Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-23

leaving the dining hall the big boys lay in wait for them in the corridor, striking each blow on the back as he came out. Some dozen or so fell on this particular victim, in fiicting upon him the injuries which caused his death. If this sad affair does something toward putting an end to the i'll treatment of small boys which has been the custom in English schools some good will come out of it.
 Justice Miller of the United States Su- preme court has decided that the proper per son to whom to deliver telegraph dispatch to business man, when he is out of town, is to his wife at home. The case came up in Des Moines, Iowa. Welker Given was of fered well-paid position by telegraph. He was not in the city, the dispatch was left with his wife, and was not forwarded until the place had been filled. The delay was caused because Mrs. Given did not know her husbands whereabouts, although the clerks at his office did. In his wrath Given sued the telegraph company for damages, but Jus tice Miller holds that the delivery was right, and says the moral is that linen should be on very confidential terms with their wives"
 The Christian scientists of Boston are claiming that there is no longer any doubt as to General Grants recovery, and that the cause of the healing is the mind cure Eigh- teen persons united their efforts and he is, they assert, unconsciously being cured by their occult power.- These people are not praying for him, or seeking divine help in his behalf, but are silently thinking of him, and the influence of their minds unconscious ly upon his mind is bringing him into the "understandingof God, "and this understand ing harmonizes his being and so emancipates him from false belief as to the disease. He simply needs mental treatment, and the mind healers claim to work through space and at distance: physical presence is not essential They claim that there is no per adventure in his case now: they know that he will be restored to health.
 When ex-rebeI Brigadier General and ex- Governor Jarvis of North Carolina, in com pany with Senators Vance and Rawson, went to the State department the other day to receive his credentials as minister to Brazil an interesting incident occurred. As he was about to be sworn the clerk said, usual: 'tHold up your right hand, Governor" To which Governor Jarvis replied: "Oh, no; can't do that, for some of my northern friends, few years ago, made that impossi- ble." Then turning to the two Senators of his State he said with fervor: "Gentlemen, this is the grandest and most magnanimous country on the face of the earth. Twenty years ago we were doing our best to destroy this government, but failed. Now, instead of repatriation or any other punishment, you are Senators of the United States and am going abroad an official representative of our country at foreign court. There is nothing like this in history" This is very true, and all the ex-rebeis would have shown good sense and proper gratitude by long ago acknowledging that they had been kind ly treated.
 The Philadelphia Society of German Taverners have presented some ingenious reasons to prove their business to be one of the great philanthropie agencies of the Quaker city. They say: We call further at- tention to the fact-that seems to have been entirely overlooked in the present agitation that saloons are not exclusively for the sale of beer and liquor, but that the different mineral waters, lemonades, milk, cider, hot and cold beef tea, etc., are staples which in many saloons form half of the days receipts. Furthermore, many of the public find it con- venient to transact business in the saloon, others read the papers, both foreign and domestic; make use of the conveniences for the purpose of toilet, and to goed many it is welcome place of rest and of genial warmth in the winters blasts. There is an- other item worthy of mention. Every year at least $500, 900 are expended by the saloon keepers in setting out 8 free and nutritious lunch, and but for the iberality on their part thousands of workinsmen and clerks would be unable to make both ends meet in
 the face of greatly reduced incomes during
 the last few years of unusual business pros tration.