The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-04-09

coupe OF Attorney General Brewster mas been
sold at auction for $50 In less than six months
$500 will be paid for IA horse to replace him.
| This is Democratic economy.
| 1t only costs 800 in Boston to knock man
| down, beat him and lay him up for two years.
| When we have enemy to punish we shall
| invite him to meet US in Boston. Perhaps they
| would call it $3.50 for two cases.
| Children VINO cry for the moon will be glad
| to know that the luminary will be brought
within 80 miles of the earth by the big telescope
in the Lick observatory. Why, we shall al
most be able to shake hands with the man in
| the moon.
| Can anybody give a valid reason why eX-
| Representative Sparks of Illinois should be
| put at the head of the land bureau: Boston
| journal.
Because the Sparks fly upward. Isn't that a
| valid reason:
| We don't wish to excite any i'll feeling, but
| Gen. II. r. jackson, the Minister TO
| Mexico, is poet. One of his poems, "My
| Wife and Child" bad wide circulation during
| the war and was generally credited to ''Stone-
wal' jackson.
| Carl Schurz, who masqueraded during the
| last Presidential campaign as an Independent
| Republican, is announced as one of the pro-
moters of q Democratic ring newspaper III
| New York. This Is not surprising. however,
| Carl is Hessian.
| 1t is laid thai Mr.. T den had two barrels of
| fine apples stolen recently by me wicked boys
| of Yonkers. This is the result of bad eX-
ample If Mr.. Tilden had not attempted 10
steal the Presidency he might now be Two bar
| rels of apples better OF.
United States language has proved nsufiici-
ent to meet the requirements of the advertising
| dry goods dealers of Boston and the firm of
Gordon, Swamp Il Co. have dropped into
French. Sang frol' is good. Blood will
tell in advertising as in other directions.
Mr.. f. w. Morre editor of the Gardner
Home journal jour- al is to be congratulated,
| his wife having presented him with an eleven
| pound boy on Sunday last. The returns of
late indicate that Maine editors are doing their
part toward keeping lp the population of the
| State.
1t is said of Vice President Hendricks that
ON Inauguration day his ">mile extended from
| the Capitol to the White House and touched
| both sides of the .,v niue with a radiant iutlu-
ence.'' Yeti has since been down at the mouth
because he hadn't sufficient ''radant influence
to control the distribution Of the spoil> save to
a very limited extent.
| The muskrat is nov proved to be as unrr-
| liable a weather prophet as Virgins. Last fail
| the houses built by the muskrats were eXcep-
tionally light and uns lbstanial, indicating, ac-
cording to popular lief. Il mild winter; and
now the builders are suffering from their lack
of foresight. Put it las been such cold win
ter that good many Of the weatherwise got
| left.
| one result of the coinage of short weight
silver dollars has been to put in circulation a
| large amount of ''g, nuine counterfeit>," So
called. These are dcnlcaI in size, weight and
| composition with those emitted by the govern
ment, and as the bullion value of the genuine
| subsidiary coins is only seventy cents for
nominal dollars worth the profit margin Of
| twenty three per cent. is quite attractive To
counterteting experts. 70 Illustrate One
| hundred trade dollar, purchased at eighty
four ccnt>) will yield 2l1 standard hdlfdoars
profit Of S2i.5O, less the tritling cost Of re-
coinage.
The farmers of free trade England are the
| reverse of prosperous, as show "a by Mr.. w. L.
Bear, editor of the Mark Lane Express, in the
current number of the North American Re-
| view. Prices of wheat and other grain have
during 1.-The past six years been continuously
| inIy - has hna So p1
meat lower during the past six months than
for long period Mr. Bear says: THE bare
statement of this general fall in the values of
agricultural produce >utlices to show that the
| British farmer is in an awkward po>ition but
when it is further pointed out that eXpend-
ture has increased as il come has decreased the
alarming character of his dilemma is obvious.
Rents, labor rates and taxes and the general
cost of living, have all greatly risen during the
past thirty years"
Nearly all the humor ,ts and comic artists of
the country are represented in the St. Jacobs
| Oh Family Calendar and Book of Health and
Humor for 1888. among them bill Nye;"
| Robert j. Burdette, Burlington Hawkeye; f.
II. Gassaway, derrick Dodd." San Francisco
Post; G. B. Lewis, M. Quad Detroit Free
| Press; Stanley Huntley, "Spoopendy le," Opie
P. Read, Arkansaw Traveller; K. X. Munkit-
trick of Puck, and others. While designed
primarily for advertising purposes, the original
and distinctive literary matter makes the book
one that will be eagerly sought for and the
publishers, The Charles A. Nogeler Co., of
Baltimore, have printed 12,000,000 copies for