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Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-16
GAM N.

The partridge is timid bird, but it al | ways dies game.-Boston Commercial Bulle- | tin.
 One swallow makes one spring, if the l drink is doctored with cayenne.-New York | Journal.
 ground of the soul" On this theory the Chicago mans cheek must be regular cir
 GUS arena.-Boston Globe. MT. Moody says eff you pray while skating on rollers you are all right" The | trouble is that prayer doesn't strike the ! motion we'll as another style of speech Boston Post
 Masquerade: You want new idea for costume for the ball. Here it is. Give yourself good coating of green paint and go as a pickle. You will take the girls Providence Telegram. "Can you tell me- asked Sunday | school teacher ofNa little girl, ''why the l Israelites made a golden calf s'' Because they hadn't gold enough to 1lake cow," 1 was the reply.-Free Press. Mistress "There it goes again. Mary, do you sec that doorr' Maid-?:Yessum. , Mis-
 tress-''Well, you have left it open. Were you brought mp in sawmill?" Maid | ''Nome; has alters lived with families as l can afford door springs. 1 The hairdresser at the Jardin des Plantes with his little son-s'My boy, here you see ! how unequally nature distributes her gifts. This creature, for instance, is the tortoise, of whose shell the best hairpins are made, but which, unfortunately, has hair itself. "- Exchange.
 ''The Afghans have been requested to evacuate Penjdeh on the withdrawal of the l Russian forces from Akrobat." It strikes us | that Akrobat is a very appropriate place for military manoeuvers, and the Russian soldiers 1 should be permitted to remain there-Nor- | ristown Herald.
 A little girl on North Main street had been | given some verses to commit to memory by
 | her Sunday school teacher last Sunday. She told her mother about it on coming home,
 | and said they were the first three verses of a
 chapter in St. John Her little brother, who | was in the room, at once exclaimed, with 1 thump of his fist on the table: "Papa, don't
 let her learn theml That's the man who 1 beat Blaine!" The squire smiled audibly.- Chambersburg Repository. l THE MAHDI's BATTLE-soNG. I'm a desert hyena, am, | And dwell in the sandy Soudan; can augur and shoot, and the Britishers loot, From Beersheba clear into Dan. Whoop. I have ostrich on toast every day, | I eat at meal, by the way; l like crocodile stew, with a jackal or two, l Just to eat as desert, as they say. l I'm the twelve-fngered Mahdi, am. And I'm king of the sandy Soudan; l I'm tailless baboon and roaring simeon, | And can wallop the British, can. | have men by the million or more l And concubnes, too, by the score; I'm 8 son-of-agun from the land of the sun, I'm a red handed Arab for gorel Then, whoop! for the sandy Soudan Let anyonestop me who can; I'm crooked-eyed, bow-legged Son-of-a-gun, I'm for gore-Im very bad man. Whoop! | Eugene Clay Ferguson in Galveston News
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 The last reported novelty in London is a Burglars company, which conducts business in most careful and systematic manner. It has a number of inspectors, who travel over Europe in quest of openings for ''work, and mechanics who can open the most elab- crate safe Finally, there is solicitor who negotiatss the restitution of bonds for com mission of thirty-fv per cent. All the mana gers have received prison education
 The Church Temperance society of New York city are going to try to get high Ii cense law through tho Albany legislature. They propose $1 1000 for distilled and $1OO for fermented liquors in cities of over 300, 900 inhabitants, and half these fees for all places of less population, and there are other items of prohibition Gas of sales on Sundaysl, pom alties, etc. This is the outcome of sugges- tion from Mayor Grace, who thought no real reform could be had under the existing law.
 It is estimated that the number of trade dollars hoarded in Philadelphia for spscula- tive purposes since the coin stopped circulat- ing is nearly two millions. The boarded dol lars cost from ST to 95 cents apiece, and the holders have in 8 majority of cases concluded to pocket their losses. The coin is being disposed of as bullion at the United States mint, the owners realizing about S4 cents on what cost them in many instances 95 cents, and perhaps more. Lots of 50, 900 have re- gently been sent to the mint and reduced to bullion.
 The case of General Grant has started anew the discussion about the effects of to- bacco. Much is said on both sides and the seeker after truth can pay his nsonsy and take his choice. The British Medical Journal, a very respectable authority, takes part in the argument by denying that the use of tobacco can possibly cause cancer, and rehukes the anti-tobacconists for using the suffsrings of great man to make converts to their fanci- ful theories. A Kentucky woman has been discovered who began smoking corn cob pipes when young girl and persisting in the practice died at the age of one hundred and ten years.
 Of the many. arguments brought forward in favor of the admission of French women to the franchise, one of the stranasst is that which rests their claims on the traditions of the country. Plutarch, it is gravely pointed out, mentions. that at one period in its histo- ry Gaul was governed by Senate of women; and Sainte-Foix, in his work on Parisian an- tiquities, maintains that so long as this sys- tenn of government lasted the Gauls had al- ways the best of it in their encounters with the Romans. Brennus himself was but the lieutenant of these ladies. When the Druids
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Physiology of Dessert.

From the Medical and Surgical Reporter.l
 After the meal come the bread, cheese and dessert. The bread will, no doubt, supply additional dextrin and the cheese additional albuminoids; but if we direct our attention only to the stomach and to the chemical changes which are going on in it, it is not quite easy to see why bread, cheese and des- sert should be taken at the end of dinner. If we turn our attention, however, to the circulation and the nervous system, and re- member the effect which have already men toned as produced upon them by the masti- cation and deglutition of .savory food, we can at once see good reason for the com mon manner of terminating a dinner In order to supply abundant gastric juice for the digestion of the food introduced into it, the stomach requires an abundant supply of blood, and the nervous system must be kept active in order to respond to the calls made upon it. The savory cheese, swallowed in small morsels, and the sweet fruits, which strongly stimulate the nerves of taste, or nuts, which require considerable mastica- tion, cause an abundant flow of blood to the nerve-centres; while the frequent movements of swallowing stimulate the heart and in crease the rapidity of the general circulation
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We are. now making A GREAT SPE- GAL SALE While CoETon Un-
 derMoar
 for ladies.

AAodl oo1S. NOOOoy could afford to do every year what we are now doing in these goods.
 We want to do in this department five times as much business as in the past.
 We want to do some thing to make every la dy in New Haven think of our store the moment she thinks of white un- derwear.
 We want to spend some money on this thing. We know that If you begin to come to us you will con- tlnue to come, chiefly on account of the gmallty 0f Me z0ork. There fore we believe 1t will ultimately pay us to spend some money in selling the goods too cheap for a while.
 But don't think we are selling goods too cheap now to make 1t up later by charging too much. You will never have to pay more for anything in our store than you can buy 1t for elsewhere-if we know 1t.
 But this time we are going to make these goods so very cheap that you can't but be struck with 1t.
 And the work Is all good, honest, well-hn- ished work, no slop- work, such as ready made underwear used to be, and still Is in some places. The prejudice against ready-made gar ments is largely due to the fact that the makers have hitherto aimed mainly at cheapness, or rather at low prices, than at excellence. Now we can offer garments so solidly made and so neatly finished that any lady may feel satisfied to see them in her wardrobe.
 Everything, you will find, Is cheaper than you would expect it to be i; and quite a number of things you will find so extraordinarily low in price that you will be puzzled to know how 1t can possibly be done.
 We begin the line with corset c0vers at 1oc each, chemzses at 12 Hc each, sk1rts and mmdexsklrzs at 25c each, mzghtaresses at 3oc each: and the prices go up in each line till you come to very fine goods in deed.
 At soc, 75c and 95c you will find some of the leading bargains.
 Prices and descrip- tions are of little use in the newspapers. Come and see the goods. Look at the qua1lty o1 Me nsater7aIand zOork.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Nothing very lion-1iks about March so far Are the elements in sympathy with the new administration?
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The cost of Congress in salaries, stationery, mileage, clerk hire and similar expenses is $3, 147 ,0O0 year. There is no estimating the worth and the worth1essness of this cost Iy body.
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all IAfm For the relief and prevention the GsOh@sNSSI INSTANT IT IS APPLIED of rheu- K NoLTAIcL /matism NeuTalg gia, ,Sciatica Coughs NS\A I.ZLL Colds, Weak Back, Stomach and Bowels. Shooting pains, numbness . > >@ Hysteria Female Pains Palpitation L vspepsia, Liver Complaint Bil, |I GrOl\> iois Fever, Malaria and Epidem. <I>S/S\ ics use COLLINS PLASTERS. an (Er ,NtM ELECTRIC BATTERY combined ZtI7 IESN with a POROUS PLASTER and Pi ERS laugh at pain. 25c everywhere
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SNEEZE until your head seems ready to fly off; until your nose and eyes discharge ex. cessive quantities of thin, irritating, watery fluid; until your head aches, mouth and throat parched, and blood at \ fever heat. This is an Acute Catarrh, and is iinstantly relieved by a single dose. and perma- nently cured by one bot t,e Of Sanford's Radical CYJvo for Fa<or,,I.
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From experience think Swift's Specific is very valuable remedy for cutaneous diseases and at the same time an invigorating tonic.
 JAMES JACKSON, Chief Justice of Georgia. Atlanta, Sept 1884
 REGULATED POISON-After trying all the other remedies, Swft's Specific has cured sound and well of terrible blood poison contracted from @ nurse. MRS. T. W. LEE Greenville, Ala. POISON OAK.-A lady here has been entirely cured of poison oak by the of two bottles of s. s. S. R. s. BRADFORD, TiHtonville, Tenn. ULCERS 25 YEARS.-A member of my church has cured of ucerated leg of 9 years stand ing with two bottles of Swift's Specific
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 Pastor Methodist Church, Macon, Ga. Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
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Captain A. J. Bentley, of New London, is still at Jacksonville He has recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia.
 The will of the late Captain Robert H. Glass, of New London, is to be contested by his sisters, who reside in Massachusetts. Captain Glass left his entire estate to his widow. He was worth about $50, 900.
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HAVEN. MONDAY MORNING. 1885.

wrested the supreme power from the hands of the women, the glory of Gaul began to de- cline, and the Romans soon reduced the country to subiection.
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, 1885-12-22

NAbAs biithNb II NgALN AtVIkAAuHI
1t was a rain of fire, not stars. Tho
stars, or sparks, not only occurred at
the end of the lines of fire. Imagine a
rain of molten iron striking the earth,
each drop bursting into sparks. Moth
ing else will compare. | could not now
describe it, if experience with foun-
dries and smith-shops had not afforded
the comparison. The fire fell in streams
like the heaviest fire rain | aver wit
messed and swayed to and fro Just rs
the water is by the motion of the clouds
or wind. The only stars | saw were
just such as one sees when molten iron
is running into or from the ladle, or
when iron with a welding heat is with
drawn from the forge, or such as seen
when h e,liquid metal drops upon earth,
or such as seen in the wake of an ex-
ploded rocket.
The strangest feature to mt was no
sparks or stars appeared except at the
end of the line of fire rain, which
stopped about five feet from the earth,
as near as | can judge. The piazza had
three steps from the ground. | could
not have been more than three feet
high, and the line of fire rain burst into
sparks on a level with my eyes. None
that | saw struck the earth, but after
sparkling on this line disappeared, to be
succeeded by others in quick succession.
l recollect distinctly observing the scene
around the yard, and the road led di-
rectly from the gate, and wondering
why none Of the fire or sparks reached
the earth. 1t was not as light as day,
but a lurid light greater than | have
ever seen since. Objects were perfectly
discernible, though not so well as by
daylight.
, 1885-12-22


There is perhaps no excitement to
susceptible than that which arises from
a burning building. lie will leave his
business, his dinner, or any other occu-
patton which he may be engaged in at
the time, to run to a fire, and whether
he has stopped to put on his hat or pick
up his coat will be with him an after
consideration. A fire engine drawn by
a pair of Infatuated steeds, tearing
the arms out of the sockets of the hat
less driver, with its sparks flying and
its gong beating, can draw in its wake
a perfect army of small boys and turn
the most peaceful ~neighborhood at any
hour of the day or night into a perfect
bedlam.
A fire can gather together a bigger
crowd in a shorter space of time and
hold it longer than a political meeting,
a brass band, or Barnum's circus. The
mere whisper of the word 'fre" in a
crowded hall or theatre will suffice to
bring an audience to its feet at once,
and will cause women to shrek and
faint and men to turn white as their
own shirt-fronts. The widest tempest
at sea could scarcely give more alarm
to the passengers of an ocean steamer
than the information that the ship
was on fire. However great may be
the excitement consequent upon a
conaagration at the time, it soon
dies way after the cause has been re-
moved, and it takes but a few hours for
the matter to be forgotten by all except
those who have suffered the loss.
, 1885-12-22
a Hungarian country nou.e.

An English sportsman, having been
invited TO q Hungarian country house
for a months shooting, gave this very
frank description Of it to q London
newspaper: IL is an enormous building
Of whitewashed brick, standing in a
moat, and strongly resembling an old
fashioned work-house or county Jail.
Occupying three sides Of n square the
central court is Of loose sandy shingle;
nor, for some acres round the house, is
n tree higher than a furze bush to be
seen. For protection against the fer.e
nature of OF the counts vast hunting
grounds the environs of the houses are
cleared in n style which an American
pioneer would have applauded. A
walled garden, with a single small and
ill-built forcing house, constitutes the
grounds. Beyond, all is plain and forest,
forest and plain, i~nterspersed with ham
lets, inhabited principally by the keep
ers and crackers of the court.
Within all is as barrick-like as with
out. lll-painted wainscot and i'll
whitewashed walls, ornamented here
and there with ill-proportioned bas-
relief, whitewashed, or rather yellow
washed, like the rest, pervade the vast
mansion, with the exception of the
state rooms, which are hung with faded
damssk and s~cantily filed with the
meager furniture of the last century.
An enormous hall, on whose walls
trophies of antlers and bears heads are
divided by gun-racks and stacks Of
arms, occupies the central ground floor.
and admits the winds Of heaven to the
vast staircase and roomy corridors
above. Except in the state apartments
and in the countess boudoir not a car
pet is to be seen, and of the forty bed.
chambers there are only eight in which
flreplaces are to be found.
, 1885-12-22
FUN IN THE BAckwooDs.


Amateur MIastrsI shows Before the War
-soensry. Stage and Audience.
New YORK SUM-
One trouble with amateur theatricals,
Is that they do not run to burnt cork
Nothing Is likelier to make a hit than q
minstrel show, even when the actors are
amateurs. Whom ! was a boy amateur
theatrical entertainments in my section
Of the country always included the per
f%orinances of the negro minstrel, and
not ~unirequently the entire entertain
ment was a minstrel show. In the big
woods OF northwestern Ohio and north
eastern Indiana entertainments by pro-
fessional troupes OF any kind were rs
rare as good crops Of wheat, and to re-
lieve the tedium of the long winter even
ingS the young men organized negro
minstrel troupes from the home talent.
Two good Jig dancers, half a dozen men
with good voices to sing and two rival
wits for end men completed the com
pany.
No scenery was needed. The theatre
vas the old log school house, or il in
town the hall of Justice in the big franz
county court house. The stage WA
made OF big plank from the nearest
saw-mill laid on wooden horses Dor
rowed from village carpenters. And
the horses were placed very close to-
gether down by the footlights where
the jig dancers Of ponderous frame and
muscle were wont to show their skill.
The footlights were candles, for that
was before the war and the days OF kerr
osene, and the eyes of the audience
were shielded from the footlight glare,
on one occasion that | remember, by
the old fashioned square tin oyster cans
that had been imported full of oysters
from Baltimore and ompticd by hungry
villagers The curtain was always
made of fancy calico and was looped
back by a ''puckering string"
Admission was free. The actors
played for love of the finn, and there
was no expense in presenting the play.
The owner of the saw-mill loaned the
boards for the stage, boys borrowed
teams or took their own to transport
the lumher to the court house, grocers
contributed the candles, and other mer-
chants the calico. The donors occupied
the only reserved seats. The house was
always crowded, and more enthusiastic
audiences never greeted a troupe of any
merit.
, 1885-12-22

THE venerable London Morning Post
the oldest organ of Toryism and the arts.
tocracy, predicts that civil war will involve
Enaland and Ireland before the Irish
question shall be settled. Mr.. Chamber
lain, the breezy young leader Of the rad
icll wing OF the Liberals. talks in nearly
as sanguinary !. strain. In a speech re
Gently he is reported to have said. "The
United States government poured out
blood aud treasure like water, and fought
aud won the greatest contest of modern
times To preserve the union. If English
men retained the courage and stubborn
determination which were the ancient
characteristics OF the race, and both of
winch wen 50 conspicuously displayed in
the American struggle, they would not
allow temptations and threats to shake
their resolve to maintain, unimpaircd, an
effective union Of the three Kingdoms. =
Talk like this, coming both from the OK
trcme Tories and the extreme Radicals,
looks az though affairs were proceeding to
a serious stage. There is said TO be in-
tense excitement in London and wild en-
thusiasm in Dublin over Gladstone's adj
vanced proposition relating to what would
substantially constitute Irish independ-
puce.