Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-22

many minds in this region badly damaged by good spelling.
 Pittsburg manufacturers now using the l natural gas are not hampered by any sys- tenn of meters. A given sum is paid and then the gas is used as freely as if it were air. This is very convenient for the users of the gas, but the time will probably come when it will be regretted that such wasteful sys- tenn was adopted.
 There is no scientific reason, says the Lon don Lancet, to suppose that in the act of dying persons are gifted with power of fore seeing the future. Mistakes are often made as to the mental condition of the moribund, because allowance is not made for that cere- bral excitement which occurs during the dis turbance of the circulation and surcharge of the blood with carbonic acid gas.
 The Nashua Telegraph summarizes the ex- perience with biennial elections and sessions in New Hampshire in this paragraph: stBi- ennial sessions have not brought the milleni- um in this State, but they have saved the State S75, 900 annually on the average. With change from summer to winter sessions, and the members put on salary instead of a per diem, the experiment of biennial ses- sions will be an unqualified success" The people of Connecticut will be glad that they voted for biennial sessions when they see the saving which will result from them.
 In a Russian village a lawsuit has been pending for some time in which almost three b,,drod ,,aoooDfs appaorod oo dafondonfc Two years ago these peasants suddenly made an attack on mill in their neighborhood, destroyed it's dams and rendered it valueless. The matter was at last brought before the courts after the usual delay and the peasants all admitted their guilt. The motive of their attack was the fact that the mill took the
 water out of a pond from which they used to | irrigate their fields, so that these fields had
 become entirely infertile until the mill had | been destroyed. Notwithstanding this valid | excuse all the peasants but six were con demned by the courts to imprisonment fer one month
 Lucy Abbott, an Ohio young lady, mar
 ried John Atkinson, who went to the var. l Letters grew scarce, finally ceased alto gether, and Lucy gave up John as dead. l Then John Geven married her; they had three children, and Geven died. Mrs. Ad- 1 kinson-Geven's next husband was John Col l lins, a bad one, and Mrs. Atkinson Geyen- l Collins returned to her mothers home. Re I gently she received letter from her first husband, now living out on the frontier, and l for whom she has kept 8 reserve of affec- | tion. At the close of the war he heard that | she was dead and at once enlisted in the reg
 ular army, where he has remained. Hearing of her existence and vicissitudes he wished ! to reunite. She is willing. All the men
 she has married have been named John, and | it is understood that she remarks that in the
 matrimonial game she has held three Jacks
 Judge Agnew of Pennsylvania, former
 chief justice of eminence and stoekholde1
 in the Pennsylvania railroad, writes a strong
 letter of protest against the sale of Soutt l Pennsylvania to the former corporation, call ing attention to it's manifest illsgality. H. l quotes the provision of the Pennsylvania
 constitution forbidding in the broades terms the acquisition or control of one com
 mon carrying route by another parallel ana
 competing, and also prohibiting operation
 or management by the same set O officers. He calls attention to the fact tha the fact of parallelism must be submitted tt jury under the constitution, when de
 manded by the complainant, and that tn acquisition of the South Pennsylvania b, the Pennsylvania, whether for the purpos