Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-15

which they obtain their supplies have been
compelled to ship their bales to Savannah
which is 100 miles from Augusta At last
accounts three steamers were impeded by
low water from reaching the latter city.
The Buffalo Courier makes significant ad-
mission when it says: The man who votes
for Blaine this year is really voting to give
him term of eight years in the presidency
In spite of ofieeholders and reformers, he al
most carried the Republican national conven-
| tions of 1876 and 1880; and in spite of Office
holders and reformers he carried the Repub-
lican national convention of 1884. If he
| should be elected his prestige and popularity
| would be increased, and he would go into the
next national convention with the federal
patronage behind him, and capture renom-
| ination.
About forty thousand individuals are en-
| p1oyed in Switzerland in the watch and
| clock trade, the canton of Neufchatel having
| Is, 200, who turn out annually a million
| watches, of the value of 80, 600, 900 francs
| In the Vaudois there are 7,700 some of
whom are occupied in musical boxes; in
Berne there are 1900, producing to the
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nual production of watches in Switzerland
averages l,60O,0 900 of the value of $1,000, 600
francs. The export of 1882 was to the
! amount of 184, 300 kilogrammes of watches,
| %, 800 in excess of the previous year The
| import was 65, 400 kilogrammes, consisting
| of watches in the rough brought into the
country to be finished.
l ba Grand DrIa of Hoacaso oa+i4;o,, e.,
| divorce from the Countess Romrod (Mme de
Kalomine) is to be heard before the seven
| judges of the Supreme court of Darmstadt
on October 1S. At the hearing before the
subordinate tribunal both parties Joined in
the application; but now the Grand Dukes
petition will be strenuous1y opposed on the
part of his spouse. The Countess has not
only declined to receive the allowance which
was settled on her, but has absolutely re-
fused to compromise the matter on any terms
whatever. The German papers have ex-
hausted their imagination in trying to dis
cover the reasons which have induced the
Grand Dukes relatives to take up the matter
so strongly. The last theory is that Queen
Victoria desires that in due course her SON
in-law should become the second husband of
the Duchess of Albany. In the almost GER
tain event of the divorce being refused, it is
universally believed at Darmstadt that the
Grand Duke will abdicate in favor of his
only son, Prince Ernest Ludwig, and that in
future he will divide his time between Eng
land and his estate in Si1esia
Another lie was recently put in print in the |
State of Ohio to the effect that in the con-
struction of his new residence in Washing
ton Mr.. Blaine ground down the contractors
for the work so that they were forced to pay
mechanics 50. so and 1aborers 81 so day at
a time when the rates paid by other contract
ors were much higher. The facts are that
Mr.. Blaine made a contract with the firm of
builders, Robert Davidson & Co., of Wash |
ington, to construct his residence upon plans
furnished by Mr.. Frazier, his architect. He
had nothing to do with the rates paid by
Messrs. Davidson & Co. to their workmen
and laborers, and complied with every obliga-
ton on his side until a bill was presented
for extra and additional work outside of the
contract, caused by certain alterations in the |
original plans This bill was for upward of
s17,O 900, and believing it wrong Mr.. Blaine |
disputed it. Under an agreement, he select
ed referee, W. Bruce Gray, of the we'll
known firm of architects, Gray & Page, and
the contractors were represented by Robert
l. Fleming, leading builder of Washington
The deliberations of the referees resulted in
a reduction of this bill of extras to little
over $8, COO. Mr.. Gray states most emphati-
cally that in the considerations of the items
of this bill the contractors were in every in
stance allowed the highest price then paid |
for the work of mechanics and laborers, and
the reduction in the bill resulted from the 1
overcharges for material and charges for |
work that was included in the original draw |
ings and specifications. This nails another /
despicable Democratic lie.
Dr.. Moren Mckenzie, of the London hos |
pital medical college, has made very thor |
ough study of ebay fever" and his conclu- |
sions are interesting. DIR. Mckenzie finds !
that the disease is almost unknown except |
among Englishmen and Americans, by far |
the larger number of cases being reported |
from this side of the Atlantic. Nervous peo-
pie are most open to attack from hay fever,
but there appears to be peculiar idiosyn- |
Grassy even among nervous people, the laws |
of which have not as yet been discovered. |
Just as from some unknown Gauss the odOr 1
of rotten apples was peculiarly beneficial to 1
the health of Schiller, the pollen of many |
flowers seems to produce in certain cases this |
peculiar membraneous affection. Victims of |
hay fever will perhaps be a little consoled by |
the doctors opinion that hay fever is almost |
exclusively confined to persons of some edu-
cation, and generally to those of some fair
social position. In order to keep the pollen
away the doctor proposes that the patient
should plug his nostri1s with cotton wool or
wadding by means of one of Gottstein's |
screws, and should defend his eyes by wear
ing spectacles with large frames accurately
adapted to the circumference of the orbits |
Plugging the lachrymal ducts with small
glass rods has also been recommended. In
stead of plugging the nose it has been ad-
vised to close it by compression with metal |
clip. The doctor would also advise the tax |
ing of pill made of one grain of valerianate
of zinc and two grains of the compound asa
fatida pill.
TELLING.