Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-06
pioneers of the California gold diggings, and

once ran barefooted over ice and frozen
 ground for two days with an anziou sparty oi
 Indians after him; started for South America
 and was wrecked without clothes or coin
 among the Sandwich Islands; turned up as g country lawyer in Illinois; served in the army through the war and got the rank ei colonel, and finally "struck it'' in the rum politics of Kansas.
 Judge Drummond of Milwaukee expressed himself thus vigorously and justly to three lawyers of that city who put in bills amount ing to $25, ,000 for services in settling an es- tate worth $32, ,O60 Gentlemen, you consider yourselves good lawyers. How much more are your services worth to your clients than mine to the people2 You have charged $25, GOO for sixty days service. Could you not be content, each of you, te take my pro rata for the same time2 These charges are infamous. They are such as men who are scoundrsls and thieves at heart would make. This charge of $15, 5,000 is cut down to s1 ,500, those of $5, 900 each to $500. Repeat such 8 piece of rapine in this court, and will dis bar every one of you.
 : Heat and large death-rate seem to go to- gether in cities. -Dr. Henry D. Chapin, one of the physicians attached to Bellevue hos pital in New York, shows how intimate the connection is between the two in very i'm pressive way The increased mortality of summer is more marked among infants and children of tender years. In July, 1882, the mean temperature in New York city was 5.790, and in August 73.420. The deaths among children under five years were but 817 in August, while the nearly two extra degrees of heat in July made the number leap to ,533. In the summer of 1883 the contrast in temperature was even more marked, and the difference in the death-rate showed corresponding increase. The mean temperature in July of last year was 74.400 while that for August was but 7044o. The number of deaths under five years was ,35 in July, while in August it sank to only 507.
 There is a good deal of ceremony about paying the president of the United States his salary. It has been usual for the treasurer to pay the president his salary in monthly installments, upon the authority of what is known as an accountable warrant" issued by the secretary of the treasury upon the written request of one of his assistants, and countersigned by the first comptroller direct ed to him. At the close of the presidents E term, the first auditor states an account be- tween him and the United States, giving him credit for the amount of salary due him, and charging him with the monthly installments so made. The account is thus balanced, transmitted to the first comptroller, and by him certified. This method, though it has the sanction of usage, and though no loss to the government has occurred by means of it, is yet not in strict compliance with the law, and a recent opinion of the first comptroller will change it. The new method, which will not be adopted until the beginning of new presidential term, is substantially like the old, but under it the treasurer, as disbursing officer, will make acquisitions upon the sec retary of the treasury for an advance of money, upon which an accountable war rant" will issue, authorizing the advance of money asked for, out of which payment of the presidents salary will be made by the treasurer who will take 8 proper voucher therefor, and submit his accounts, as disbursing officer, to the first auditor for settlement.