Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-19

A Pittsburg woman, sixty years old, has
 just sued her son for twelve years' service as his servant, claiming $500. The generous son offered to settle for $2oO.
 There is a big opportunity for some enter prisipg business men if they can get some of the independent and relig- ious newspapers at the valuation set upon them by the rabid Blaine organs. Some of the Democrats can't yet believe that Tilden is really out of the race. The New Orleans Times-Democrat and the St. Louis Republican both refuse to accept his letter final. We suppose that after the Sage is dead his ghost will still be powerful with some Democrats.
 The general impression that slow growing timber is the strongest is said to be erro- neous. The English government has an es- l tablishment for testing the strength of weeds and metals. and the experiments made there show that fast growing oak is the strongest and bears the greatest degree of tension. Senator Edmunds says of the political situ- ation: Republican SUCCESS in the approaching election is, as I profoundly believe, of such far reaching importance to the welfare of the whole country that all the individual prefer
 ences as to candidates and all personal aui-
 mosities should be buried.
 ''Bradstreet's " endorses Blaine. It says
 that on finances MT. Blaine has always been
 regarded as sound, his attitude on the nation
 al banking system and foreign and internal commerce both strengthening such an opin- IT. fhofM Mr. SIoio haa bod Iii at
 tention called to many large business opera
 tions, and declares that he is more familiar
 with business questions than any of the presidents from Lincoln to Arthur. The trial of the new dynamite air gun at
 Fort Lafayette was success. The gun is 8
 brass tube little more than forty feet long
 and three and half inches in diameter.
 The projectile was thin brass tube, three
 feet long, charged with about fifteen pounds
 of dynamite. The target vas about seven
 hundred yards distant. Each shot was fired
 with an air pressure of five hundred pounds
 to the inch and each struck within three feet of the point aimed st. The dynamite sx pIoded when the shells struck and made great holes in the bank. Another gun of six-iach calibre is soon to be tried with an air pressure of two thousand pounds to the inch, and carrying projeotiles with one hun dred pounds of dynamite three miles. The old time novels are cast into the 1 shade, says the Philadelphia Times, compared with some of the real-life sketches of the Ln- dian girls in the Linooln Institution school at
 Wayne, Pennsylvania. There is . very bright
 and interesting Indian girl, named Lizzie Spider, the last being her fathers name,
 which she assumed, a custom which the girls nearly all follow. A few years ago she was
 at the Indian school at Carlisle, a pupil,
 where she learned considerable. When she
 went back. during the summer vacation, her
 father sold her to 8 young Indian brave for
 number of ponies, which is the accustomed
 form of marriage among the Sioux. She had
 just received enough education to revolt
 against the savage life that was to be thrust
 upon her. so she ran away and lived for
 many months hidden in the woods, going by
 stealth occasionally to the huts of friends to
 get supplies of food. During his last visit
 to Yankton Captain Pratt heard of her and
 after a search found her and brought her
 back with him and put her in the Lincoln
 school, where she now is. She says she don't
 ant to be sold for ponies.
 The journal of the Royal Asiatic Society to
 be issued in July will contain the particulars
 Of an interesting discovery which has been
 made with respect to the Rig Veda. Up to the
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