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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-12-26

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Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06
Friday. June 6, 1884.
THE rILDEN QUESTION.

What will Tilden dor is a question which has been answered in several ways lately. It has looked as if his party were determined to give him the nomination and as if he might possibly take it. There have been repeated statements that he would not take it, but it has been believed, or, at least, hoped by many good Democrats that he would. It now seems to be fact that the Sage has written letter of declination which will be presented to the New York Democratic con- vention on the 18th Of June. As the story is told. some days ago Representative Dor shaimsr wrote . lstter to Mir. Charles A.. Dana urging him to call upon Mir. Tildsn and ascertain positively what be intended to do with regard to the question of nominating him for President. Mir. Dorsheimsr wrote that the Democratic party was actually saf- fering because of the uncertainty as to Mir. Tilden's intentions, that it was drifting about, all befogged.. doing nothing at time when action is necessary, and all because mo- nody knew whether or not Tilden will run. In the interest of the party, MT. Dorsheimer begged MT. Dana to go to MT. Tilden, show him the bad effect of the present uncertainty, and urge hin to declare himself. Last Fri day Mr. Dorsheimer went to New York, and he saw MT. Dana. The latter report ed that he had visited MT. Tilden, and had submitted all the arguments presented in Dorsheimer's letter. After listening pa tisntly, MT. Tilden replied that he had not wavered an instant in his purpose to forbid the use of his name. He then showed MT. Dana letter, written by himself. in which, in terms most positive, emphatic and un- equivocal, he not only refused the use of his name, but declares that he would not accept the nomination, if rendered him. that he would not be a candidate under any circnm- stances. ''I wrote that letter." said Tilden to Dana in substance, sttWo months ago, with the intention of making it public then, but they persuaded me to withhold it for tine, and shall now have it read at the State Democratic convention on the 18th of June" :"
 This seems to settle the great question. if nothing happens to again unsettie it. But this settlement is bad for the Democratic party. Tildeu is their strongest man, weak aa he ia
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06
Price Two Gents

feels that he can with clear copaoienoe ceIe-
 brate his praises Nr. Whittier.s ode is ner- haps the 1ness efort of his life, and there is
 strong impression thas the prize will be l MT. Tupper, on the other hand. plainly
 has no chance of winning. His lode" con. sists of two lines of the ProverbiaI Philoeo- phy class, worth, say, not over forty dollars
 to the ton. Apparently Mir. Tupper is in ill humor, and he has, in Q very inoonssauent
 way, vented it upon poor Toung Talong .The poet is more sacred than the elephant.
 But the elephant is worth to the circus mana
 Of course our own Walt Whitman has en-
 tered for the prize. His poem is very characteristic one, and will have weird fas- | cination for the reader. It's most salient quality is its mysticism, and it's lines come to us with the inarticulate eloquence of khe meaning sec. This is the way in which it begins
 Beginning at point on the northerIy siae of West
 6iStAnt hundred and four feet westerly from the point formed by the junction
 Of the westerly Bide of Fourth aveuue and the nort | erly aide of West Twenty-hrst street:
 Thence westerly along the said side of West TWenty.nv feet six and one-half inches; thence The whole poem, which is fully four hum
 dred lines in length, Is of the same general OA1oAoOscA oS bA0 AAuSS 4uotoO. 1b IS 10 Mf. Whitmsn's finest vein, and on reading 1t sn eminent real estate lawyer telegraphed in his enthusiasm to the poet 'I greet you at the beginning of Q grand career"
 We may be very sure from the character Of the committee that no competing poet will
 be awarded the prize simply because he hap pens to be famous. The decision will be made strictly in accordance with the merits of the poems, and Mir. R. B. Hayes, who is understood to have borrowed a sheet of pa- per and written an ode which he forwarded to the committee by friend on his way to
 this city, will be treated as fairly as MT. Ten nyson himself. The committee may make
 mistake in awarding the prize, but if so, it will be strictly honest mistake.
 Did space permit, further extracts from
 the seventy-two thousand odes would be giv- en, but doubtless the entire collection will shortly be published in series of two hun dred trunks and band-boxes and in that ahana will be raadilx- acnasaikla
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

railroad company. in order to protect its property on the east side of the river, closed all ths crevassss on that side below Baton Roage, and kept the levees intact at connpar- ativels small cost; but on the west aide, where shs work was left te the State, scarce ly anything was done, and the oldest and An- est levees in the State, which might have stood for centuries with decent care, were cut through by the rising waters, causing 6 loss of not less than five million dollars.
 KrasozeWski. the Polish poet recently tried and sentenced as an anarchist, has always been a most methodica1 worker. He never takes work in hand until he has the subject at his fingers ends; and when he has once placed himself At his desk and begun to write, the sheets fall from him at an incredi- bly rapid rate. He is Cor was) in his study often from dusk to daylight; and if he turns into bed at one or two in the morning, he is up again at eight His diet Is frugality it. self; he takes regular walking exercise in the afternoon, receives his friends, hears some music and does Q little painting, and begins work in earnest at about 4 p. m. Krasczew- ski has always known and believed in him. self; and ons of his dearest maxims has been that the trnly happy man is he whS has Fno material desires, who connects himself with nothing earthly, and who loves his neighbor better than himself. s --
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

Forty merchants in an Illinois town have taken pledge to wear tall silk hats in order to increase the dignity of the town. town
 whose dignity needs forty silk hats is in a bad WAY.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

Nobody can deny that the circus at the Grand Opera House yesterday was great moral show, but it was not thoroughly Qood-naEurod one
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06
EBITOHIAL NUTFS.

Affairs at Chicago made some progress yesterday. By tonight the situation may be clearer than 1t has been.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

New Hampshire is evidently not growing poor. Recent returns show that ~ths sav- inss banks of the State have three millions
 o-. l.. .ao-.nu;kn 4l,o,a 4l,ax had nAna vaar acrn
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06
i SINGLE COPIES TWO GENTS.

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Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

Out of a total area of nearly 1, GOO, 900 acres the woods and copses of Ireland are now less than S3O, 900 acres. In Great Britain out of nearly. 57 .OO0, ,OOo acres, Z, ,5OO, 900 are now thus returned. The forests of Europe are estimated to cover 500, COG, ,OoO acres, or nearly 20 per cent. of the surface of the continent.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

The law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oleomargarins in the State of New York went into operation on the first of June, and there is much curiosity to see what the manufacturers will do about it. The largest factory has not been in operation this week, and its managers appear disposed to suspend work permanently, but one of the smaller manufacturers has given formal notice to che committee appointed under the act that he does not intend to obey the law, and the question will therefore soon get be- fore the courts.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

Underlying the forty-one acres within the enclosure of Girard college walls, Philadel- phis. there are $500 feet of tunnel, inter secting almost every part of the grounds. At distances of one hundred feet apart there are gas jets, which are lighted by electricity. The tunnels are used for the pipes which carry steam and hot water to the eleven buildings on the grounds. In the various structures there are tanks with total storage capacity of 34, ,329 gallons, from which the supply of cold water is obtained. The miles of pipe running through the tunnels contain over 900 valves.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06


 If yen remain sick whsn you can
 Get hop bittels that nevsr-FaiL The weakest woman, smallest child and sickest invalid can use hop bittefs with safety and great good. Old men tottering around from rheuma- tism, kidney trouble or any weakness will be --s-tz A~r LiAA4-e My wife and daughter were made healthy by the use of hop bitters and I recommend them to nv people e-Methodist Clergyman.
 Ask any good doctor If hep
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 --''My mother drove the paralysis and neuralgia all out of her system with hop bit ters. Ed. Oswego Sun. Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bit- ters and you need not fear sickness. Toe water is rendered harmless and more refreshing and reviving with hop bitters in each draught.
 The vigor of youth for the aged and in- firm in hop bitters.
 -'sAt the change of life nothing equals
 Hop bitters to alay all troubles incident Thereto"
 The best periodical for ladies to take monthly and from which they ill receive the greatest benefit is hop bitters- Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing children, will cure the children and benefit themselves by taking hop bitters daily. Thousands die annually from some form of kidney disease that might have been pre- vented by the timely use of hop bitters. Indigestion, weak stomach, irreguiaTitief of the bowels cannot exist when hop bitterf are used.
 timely use of hop
 Bit CTS will keep whole family
 In robust health year at 8 little cost To produce real genuine sleep and child like repose all night, take little hop b1tters on retiring.
 That indigestion or stomach gas at night preventing rest and sleep, will disappear by using hop bitters.
 -Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old ladie' are made perfectly quiet and sprightly bJ using hop bitters.
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

The Burlington Wermont) Free Press and Times, in two-column editorial, points out errors in Edward Johnson's account of the results of prohibition in Vermont contributed to the Popular Science Monthly. According to the Burlington paper, so far from being true that there is at leaft one saloon in every Vermont town, there are 127 out of the 24o towns in the State-or more than half-whsre no place could be found which could be required to pay United States tax. Where the traffic does exist it is everywhere concealed from public view, and seizures are frequent and fines numerous and often ruin ous to the business.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

The Mississippi levees have cost vast sum of money, and they do not seem to be very effective. The chief trouble seems to be that no systematic care is taken of them. When the water is low people are allowed to cut down the tops of the levees with neigh borhood roads, and dig rice fumes through them. When the water rises it finds it's wey through these depressions and flumes; the soft earth is fast cut away by the current
 and soon formidable crevasse is pouring . torrent upon the low lands The New Or leaps Piaayuns says that last year many thou sands of dollars were spent in building new levees without much discretion, and scarcely a dollar in protecting old ones The new leYees were washed away when the floods came; the old ones, honeycombed by the craafish and perforated by rice fumes, broke
 and there was no money and no help to stor the crevaasss before the rush of water be. came irreaiatible. The Mississippi VaIIel
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

The Scott liquor law in Ohio will it is thought, be declared unconstitutional The Ia " provides that the taxes derived from the impost on liquor-selling shall be paid into the local treasurics of the towns and cities where they are collected, one-quarter going to the county poor fund and the rest to the police and general fund. Under this law over $2, OOO, 900 has been collected and paid in the various cities and villages of the State, thereby relieving the taxation to that extent. The Democratic party has persistentlg ep- posed the law and many liquor sellers forti fled by the promise of help from that party have paid the tax under formal protest. If the law shall be declared unconstitutional all cities. towns, villages and counties will prob ably be compelled to return the money paid by the liquor seller and the rate of taxation would certainly be increased.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

To the mind of the Quaker poet the wor- ship of an elephant by the beniehted Bur mese must be particularly repulsivos but holding that the beast has been consecrated by the coIorsd kalsominer, MT. Whittier
Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06

The cultured maiden from Boston wrote to her friend that she had just been to hear MT. Joseph Emmett sing ''Pique-a bout. "-
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12
Fashion Notes.

Very few puffs arc seen on dresses.
Talma capes are much used for wraps.
1t is limited that sleeves will be worn
larger.
Ruches are no longer fashionable for
trimming
Round hats are worn by young girls in
preference to pokes.
Braided dresses have come into favor
again. Fine dark cloths are pretty orna-
mented with s:'ver braid.
Tuck fosnccs are much used for wash
dresses and may be either straight or
bias, gathered or plated.
Whitcand ecrl serge, sprinkled with
spots OF black or brown chenille, makes
up into charming costumes.
The accordion skirts are already plated
when bought, and the dressmakers are
lining them with crinoline.
The new wooden Jerseys are made with
many seams and all have darts. Those
without darts are not salable.
The English dress, which is loose
princesse dress, is universally worn by
girls from six to twelve years of age.
The rage for blonde hair is long since
dead, and to be afflicted with locks
lighter than auburn is almost a calamity.
The use of artificial fruit instead of
flowers for the corsage is very popular in
London, and is occasionally seen in New
York
Lawns and muslins are very much
worn, particularly those stamped with
flowers, fruits, little Vatican figures and
landscapes.
Bison cloth is much better than nuns
yelling for travelling, though many
ladies use the gray yelling, as it is cool
and durable.
A couple of yards of silk gauze run
with gold thread, the same quantity of
silk netting beaded or studded with
chenille, will give change for costume
decoration if made into scarf drapcry
for the blouse effect so popular this sea
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12
Shetland Ponies.

There is an increasing interest in these
diminutive members of the horse family,
and successful breeders find them very
profitable. Docile, intelligent, hardy
and easily kept, they are the ideal of pets
for children. A Shetland foal can be
raised to its third year for one-half the
cost of steer at the same age, while the
former finds a ready sale at 800 to 5000
The greatest obstacles to success in breed
ing "Shelties" arise from pampering
them in the way Of food and shelter
Their native habitat is on the bleak,
storm-swept Shetland Islands, with little
or no shelter save their thick, woolly
coat, and no food but the scanty herb
age, eked out with fish. The change
from such conditions to warm stables
and abundant food, is so violent that
those which do survive it are likely to
become barren. A pony which was i'm
ported from the Isle of Yell had been
reared so exclusively on tish-the only
food the barren island afforded-that
after its arrival in this country it only
learned to Craze by initiating its new
companions. A quantity of dried fish,
which was brought over with the pony,
was fed TO it while it was becoming grad
ually accustomed to vegetable food. A
little wholesome "roughing it +" is far
better for them than pampering.
The market value of Shetland ponies
is in an inverse ratio with their size.
Nine hands (thirty-six inches) is the
highest allowable for a well-bred pony,
and one of only thirty three inches is
salable at fully twice as much. The foals
when dropped weigh from ten to twelve
pounds, and are much more shapely than
the young of full-sized horses. They are
as playful as kids and as tame and
friendly as kittens Like most fancy"
stock. Shetland ponies can be bred with
nrofit. -Prdirie Farmer.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12
Cooked in Her own SPRINGS.

The springs of Savu-Savu, on Vauna
Levu, in the Feejee Islands, are pseudo
gevsers. The latter were owned by an
old woman who was captured by chief
in 1868, and cooked in her own springs.
Miss c. F. Gordon Cumming, referring
TO this saws: "She was past seventy, and
must have been very tough and smoke
dried, but, as in her younger days, she
had been a regular Joan of Arc, leading
her tribe to battle, and herself fighting
hand to hand with Ratchet, he deter
mined to eat her So he had her cooked
with the sixteen men, and made great
feast and then. to spite the people. before
leaving the district, he attempted to
choke up all of the springs, IN when
amiable effort he partially succeeded.
These springs We're also a favorlte place
for depositing all superfuous babes, es-
necialiv girls, who never got much OF a
welcome. They were popped IN allve,
like so many Holsters, aud treated with
quite as little ceremony. '-f2''Saf
Science Monthly.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12
Ab>cn,-m,indcd women,

Blu. speaking of absent-minded peo-
fe said West Slider women beat
'he nation at that. There is my wife,
enc Of the most careful and most level
headed women in the world But one
ugh, last winter we went to a large
party and we both, for special reasons,
were more than anxious to appear well.
Ny wife was greatly concerned about me,
as am the abseut-minded member Of the
family and looked me over critically and
aetuly after left the coat room and
before we went down stairs. She was
herself all right, of course. and was
Gperb'y dressed We went down in
nigh feather and had passed through the
"TlorS and had spent a delightful half
noun on parade duty as it were. when my
Vile suddenly turned pale in what |
thought was faintiHg fit. hurried her
nom the room and was about to turn the
mousse upside down in search of restora-
yves when she clutched my sleeve and
pointed to her feet She had before
@'lng home drawn over her shoes pair
!, my socks, and had forgotten to remove
~eA The thought that she had been
shading before 800 people with those
"OAs on was too much for her"
oouthSldcr who had listened to this
1u' after mdulging in contented little
-SAie; My wife tells me almost as
s''0 story as that on herself. She is,
everybody knows who knows her at all,
~ particular about her dress, and she
si's'eS over spot on my coat or lack
IN POlisn on my shoes with a grief that
49, not De comGorted. She went down
shopping on one occasion this
,E. aS' ana IN trying on bonnets became
1I''e disturbed over the fact that none
j .S new shapes suited her face. She.
N, ,e ~ y, picked up her parasol, walked
49,. ~. '1e store, called on velv aristo-
q NeH"aintance and then came home.
y NJ Gu3ee IN the hall glass showed that
Al 'u no bonnet on. She had taken it
EN- - ny on the new ones, and. as she
~ t..NS'u It. had been paradinr along
49,, ,,,ne's with nothing on her head but
a51 ',-I ven across her forehead. She
eosr fos seola me about the spots on my
''@e lor a week.
spna lave better story than tha.. said
aeBis ', - 4! of one of the depart
issbio,ots, fleld's. /" Not long ago a
a5 ;9 II ~ dressed lady came in early.
Asr psrs s,.o course of her bargaining put
leather a 5e on the counter near a large
had boo 1uS'er which one of the clerks
pogebsseo :, using. After making some
instead ot ele lady caught up the duster
heilv her parasol and went out hur-
hks 81 as soon as discovered the mis-
sol bet ~ I boy after her with the para
ae had ma ulo not overtake her until
aae quite big journey.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12

In fact, she flourished that feather
custer along the street, fourished it
about as she went into another store. and
put 1T down on the counter, still under
tne impression that il was a parasol
" hen her purchases IN the second store
were made she turned to pick UP her
parasol and seeing the feather buster
asked for her parasol. The clerk ex-
piained that she had not brought any
Parasoi IN, but had come in carrying that
custer. She was supremely indignant
al such an intimation, and was deliver
ing the clerk sharp lecture on the sub
Iect when in came our boy with her
parasoi and an explanation. She was so
overcome that she had to be sent home
IN carriage. - Chicago Trijune.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12
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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-12
That Husband of Wine.

A woman HASTILY entered a Harlem
lager beer saloon and demanded of the
proprietor
Has my husband Deen in hereIn
Don't know hmm is he tall man2'
"Yes.
''Red -headedf"
Yes, and red-complected."
"Full beardf"
Eyes"
Wear a SLOUGH hatl'
Yes
He was here not five minutes ago. He
came in, drank glass Of lemonade, and
then walked down the street"
Drank what!'
Lemonade"
Wrong mani" she said, shooting her
self out of the door.