Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-24

ing that their children must have bread con- sumed three hundred barrels of beer at a re- cent picnic.
 The opposition to vaccination as precau- tion against smallpox has been very strong in Montreal, and the inhabitants of that city are now reapipg the fruits of such folly.
 The rascals are being rapidly turned out. The following advertisement appears in the New York World:
 SALOON.-A rare chance; $1OO will purchase the stock and fixtures of beer saloon, with living government situation.
 The trotters are lowering records, and Chi cago is making better time than ever in the divorce business. In two cases last week bills for divorce were filed, evidence heard and decrees granted in just thirty minutes apiece for each suit.
 Since August 12 no one or two dollar notes have been paid out by the treasury depart ment. The object of this suspension is to force silver dollars and fractional silver cur. rency upon the people, but as the people don't want them and small bills are becom- lhk oCdACO GhCAO VIII DO flSoAouo AAO"1 before long that will be heard even in Wash ington.
 An English paper says that to test the practicability of peasant proprietorship thir- ty-eight small plots of agricultural land at Conford, near Colchester, were offered re- gently for sale, on behalf of Colonel Walker. The terms were that twenty per cent. of the money was to be deposited at the time of the purchase and the balance to be paid off in installments in ten years. The property was to be tithe free and land tax redeemed; but no peasant purchaser came forward and not a single lot was sold.
 What is the origin of the sign "$" for the American dollara was the question pro pounded at London dinner not long ago. The American consul did not know; neither did anyone else. An extensive search re- suited in this theory: The American dollar is taken from the Spanish dollar, and the sign is to be found, of course, in the associations of the Spanish dollar. On the reverse side of a Spanish dollar is 8 presentati on of the pill lars of Hercules, and round each pillar is a scroll with the inscription "Plus ultra. , This device in the course of time has degen- erated into the sign which stands at present for American as well as Spanish. dollars '-$." The scroll round the pillars represents two serpents sent by Juno to destroy Hercules in his cradle
 A New Yorker dwelling in London de- clares that the report that there are hotels and stores there which do not deserve Ameri- of the London hotels he tried to get rooms for Americans who were to arrive, and as soon as the managers found out that the apartments were wanted for Yankees they ate their words about having any vacancies. A bootmaker in Oxford street, not under standing that the inquirer was an American, said he would not waste the time necessary to sell boots to Americans, as they were so troublesome. A West End tailor displays g placard: t'No Americans served" This an- tipathy principally arises from the fact that Americans have got into the erroneous way of thinking that England is a cheap coun- try.
 The town of Abilene, Texas, is good n- lustration of how fast 8 Texas village can grow when it makes an effort. In 1881 there was population of 500. In 1882 it increased to 1,20O, in 1883 to 2,500, in 1884 to 1, 800, in 1885, up to date, $500. To-day it has two national banks-the First na- tional bank, with capital of $50,000, and the Abilene national bank, with capital of $1OO, ,000; two large hardware stores, two large.warehouses, seven fine dry goods houses, twenty eight grocery stores, two furniture stores, five drug stores, three livery stables, two fine hotels, and eleven saloons. It has also one of the finest and most complete flour mills in the State. It has just com. pleted a very fine opera house at cost ot s2O, ,O00. Its court house cost $66, 900. The town common council has let the contract for waterworks. It has two separate tele- phone companies. Business lots are selling from $500 to $3, 800 per lot Land is selling from $2.to $10 per acre. tThe town ranks sec ond in the State as wool market, San Anto nio being first. The cattle shipments are very heavy.
 It will probably not be long before the South will have oysters enough to supply tht demand without buying from Baltimore ol places further north. The New Orleans, ol rather the Gulf oyster, now finds it's way into all parts of the South. It has driver the Baltimore oyster out of much of it's terri tory, and promises to be every year nor dangerous competitor. The southern can ners and packers are convinced from carefu calculations that they are able to can oyster more cheaply than on the Chesapeake, ant if they are granted favorable railroad rate