The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-10

i shall not see the literary editor Joe o lew
DAYS. He is man of violent impulse;
sna somebody might get hurt:-lB atom
Post.
miscellaneous Matters. II
Nearly all the submarine cables have
been made BY English workmen, bought
with English money. and laid down by
English engineers. The capital of the
three companies reaching from London
more than $1,000 miles of submarine
cables. The English companies own 49,.
600 miles against 1000 miles owned 81
Brazil with the West India Islands is
owned outside of Great Britain. i
Madame Hurtrelle, lady opposition
in Paris, has been arrested for drunken
ness. In defense,she said that she read
that the surest way of preserving furs
from the ravag.s Of moths was to stow
them away in an empty gpirit cask: She
accordingly purchased one and confitl-
ed it to her cloak. The weather being
chilly, she required the garment. and
the alcoholic fumes produced intoxica.
ton. She was acquitted,
Ina recent conversation Representa-
tive Carlisle of Kentucky, who two years
ago visited parliament, said our house CT
representatives is in alllespects supe rior
to the commons. With the exec ption of
Bright and few other noted members
he thinks that our lower house possesses
more intellect than the British house,
and that our representatives personally
look better, and that more order is OBJ.
served.
During the war Masonic lodge at
Fredericksburg, Va.,. was sacked and
among the articles carried off was the
silver level of a Senior Warden, which
was undoubtedly used by Washington.
who was member of the lodge. This
interesting weapon was deposited among
the archives of Integrity Lodge, OF Phil
adelphia, by Captain Warren j. Young,
a former member, together. with mem.
orandum stating that it was to be re-
turned to the Fredericksburg lodge ''af-
ter the state of Virginia, as whole,
ceases to be il rebellion against the gov
eminent of the United States" The
relic was overlooked until a few weeks
ago, when newly elected secretary dis
covered l., and, after fraternal cores.
pondence with his southern brethren,
returned it to them.
The Brooklyn Bridge will never nav
for itself. The income was $4,000 for
the first week, fell to 81, 2N6 in the second,
and so on down to S2,567 for the week
ending July y. The daily average is
now 1856. The opening of the railway
will increase the receipts, yet it is be-
lieved that whole income, after deduct
ing running expenses, will not pay one
quarter of the interest on
the cost of construction, to say moth
ing of the sinking fund to meet the
principal of the bonds when they TALL
due. Brooklyn's share ofyearly interest
is $500, and New York's 1885, 675.
| The former must raise $4,000 annually
for bridge bond sinking fund, and the
latter $4,000. The cost of maintenance
is Sl50,Ou0, SO that the yearly burden is
| 81 1894 OPS. The taxpayers will be reim-
bursed for their outlay by the general
benefits which the bridge will confer
upon the two cities.
Memphis has recently enjoyed one of
those judicial inquiries into the intoxi-
eating or Notwithstanding quality of
beer which periodically result in prov
ing nothing at all. Mr.. F. Ball was
charged with selling beer on certain oc-
casion in violation of q statute, and, of
course, his defense was that no one
could get drunk on beer. Numerous
German experts testified that man
could drink from twenty-five to eighty
glasses day with impunity. or even 100
glasses if he chose to make hog Of him
SELF In rebuttal an American witness
declared upon oath and without blush
ing that on the Glorious Fourth he had
imbibed nine glasses after D. m. and
that when the clo"k struck S he was
blind drunk. At this point the case
went to the jury, whose verdict has not
yet been announced in this city. The
trial of this cause is chiefly valuable for
the compact and comprehensive defni-
ton Of drunkenness which it ELECTED from
said he, "when he don't know what he.
is thinking about"
Recent statistics In regard to the
English army do not show it to be in .
very flourishing condition. At home
the army is more thau 5000 below its
appointed strength, and at the end of
the present year there will be def
cheney Of between IL, 900 and II, 900 men,
which will be Increased to between 25,-
900 and $4,000 next year. The Brigade
Of Guards is nearly 1000 men below it's
strength. Crime is on the increase;
cases of violence to superiors and insub.
ordination have increased since 1872 by
81 per cent. in the army at home, and
by 81. per cent. in the army abroad,
men tried for being drunk on duty has
more than doubled. The non-commis-
stoned officers also have deteriorated in
the last ten years, the record of cases OF
reduction to the ranks and imprison-
ment having nearly trebled at home and
abroad. The Inspector General OF
Recruiting is quoted to prove there is a
steady falling off in the physical con-
dition of persons who come forward as
recruits.
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