Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-01-05
Miscellaneous Matter.

a western senator ID Washington irs
formed correspondent recently that he
had paid out since last March more than
his salary for two months to relieve cases
Of distress due to this practice of making
government appointments depend upon po-
Iitical favor and influence.
Since 1865, Tennessee has acquired near
ly 100000 additional population, and has
made crops every year of an average annual
net profit Of $27, 100000. Since 1850
Memphis, in spite of the war and three epi~
denies, has grown from %, 900 to A. co.,
while Nashville has crept up from II GOO
population to rs 600. The growth Of Chat
tanooga, Knoxville and other towns has
oeen at propoFtionate rates.
A agreen Christmas" is threatened not
alone in the United States. In some parts
of England the season is unusually
open. In Kent primroses are
in bloom, violets perfume the
dells, and the sung-birds have not Lost
their summer notes. while on the commons
the heather is purple, and the furze re-
splendent with golden bloom.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican re-
viewing the results of the recent municipal
elections in that state, says that of S6,-
600 voters who voted on the question OK
license or no license, 81 900 voted for L.
cense and AZ. 600 for prohibition. In Boz
tom, the vote stood % ,427 to IL 395, ana In,
the other nineteen cities the division OF
opinion vas very even, the totals standing
81 ,687 for license TO 1861 for prohibit
ton.
The diffusiveness of mary Of the writers
for the press is as lamentable as It Is re-
markable. Not less than twenty times
day do we begin a paragraph treating OF the
drama, OF the ethics of dress, of the beau
ties of mythology or the history of civil
service reform only to find the writer drift
ing into an exposition of the marvellous
cures wrought by DR.. Dflstic'B inevitable
| aIleviator, or eulogy Of Mrs. Pillsbury's
Potent Pellets. We have no fault to flu
in these expositious and sulogies of them
selves, but writer should ssiek to his text,
The drama and drugs, mythology and
medicine, civil Service and pills dost con-
sort together worth cent.
A striking phenomenon noted by Gen.
Hazen is the explosive effect sometimes
| produced on buildings by to-ra6oes. Iht5
is explained as folli ws: At tbe point over
| which the center of Q tornado stands at any
moment, or Immediately beneath the tun-
| mel or spout That is seen descending fEons
| the clouds, ttezs is experienced strong
vertical current, whcss tendency to destroy
and carry upward is greatly assisted by To-
cal elimination Of the barOLhosEic pressure
within she tunnel, by virtue of TRlch the
| air previously confined in a dwelling sxerts
an outward pressure that is not counter
| balanced BY the exterior aInosphera. The
| amount OF this unbaianeed pressure IS. as
shown by Ferrel, frequently much more
! than one inca of mercury, or half pound
TO the square inch, and may ca il7 amount
20 ten times this quantity. OF course, the
interval during which this expansive fcrce
| is eIerted i5 but a few seconds, correspond
ing to the tine occupied by the central
spout is passing along its path, which mo-
| ton Of translation is, on the average, at the
rate of thirty miles an hour.
i recent publication by MathieH Bodet,
| ex-fnaHce minister, shows how France baa
managed TO steer through her financial
| difficulties since the German invasion. Tne
war, it seems, added 81 500, ,G10, 660 to the
public debt; the short but violent reign OF
the Commune, $1,000, 900, and the Ger
man indemnity, 81 000,000, 00e. To meet
that portion OF the enormous burden which
had to be discharged at once loan OF $400,
! 0G0. 900 was thrown upon the market IN
1871, and another of S5U0,O00.Wl0 in 1872
For the first no less than 81. 600, COO, 0OG
was rendered. and for the second the al
most incredible sum of $500, 600, 600. Tc
NEE. the interest Of these leans new taxa
ton to ttls amount of $14A, 900, 0G0 per an
mum was devised. Not only was this extra
taxation easily raised, but the revenues OF
the country have increased SO rapidly thai
every year there has been surplus anc
| $50 (l11 ONO has been remltteG.