Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-16

On another page will be found some &C., count of what has been done to give few of the deserving poor of the ci ty little rest and a breath of country air. It is pity that the Fresh Air fund is not larger. If benevolent people really knew the good that money spent in this way does it would be larger.
 Bishop Ireland, in his address before the National Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Union, at St. Paul, said things which have stirred up the feelings of Irishmen consid- erably. The following sentence especially meets with disapprobation "The woes of the people of Ireland are mostly brought about by intemperance, and if they could be made temperate and kept so for fifteen years they could buy the entire island with the money they would otherwise spend for strong drink.''
 Under the authority of Congress and by means of an appropriation of $2O,O Sena- tor Hill of Colorado and Commissioner Beach of Wisconsin have just chosen 8 site for. one of the proposed artesian wells which are ex- peoted to redeem large extent of barren and desolate land in Colorado. This experiment tai we'll will be dug within mile of Akron, which is 112 miles from Denver, on the Burlington and Missouri railroad. second 2 well will probably be dug at Kit Carson, on the Kansas Pacific railroad. In all that re zion there are satisfactory indications of an abundant subterranean flow of water, and ths surface is diversified by numerous natu ral basins which at small expense could be ! turned into storage reservoirs.
 \ An interesting case involving the title to \ ice in navigable rivers has been decided by the Supreme Court of Kansas. The follow \ ing is the gist of the opinion: The title tr I the soil being in the State, and the str~~n ! being public highway, obviously the own ! ership of the ice would rest in the general public, or in the State as the representative of that public. The riparian proprietor \ would have no more title to the ice than he would to the fish. It simply is this, that his \ land joins the land of the State. The fact that it so joins gives him no title to that land [ or to anything formed or grown upon it, any more than it does to anything formed or \ grown or found upon the land of any indi- \ vidual neighbor. Undoubtedly, in view of ! the importance that ice is rapidly assumin. <
 as merchantable commodity, it would be wise for the State to legislate in reference to
 the ice product of the navigable streams i;
 but until such legislation Is had it would
 seem that the one who first appropriates and
 secures the ice which is formed is entitled to \ 1t, and on the same principle that he who
 catches a fish in one of those rivers owns it. ! A question which will make quite a stir has
 been raised by the announcement that a
 story written by Hawthorne and entitled
 ''Dr. Grimshawe's Secret' is about to be
 published. Mir. George P. Lathrop, Haw- \ thornss son-in-law says that neither he nor
 his wife ever heard of the new romance until
 they the publishers announcement, but
 of Hawthorne's papers they did know some-
 thing After Mir. Hawthorns's death his
 two daughters went carefully over all the pa-
 pers left by their father, which had until then been in her possession. They found,
 among other things, the manuscript of s'Sep.
 timius Felton," which was afterward printed
 and fragment, study for romance, cor
 responding in character and motive with that
 now announced for publication, but it was ! only fragment. Some time later Flaw.
 thorne's papers and literary remains were
 divided among his children, and this frag ' ment was among those which went to Juliar