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Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
Life iR Iceland.

[Reykiavik Cor. New York Timesl
 From the name and situation, one might expect to find Iceland cold, desolate coun- try, shrouded much of the time in snow and bordered like the east coast of its neighbor, Greenland, with almost impenetrable fields of ice. The gulf stream, however, plays an important part in modifying and equalizing the climate, and though the summers are somewhat cooler and shorter, the winters are far milder than in some parts of our own country. Quite difference exists between the climates of the southern and northern parts of the island but if we trace the iso- thermal or line of r!ean temperature, equal to that of Akureyri on the north coast, we will find it leading us far south in other countries that boast of a more salubrious climate. The present season here, in other places has been very backward. So cold and late a spring has not been known for many years. Until the 1st of June snow lay upon the mountains to their very base, and few signs of vegetation had appeared in the grass lots of Reykjavik or on the farms around the coast. But now things have assumed different aspect The snow has almost entirely disappeared from the noun tains; on the farms the ponies, cattle, and sheep are cropping the short grass after long winter on the usual scanty food; thou sands of buttercups tinge the fields with their bright yellow, and the dandelions are fast shedding their crowns of gold and talk ing on that ball of white which is soon to be scattered by the wind In the gardens the turnips carrots, and radshes are pushing their green tufts above the soil and currant bushes are in full blossom, and the hardy rhubarb spreads it's broad leaves to the sun. Besides potatoes and few hot-bed plants, these are almost the only garden sass' we find in Icelandic regions Mention is made of the sagas, or old historical stories, of corn and timber growing on the island, but these tries must now furnish all the wood and grain, together with many other comforts and luxuries of life.
 With the exception of the priests Guth- eran) and few merchants, the people are all farmers. Those who live near the sea, or one of the many fjords, combine several oc- equations, and thus gain good livelihood, or even wealth. The priests hold their posi- tions under the government, and are paid from the public treasury, but they generally add farming to their official duties. The merchants have their stores at one of the small villages about the coast, and carry stock comprising everything. Sometimes they employ agents who travel through the country buying ponies, which they ship to Scotland, or perhaps they own small ves- sel which coasts around the island buying oil and cadfsh.
 The farmer obtains all the necessaries of life from the land and waters around him. The rocks and turf are bis building material the bogs furnish inexhaustible supplies of peat for fuel, the rivers swarm with salmon during the summer, and the sheep yield wool for his clothing. If near the sea, the almost cider duck contributes its eggs
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Superintendent Dutton does not think this an opportune time to attempt to answer the charges made against him. It is not. A great many people have supposed that the 'tG'' in Genesta was hard, but such is not the case. The ''G' is soft and the fol- lowing s'e" short.
 St. John, the prohibitionist leader, is re- covering his spirits. He says that he did not defeat Blaine. On the contrary he claims that Blaine beat him.
 The citizens ticket for members of the Board of Education will probably be made public tomorrow We believe it will be a good one, and that all disinterested friends of the schools ought to vote it.
 One year ago the legislature of New Jer- sey enacted law forbidding the sale of cigarettes to minors under sixteen. Not one case of enforcement of the law has been re- ported, which is a result that might have been expected.
 We are informed by one who yesterday felt compelled to ''subscribe'' that an agent of the school ring is going about getting money for use next Monday. Meanwhile members of the Board craftily declare that there is to be no Board ticket.
 Farmers have hard work to keep up with the insect pests which work against them. A new pest which has appeared in the western part of New York is causing much alarm to the farmers because of the mischief threat ened to the potato crop. It is about half the size of the potato bug, it's dark brown shell is much harder and it's legs unusu- ally long and strong. Its operations are en- tirely underground and it burrows it's way into hill of potatoes near the stem of the plant; hence it is almost impossible to deter mine the extent of the injury until the potato hills are dug.
 Florida is the land of fruit as we'll as flow CTS. A paper of that State says: Commenc- ing with January, we have strawberries then and until late in June. Japan plums from February. Mulberries are ripe in April and last until August Pineapples ripen in June and last nearly all the year. We have gua- vas from July until late the next spring. Of the various sberries-dewberriss, blackberries and huckleberries s-alnost any quantity. Peaches from May until July. Melons from June until late in the fall Oranges-the best of the kind-from October until the next June, with lemons and limos, persimmons, pomegranates, grape fruit, grapes and shad- docks.
 Ozone has passed for something very healthful, but Dr. Daniel Draper, director of the meteorological observatory in Central park, New York, gives some facts which seem to show that there is a very close con- nection between pneumonia and the presence of ozone in the atmosphere. His figures GOV CT only few years and apply merely to New York city; but they are so suggestive of some connection between this disease and ozone that the matter ought to be looked into. Dr. Draper appears to think that ozone is simply destructive form of oxy- gen which is capable of producing infiamma- tion of the substance of the lungs, thereby causing their engorgement with blood not properly arteriaiized. If this be so, great
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
Tuesday, September I5, 1883.
UNEQUAL TAXATION.

Twenty-seven national banks have filed bills of complaint in the United States Cir cult court against the city of New York and the receiver of taxes. The national bank act provides that the taxation Cby any State) of national banks shall not be ''at greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State" The plaintiffs declare that this provision has been violated in New York city and State. They cite the acts of the legislature under which the alleged violation has been committed, and place the amount of moneyed capital exempted from taxation at at least $1, 200, 100000. These exemptions are as follows: Life insurance companies are taxed one per cent. on the gross amount of premiums interest, and other income, exclu- sive of rents, and their real estate is taxed where situated, "but the personal property of said companies and shares of stock there in'' are exempt from assessment or taxa tion' except above. These exemptions estimated at S209, ,000, ,0O0. By the omis- sion of the shares of the trust companies from the State act of 1882 relating to 'tbanks, banking and trust companies" moneyed cap ital to the amount of 60,000,000 is estimated to be exempt from tax ation in the hands of individual citizens of the State. The deposits in savings banks exempted from taxation amount to $437, 107, ,501. There are city, town, county and village bonds especially exempted from taxation amounting to $25, ,000,0 GOO. There are stock and bonds is sued by foreign" corporations and in the hands of individual citizens of the State esti- mated at s5OO,OO0,0O0. The aggregate amount of these exemptions is over $1, ,231,- OOO, ,OOO
 This shows very plainly that somebody is treated unfairly, and the bankers who make the complaint think they are. They ask as remedy for the violation of law com plained of by them an injunction restraining the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York and the receiver of taxes, from collecting the taxes assessed upon the capital shares of the national banks, and decree declaring the assessment of such taxes illegal and void. A like remedy will be sought in the State courts for the same al- 1eged grievance. The contest will be an in- teresting one. Of course it will be charged that the banks are trying to escape their share of taxation But the very proper re- ply can be made that unequal taxation is un- inst
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
NOT HAPPY.

And yacht the cup competitors are rot happy.-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Mosquitoes can be kept away during the night by rubbing the sleeper's hair with as- saf9tida and raw onions.-Life. 'fG ood gracious" said the hen when she discovered the porcelain egg in her nest, 1T shali be a bricklayer next."-Boston Bull letin.
 Sufferers from hay fever take to the moun- tains, but we do not remember that any of them have ever gone to mount Catarrhdin.- Lowell Courier.
 John L. Sulivan's brother says John L. is going to the dogs. But the dogs are not to blame. The association is forced upon them Boston Transcript. Professor Proctor describes how the earth will look six million years hence It is very interesting, but does not compare with the burning question-How will we iook9-Phil- adelphia Call.
 "They didn't pick that stuff quick enough did they, mammal" asked little boy as he passed grocery wEere several cakes of lim-
 burger were taking breathing spell outside. St. Paul Herald
 An exchange informs us that large num- bers of young Americans are settling in Mexico. Our tradespeople would be very much pleased if large numbers of them would settle here.-Burlingto Free Press.
 
 if he was not very much frightened when the lightning struck his fathers house, replied: 'fNo, de Lord wasn't gwine to hurt me; it was daddy he was after. Raleigh (N. O. Observer.
 Traveler-'tWhy is the fare so much more from Chicago to New York than from New
 York to Chicagos" Ticket Agent-''Ever been to Chicago" Trayeler-"No." Ticket Agent "Well, you will find it is worth | wi aS mn tn Oet jS ta there. Life.
 "Oh!" exclaimed Miss Daubwell, ''what clever man that MT. Fogg is! He is really quite physiognonist. I was telling him last evening that had become quite prof. cient in painting, and he said, I was sure of it, madame, your face shows it." Chorus -''Indeed!'-Boston Transcript.
 Young Rector-You go to the kindergar- ten, little girl. Little Girl-Yeth, thir. Rector-There are many little boys and girls at the kindergartens L. G.-Yeth thir. Rector-I hope they are very good, and nev- CT say or do anything naughty? L. G. Well, thir, Johnny Sharp did say that Harry Brown wath d-n fool but then he ith you knoxville.
 The New York doctors charge great deal more than do the Texas doctors. Colonel Sumpter Mcbride Sumpter, of Austin, who was quite i'll during his recent visit to New York, is our authority for the assertion. He was in bed three or four days at his hotel, and when the bill was presented he took piece of paper and pencil and figured out how much more he had to pay in New York than he would have had to pay in Texas for the same amount of indisposition. Having got through his calculation he folded his hands resignedly and said: ''I lucky in being sick here in New York instead of be-
 ing laid up in Texas" ''Ahl" said the doc tor ''Yes," responded Sumpter, ''for all this money I'll have to pay you I'd have to be sick in Texas for more than two months" Texas Siftings.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
MORNING. SEPTEMBER 15, 1885.
many medical theories will have to be re- vica1

An interesting paper concerning the fossil wood which is found in California has been read before one of the scientific societies of
 the State. This silici6ed wood is said to be a variety of quartz; the wood fibre is gradu- ally replaced by quartz, leaving the form of the wood intact, so much so that sections cut and placed under microscope show the characteristic grain of the wood, by which the genera may often be determined, and sometimes the species. In what is known as the petrifed forest in Colorado where are stumps of trees several feet in height and some twelve or fifteen feet in diameter, one stump seemed to have been fossilized while in a charred state and from it fossil charcoal
 was obtained. Many of the specimens of wood are encrusted with layers of crystal lized chalcedony of an opalescent tint, so beautiful that sections have been mounted and worn as jewelry.
 At Merthyr Tydvil, in Wales, the sewage of forty thousand people passes from the town, three miles distant, by the action of gravitation. On its way it passes or flows through straining tank filled with refuse SiaS5 AloLI lAo HUH NOThS, Dy WHICH the coarse parts are intercepted, and it is finally distributed through covered earthenware pipes upon field of twenty acres, divided into four plots of equal size, each of which is used six hours at time, with eighteen hours of rest for aeration. The sewage flows uni formly over each plot, with a fall of one foot in 150 from tqe conduit to the main under drain, where it is arrested by an embark ment. This main under-drain is six feet deep, and serves to carry off the effiuent to the river; the lateral deep drains are of the same depth, and placed only twelve feet apart. The soil is well adapted to the sys- tenn, being light loam, with deep, gravel ly subsoil, and the effiuent is quite pure Intermittent downward filtration is also said to be successfully resorted to in other towns
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
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NEW GOODS.

Our Summer Sale ended and inventory over, new goods will be constantly added in every department-Hosiery, an d Gloves, and Underwear, and Laces, and Dress Goods, etc. Our purpose is to show a stock of goods which will be to the liking of our customers and to their profit as well as ours.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
GRATEFUL-COMFOR EPPS'S COCOA.
 RREAKFAGT

By thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutr- tion and by careful application of the fine proper sies of wellselected Cocoa, MT. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with deicately favored bev- craze which may save many heavy doctors bills It is by the judcious of such articles of diet that
 constitution may be gradually built until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease Hun dre of subtle naladies floating around ready to attack wherever there is a weak point We may escape many fatal shaft by keeping ourselves wei fortified with pure blood and properly nourished frame ''-Civi Service Gazette,
 Made simply with boiling water milk. Sold only in half pound tins by Groeers, labeled thus:
 JAMES EPPS & Co., Homeopathic Chemists,
 se22tues&wed1V London, England.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
VOL. LII.
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FLANNELS.

Some time ago we announced that we had been large buyers of Flannels at the great Auction Sale held in New York, and that in due season we would place them on sale. Could the manufacturers have foreseen the turn the market would take, we think there would have been no auction sale. Wool has ad- vanced, is advancing, and will still more advance. Flannels have advanced. But having said we would give our custom CTS the advantage of our pur- chase we mean to do it. This week, next week and all through September, we shall offer Elan nels at prices 1t would simply be impossible to make if we had to purchase now.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15

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Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
Annie Louise Cary,s Kindness.

Maine Letter to the Pittsburg Dfspatch1
 One little story out of numherless ones to which I listened will repeat, feeling sure it has never been in print, and illustrative of Miss Cary's (now Mrs. Raymond character.
 One summer, as was her custom, she spent some little time in her fathers old home, 8 short distance from Portland, which she made her own during her vacation. It was after she had been feted at home and abroad, had sung before crowned heads and nobility, and diamonds had been but one of profusion of gifts showered upon her. One morning she Tan into neighbor's kitchen as if ''she were not Miss Cary,'' as the girl said, where girl of eighteen or twenty stood ironing. Like many bright New England girls, she longed to get away from her.small surround ings and try larger sphere. ''Why, have my trials,' said Miss Cary, land you could not understand them"
 "Oh," answered the girl, 'swhat are trou- bles to you? You can do as you please with the world, instead of waiting to see what the world is going to do with you.'
 ''You are tired; let ne iron awhile" said the famous songstress.
 The girl protested Miss Cary insisted and carried her point. As her iron moved to and fro she entertained the weary girl with stories of her own life, showing with what labor she had achieved her present sue cess and the trials incident to a public life. When she, too, became weary she changed places with the girl, who had become rested and contented, and saying ''Now I'll sing for you," the voice which had held hundreds en- tranced now filled the little kitchen. For long time she held the girl entranced by the spell of that charming voice, and when she went home left her happy, where she had found her restless and discouraged
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
He Saved the Child.

lFrom the Phlladelpha Times.
 Thomas McGlone, of No. 1,017 Locust street, is the owner of a bull pup that he is willing to back against the canine world for intelligence In the rear of MT. McGlones house is cellar twelve feet deep. The en- trance to the cavern is covered with ricke- ty trap-door. Several days ago the little child of one of MT. McGlones neigh bors wandered into the yard, and was enjoying romp with the bull pup when it fell the cellar-door. The door quivered and gradual ly sagged downward on its rusty hinges. The pup saw the child's peril and springing for ward grabbed it's dress between his teeth, and bracing himself tugged with might and main to pull the child back on terra frma.
 The door continued to sink, however, and the dog was not heavy enough to support the weight of the child. He seeRed to realize this, but never wavered in his duty, and when the door fell with a crash the dog and child went down together. The heavy door fell on the dogs back as he stood on the eel lar floor with the child lying between his four legs The child's cries and the dogs howls attracted the attention of MT. Nc Clone, who rescued them both from the pit. The child was uninjured, but the dog was considerably bruised 'sThe pup undoubt- edly saved the child's life," said MT. Me Clone, ''and his value has appreciated in my eyes about one hundred per cent"
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
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BLANKETS.

We also made large purchases of Blankets early in the season, and before'the boom boomed, and these we shall be able to sell cheap. Some of the lots are now being delivered, and thrifty housekeepers will do well to look at some we shall show this weck-Blankets that will be Blankets all the days of their. life and not wash cloths the wear after next
Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-15
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-23

In the October number Of little religious
magazine edited and published by the Rev.
l.. c. Baker, formerly pastor of the Second
Presbyterian church. in Camden. the author
describes the outcome of his motion before
the P~resbytery of West Jersey held at Had
donfield last month fer a revision of the
Presbyterian Confession of Faith touching
the doctrine Of a future state. The special
paragraph in the Confession of Faith which
Mr.. Baker wanted revised, reads as follows:
THE ~punishments of sin in the world to
come are everlasting separation from the
presence of God and most grievous torments
in soul and body, without intermission in
hell-fire forever" All that he asked was
to have a committee appointed by Presby-
terry ito consider W neither this doctrine is a
complete and final expression OF holy scrip
ture upon this subject. The motion was
made at the spring meeting Of P~resbytery
last May and laid oven until the autumn
meeting. A motion to indefinitely post
pone and so kill the overture was made
and about to prevail, when members of
~Presbytery, considering Mr.. Bakers long
and good standing among them, concluded
to discuss his proposition. Three minis
tiers spoke warmly in its favor, many de
nounced it, and ON final action five votes
were given for the reform. The Rev. Mr..
Baker expresses himself as gratilied that
any member Of Presbytery should have
spoken or voted in favor of his overture.
He admits that naturally he might expect
to be tried for heresy rather than that he
should ever induce Presbytery TO touch the
Westminster Confession. In conversation
with many of the ministers he found that
they had their doubts on the eternal tor
ment article and he thinks the time must
come when the better reason and honesty
of the Presbyterian Church will move for
a revision of its creed rather than pursue
a course which stiles freedom Of thought
and an honest expression of the same. The
motion was lost, but the reform inside the
church actually began.