Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-14

l committees of the house, but there is, never
 thoIsss, good deal of interest in their con- struetion. It is expected that they will be announced to-morro W, and they will probably meet with general approval, fer, ,es every body knows, Speaker Harrison can be relied ou to treat the questions involved in their oenstruc- tion fairly.
 It is not often that there is . chance to give tramp crdit for bsing useful in any way, but tramp who wgs fed at mans
 house in Turkey Hill, Pennsylvania, the other day earned what was given him. About half an hour after he had left the house he
 hurried back and gave the family warning of
 terrible snow slide that was moving down
 the hill behind their home. few valuables were taken out just before the avalanche
 with mighty roar, swept over the house.
 Somebody has been unearthing a lot of old depositioEs in Kentucky clerks office and taking notes of the bad spelling of sonae of the great men of the past. A deposition in the hand writing of Andrew Jackson contains such spelling as reference" ssdsponants, |"
 ''nntill, :" 'bal&nce, ? ''vallue" and s'diicuit |" Old Hiokory's use ef capitals was quite re- markable. Such words as ''DoIlar" and
 'sMoney" he capitalized, while he also wrote
 almighty god" Unfortunately some of the great men of the present day can't put let ters together much better. We know a great man who wrote t'tak nAles"
 Joseph P. Earle, an importer of India rub. Der who does business in New York, thinks that the manufacturers of rubber goods have reason to expect a prosperous season this year, as they have worked of nearly all their surplus stock of goods. There were import- ed into the United States in 1883 21, ,625. GOO pounds of rubber. Of this amount 11.61s. 900 pounds came from Para, and the remain der from Central America and Africa These figures show falling of of ?, 542 ,oo0 pounds fir ,m the imports of last year. The total consumption of the world for last year was S2,000, 900 pounds. The total stock in the world January 1st was about l4,ooO, 900 pounds.
 The bankruptcy convention which meets in Washington the day after to morrow will contain representatives of nearly all the lead ing boards of trades and business associations in ths country. It's chief work will be to take into consideration the various bills and amendments which have been presented to Congress, and formulate bill which shall emb dy the latest sentiment of the business community on the subject. When this has been agreed upon, a committee will pre- sent the matter to subcommittee appointed on the subject from the house Judiciary committee, consisting of Msssrs. Oulberson, Moulton, Collins, McCold and Bisbee. Of these Culbsrson, Collins and McCold are, it is sad, favorable to the Lowell bill.
 The London Lancet says; Dr. Milncr Fothergill recommends the use of ssewed fruits in many cases of gout and dyspepsia. Sugar is undoubtedly objectionable to many, but it ia by no means necessary to add sugar to stswed fruit. If the acidity be neutralized by an alksli, little or ne sugar is required. Thrifty housewives have long been familiar with the fact that the addition of Q small quantity of the bicar arbonate of soda to stewed fruit reduces ths acidity, 50 as to save the necessity for much sugar. If about as much bicarbonate of potash as will lie on shilling be aided to each pound of fruit 1t viIl be found sufficient to neutraIizs the acidity and to bring out the natural sweetness Milk puddings and stewed fruit are excellent for the dyspertic the bilious and the gouty.
 Labouchero, member of Parliament and ths editor of Truth, has set forth the pro- granms of the English Liberals with much franknsss and direotness. He says that the radicals mean to have manhood suffrage, eieetorA districts. payment of members,