Morris tribune., 1885-04-15
GLEANINGS.

quality. chicago NeWS.
So many nobodies, intellectually, get
into the Senate nowadays that it is time
thrown away to endeavor to keep track
of them.-Mobile Register.
When the people become aroused to
a sense Of public danger the result Is
always bad for the conspirators against
the common interest.-PhstddetphtG
Times.
Ten years is long enough to keep any
man in jail. If he has committed a
crime which calls for greater punish
ment he should be hanged.-Denver
Opinion.
1t has been said that ga poor man
cannot afford to die nowadays" and
the rough and forcible expression con-
tains a great deal of truth. Burlington
a., Has0keyc.
1t is impossible for several races to
live side by side, as they have done here
for century and half, without affect
ing and modifying each others habits,
customs, and ideas.-NeW Orleans
Times Democrat.
We parents nowadays are in a 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 it?-"Atec-
ti0nate 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 IA
cilities allowed by star-chamber pro-
ceedings.-Ftttsdurg 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 seanlstresses, etc.. in
cities, when one gets a days journey
into the country it is almost impossible
to get any domestic Washington
Herald.
Our Socialistic friends are of 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 Enthusiastically Eagle.
Changes in the laws are not always
improvements. The Virginia laws in
force when Kentucky became State,
and which were adopted for a while in
the new State, provided penalties for all
citizens falling to vote at elections. In
this there was a recognition of duty
to the State.-Lou;sville 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 S775, 900. 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 i'll 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
cietv, the isnpersonal decree of pru-
dence Taught by the experience of all
past U Orleans Picaye'ae.
It is observed that whenever the
Arabs in the Soudan kill an English
man, it is 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?-LouisviHe
COurier-Joernal.
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 it
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.
Anthony Comstock is censured be-
cause he has attempted to suppress an
edition of "The Thousand and One
Nights" which have not been submitted
to the expurgatorial process. He re-
fuses to listen to the eNtenuating plea
that the edition is very expensive, and
intended only for literary people, who
will not be contaminated. Mr.. Com
stock has successfully braved many
perils, but the wrath of the bibliophile
will be the severest test of his courage.
The Current.
The sons of some of the very rich
men of New York are said to be living
at a tremendously extravagant rate, and
are likely to see the bottom of the for
tunes acquired by economy and thrift.
One gilded youth recently chartered
palace-car at 800 per day and took
party of friends to New Orleans, this
being but one item in the expenditure.
Another is touring it around the world
in a yacht. A third, who is ''no end OF
SWELL" cuts his father dead when they
meet in Fifth avenue.
A death was caused near Cambridge,
O., in this singular manner: William
Galbreath and James Arnold were chop
ping trees, and each had tree ready to
fall at almost the same time. By some
chance Arnold's tree fell first and in a
contrary direction from what was ex-
pected. AS it fell a limb struck Gal
breath and knocked him from the
ground just as his tree, shaken by the
crash of the falling tree, toppled, split
ting from the stump up. Galbreath's
head struck in this split, and in the re-
bound it was crushed to a jelly.
Professor A. B. Palmer, in Wide
AWake, for March, discussing the action
of alcohol upon the lungs, declares
there are no statistics-no recorded OBJ
servations and comparison of numbers
of cases-which afford the slightest in
dication that the use of alcohol in any
form or quantity prevents consumption.
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