do. The family
being called together, all knelt down Oh
the flo +, which was of boards. literally
adorned with knot holes. While the
prayer was gong on, a lonely little
chicken, one of the children of the de-
ceased hen, came running under the
house, lamenting the loss of his mother
The afflicted little lad put his mouth to
a knot hole, and sympathetically said to
the chicken: 'Peepy, peepy, didn't
kill your mother. They killed her for
that big old preachers dinner" That
"big old preacher" was startled out of
all sense ofprayer-fulness, and suddenly
brought his devotions! exercises to q
close.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-08

brought him to an old woman, sitting
sad and lonely IN her splendid home.
Iva opened the door and pushed him
gently before her into the room,
They saw the wee one toddle across
the floor; they heard his pretty, lisping
baby voice say the word they had taught
him,
"Danma,"
Then, us she caught him to her W it'll
cred breast with a quick cry, they drew
hack reverentiy and shut the door,
knowing Cyrii's cause was won.
''You are tired" William Lawrence
said, gently.
"a little" she smiled.
He stood opposite her, and she
thoughts she had thought many a
time, of late-what a grand honest gen.
tleman he was, and how securely one
could trust ones happiness in his hands
felt, with a hot glow of maidenly
shame that even her heart should con-
fess it to herself, that this strong, new,
ennobling affection which had come to
her was the love of lifetime, and no
brittle, childish passion.
At the door he paused and turned to
her
''What a bright, beautiful night, Iva!
How different from that other one, one
year ago, when the sweetest hope of my
life was crushed-a hope that has of late
sprung up and blossomed again! Dear
l have hoped have fancieG that per-
haps after all"
The little hand he had taken lay con-
fidingly in his. Her happy eyes looked
up to the frosty, glIttering stars.
Yes" she said, softly, latter ALL
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-08
Cigaretts.

! A co respondent writing from New
York VS. | ran across a cigarette fac
tory the other day. Whewl 1 wouldn' t
write-or, rather, You wouldn't dare
print what saw. Dirty butts of cigars,
fresh from the filth of the muddy
streets, are the cleanest and incest Of
the material used in compiling these
precious roads to ruin. / came down
town on a Madison avenue car this
evening. and on the tail end there were
little chaps, the eldest shout fourteen.
Each smoked cigarette a: d spat his
lit lie life away. / ventured to ask if
they enjoyed the odor. They said they
did. And the taste? Certainly. On
inquiriug I found they had well-known
brand Of ciga, cites, noted for its
"opium soak" and its terrible smell
when burning. Poor little rogues
They can't last long, They were pale
and sirkly, puny aud offensive. Men?
They're men already in their eyes. They
ami majority of our little lads are full
of the slang of the day, up in all the
catches, and abundantly able to hold
their end III conversation. / subse-
quently saw these three boys in Niblo's
Garden. 1t would have surprised you
to hear them talk. A blind man might
reasonably think he was listening to
three old men. Nothing was new.
They had seen it before, and better
done than that Down went the bows,
but before they felt the first breath of
the fresh air from the street, each puny
hand held a cigarette to the vile SMELL
ing mouth, and puff puff they sickened
everybody in their vicinity. This is an
old grievance of mine, and l don't care
to bore you with it, but feel it keenly.
Day by day the vice grows stronger.
There was time when cigarette-smok
ing was confined almost entirely to
Cubans, vino knew what good tobacco
was and made their own cigarettes.
Gradually the habit spread. Dealers
followed suit. Makers became un-
scrupLlous. Little dirty boys We're sent
out to pick up cigar stumps. Other
equally disgusting material was also
utilized. Opium was made to do duty.
Cheap paper took the place of rice
paper. Iwish these boys could see the
stuff paper is made from. Wouldn't 1t
turn their little stomachs? / trow, /
trow. The cheap paper, the old
stumps, the opium. and the chemicals
used 10 make them strong" deserve to
be shown up. Parents have no influence
with their Sons. Why not? Because
they smoke cigars or pipes themselves.
The boys charge all the good advice
they get to their fathers desire to keep
them down. There is but one way to
deal with American boys. Reason with
them through their eyes. If every
nicotined stomach was made public;
if every time fellow died of too much |
cigarette the fact was made known; if
the proud boys could be shown a rag
factory and stump-grindery, it seems to
me the cigarette business would be !
wound up very soon-
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-08
A Few "Hows."

How mnch happier life might be if minds
could be trained ID forget past trouble.
How hard it Is to avoid listening and iik-
ing to listen to scandal about our mel gh-
Dor.
How tame life would be without trou-
bles and difficulties to overcome.
How few value or cultivate a good pair
of legs and lungs.
How the old are forgotten by the young
How unfortunate that 50 many of the
aged should make themselves unattractive
and even repulsive to the young.
How strong we feel when we have never
been sick.
How many men and wom-n are there
without q weak spot somewhere2
How whiskev does bring out a mans
true nature and show the makeup and
and artificial side of moral character
How much better Is ''dog's life" than
the lives Of some nen and women.
How few new brooms, after all, sweep
clean uuess there is a clean sweeper be-
hind them
How sorry some people are for faults
which they will commit next month.