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The examiner., 1882-03-04
Foreign News.


 MICHAEL DAvTrT, who is serving term of penal servitude for ''treason-felony,' has been elected member of parliament tor Meath, Ireland. The dispatch says that as Davitt is comp eting torm of penal seryitude for a felony at law the election is invalid.
 IN the British house of commons, during a discussion on the question of his admission as a member, MT. Bradlaugh stepped to the table, and, taking New Testament from his pocket, took the oatl and then claimed his seat. He was orderel to withdraw by the speaker, and did SO, saying that he would obey but would claim his seat. On the following day Mir. Bradlaugh passed the bar of the house and took a seat, whereupon Sir Stafford Northcote moved that he be expelled. MT. Gladstone supported this motion, and it was carried by 8 vote of 291 to S3. Mir. Bradlaugh then left the house, but will be candidate for re- election. N1rssoN's husband, who became deranged during the recent panic in Paris, has died.
 THE Russian government is reported to be taking active measures to stop the attacks on Jews. .u.....
 AT Rome two persons were killed and thirteen others injured by riderless horses during the carnival race on the Corso.
 A AFoRMIDABLE revolt against Egypt has been begun in the Soudln, the Sheik Mohammed Ahmed defeating the Egyptian troops and kill ing the governor of Fashoda.
 LIEUTENANT HARBER and Master Scheutze, tho American officers sent to assist in the search for the missing members of the crew of the 'Jeannette, have arrived in St. Petersburg.
 kak from his hp1 al nighs near Gallyhaunis, Ireland, and shot.
 FoUR tribes on the frontier of Tripoli have revulted and burned Hannah.
 JAMES RHODES & Co.,, timber merchants of Bradford and West Hartlepool, England, have fai' ed for SG00,00 -.. THE Russian steamer Vesta, with all on board, has been lost in the Black sea. -.s AN international electrical exhibition has been opened in London.
 MORE than 150 persons have been killed by an explosion in a coal mite in Lesben, Austria
 AN earthquake shock lasting several seconds caused consternation at Murray bay, Quebec
 ONE thousand Herzegovnian insurgents met the Austrian troops and were defeated after nine hours fighting.
 MANY cases of sickness and death are con. stantly occurring among the force employed on De Lesseps' Panama canal.
 MAN named Bailey,.wh gave informa ion which lead 70 tn, recent discovery of con- c aled armory, founl shot dead in tn strt e. in Dublin. .= s- EIGHT persons have been indicted at Vienna for c iminal negligence in connection wi h the fatal burning of the Ring theAter. Among the accused arc the chief commissary of the police, the ex-burgomaster of Vienna and the manager of the theater The trial will begin May 2, and 226 witnesses have been sum. moned. ..F z-Es,
The examiner., 1882-03-04
What the JananesA Eat.

NJ. T. Van Buren, United States con- sul general at Japan, presents in a blue book some interesting facts in regard to the food of the Japan csc peo- plc. With population of 3O,O0O, 900 people, there is to be found in the whole country but little more than 1,O00,0 head of cat tie. Of these only GOO, ,00O can be considered fit for food. Therefore there are but two head of cattle fer each ore hundred people, whereas in the United States we have for one hundred mouths seventy three cattle to fill them. Japan slaughters, however, 36, 900 head of cattle, more than one-half of which is eaten by the foreign population, the rest being con- sumed bE the Japanese army and navy. Mutton and pork are, outside of the treaty ports, almost unknown.
 Fish enters largely into the food of the people. MT. Van Buren mentions that "cod, salmon, herring, mackerel, salm on trout, carp, cells, skate mullet, catfish and plaice are plentiful and cheap" It is known that the govern ment has taken active measures in regard 10 fish culture, and endeavors ln every way to increase the products of the sea, sending for all American publications on these topics. The con. sul states that " "one-half of the people eat fish every day, onequarter two or three times & week, and the balance perhaps once or twice a month" It is their habit to eat 8 great many vari- cities of fish raw. But the Japanese are more essentially vegetarians than even the Chinese, and all the land marine plants, with the tubers, seem to be placed under contribution.
 Among exceptional food plants MT. Van Buren mentions an acorn which grows on small bush from three to four feet high; it has less sugar than the nut from the chestnut trees of America, but has the merit of being free from astringent and bitter quali- ties. Large quantities of these nuts are gathered, dried and eaten by the people in various ways. We hear great deal about glucose and dextrine in the United States, and we find from MT. Van Buren's report that the Jap anese use in large quantities 8 sub stance which they call anne. "This is a preparation made from matted Aarley and rice or millet, the malt covering the starch of the rice or mullet into dextrine and maltese, and the product varying from thick sugar or honey up to hard candy" This ame is sold at low price and its consumption is vary 1ar0o
The examiner., 1882-03-04
Sad Career of a BarOn,s Daughter.

The recent death of Mme. Laura Sweitzer, at Port Je1vis, N. r., recalls one of the saddest and most remark able careers ever recorded. The story of her life, as told by Mime. Sweitzer, reads like 8 romance and seems almost too strange to be true. Laura Won Fufnitz Steinburg, daughter of Baron Frederitk Otto Won Puffnitz Stein burg, was born at Wismar, in Mecklen- burg, Germany. on the 10th of Octo- Der. 1919. Her father was of an ancient and highly -honored family, and Laura was younger daughter. She was given all the advantages of an expensive education in music and the German language.
 At sixteen years of age she met a very poor young noble1nan with very long and honorable name, the Count Frederick Kolstedt Schleswick Sweit- ger. The youlg man was handsome and pretty we'll educated. but his pov- erty was bar to their union. Laura felt that she loved him so deeply that she could marry no one but him. Her old father would not listen to her en- treaties, and finally he sent her to Altona, town near Hamburg, on the Elbe river, wLere he placed her in a convent until she became cured of her passion. She contrived to let her lover know where she was, and thither he followed her. Having no money he applied for and obtained 8 position a under gardener in the convent at s modest compensation. He and Laura were thus enabled to meet daily, and affairs were going on swimmingly when the old Baron Steinburg, having found that Sweitzer had left Wismar, suspected the true state of affairs, and came posthaste to Altoona. He arrived in til to catch his daughter in an arbor in the convent garden conversing with the forbidden lover. The ole ba1 on and the young man exchanged hard words, and'a duel, in which the baron was severely wounded, resulted. Young SWeitzer and his sweetheart fled from Altona, were married, and came to America, where they landed at Castle Garden, New York, almost penniless. Sweitzer obtained employment and they lived comfortably several years. Finally his health failed, and the couple came to Port Jervis, N. Y., and took up their abode in little shanty in suburb. Madam Sweitzer made enough money to keep them alive by peddling matches and notions an ong the farmers, and by begging during the winter. She frequently walked fifty miles day, and on a recent occasion took part in 8 pedestrian contest in Port Jervis, where she made a record of ninety eight miles in twenty-three hours, and earned considerable money. During her begging excursions she told the above story of her life. She was known in Pike county as "Meeshy Maumie" or "the Countess" Her death was horrible. She Was trying to steal ride on the night freight train to Middletown, thirty four miles south of Port Jervis, when she fell under the engine and was so crushed that her body was scarcely recognizable. Her husband died few years ago.
The examiner., 1882-03-04
From Washington.

Ar the opening of the court martial con- vened to try Sergeant Mason for shooting at Guiteau the accused pleaded not guilty.
 TIE Washington grand jury indicted several of the star route contractors forming what is called the "Dorsey Combination" and includ- ing ex-Senator Dorsey, Thomas J. Brady, ex- second assistant postmaster general, and John R. Dorsey. The grand jury examined fifty-three witnesses, most of whom came from the far Vest and it's decision was unanimous. The routes upon which the indictments were ob- tained number about twenty. It s charged that the contractors for these routes bid low and General Brady raised the price high, meantime allowing the contractors to take their own time in beginning service. On twelve routes alone the annual pay was increased from $30 552 to $305, 13S. The cases will probably not be tried before May.
 AWAsH1NGToN dispatch says that the amounts allowed by the House committee to audit the expenses of the sickness and burial of President Garfield to the attending sur- geons are as follows: To Dr. Bliss, $25, ,000 1; to Drs Agnew and Hamilton, $15,000 each; to Drs Reyburn and Boynton, SIG, 900 each to Mrs. Dr. Edson, s5,00O. Mir. Crumps, the steward, is allowed s, 900, and the other en- ployes of the executive mansion two months extra pay. The committee recommends tho appointment of Surgeon-General Barnes to the rank of major-general and his re- tirement at that grade, and the promo tion of Dr. Woodward to the rank of heuten- ant-colonel. The committee has also agreed to grant to Mrs. Garfield the remainder of her husbands salary for the current year. Messrs. Springer and Blackburn will submit minority report, opposing most Of the items allowed. '
The examiner., 1882-03-04
Picking Out the Weak Points of Horse.

Picking Out the Weak Points of Horse.
 The weak points of horse can be better discovered while standing than while moving. If he is sound he will stand firmly and squarely on his limbs without moving any of them, with legs plumb and naturally poised. If one foot is thrown forward with the toe pointing to the ground and the heel raised, or if the foot is lifted from the ground and the weight taken from it, disease may be suspected, or at least tenderness, which is precursor of dis ease. If the horse stands with his feet spread apart or straddles with the hind legs, there is weakness in the Joins and the kidneys are disor- dered. Heavy pulling bends the knees. Bluish or milky cast eyes in horses in- dicate moon blindness or something else. A bad-tempered horse keeps his ears thrown back. A kicking horse is apt to have scared legs. A stumbling horse has blemished knees. When the skin is rough and hard. and does not move easily and smoothly to the touch, the horse is heavy eater and his digestion is bad. Never buy horse whose respiratory organs are at all i'm paired. Place your ear to the side of the heart, and if wheezing sound is heard it is an indication of trouble let him go.
The examiner., 1882-03-04

White bread alone will not support animal life. Bread made of the whole grain will. The experiment has been tried in France by Magendie. Dogs were the subject of the trial, and every care was taken to equalize all tn, other conditions-to proportion the quantity of food given in each case to the weight of the animal experimented upon, and so forth. The result was sufficiently marked. At the end of forty days the dogs fed solely on white bread died; The dogs fed on bread made orous, healthy and we'll nourished.
The examiner., 1882-03-04
The Panama Canal.

Should the projected canals across the Isthmus of Panama ever be com pleted, it will be at a terrible cost of human life. The climate is very un healthfnl and laborers cannot be pro- vided with proper food.-Dr. Foote's HedIh Monthly.
The examiner., 1882-03-04

, Senator Fair lives in Charles Sum
 ner's old quarters at Washington. The
 senator is the richest man in Congress-
 and probably the richest officehelder i1
 the world. His leisure is devoted to the study of finance, 2 ft5l.s RsEf7 5fss-s 4 -
The examiner., 1882-03-04

The London geological society own 4,0O0 specimens of Gods creatures. Tie number of visitors to the gardens each year is 6OO,O00. and the revenue $125, ,OOO.
The examiner., 1882-03-04

There are within few miles of Los Angeles, Cal., 256, 1855 bearing orange trees.
The examiner., 1882-03-04

There are 153 mills in Lowell, Mass.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
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Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The city council of Cleveland will not al- low anything improper during it's sessions. It has voted, 22 to ', to allow members to smoke while the council is in session, but, by a vote Of IS to 12, has rejected the proposi- tion to allow chewing and snufing
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
THE SITUATION.

A country girl, getting off train at Sara toga, was asked if she might be helped to alight, and she replied that she did not smoke, Sophronia: ''What is philosophy" It is something that enables rich man to say there is no disgrace in being poor.-Son'er- Cilie Journal.
 The six million miles of fence in this coun- try cost over two billion dollars, and the old saying now is, Billions for de fence, but not a cent for tribute "-L0areU Courier.
 s'Yes," said the country member, T went to that variety show because l felt sure there'd be nobody there who knew me! Durned if pretty much the whole Legislature wasn't there !''-Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Patti says it is her ambition ito live quiet ly and sing to the poor" Her system of gratifying this ambition is to take mighty good care that by the time people get in where they can hear her sing, they are very oor-B0stOn Post.
 Grace Babb, Maine girl, recently stood first and passed the best examination in class of 195 at the College of Pharmacy Of Philadelphia This is the reason why liar yard College will not admit girl students to the medical ourse.-Buringt0n Ha,rkeye- A Pullman car porter who has just returned from vacation trip abroad says that Queen Victoria is very bashful She seemed entire ly overcome by his presence, and replied to him in monosyllabies as timidly as 8 young girl He humbled himself for the occasion as much as possible -PhiladeLphiG Ae1rs- The Rev Mr. Jones had in his dining room stuffed owl, which was as full Of pom pous wisdom as if it had been alive. His bishop coming to dinner one day, he called his young son to introduce him to the digni- tary Bishop smith, said the father, this is my youngest boy" Bishop Smith .' cried the boy, 'ho that's what you call the stuffed owl in the dining room"
 THE BULLDOG AID THE kSIFF. A bull dog stood in a butchers shop And all around was q lovely crop of chickens and turkeys, pork and bsef, Tempting to any bulldog thief. But for poultry the bulldog felt whm Though it charmed others, it charmed not him. No poultry nor beef nor pork he d rat For he'd set his heart sonae saus ge meat Some sausage meat Some 4Ausage meat
 His most capricious
 Terribly vicious Fancy thought it sweet
 l. he could stick in
 liver or chicken Why not some sausage meat. To the sausage cutter he sauntered round; He jumped to the hopper with frantic bound; He grabbed a chunk of meat so tight He couldr't let go, or else he might For the cutter had caught on that piseee too. As he couldn't let go it hauled him through. It hauled him through in a manner neat And cut hin up into sausage meat To sausage meat! To sausage meat
 This most capricous
 Terribly vicious Canine lest his life,
 To learn that
 Can bulldog ever Combat sausage knife
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19

The California papers, while commenting the signing of the bill restricting Chinese i'm migration for ten years, say that the State has difficult problem to solve in dealing with those already there. The number of Chinese in the State will reach about lOo,- 900, it is believed, before the law takes effect The San Francisco Call says: Ut is abso- lutely indispensable to the prosperity of the State that we adopt some measure to decrease this number. he drain on our resources is too great. The withdrawal of so much money each month from the channel of trade has a damaging effect on business"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19

It is said that the names of nearly 200 persons. with strong indorsements have been presented to the President as those of candidates for places on the tariff commis- sion. Nearly all of them are representatives of special interests or industries, but it is not probable that the commission will be composed wholly or chiefly of persons direct ly connected with prominent industries
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
HECK ER7S PERFECT BAKING POWDER.
A FAIR TEST.

To the Editor of the Journal 6. Courier:
 Sir:-The contract for supplying the United States government with seventy-five thousand (75, ,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 8 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 @ number known only to the commissioners.
 1t 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 eInphat- ically expressed in it's favor is fully sustained
 GEO. V. KICKER X CO.,,
 2OS Cherry St.. NY
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19

repentance and pardoning of great wrongs
 is all in your eye and worse than hypocri-
 sy." The will then provides for the disPosi-
 tion of spurs, saddles, pipe, clothing, to rela- tives Cousin George c. Pantlind is to get
 my pistol, belt, knife and scabbard, the best
 outfit for use in the West. Cousin Boyd Pantlind is to have my improved double ac- aion pistol, the boss pistol in America" Further directions are given about burial. He says T want to be buried by AIasons. I don't want any minister or preacher of any kind at the funeral The Masons do not tire in their work Gospel sharps and l never Hooked together muchly. I may not die for year or more, but best get things in shape"
 When Rufus Hatch predicted that Govern ment bonds would self at 12O he was laughed at, as he has been many times for his pre- dictions. He now predicts that unless there shall be bad crops in Europe this year and good ones in the United States this country will witness a panic more destructive than that or 1857 or 1873. MT. Hatch finds the preliminary indications of at least business stagnation in the depression in the iron man. ufactures, in the ceasing, relatively speaking, of railroad construction, in the number of competing railroad lines between the East and the West, in the enormous amount of capital invested in, and bonded indebtedness of, the railroads of the country. There is Michigan Central, with 284 miles of dog and over 800 miles of tail, and the tail wags the dog" Further, he says the great organiza. tions are reducing the number of their enl- ployes, the iron boom is passed, and the cost of living is high. There is enough that is plausible in these remarks of Uncle Rufus" to make business men and spectators thoughtful, but to the majority of observers they will seem too pessimistic, Possibly ''UJncle Rufus is bear"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
Decorated Chamber Sets.
Decorated Dinner Sets.

an opening a very fine assortment of English and American Decorated Chamber Sets, consisting of shirty-three different styles They have been selected with and will suit those destrou O refurn1shing their rooms tastefully.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
Lumber.

LNOR several years we have thought that New HA- k' ven should have wholesale lumber yard where those using large quantities Of lumber could buy their stock without paying retail prices. HavioE bought the extensive docks of The LsEis s Beschsr Co., can handle large lots of Lumber very cheap We going into the jobbing bukineSs connection with our retail yard, and receiving lots Of Lumber which sell st 8 bargain
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19
How Champagne is Male.

The Various Processes Through Which it Passes-Patisnce nd Delicate Hand- ling They Require-DIficulties En- countered in the CelIars-Th" Marrying of yVfnes-Freparation for its EKpor- tasfOn,
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19

It is said that liquor dealers in Bridgeport are offering from $25 to $35 for names of taxpayers upon their applications, and that taxpayers are holding on for $50, and some even want $1OO for their names If this prac- tice becomes general it will reke licenses cost so much that their number will be con- paratively small.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19

The silk manufactures of this country are nearly all concentrated in the States of Con- necticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachu- setts and Pennsylvania. In these five States are 356 of the 382 factories in the country. The capital invested is over $19, ,O0O, GOO and ever 5000, GOO is paid annually for wages to about 35, ,oOO employees, Silk cultivation has proved decided failure after numberless ex- periments and the present product is insigni- fcant In California, where it promised to assume importance twelve or fifteen years sgo, it has gradually decreased and has been virtually abandoned At present Kansas is the only State in which the crop reaches 500 pounds per anLum.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-19

A queer will has been filed in the San Fran cisco probate court It was made by John T. Pantlind, an old pioneer, who died recent ly, and is in his own handwriting The chief points of this remarkable document are as follows q, John T Pantlnd, of the city of San Francisco, county of San Francisco q guess it don't amount to d-n the county I'm in), State of dear old California, know ing the uncertainty of life and being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this, my first last and only will and testament. I wish it understood that am in my clear, level-headed sense, and know just what I am about, and don't want any one-horse lawyer business fooling around" The will then provides that his re- mains be taken to Norwalk, Ohio, and that his parents and brother be buried with him and one monument be put over them. He directs that none of the children of his father by his second wife be buried anywhere near him Of his two half sisters he says They are noble girls, but they don't belong to the first issue, There was 8 ohasm during life,
 ,et it even be wider in death This deathbed