The Portland daily press., 1885-04-09
Current Comment.
THE WOOD CUT AS A BEAUTIFIER.

Brooklyn Union.
The daily eight-page Union is a handsome
paper; the Sunday twelve-page Union will
be handsomer. Three great cartonnists are
sit ing up at nights preparing designs 10
Leautify it.
AN EXPLANATION OF RUssIA's ACTION.
Arkansas Traveller.
The English Government certainly has
strong intentions of going to war In earnest
About fifteen million pounds of canned beef
has been ordered from Chicago house. 10
be used by the English. The meat will be
fired from the ordinary Krupp gun. 1t is
said TO be very effective.
HIS IDEA is BETTER THAN MS PHRAsEoI-
oGY.
Memphis Avalanche.
"a few days ago gentleman called on
Secretary Lamar, aud said, as he shook
hands: I'm not after any office, Mr.. Sec
retar, and want to ask no favors.' You
OF rosewater in an ocean of salt water.'"
LET THE TERM RUN OUT.
n. X. Herald.
1t will be well for the President to stop
this matter where it now stands. Miss
Sweet refuses to resign. The praise which
Gen. Black, her superior, gives her iustifies
her refusal, and will Justify the President in
keeping her in her place. That will, be-
sides, be rebuke to The pension commits
sioner which he richly deserves.
AN UNPLEASANT "REMINISCENCES.
Raleigh Farmer and Merchant.
One of the disgraceful things about the
constitution of North Carolina is its refer
ence to the Rebellion. After Is wears of
white mans government,-after our State
troops are clad in Yankee blue" after our
State flag has been changed from the old
blue palmer under which every tar heel reg
iment marched to "Bg Bethel'' and ssBull
Run, "-surely there can be no "treason''
(nor sick stomachs) if we ask that the word
''rebep' be blotted out of our State consti-
tuition.
TIME TO TAKE A GEOGRAPHICAL oBsERyA-
TON.
Mobile Register.
Events have convinced Senator VOORHEES,
that Secretary Lamar has become little
rusty on geography, so he asked Mr. Lamar
The other day as personal favor to take a
map of the United States, some leisure
moment, look at it carefully, and see
whether or not he could find upon it a place
called Indiana. Aud he and Judge Gar
land will please look close about Georgia
and see if they can find State whose stump
tail sticks down between Mississippi and
Florida, and wags itself in the Gulf of Mex
leo. That State is Alabama.
DEVOTED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Hendricks. we are told, is a man Who
IS devoted to his friends, and he will serve
them, Vice-Prt sidency or no Vice. Presiden-
cy. Which reminds us of young mao who
had experienced religion. He was employed
in an establishment where there we're sever
al clerks, each aud all of whom took par
ticular delight in roughing the young con-
vert. One day, after an unusually severe
rasping, the young man remarked to q
friend, his flushed face showing that his
heart was in his words: 'sThese fellows
think they can play it on Ine, just because
I'm Christian; but if they DON'T let nm
pretty quick some of 'em I'll get hurt, relig-
ionsO no religion"
SMOKING AND CANCERS.
British Medical journal.
AS to whether smoking may be the imme-
date cause of cancer surgeons are not
agreed; but there is a condition of the tongue
which is, In many cases, the precursor of
OF epitheioma, namely 'leucoplakia;' and
this disease is more generally considered to
be caused bv smoking. Mr.. Barker, writing
on this Inflammation in Holme SIS System Of
Surgery" points out that among seventy
five recorded cases seventy.one sucked and
TOUR were non-smokers. BuZpnet used the
term plaques deS yfumeurs'' for this disease,
because he was convinced that Knocking so
often gave rise to it. Mr.. uulke has more
than once shown that "leucoplakia'' NAV be
the starting pout Of epithelioma, and out of
the aforementioned seventy five cases,
forty-four developed epltbelioma, aud 10 one
only was there family history OF cancer.