Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-30
twenty=one years old and thereby cut off an

twenty=one years old and thereby cut off an opposition vote.
 This is a mad world, my masters Here is the Hartford Telegram saying that it is no disparagement to Henry B. Harrison to say that in all that goes to make up great po-
 Htical leader and statesman Thomas M. Waller is his superior. This would be very funny were it not so foolish.
 Towards" letter to the Boston Sunday
 Herald contained the following, which is
 worth thinking about: Do you know that
 the party which wins the local fight here in November will control the $25, COG, ,0O0 pat
 onage pertaining to the building of the new
 aqueduet, and do you for an instant imagine
 Tammany's wise men will forego that bit of
 power2 And that being the case-well, of
 course, you know the State is going for
 Cleveland, but can't say see it.
 It turns out that the new ansesthetic, mu-
 riate of coeoaine, which has been found so useful in delicate operations on tie eye, was
 formerly used by specialists to blunt the
 sensibilities of the throat. The discovery of it's
 new powers which was lately made by Vien-
 nese medical student named Kolley was con
 sidered of sufficient importance to engage the attention of the recent congress of oculists at Heidelberg. Muriate of cocoaine is muriatic
 acid combined chemically with the active principle of the South American cocoa plant.
 Mrs. Ellen J. Foster of Iowa, the we'll
 
 the presidency of the department of legisla- tion of the Woman's Christian Temperance | Union because she could not approve the action of the Union in endorsing the nation al prohibition ticket. Mrs. Foster has been 1 one of the most earnest and effective labor CTS in the cause of temperance. She believes 1 that the sole effect of prohibition ticket is | to glVe aid and comfort to the Democratic party, and in this work she is unwilling to aid
 The Russian government has forbidden the l use of the names of members of the imperial family by any but frst-class steamers, it be- 1 ing held to be an offence against the emperor | to call dirty cargo boat Alexander III. The chief of the St. Petersburg police has also l ordered the proprietors of hotels, restaurants l and tea houses to remove the portraits of | the emperor and other members of the i'm perial family from their public rooms,
 because their customers do not ssalways show | the proper respect to the representations of l the imperial features by taking off their hats | immediately on entering and leaving the premises.
 Professor D. Augustus Straker has accept ] ed the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of South Carolina He says in his letter that when he first received the nomi- | nation he publicly said that he did not think | a Republican ticket expedient under the
 present circumstances and that he would ! probably decline the nomination, but he is
 now constrained to abandon his original po-
 sition and to accept the nomination, because I it is the duty of the Republican party of the I State, while it remains distinct party, to
 nominate candidates without regard to re-
 suits, and to trust by perseverance in the l right to get justice even though delayed There is vast bed of rock salt in the fCbfurHdo desert, near Idaho, and the South l ern Pacific railroad in laying the track to the
 salt mines has been obliged to grade the
 road for 1 200 feet with blocks of these beau 1 tiful Jumps of salt crystals This is the first | instance of railroad road-bed being laid and 1 bal1asted on salt. The sea that once rolled
 over this place dried up, and left a vast bed
 of salt about fifty miles in length The quality is superb, and supply inexhaustible
 Grasshoppers of enormous size and giant
 centipedes have been pickled in this chloride
 of sodium, and are to-day, after the lapse of 1 centuries, in full size and perfection of 1 shape.
 In addition to the other ballots to be cast
 in New York next Tuesday the citizens of
 the State will vote upon a proposed l amendment to their State constitution. This amendment, if adopted, will regulate the inn portant subjects of municipal and county in | debtedness and taxation. In cities contain 1 ing over 100000 inhabitants, and in coun-
 ties containingxguch cities, the indebtedness | is limited by, the proposed amendment to an l arnount edualko 10 per cent. of the assesseR vel=sz ssterea1 estate in such city or counfy. The proposed amendment also provides that
 the annual rate of taxation for purposes other
 than the payment of debts and interest shall
 not exceed per cent. upon the assessed
 value of tho real and personal property.