Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-08

in Austria. It was an exhibition of noses Il Eighty persons competed for the prize offer
 ed for the most extraordinary nasal protub- erance in form, size and color. The jury l decided that only three out of the whole
 could be admitted as competitors for the ] prize It was finally adjudged to eompeti-
 tor from Vienna, who is the proud and happy l possessor of what is said to be a gigantic
 nose of deep violet blue.
 l Cleveland has no record of any account, but his partner on the ticket has one. The fol- ! lowing is a summary of a part of it: l Voted against the repeal of the fugitive slave law.
 Voted against the constitutional amend 1 ment forever prohibiting slavery. Voted against giving the freedmen the right of suffrage.
 Voted in Indiana to make it a crime for any colored person to enter the State Voted against giving colored people their right of citizens in the District of CoIum- bia.
 Declared that the Emancipation Proclama- 1 tion was wicked.
 When women really take hold of public affairs something is apt to be done. The | women of Salamanca, New York, have re- gently voted for members of the school board | The town had rickety old school house, fit l for neither teachers nor schools, though its ] rich taxpayers were abundantly able to put up eommodious structure. The women went to the polls and wrought transforma- 1 tion. A new building was erected, at cost of twenty-five thousand dollars, the seats ! were cut down so that the little children's I feet could touch the floor, and the salaries of | teackers were made payable monthly in stead of at the end of the term Good enough.
 The Republicans of Kansas who favor 8 resubmission of the prohibitory amendment ! to the State constitution to the vote of the people, either directly or by constitutional convention, are to hold a convention in To- peka on Wednesday, the 20th inst, for the purpose of consultation and to place State ticket in the field if deemed advisable. The call says: ''We believe the time has come when the people of Kansas who are in favor of real temperance and good order should adopt some means to put stop to the in crease in the sale of liquors in the State and to that lawless and unrestrained traffic which absolute prohibition has utterly failed to check; that there should be a stringent and practical law enacted, laying a firm hand on the liquor business-a law competent to reg ulate restrain, and control it in the interest of sobriety and good government" One curious effect of the, cholera scare in France has been a marked diminution of drunkenness in Paris. During the month of June the average number of persons daily taken up by the police for being 'drunk and incapable" was ITO. On the 1st of July it declined to 104 and on the 18th it had fallen as low as 54-the smallest number on record since the police regulations on the subject of street drunkenness have come into force The day of the national fete 200 such cases were reported; but the number was 800 in 1883. The same cause has contributed to keep the theatres emptier for some time past than has been the case for years. The Thea tre Francais, which is fairly well attended even in the height of summer, has played to such poor houses of late that the receipts sometimes did not amount to -four fingers that is, were less than 1000 francs-a thing unprecedented during the last twenty five years. One house took only 63 francs the other evening, not sufficient to pay the door openers and attendants.