Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-14

The New York Tunes suggests that the re appearance in politics of w. w. Eaton and Montgomery Blair is probably the Demo-
 cratic response to very general demand for young men in politics.
 Ireland is evidently not totally impover- ished. The admiring congregation of Fath- CT Sheehy has testified it's appreciation of its pastors courage and devotion to the cause of Ireland by bestowing upon him testimonial which is substantial to the extent of about twelve thousand dollars
 Thus far tho five States of Oregon, Yer mont, Maine. Ohio and West Virginia have elected thirty-two members of the Forty eighth Congress- They at present repre- sented by twenty-two Republicans and ten D emocrats. Of the new members eighteen probably, are Democratic and fourteen Re- pu blican.
 The new Congregational paper projected at Boston, of which it is said that Joseph Cook will be the editor, will have capital of $1o0, 900 and is backed up by prominent men 1 in the denomination in all parts of New Eng land. While those engaged in the scheme do 1 not intend to violently antagonize any eie-
 ment in the denomination, it is expected that
 the paper will be 0 freer medium of discus sion than any now published in tho interests of Congregationalism and will resist the at tsmpts of certain men to boss the denomina- tion.
 man who recently advertised in Vienna newspaper for wife described his condition with truly engaging frankness. He said My baptismal name Is Frederick am no less reduced in circumstances than advanced 1 in age and repulsive in person. If my in born stupidity is exceeded in intensity by any of my other unpleasant characteristics, it can only be so by my ingrained malignity of dis position. Nevertheless, l anxious to | marry, and take this means of offering myself as candidate for matrimonial joys. Answers l to this advertisement, under address, Who ! will venture? G,265, will reach me at the office of the Neues Wiener Zage6zatt." At the Sanitary Congress in England the other day the Hon. F. A. Russell said that it was found that at height about equal to that of the upper rooms in high house 8 drier climate prevailed than at lower levels, | and with daily range not much greater, and | much less cold on tho coldest and on foggy l nights than down below. The practical con ! clusions seemed to be that invalids and deli 1 cate persons should generally be placed in high, sheltered situations, in the highest 1 rooms of a house, and by no means on & l ground floor that every house ought to be
 built on arches, or thoroughly ventilated be- l low, and raised on piers above the ground 1 level; that no house or cottage which was i not ventilated underneath, with damp-proof walls, should be considered habitable, and | that in the country no house should be con- I sldered habitable of which the floor was on g | level with or below the ground
 | There IS nothing new under the sun. There | was civil service reformer in Kentucky
 moro than sixty years ago. He was Governor i of the State and in his annual message in
 1918 he said: "I regret the necessity of once more pressing on your attention the anti re, publican and highly criminal practice of sell ing offices, which IS become too common l indeed, fashionable. Shall the public offices
 in the republic of Kentucky be an article oi 1 sale in the market or the reward of qualifica
 ton and integrity? This is the question tS
 be decided. If this practice is sanctioned, O,
 even winked at, it will prove that while we
 profess that the road to public station is
 open to all the rich as well as the poor, they
 are in fact confined exclusively to the latter
 The prevalence of such practices, especial,
 if countenanced, is evidence of the decline. il
 not of the State, of the republican purity O l the government. I therefore recommend .
 revision of the law against selling offices, ant