Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-25
GLEANINGS.

Every dollar spent in helping to build
up first-class local paper in a town
will be returned many fold.-Battimore
Manufacturers Record.
The great trouble with wage-earners
in this country is that they do too much
buying in small quantities and of poor
quality Chicago NeUs.
So many nobodies, intellectually, get
into the Senate nowadays that it is time
thrown away to endeavor to keep track
of them.-Mo6iie Register.
When the people become aroused to
sense of public danger the result is
always bad for the conspirators against
the common interest.-Fhtladetphid
Times.
Ten years is long enough to keep any
man in Jail. If he has committed q
crime which calls for greater punish
ment he should be hanged.-Denrer
Opinion.
1t has been said that "a poor man
cannot afford to die nowadays" and
the rough and forcible expression con-
tains great deal OF truth.-Buriington
a., Hairkeye.
1t is.impossible for several races to
live side by side, as they have done here
for a century and half, without affect
ing and modifying each others habits,
customs, and ideas.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
We parents nowadays are in bad
fix. Standing between our fathers and
our sons, the bigotry of the past and
the liberalism of the present, now what
are we going to do about itP-"Afec-
tionate Father" in the Interior.
The scandal which would accompany
the open trial of divorce suits would
not be as bad as that arising from the
rapid growth of divorces under the fa-
cilities allowed by star-chamber pro-
ceedings.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
What brave hearts sleep in Africa!
What grand lives have been sacrificed
to her discovery and redemption! And
what names of her martyrs that dark
land can plead when she stretches forth
her hands unto God!-Ihe Interior.
No matter how much we may hear
about the hordes of unemployed wo-
men, the starving seamstresses, etc., in
cities, when one gets a days journey
into the country it is almost impossible
to get any domestic Washingto"
Herald.
Our Socialistic friends eof the opin-
ion that machinery is the great enemy
of labor. But the world made much
more important discovery long before
modern Socialism had its birth. 1t dis
covered that the great enemy of labor
is laziness.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Changes in the laws are not always
improvements. The Virginia laws in
force when Kentucky became a State,
and which were adopted for while in
the new State, provided penalties for all
citizens failing to vote at elections. In
this there was recognition of q duty
to the State. Commercial.
During the Exposition in New Or
leans forty gambling houses, where
banking games are run, keep open night
and day. Gamblers have assembled
there from all over the Union, and with
the Louisiana lottery and other well
known attractions, New Orleans is for
the time being the wickedest city in the
Union.
The late S. S. Merrill, of Milwaukee,
left an estate valued at $4,000. The
will gives the widow the homestead on
Grand avenue, Milwaukee, 100000 in
cash, and liberal income besides. Two
sisters and brother of deceased will
receive $500 annually, and his children
are to have the income from the bulk
of the estate.
The jury that brings in a verdict of
guilty against a man accused of murder
is not in any sense party to his pun
ishment. 1t is the law that hangs him
or sends him to the penitentiary-the
wisdom of ages, the necessity of So
ciety, the impersonal decree of pru-
dence taught by the experience of all
past--New Orleans Picdyune.
1t is observed that whenever the
Arabs in the Soudan kill an English
man, it is a murder" or massacre" +"
but the hundreds of Arabs whom the
English NOW down are simply slain in
battle. Why this distinction? And, by
the way, when did Great Britain declare
war against the Soudanese?-L0uisutlle
COuTier-JOurndl.
The Selectmen Of Middlebury, Ct,
propose that hereafter tombstones shall
be made valuable as public records.
They have passed resolution that every
tombstone to be erected in the West
Middlebury Center Cemetery shall con.
tain, in addition to the name, age and
date of death of the person to whom il
refers, the name of the disease which
was the cause of death, the name of the
physician in attendance on the deceased,
and brief description of his treatment
] of the case.