Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-12
CONN. MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1884

other stations established by Stanley along the Congo. As Stanley possessed no facili ties for making lumber, his European assis tants were compelled to live in tents or huts and the disconforts of living in that way added largely to the sick list. The Interna. tlonal association is building at Bona, nine. y miles above the mouth of the Congo, g sanitarium, to which it proposes to send its invalid agents for treatment. Better facili ties for preserving health and caring for the sick are among the innovations to be intro duced on the Congo
 The prohibitionists of Maine are not as consistent as they are fanatical The amend nent to the State constitution which was adopted by the voters on Monday provides that ''the manufacture of intoxicating li- quors, not including cider" and their sale and keeping for sale, shall be forever pro- hibited. Now, it is a notorious fact that 'thard' cider contains considerably larger percentage of alcohol than lager beer, and is far more intoxicating in it's effects Indeed, the ''cider drunkard" is often the most hope less, as he is in many places the most con- mon, victim of intemperance in New En- gland.
 Dr. Schweinfurth, who will soon start on another African tour, is at present busily en- gagged in examining and classifying the rem nants of wreaths found in the recently dis covered tombs of Egyptian kings and sent to Berlin by Professor Maspero, the director of the museum at Cairo. The various parts are first softened in hot water, then dried and placed on paper for examination. When identified, each flower is put under an air tight glass frame, to which is attached label with the name of the plant and the king in whose sarcophagus it was found. Forty-six distinct species have so far been identified, all corresponding closely to those found in the present day in Upper Egypt. Dr. Schweinfurth has already provided the mu- seums of Berlin, Vienna and Leyden with these specimens of his skill
 City councils are often very queer bodies, to put it mildly The aldermen of New York have just granted, without any consideration of which the city got share, street rail road franchise for which the city had been offered $1 ,000, 900. In Chicago the street railroad companies have been able to secure from the aldermen of that city-the sole leg islative authority there-a gratuitous exten- sion of their privileges for twenty years, while a new company, composed of responsi- ble men, stood ready to pay the city $1 ,000, GOO for the lapsed privilege, and pay besides permanent percentage on the receipts from the roads. In Kansas City local politician has been given, outright, by the city council, a street railroad privilege for which respon- sible offer of s10O,OOO had been made. By and by it will begin to be thought that city councils are failure
 There is some Democratic harmony visible in the discussion of the tariff question. Speaker Carlisle's clerk, MT. Nelson, says that MT. Grover Cleveland urged New York members of Congress to vote for the Morri- son bill, and the New York World says that MI. Nelson is Ca liar" MT. Watterson wants to know what the World means by ''such an insidious attack on the character of the Democratic nominee' It goes on to say: There can no doubt in the mind of any obsefvant man that the election of Grover Cleveland means the revision of the tariff.
 If he (Grover Cleveland) is not a Democrat, if he is not in sympathy with the organization in its great work of reform, he has no right at the head of the ticket. If he does not favor tariff reform, the votes going to him in the West are obtained under false pretenses. Democratic success means radi- cal revision of the tariff, or it has no mean ing at all - The World owes it to the party in the West to retract it's statement concerning the position of Governor Cleye- land. What are we here for if not to reform the tariff?