Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-20

good "holiday trade,' and they deserve it, for they have spent much time and money in preparing for it. It is not necessary or wise to go to New York to spend money when the home stores are 80 we'll stocked and we'll managed.
 The paper in the January number of ZNe Princeton Regieao on ''Disfranchisement for Crime, ," by James r. Colby of this city, is destined to attract much attention. It con- tains great many facts which have never before been brought together, and the argu- ment is powerful one.
 There are bold railroad enterprises in this country, but we have not monopoly of boldness in railroad building. The legisla- lure of Western Australia has lately approv- cd scheme to build a line of six hundred miles for the accommodation of twelve set tiers. The Kimberly region is the region to be developed and the railroad is to be paid for out of the 100, 900, ,OoO acres composing the territory.
 On the Central and Southern Pacific rail roads orders have been issued requiring every one of the ten thousand employees to file personal description of himself, with numerous points as to his history, and a photographic portrait This is intended to protect the panies against employing men who have shown themselves untrust- worthy. At the same time the system bles the good men to benefit by their record. The Chinese are heather and they must go, but they have some customs which might we'll be copied by Christian nations On every New Years morning each man and boy in China, from the Emperor to the lowest peasant, pays visit to his mother. He ries her a present, varying in value accord ing to his station, thanks her for all she has done for him. and asks continuance of her favor another year. This is better than mak- ing one hundred calls, more or less, and go ing home drunk.
 l The Ohio Republicans will have plenty of candidates for the Gubernatorial nomination next year. new name has just been linen | tioned.'' This is Judge Jacob Amber, whose work on the national Tariff commission has brought him into prominence. He is the author of the comprehensive bill reported by the commission to reform and reduce the l tariff, and should Congress adopt his work it Is claim ed that it will make him the rising man for next springs Republican conven- ton, and that, while he will have this boom, he will have no points for attack
 An ingenious method of putting his savings beyond his own reach has been adopted by a German writer, who found from dire expe rience that all his profits melted away as soon as earned. Having made ZIG, 1000 by a for. tunate literary speculation he placed the whole of the money, together with his will in the Imperial Deposit bank at Berlin, and on receiving the receipt from the cashier de liberately tore it up. The cashier thought he was mad and told him angrily that it would take fully three years before he could expect to obtain a duplicate receipt. ''That is just why I have torn up the original" calmly re marked the depositor, ''and now the money is safe for that time." Some of the inhab itants of this and other cities who are fasci mated with gambling in Wall street might save money by putting it out Of their power to use.
 A San Francisco physician says that ths habit of kissing is dangerous one. "Diph theria," he explains, ''is foreign growth il the throat Infection is caused by particles of this growth coming in contact with healthy surface. The saliva flows over thu diseased spots and absorbs portion of th' minute spores. The habit of most people especially children, is to moisten their lip with the tongue. The infected saliva is thu carried to the lips, and the contact of the lip in kissing carries the disease from the sick t. the healthy person. Nor is diphtheria tn only form of infection that can be carried b, kiss. In the course of my practice I &7za