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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
Wednesday, april 4, 1888.
The Appointment of Officers.

We do not at all envy the Alder
men for the coming week. There is a
number of offices to be filled, and
there is always plenty of applicants.
The Aldermen will be beset and tor
mented by persons who desire Offices,
and every sort of pressure will be
brought to bear ON them by the vari-
Gus applicants, in order to get them
to pledge their votes to them. 1t is so
every spring.
On this question we would like to
say few words publicly to the AL
dermen. 1t is their duty to appoint
certain officers, and if these officers
do not do their duty, the Council will
have to shoulder the blame. The AL
dermen can not throw the responsible
ity upon the men appointed. The
people will hold the Aldermen respon-
sible for Encouragement and reckless
expenditures of the public funds.
The officers appointed are but the
agents of the Council, appointed to do
certain duties, and the Aldermen will
be held responsible that the work is
properly done and no public moneys
recklessly squandered. 1t, therefore,
becomes the duty of the Aldermen to
make good appointments. As the
Aldermen will be held personally re-
sponsible for the actions of their APP
pointed officers, they should allow no
one to interfere with their right to APP
point such officers. They should not
appoint persons that their judgment
does not approve, merely because they
have been importuned to dose. They
should allow nothing except their
own judgment to influence them in
their appointments. Give the people
good officers, and they will not com
PLAIN.
One of the most important of these
offices is the street commissioner, and
it is in his department where abuses
are most apt to occur, and where pub
lie funds can be wasted in useless pro-
iects. This is one Of the departments
in which financial leaks occur, that
no one but the street commissioner
can find and stop.
Last year the Council appropriated
for highway purposes $4,000. The
financial statement Of the Council
shows that the amount Of orders is
sued for highway purposes was So
252.22, being an increase over the es-
Inmates of over $4,000. AS there is a
prospect of some of the streets being
paved, the office of street commission
err becomes still more important. Such
a man should not only be capable,
and efficient, but should understand
and have practical knowledge, OF
sewers, streets, sidewalks, bridges, and
be also one who can be depended on to
honestly administer such financial
matters as he is intrusted with, and
one who will not be apt to form rings
for robbing the taxpayers.
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For Recorder,
John j. McVicar, Dem, 213
Zebulon M. Knight, Rep, 300
For Treasurer,
Sylvester Westrope, Dem, 220
Erastus Nj. Harrington, Rep, $50
For Justice of the Peace.
James L. Hunt, DEM, 227
Josiah b. Newton. Rep. 276
For Supervisor,
Andrew w. Comstock, DEM, Dos
Robert Rayburn, Rep, 292
For Alderman,
Monroe Klock, Dem, 226
Frank Nj. Wheeler, pa
For Board of Education,
Henry II. Morse, DEM, 172
Edward X. Potter, Rep, 325
For Constable,
f. Ruell, Dem, 175
Chas. Guenther, Rep. 1921
SECOND WARD.
For Supreme Court, full term,
John w. Champlin, Union, 299
Austin Blair, Rep, 1873
For Supreme Court, to fill vacancy.
Thomas Sherwood, Union, 239
Thomas O'Brien, Rep, 14O
For Regents of University,
Arthur M. Clark, Union, 241
Charles j. Willett, Union, 24O
Henry B. Hutchins, Rep, 1877
Joseph c. Jones, Rep, 1873
For Mayor,
Charles Golling, DEM, 227
Robert M. Donnelly, Rep, POI
For Comptroller,
Thomas Collins, Dem, 157
Abram Blakely, Rep, 27O
For Recorder,
John S. McVicar, DEM, 272
Zebulon M. Knight, Rep, 155
For Treasurer,
Sylvester Westrope, Dem, 3O7
Erastus M. Harrington, Rep, 12O
For Justice of the Peace,
James Z. Hunt, DEM, 25l
Josiah B. Newton, Rep, la
For Supervisor,
Andrew j. Simmons, DEM, 272
Hiram j. Eaton, Rep, 152
For Alderman,
Chas. Lynch, Dem., 264
John Nicholson, Rep, 16l
For Board of Education,
Benjamin Waggoner, Dem, 259
F. n. Barlow, Rep, 167
For Constable, :
Henry Kelley, DEM, 26S
John w. Thompson, Rep, 153
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04
Wonders of the Human Ear.

"More wonderful than any arch
that architect ever elevated, said DR..
Talmage yesterday, cor any transept
window he ever illuminated, or any
Corinthian column he ever crowned,
or any Gothic cloister he ever elabo-
rated, is the human ear.
81 am told on all sides that God
gave his blessing to the sermon |
preached last Sunday morning on the
other half of the verse which makes
my text this morning, He that plant
ed the ear shall he not hear? and He
that formed the eye shall He not see ?
I am expecting that God will give his
blessing this morning while | speak to
you Of the ear.
among the most skilful and as
siduous Psychologists of our time have
been those who have given their time
to the examination Of the ear and the
study of its wards, its floor, its canal,
its aqueducts, its galleries, its intrica-
cies, its convolutions, its divine mech
anism. And yet it will take another
thousand years before the world comes
to any adequate appreciation of what
God did when he planned and execut-
ed the infinite and overmastering
architecture Of the human ear. The
most Of it is invisible, and the micro
scope breaks down in the attempt at
exploration. The cartilage which we
call ear is only the outer gate of the
great temple clear down out of sight,
next door to the immortal soul. There
are three cars on each side of the
head-the external ear, the middle
ear, and the internal ear-but all con-
nected by wonderful system of tele.
graphy. A stroke of the key of our
church organ sets the air vibrating
and the outer ear catches the undula.
tons and passes them on through the
bonelets of the middle ear to the in
ternal ear, which is filled with liquid
That liquid again vibrates until the
5000 fibres of the brain take up The
vibration and roll the sound on into
the soul. The hidden machinery o
the ear is called by Psychologists by
names of things familiar to us-as tn,
hammer, the anvil, the stirrup, thu
drum.
"The middle ear is filled with air
the medium Of sound. AS the sounC
passes to the internal ear, filled will
liquid, the muscle contracts if thu
noise is too loud, just as the pupil o
the eye contracts when the light is to-
glaring. The internal ear is imbeddec
in what is by far the hardest bone o
the human system-a very rock o
strength and defiance. The ear is 81
strange a continuance that, by an es
innate of one learned man, it cal
gather 77,700 vibrations in a second
"The outer ear takes in all kind
Of sound, whether the crush Of an av
alanche or the hum Of the bee. Tn
sound passes through the inner doc
of the outside ear and halts until an
other divine mechanism passes it oil
by the bonelets of the middle ear, ant
when it comes TO the inner door o
that second ear the sound has n
power TO act until another divin
mechanism passes it on into the inne
ear, and then it swims in liquid unit
: il comes TO the real contact Of tn
brain branchlet and rolls on and o.
Al 4
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04
Meteorological Report.

During the week ending Monday,
April Ord, 1888, the meteorol-
ogical report of the weather at Alpe-
ma city, is as follows:
Highest temperature IS degrees, on the Goth.
Lowest temperature, degrees below zero.
Average temperature, 1875 degrees.
Highest barometric pressure, 30.329 inches.
Lowest barometric pressure, 2o.o33 inches.
Total rain fall or melted snow, 600 inches.
Prevailing wind, from the northwest.
Highest velocity Of the wind 10 miles, from the
west on the 9th.
Total movement of the wind during the week
1915 miles.
Greatest daily rainfall or melted snow, 900 in
hes.
During the month ending March 3lst, 1883, the
meteorological report is as follows
Highest barometric pressure, 30.5i7 inches.
Lowest barometric pressure, 20.265 inches.
Range, 1881 inches.
Highest temperature, So degrees, on the list.
Lowest temperature, S degrees below zero, sth
and goth.
Monthly range of temperature, 60 degrees.
Average temperature, 1874 degrees.
Prevailing wind, from the northwest.
Highest velocity OF the wind, % miles, from the
northeast, on the 9th.
Total movement of wind, 1892 miles.
Total rainfall or melted snow, 0.G6 inches.
Greatest daily rain fall OF melted snow, Oj0 in
chos, on the Goth.
JAMES J. FITZGERALD,
Scrg't Signal Corps U. $.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04

and the hundred gates shut. The
voice of God seems to say TO all hui
man expectation Thus far and no
farther How many kings of thought
and of medicine and physiology, after
having done penance of lifelong study
have got no further than this vcsti-
bule, the mysterious home of rever-
beration and echo, headquarters to
which there come quick dispatches by
the way of cartilage, by the way of
air, by the way of bone, and water
and nerve. The slowest dispatch
plunges into the ear at speed of
1000 feet second On this small
instrument, the ear drum, is played
all the music you ever hear, from the
grandest of Gods thunder storms to
the softest breathing of the flute. 1t
is small instrument, only quarter
of ian nch in circumference, and with
thinness of two hundred and fif-
tieth part of an inch. Musical strains
with lines, spaces and rests, are there
the bridge leading from the outside
natural world to the inside spiritual
world; the whispering gallary of the
soul. The human voice is Gods eu-
logy to the ear. That voice, capa-
bic of producing 1885, 1904, Ais
sounds, and all of variety, is made
not for the regalement of beast or
bird, but for the regalement of the
human ear.
"You would better be careful how
you let in sound of blasphemy or LET
uncleanliness enter that holy of hol'
les. will show you how much Christ
thought of the human ear. He went
to meet n man who was deaf, and
came up to him, and put the finger o.
his right hand into the orifce of the
left ear of the patient, and put the
finger of his left hand into the orifice
of the right ear of the patient, ant
agitated the tympanum, and startled
the bonelets by crying out in a loud
voice so that the false growth gave
way, and the man who had not heard
sound for many years heard the
wash of the waves of Galilee. And
when Peter with one slash of hi
sword caused the ear Of the offender
to fall into the dust, Christ created ar
external ear, corresponding with the
internal ear, that no sword could cliT
, away. And to show what God thinks
of the ear, we are informed that or
that millennial June which shall make
roseate all the earth, the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped.
Jupiter of Crete was always rep
resented in statuary and painting as
without ears, suggesting the idea that
he did not want to be bothered with
the affairs of the world but our God
has ears psalm xxxIv, 15): His
ears are open unto their cry The
bible intimates that if workmen on
Saturday night do not get their wages
their complaint instantly strikes the
ear of God. Last night poor CIR
threw herself on a prison bunk in th'
city dungeon and cried in the mid
night. God have mercyy Do 20,
really think God could hear her jus
as easily as when child, sick will
scarlet fever, she asked her mothe
S for a drink of water? He tina
} formed the ear, shall he not hear
When the soul prayer, God does no
sit bolt upright and wait until tn
, sound travels immensity and reache
, his ear. The bible says that he bend
clear over you. Isaiah says: H
bowed down His ear"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04
American Newspapers in 1883.

From the new edition of Messrs.
Geo. p. Rowell & Co.'S American
Newspaper Directory, which is now
in press, it appears that the newspa-
pers and periodicals of all kinds issued
In the United States and Territories
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04
Ossineke Township.

In Ossineke township the Demo-
cratic State ticket received IA votes,
and the Republican 20 votes, The
township officers are as follows:
Supervisor-David Oliver.
Clerk-Geo. r. Zimmerman.
Treasurer-John Ellsworth.
School Inspector. Patnod.
Highway Commissioner-R. II.
McKillop.
Justice of Peace, full term-David
Stewart.
Justice of Peace, vacancy--Jas. L.
Sanborn.
Contables-Jas. Brossaur and Eur
gene Wright,
There was no opposition except on
highway commissioner, and Mr.. Nc
Kellop received three majority.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04
Election.

The political contest which came
to close last Monday, was a very
peculiar one as far as regards Alpena
city. Great difficulty was experienced
in getting candidates, and many of
them on the Democratic ticket were
nominated by the city convention
against the desires and wishes of the
persons chosen. All the candidates
on the First ward ticket had to be
thus nominated. The Republicans
also experienced considerable difficult
ty in filling their ticket, and the
office of Mayor went begging. AT
their second convention the Republi-
cans persuaded Major r. NJ. Donnel-
" to lead their forces, and the figures
that follow will tell the result Of
the Majors leadership. He must have
had gatling gun loaded with his
slips and shot them OH the Democratic
tickets. Mr.. Collins was defeated
owing to large number of Demo-
Gratis voting against him under the
belief that he was the choice of the
lumbermen for assessor. There was
little political feeling in the contest, as
could readily be seen by the number
of slips used, and especially among
the Democrats. 1t was a battle of
slips and not of tickets. After the
election was over and the result known,
the band was got out and the various
candidates serenaded. Under the cir
cumstances our readers will please
excuse the non appearance of our
ROSTERS. They do not feel well, hav-
ing had a bad attack of slip fever,
and we can't let the noble birds loose
this spring. The result by wards is
as follows:
| llhSI WAhD'
For Supreme Court. full term,
John w. Champlin, Union, 17S
Austin Blair, Rep, 3l1
For Supreme Court, to fill vacancy,
Thomas Sherwood, Union, $50
Thomas OBrien, Rep, 3OS
For Regents Of University,
Arthur M. Clark, Union, 1S2
Charles j. Willett, Union, 179
Henry B. Hutchins, Rep, 301
Joseph c. Jones, Rep, BIO
For Mayor,
Charles Golling, Dem, III
Robert M. Donnelly, Rep. 1888
For Comptroller,
Thomas Collins, Dem, 1856
j Abram Blakely, Rep, 327
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-04

The Prohibition candidates on the
State ticket received % votes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12

more "blaok aud monstrous" than tia. oil
Vermont we do not see why
But 10 return ,s our figures. 1t appears
from the statistics Of suicide that three hun
drcd and cighty-thrce persons in various
parts of tue country, having grown tired oil
life, ushercd themselves into eternity by
means of the pistol, gun, knife, razor, iire'
the rope and in various other ways. In New
York city 1913 persons committed suicide, and
in Brooklyn there were 20 eases. Or all the
States and Territories New ork ranks lrst
with 1874 cases Jersey, 30; Pennsylvania
81; Ohio, "a Maryland, l3; Missouri,
IS; Illinois, 0; California, 7; Arkansas
ana Delaware, 6 each Connecticut, Ma'sa-
chusetts, North Carolina, 8 each AlaOAmn,
Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Rhode Island and
Virginia, 4 each District of Columbia,
Louisiana, Mississippi aud New Hampshire,
3 each Kentucky. Michigan, Vermont and
Wisconsin, 3 cach. But little crcdenCc can
be attached to III $, last figures. Tho real
numhcr for this State is probably nearer q
than 9, and us t. The other States the figures
are undoubtedly as far or further from the
truth
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12
THE ROlND TABLE.

Who, that uses steel pen, has not been
it at the first dipping: The ink will
either refuse to visit the point at all, or else
it will come down with such delu.e as TO
leave its entire contents in the place of what
should have been single letter. A writer
in German paper says that the clerks in
Hamburg have way of rcmedying this cx-
aspera'ing fault They pass the new pen
two or three times through gas flame, and
then the ink will flow freely. These same
ingenious youths use slice of new potato as
per-wiper. 1t is said that the csculcnt will
not only absorb the lux, but will remove
all nk.crust from the pen, and give pc
culiarly smooth flow to the ink All those
who rejoice in a confederation Of steel pens,
potatoes and gas burners will do well 10
perform these simple experiments herewith,
aud see if the result is us reported.
Musical organizations will be glad to lcaru
that the New York Philharmonic Society
has decided to adopt new musical pitch,
which will be about half tone lower than
the pitch now in use. Musical organizations
throughout the land will undoubtedly adopt
the new pitch. High sopranos and tcnors
will now have chance 10 make some pyro-
tcchnlc display without having their voices
90 up Ike rocket and come down like a
stick. The pitch now employed is acknowl-
edged by all musicians to be too high, and the
proposed change will be sure to meet with
universal favor
Why is it that everybody hates gossip
and tale bearer? Simply because 1t is the
fault to which we arc all of us most prone,
and which we wish to guard against by con.
demuiug in others. The modern parablc-ist
alludelh to the vice as follows
Once upon time there was a king, and
the thing he liked best was wisdom, AMI the
thing he liked worst was the king who ruled
next door. lie wanted to find the wis s.
man In all the kingdom, and SO h. asked
question
"Whai is the lowest order OF creature ever
created On the face of the eirth?'
And the astrClogers aud wise men came
together, and argued and some said a snail,
aud some said jelly-tish But the king was
not satisfied, and all the astrologers got sick,
and some committed suicide, but the king
was not to be comforted. Thena young man
came in and said
so king. the lowest order OF creature is the
gossip and the tale-bearcr."
And the kings face Enlightened, and sweet
toned harps were played upon, and they put
a gold ring upon the young mans finger, and
all the mobiles pulled down their vests when
he went by. And the king waxed strong,
and waxed all his enemies, and so did the
young man, for he was exceedingly wise
We have all of us heard the old pattern
story about the pin or the match, or the cent
the various metamorphoses they went
through in passing from the rude state of
nature TO the finished product, AAd So,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

1t is said Of Professor Proctor that willis
with one eye he sazcs through telescope lie
is with the other through a microsc pc seek
ing to know what the newspapers say about
him
j. Proctor Knot; of Kentucky, in u pub
isled letter says: Il know nothing of the
arts of political lugglery, and would not
resort to them if did. | seek the nominal
ton for Governor solely upon my own hum
Die merits, not a. reward for anything
may have done, but hoping that twelve years
of lGbJriOus, and, trust acceptable public
service may furnish some assurance to the
people OF my naive State that | would dis
charge the duties OF that exalted position
faithfully to the best of my ability
1t appears from the German Imperial Bud
get that Prince Bismarck, as chancellor OF
tue empire, receives an annual salary of
200, with The free use of his official resi-
dence and 5000 "A year for maintaining it,
| The ambassadors In London aud St. Peters
| burg receive S31, 600 year each; those in
| Paris, Vienna and Cous,antnople, $50 900
each, and the ambassador in Rome, S9j 900 (:
| and every ambassador has n free house. The
largcs, salary paid 10 any State fuuctionary is
s4j, 200, which the Governor OF Alsace.LOr-
'''He '''''''
The relation between Mrs. Lydia Maria
Child and her husband was very tender. For
twenty-five years they llved alone, without a
servant, in their humble but pleasant home
u WnyIailu, Mass ohGc' reih'es Z'o,' "
AtI"m, M"Gn ne sulu 10 pei, Wish lor
YOU s'hc, ug"'' was as lIoh a. orpsus'
sue resP9huEu' lou arc ''"suS' tor you arc
H. pr;.o, IS VII, H., -
cA,;.,,,,.. 80, .,..n
49, na.,,.,,o ,.,,,1oa ,,.aI 49,, -,
his inscrin,inn ,,prcsontcd IN II n n
The prince If Males Inv Admiral .1rd Alccs.
Ter q g a "a n souycnir ~ tho Lnn,Lsrd.
men, of Alexandra Jnlv 10 1sso Game
through The mort Side of Her Msiesty's shin
Alexandra above armor' passing through
I,"o ne,,V od r.,iaI I, Mn VI
when Mr.. Harding, gunner, put it in a tub
OF water, for which he received the Victoria
Cross"
Grs,avo D,re the artist il forty five voors
old, He looks like German, smokes like
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12
CIVIL SERVICE IN ENGLAND.

One OF the most interesting and valuable
chapters in the Annual Report of Gen. f. A.
Merritt, L. S. Consul General at London, a
copy If which in pamphlet form is before us,
is devoted to the subject of the Civil Service
in that coustiy aid our own. General Mcr-
lit, MS Collector OF Purt uf New York, was
enabled sona,n an ms dc view of some of
h. wmkin-s OF the Civil Service in this
c Mntry; and luce his appointment to his
pr nj p lit on lie has evidently given care
full All ntion TO the service in England. as
compared with our own. lie says:
Tue Civil Service system Of Great Britain,
as now csta i h d is n compromise between
the cd, or patronage, and the purely COM
pet,ive or INERT system" as applied to GER
tain classes The latter is the system advo-
Gated by the leaders Of Civil Service reform,
and has been to some extent adopted 10y
executive authority in the United States Iu
the English system the lower grades only, 10
wit: those comprising positions command
ing less than f400 each per annum are COW
cred by the rules, while all positions com.
handing more than that in the home, and
all in the foreign service continue, as under
the old or patronage system, to be filed by
the heads Of departments or by the crown
There docs not, however, appear 10 be many
or serious complaints as to the manner in
which this patronage is dispensed.
1t seems that, as general rule, the friends
of the representative men OF both parties
occupy tLe'c positions, and that tenure of
Office is more permanent in consequence 1t
is probable, therefore, that considerable
period of time will elapsc before these higher
or representa- We positions will be brought
under the coAtrol # ibe competitive system.
am, hoNevei, clearly OF the opinion that
patronage, rs understood in the United
State, Ia practically ceased 10 be an impor-
tant element in pOlitial contests between the
great parties Of this country, and affords no
special assistance 10 candidates seeking the
suffrage o. he people of Great Britain.
Tho rules and regulations now in force
have been adopted and amended, from time
to time, by Orders in Council" and en-
forced by Civil Service Commission. The
lower GRADS referred to are divided into
classes or groups. Persons having passed
examination and taken service in particular
class or group, cannot us n rule, be promo.
ted into another or higher class or group. In
case of the disconiinuance of position
u ausler can only be made by executive or
der Of which the commissioners shall be
advised.
Rule II of "Orders In Council provides
that sanri, of men clerks in the lower dyis- |
lou shall commence Mt $50 per annum, and |
increase, by trien..isl increments of fl5, to |
f2OO; provided also that. in any Office in |
which regular attendance of seven hours |
LAY Is required, the commencing salary may |
be f65, and the maximum f250.
Rue IL provides that promotion from the |