Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-04

the toiling millions over the whole face of the world. Wherever hammer is lifted, blow held, shuttle thrown, over the globe, there is one whose direct interest it is that labor should be efficiently protected not merely in his own but all countries. and that the excessive and fatal competition of capital with capital, sinew with sinew, privation with privation, to excel in cheapness of pro .duction-that Is, eheapness in money-should be checked and bounded. Let labor there fore with one mighty voice demand adequate, stable protection, and wider, deeper pros perity will soon irradiate the land, carrying independence, comfort and joy to the dwell ling alike of the farmer and artisan in every section of the country.
 When M. Renan recently visited his birth place in Brittany he was desirous of sleep ing in the very house in which he was born. He found it occupied by several families, all devoted children of the Church, who were horror-stricken at thought of harboring the great inf1del- But at last one man, more tolerant than the others, relented, and al- lowed the Academician to occupy his room for single night. For this act he was so
 
 compelled to publish a justification of his course. In that document he ingeniously argued that although he had indeed lent the room to M. Renan, yet he had on 8 previous occasion lent it to distinguished defender of orthodoxy, whose good influence, he trusted, might haunt the slumbers of the in- fdel. Moreover, was it not worth trying whether the revival of youthful memories by old-time surroundings might not reawaken also in the heretic his early faith? And so the pious indignation of the good people of Ire guier was notified, and the teacup tempest throbbed no more
 A case of interest to that rapidly growing class the bicyclers adjudicated the other day in Washington. Charles McKnabb, em- ployed in the bureau of engraving and print ing. got through work on a Friday afternoon and started for home on his wheel. He was riding up Fifteenth street at moderate rate of speed, ringing his bell, when at street crossing he suddenly found himself in the thick of 8 crowd and tho machine struck Professor Cammaek in the leg. He dis mounted at once and helped carry the pro- lessor, who had tainted, into drug store The fainting caused by nervous shock, the only bodily damage sustained by the pro- lessor being bruises on the ankle The judge held that, while the running into the profes- sor was clearly accident, McKnabb had been guilty of negligence. "A bicycle" he said, 'is an manageable vehicle, especially in crowd. It cannot be navigated like horse, and nobody would think of it until it was upon them. The proper thing would have been to get off the vehicle and wait until the crowd had passed" Accordingly his honor imposed fine of one dollar upon by way of admonition and warn ing to the other wheelmen of Washington.
 Captain W. L. Ellsworth, the presidential candidate of the American Political Alliance, presents the curious anomaly of a candi- 1 date who is not in the directory. He once 1 had lodgings over store on Arch street, but his letters never came l there, and few ever knew his name. But in 1 order to gratify public curiosity Captain has prepared a biography of him 1 self, to be used for campaign purposes. In 1 this he describes his origin and rise to dis 1 tinction He is native of Connecticut, born | November 15, 1887. He early became inter i ested in steamboat enterprises on the Missis- ! sippi. He was, under Pierce, Consul at Cy- { prus, Turkey. He went into the war as cap l tain in New York regiment. He was nomi- l mated for Congress in the third New York ! district in 1862, but withdrew before cleo l ton. Captain Ellsworth is civil engineer l and inventor. In politics he has been in ! with the stalwart wing of the Re l publican party. As described by the officials l at the Philadelphia postoffice, Captain Els worth is quick, odd-looking man, with 1 restless look, who rushes in and out frequent ly to look at his box, and wears a long linen ulster and is always chewing on the end of I cigar.