Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-09

Henry S. Dawson has good heart and he has set good example.
 There is joy in Chicago over the victory of the horse car drivers and conductors. If the company had been disposed to be fair in the first place the trouble might have been avoid ed, but better late than never.
 A wild western man believes that terma- gant wives, as well as brutal husbands, should be brought to the whipping post, if this relic of an uncivilized state of society is to be resurrected. This is truly shocking
 proposition.
 The Salt Lake City Council, which is unan- imously Mormon, did not do a wise thing in defending the half masting of the national flag on the Fourth of July. The people of this country are not in mood to forgive and | forget snch performances.
 Are our girls growing sweetera In 1850 l the annual consumption of sugar per head in the United States was 41.2 pounds. In 1884 | it was 514 At the same time much less | molasses is used. Our total consumption of sweets is fifty pounds per head. In England | it is sixty pounds. We eat more than !
 as Germany and eight times as much as Rus | sia.
 l Two Indians in village near Quebec were recently discussing the form of the earth. | One affirmed that it was round because men
 had travelled in straight line and come | piled that men were apt to travel in circles, ' l.
 urged that white men said so, and they knew
 more than the Indians; but it was answered l that white men often lied, as the Indians very well knew. A practical philosophers
 solved the whole difficulty by driving stake
 in the ground and placing an apple on it at | night. In the morning the apple was still
 there to his great satisfaction, whereas, he
 said, if the earth had revolved in the night the apple would have fallen off.
 l remarkable instance of the tenacity of old beliefs among an ignorant class lately oc- 1 cured not very far from Calcutta. The idea that the British government began every l good work with human sacrifice was long
 current among the lower orders of the
 Indian people, but it might be supposed that I Ap AoN AAcA OUO ASAtS o5N' ~ SteRS'tAS; -S" ever, to be as strong as ever. The boatmen
 on the Ganges near Rajmehal somehow came to believe that the government required | 100, 900 human heads as the foundation for great bridge and that government officers
 were going about the river in search of
 heads A hunting party, consisting of four
 Europeans, happening to pass in boat, were
 set upon by the 120 boatmen with the cry
 "Gulla Katta," or cut-throats, and only es-
 capped with their lives after the greatest diff culty. The men were arrested and thirty of them sentenced to terms of from one to
 three months Imprisonment,
 One of the latest illustrations of canine versatility comes from South Africa, where
 Scotch co1leys have been imported to herd ostriches. They took to their strange work l with surprising readiness, discovering at once the weak points of the great birds'
 character and the best method of driving
 them with the least trouble to all concerned: l A single colley will do the work of six
 mounted men. Even stranger still Is the fact that the ostriches, let them be never so obstinate and savage with human beings, be-