Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
has power enough to kill instantly with a single shock thousand men and horses.

has power enough to kill instantly with single shock thousand men and horses.
 French duels having become ridiculous an effort is to be made to see if a duel can not be so managed as to hurt somebody. Sword duels such as are fought in France seldom have serious consequences. One of the parties receives wound in the sword arm and the duel is over. The wound, at the worst, heals in few weeks, and the duelist whose purpose was deadly is baked of his vengeance. It Is now proposed that pistols shall be the invariable weapons when the cause of quarrel is serious. In lighter cases either swords or pistols are allowable, as the parties may agree, and when the cause of offense is comparatively trivial, as in cases growing out of newspaper controver- sies, the sword shall be the weapon.
 Fresh complaints come from Washington Territory that Chinese smuggling them selves across the line from British Columbia by the hundreds. An ingenious scheme has been devised by which firm of three swind- lers at Seattle is making thousands of dol lars. They have the Mongolans photograph ed in Victoria, B. O., and the pictures are forwarded to Seattle, where they are exhibi- ted to partners in the swindle, who swear that the parties in question are known to them as residents of the territory before the restriction act was passed, and therefore entitled to return. Another dodge is to have respectable citizen of Washington identify the picture of Chinaman whom he knows, but who is absent, and then change the photograph for that of another China man who wants to get across the line.
 Mrs. Julia c. R. Dorr has thought out good plan for the increased culture and social improvement of American women. She has in view three classes-the girls that happen to be born in a station in life where all they have to do is to enjoy themselves, the mid dle-aged women upon whom fall the burden and heat of the day, and the still older wo- men who need something to broaden their interests and widen the sphere of their men tai activity. She has in view three other classes-the strong, the weak, and those who are neither very weak nor very strong; and what she has to suggest for them all is some social organization that shall minister to OIlOAA AACA1GoA dA4O bE1IACud1 III ILe way of systematic course of reading or study. She would call such an organization, ranging all the way from six to twenty-five in membership, Friends in Council, y would have them meet fortnightly, and would have them talk on such occasions with perfect freedom for ten minutes each on what they had read and what they thought about it. This is good idea.
 An Irish Orangeman, as he calls himself, has written long communication to the Cleveland Leader in regard to the report that the Orangemen of Canada had advised their brethren in the United States to vote against Blaine, because F'they believe that he is the enemy of England, and the friend and the offspring of the Romish church, He very properly says that ''politics is one thing, and religion is another. No good citizen should drag the latter into the former" He adds: ''I have it from the Dublin United Ireland that, had that bill of Morrison's passed and became a law, it would have ben eftted the English manufactures to the amount of $500, ,0OO, 900 annually Vote for the free trade party and the British manufactur- CTS, and you'll see poorhouse erected along side of every school house in this land be- fore many years pass over your heads. None of us would ever have owned enough ground in the old country to build a three-room house on if we had stayed there till our heads had grown gray" This is very near the truth, and is worth the attention of peo- pie who are not Orangemen