Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-11-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The American craze in England is
reported to be more pronounced than
is the English craze on this side of the
Atlantic, and it is predicted that next
spring America will draw off hosts On
English tourists from Switzerland.
MIR. Marvin III. Bovee, of Wisconsin,
who has considerable noteriety
through his persistent efforts in many
parts Of the country toward the abol-
ishment of capital punishment, intends
to visit the Legislatures of all South
ern States during the winter, and dis
cuss this question before those bodies.
A verdict In the Superior Court at
Augusta, Ga, giving damages to a
father for injuries sustained 10y a
daughter fourteen years old, in the
Augusta factory, from which injuries
the child died, is regarded as settling
very important precedent, establish,
ing liability of manufacturing COM
panies to parents in damages for injur-
les to minor children while at work.
Miss Booth and her companions,
who were expelled from Switzerland,
were enthusiastically received in Lon
don on their return to that city.
Fully fifteen thousand people attended
the three great thanksgiving meetings
held in Exeter Hall. In a speech on
the occasion Miss Booth said that, at
whatever risk, the SalvationiSts were
determined to resume the fight for the
redemption of Switzerland, and not
only of Switzerland, but of France,
Italy, Australia and America.
Among the pleasant souvenirs of
his visit to Washington, which Chief
Justice Coleridge, # Great Britain,
will carry home with him, is a sonnet
written by his great-uncle, the poet, in
the album of an American lady more
than half century ago. The lady
was Miss Barbour, daughter of
James Barbour, of Virginia, who was
at that time United States Minister to
Great Britain. The sonnet was writ
ten on the eve of her return to Ameri-
ca, and has never been published.
The new and thrifty town of Pull
man, near Chicago, lies on a flat
prairie, and the problem of drainage,
which is so difficult to solve in a great
many places, had to be met in Pull
man. The following Is the one adopt
ed, and it is said to be satisfactory in
its workings and profitable in its re-
suits. Sewers are built to empty into
a sunken tank, from which the sew
age is pumped through twenty-inch
main to a farm three miles away.
The system cost $4,000; the farm
yields profit of $500 a year.
The New Orleans Exhibition, which
is to be held in December, 1884, is
rapidly taking shape. The preliminary
arrangements have been perfected in
nearly all the Southern States, as well
as in Mexico and the principal
governments of Central America
There is no reason why such an eXhi-
hilton should not be great success in
New Orleans. 1t is the largest city
in the South, with many features
which make it interesting for winter
visitors. The jetties have given the
city its anti-war position as the great
commercial city of the South, and it is
fitting that this should be celebrated
by an exhibition of Southern products.
Tea drinking was lately denounced
in violent terms by an English clergy
man at meeting held to further the
establishment of courses of instruc-
tion in practical cookery in the
elementary schools. He said: "If !
had my own way there would be much
less tea drinking among people of all
classes. Excessive tea drinking
creates generation Of nervous, dis
contented people, who are for ever COM
planning of the existing order of the
universe, scolding their neighbors and
signing after the impossible. l sus.
pect that over-much tea drinking, by
destroying the calmness of the nerves,
is acting as dangerous revolutionary
force among u.s.
One reason that so many men desert
from the army-15 per cent year, it
is said-Secretary Lincoln thinks is
due in a great measure to the fact that
the enlisted men are employed most of
the time not as soldiers but labOrers,
and, what makes it worse, without