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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
Thackeray.


 With the most part of Thackeray's early work there was no choice of signing his name In those days neither editors nor the public had that unreasoning craze for names which apparently possesses them to-day. ''Words, words, words," said Hamlet when asked what he was reading; thames, names, names, names," he might answer to-day. For really to-day, at any rate with our peri odical literature, whether it is to be called journalism or not, there seems not only to be much virtue in a name, but every virtue. By journalism one generally understands the current literature of the daily papers; and the idea of lifting the veil of secrecy-al ready thin enough in all conscience-which shrouds the workers in this busy and impor- tant field is to us, we frankly own, an ap- palling one. Such custom would not only, it seems to us, cruelty hamper the work mems hands, bu. would also open terribly wide door to those sweet influences 30 dan gerous to meet, so hard to resist, which are ever on the watch to guide the bolts of love. Some rude men of the baser sort there have been to assert that this door is even now not kept so iealously shut as it should be; but this is of course a libel. Paris, however, can furnish some idea of the result of throw ing open the shrines of journalism to the profane crowd. There the papers, some of them at least bristle with names; there cer- tainly publicity does not always impose that check, on rash and inconvenient writing which it's votaries claim for it's prime virtue; while there unless truth in her passage over channel suffers sea change indeed, those sweet influences we spoke of are most undls- guisedly rampant.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
Share Your Comforts.


 If you keep your eyes open you will dis cover that some boy or girl in school never has any fruit, meat or cake for lunch. Would it not be fun to take lunch for them to school and put it in their coat or desk when they did not know ita Then you might sometime find a way to drop warm pair of stockings or gloves, or a comforter, into their desk a glad surprise; or some little comfort for their brothers or sisters, or even their father or mother. Nothing shows the Christian lady or gentleman more truly than the way they do acts of kindness or be- nevolence.
 Last week at one of the Boston railroad depots two young men left a train. One wore thick ulster trimmed with fur, a fur cap and gloves; the other was lame, had no overcoat nor gloves, and seemed to shrink inside of his clothes every time a gust of wind struck him. He rubbed his ears with his hands and altogether was the picture of misery The warmly clad young man sud- denly pulled off his fur gloves and thrust them into the cripple's hand and in mo- ment had disappeared in the crowd. First a puzzled, then glad look came into the face of the cripple, who was warmed as much by the expression of sympathy from another as by the actual warmth imparted by the gloves.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
Frederic Lomaitre.

From the Gentleman's Magazinel
 The nams of the theater where Frederic made his first appearance might lead to the supposition that little but what was gay and volatile would be exhibited there. This was not so. The Varieties Amusantes was really the home of heroic pantomimes such as s'La Jerusalem Delivree," l" 'Le Siege de Grenade, D &c. And from these boards he passed to those of the Funambules, at that time asso- ciated with the successes of Gougibus in the old Italian comedy line, where gesture took so large part in the representation. Goug- ibus, it was said, was seldom without litter of kittens on the carpet of his apartment, whose graceful, lithssome and suddenly changing attitudes he was never tired of studying At this theater, in company with Debureau, Frederic made a great name among audience little critical perhaps, but who thoroughly enjoyed good laugh when such pieces were played "Arlequin Rob- inson" or the "Faux Hermite." The serious lessons with Eafon continued in the morn ings, while the evenings were devoted to the Funambules And to this mixed education may doubtless be attributed in some measure the versatility which was such remarkable characteristic in the art of Lemaitre, as well that command of feature and significance of gesture, picked up perhaps from Gougi- bus, he afterward turned to such good ac- count. He was at this time exceedingly good looking, his figure graceful aud supple, his face handsome with it's nobly cut features and expressive eyes; and yet, though his fine gentlemen had an unmistakable air of dis tinction about them, his vagabonds were terribly realistic, stamped with interruptions tricks and mean shifts and redolent of the guinguette and the pot jumier. In his search for notoriety Frederic had got as far from the higher dramatic walks as Franco ni's circus even, when another competition occurring at the Odeon he was this time suc- cessful, and was admitted as pensionnaire. But he was not at home yet. It was of course great privilege to associate with such men as Picard-who entirely foresaw his future powers-the painter, David Tal- ma and Lafon; but he tells us that as he stood in the sombre tunie of Areas or of Py- Jade to listen to the long tirades of Aga memnon and Orestes the blood boiled in his veins. He found that the hand of the King of Kings lay heavily upon his shoulders felt it compress his wings and check the flight he knew he was capable of sustaining. Such was his position when he received proposition from the directors of the Am bigu-Comique to play at their theater. And in March, 1893, he appeared for the first time at the house with which his name was afterward to be closely connected. It had been the first theater he had visited in Paris, and kind of instinct told him he had now found his groove. :'L'Ambigu, me dis-je, sera reellment dome de pouvoir essayer mes
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
NO. 46.
Under Heavy Mental Strain. EE,rnrra fha Tnr-fninhflH RauiaW


 There are of course immense differences among mon as regards capacity for perform ing mental work of any kind. Previous training, constitution and temperament are potent factors in determining the amount which each is capable of doing. Some men can stand an enormous amount of mental strain without any apparent injury; others, from what may be called, for want of bet ter term, "weakness of brain,'' are incapable of anything requiring mental tension. The worst consequences are noticed in people of moderate brain power, who, in the absence of proper training, attempt the performance of severe mental labor. Their case is simi- lar to that of those who suddenly engage in trials of strength and endurance after an in- sufficient amount of training. and who eith- CT exhaust themselves by overtaxing their nervous energies, or induce disorders of the heart or lungs, or strain some portion of the muscular system by the violence of their eff forts. When man is being prepared for great muscular exertion he undergoes course of training in which the severity of the work assigned to him is gradually and cautiously increased, and the same rule should be adopted for those whose mental powers are about to be severely taxed. If this condition be fulfilled, if a proper amount of sleep can be obtained, and if the appetite remains at it's normal level, the brain will bear almost any amount of steady strain in the form of severe mental labor.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
NFzV HAVEN, CONN,

cided against the telephone company on every point. With regard to the right of the State to fix the price of telephone service, which the court holds to be 8 common carrier service, the decision is supported by refer ence to decisions of the United States Su- preme court in cases quoted as similar in principle.
 An interesting temperance reform" is go- ing on in the semi -bituminous coal region of Tioga county, Pennsylvania. The Fall Brook coal company, which employs over a thousand men, adopted in December, 1852, a rule that any employe known to use intoxi- eating drinks would be discharged. Since then the company has dismissed over five hundred men. The strict enforcement of the rule has forced some of the oldest and best men in the service of the company out of it's em- ploy. A person applying for work to the Fall Brook company must present certih- cate that he is teetotaler and must sign a pledge that he will continue to abstain abso- lutely from intoxicating drinks while in the service of the company, whether on duty or not Since this rule was adopted the list of fatalities in the company's mines and on it's railroads has decreased fifty per cent and the employees all have money ahead
 A we'll known New York broker has made public his estimate of the wealth of 8 mum Der of the rich men of New York. He does not make the figures as large as some do, but perhaps this is not against their correctness. He allows J. J. Astor $125, ,O0O, 900; Jay Gould, s1OO, ,0OO, ,OO0; Cornelius Vanderbilt $50, ,O00, 900; w. K. Vanderbilt, s75, 900 ,0O0; Russell Sage, $5O, ,Ooo, ,OOO; c. P. Huntington, $25, ,O00,0 900; Winslow, Lanier & Co.,, $2O,- 900, ,OOO; D. o. Mills, $15,000,000; Pierpont Morgan, s15, 1000, ,OeO; Robert Garrett, s15, GOO, ,O0o; Armour, 5000 900; Fred Wander bilt, $12,0O0, 900; Sidney Dillon, $10,000,- 900; woerishoffer, $1O, 900; J. R. Ho1ie, $S,OOO, 900; Addison Cammack, $5,000, 900; John Rockefeller, s5, ,OOO, ,o0O; H. Rockefeller, $5,OOO, 900; Alexander Mitchell, 5000 ,000; Cyrus w. Field, A 1000, ,Ooo; s. v. White, $3, GOO, 900; w. R. Travers, $3,O00,0 ,000; R. P. Flower, s3, ,0OO, ,OOo; John Shaw, ss, 300, 900; W. E. Connor, ss,Ooo, ,ooo; slayback, ,s1, ,5oo, 900; General Dodge, s1, ,50o, ,000; Victor New combe, s1, 1,ooo,0oo and Sam Sloan, s1,ooo,- 900.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
Tuesday, February 2s, 1886.
A PROMIsING INVENTION.

The most subtle danger with which miners have to contend is fire damp. Ere quently it's presence is only made apparent by an explosion which results in great loss of life and property. The man who invents sure indicator of the presence of this dead ly gas will be benefactor of his race. MT. Henry Guy Carleton, the author, thinks he has done this, and he generously proposes te give the benefit of his invention to the world, taking out no patent upon it.
 All the fire damp indicators heretofore in use have failed, for various reasons, tho chief being various barometric pressure, va rying degrees of moisture and a lack of pro forged pressure upon the diffusion appara- tus. MT. Carleton's indicator is independ- ent ot moisture and barometric pressure, working on specific gravity, which, with a given percentage of gas, is constant. The apparatus consists of one or more indicating balances to be permanently placed in a drift of the mine, and registering balance to be used by the observer in the testing room, connected by we'll insulated wires. Each balance holds in equilibrium thin glass bulb of about three hundred cubic inches ca pacity, dramatically sealed. They are coun- ter balanced at the same moment by weights, and will therefore be equally affected by future variations in the atmospheric pres sure. Attached to 8 vertical arm or point CT, of each balance is soft iron needle, the ends of which plunge frequently into helices of insulated wire. The helices of both in struments are identical in size and electrical resistance, and exert but feeble influence on the needles with an ordinary current. The right-hand helix of balance Mo- 1 is con- nected with the right-hand helix of balance No. 3, and is supplied from battery with a current, the strength of which can be less ened Or increased, enabling the magnetic force of the helices to be regulated exactly. The left-hand helices are similarly connect ed. The vertical arm of balance No. 3 has 8 platinum tip capable of electrical contact with an insulated screw. Connection from the binding post to the vertical arm is made by the mercury cup, into which a wire from the beam is dipped. Contact between the vertical arm and relay in the observing room is kept closed. Breaking contact opens the relay, the back stroke of which shunts the local circuit on the bell, ringing it continu- ously. The case surrounding balance No. 9 is of marble or unglazed tiling, excluding air currents and dust, yet admitting gases by..difusion. Chloride of calcium keeps the interior free from moisture.
 In practical use 8 number of balances like No. 2 would be placed in various parts of the mine, the left-hand helices all being on one circuit, and the right-hand helices on an- other, connected with the one balance to be used in the observing room. It is believed that in this way an observer in the superin- tendent's office could test all parts of the mine, and be able to give warning of i'm pending danger.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
Magnetic Sifting of Meteorttes. IEroro the Gentlaman,s Mapazinal


 The meteorites that fall upon the earth are composed chiefly of iron. Signor Bombicci suggests an explanation of this. The earth is big magnet, as shown by the proceedings of bar of steel freshly suspended and curately balanced on it's center. So long as it remains unmagnetized the bar remains horizontal and will rest in any direction, but if magnetized in England it becomes appa- rently heavier at one end; this end dips and points a little to the west of north, and when carried about over different parts of the earth continues to behave in manner show irg that the earth is magnetically polarized like itself, and therefore, like itself, capable of attracting small particles of iron or steel toward it's two opposite polar e1tremities. Bombicci's idea is that this big terrestrial magnet, when rushing through space con 4 taining meteoric particles, exerts seleetive
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Crockery cofins are proposed by Phila delphia genius. His idea is to glaze them, thus making tight and imperishable recep- tacle, the object being to protect under ground water currents from pollution.
 The makers of oleomargarine have, it is asserted, arrived at such perfection in their product tkat chemists ca mot detect the diff ference between bogus and real butter, either by analysis or microscopical examination. It is hard to believe that much of this perfect oleomargarine gets into the market.
 Captain Boycott, the Irish land agent to the Earl of Erne, and whose fight with his tenantry at the opening of the land war in 1879 gave rise to the word boycott, has been appointed agent of Lord Waveney's estates in Suffolk. It is to be hoped that he has learned something by his experience in Ire land. He was petty tyrant there.
 It seems that only those who are civilized are liable to be celor-blind. Not a single instance of color-blindness has been found by Swarzbach in an examination of two thousand Hottentots, Malays, Melanesians, Australians, Maoris and Polynesians, and he concludes that the defect is confined to the white race, and is due to influences connect cd with civilized life.
 Out of the Cincinnati election frauds there has grown sensible election law, just passed by the legislature, which authorizes the gov ernor to appoint non partisan boards of cleo tion in the principal cities of the State. These boards are to be divided equally be- tween the parties, and are to control the ap- pointment of judges and clerks of election, all of whom must be intelligent and of good character.
 The sprite, four page monthly published in Utica, has the following sound leading ed itorial "School Discipline-To keep a boy after school is very bad for his health, as he does not get enough outdoor exercise. After while he becomes morbid, then runs away from home, and ends by committing suicide, which is sometimes very bad for the coasti- tuition. Moral-Don't Keep Boys After School. P. S.-The editors of this paper never get kept after school, but say this out of pity for those who do."
 The decision just given by the Supreme court of Indiana in the telephone case is of great importance both to the teleph one com panies and to the public. The last legisla- ture of Indiana established maximum price for the rental of telephones. The company | complied with the law so far as te keep with | in it for the item of rent of instruments, bu made up the deficit by extra charges for ser vice, etc. The whole issue involved was be fore the court, which affirmed the constitu tionality of the law, held that evasions by 4 the companies were illegal, and in short de
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23

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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23

attraction for those which are ferruginous
 The fact that so many masses of meteoric iron have been found in the Arctic regions, so far as it goes, supports this theory. What may have happened in the region of the other pole we cannot tell, as ice and water prevail there so exclusively. In any case the northern hemisphere should receive an excess of meteoric matter, as in the course of our journey throgh space the northern half of the earth is more forward than the south.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23

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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23

Crockery cofins are proposed by a Phila- delphia genius. His idea is to glaze them, thus making tight and imperishable recep tacle, the object being to protect under oround uafar orrropta from, ro11ufiop
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-23
Consumption
 Conquered l!
WHEN THE DOCTORS COULD
 DO NO MORE.

CHAs. A. CABRERA, B Hawley Street,
 Boston, Mass, writes:
 Zone year ago I was apparently so far gone with Consumption that my life seemed only question of days rather than months. With my faith in the ability of physicians to help me all gone, I tried almost every known remedy, with no apparent benefit. Finally, as a last resort, I was induced to try Dr. R. c. Flowers Lung Cordial. The very first dose gave me relief, and with the first bottle took new lease of life, and can honestly say to-day that one spoonf l of this remedy is worth more to the sufferer from Lung troubles than a gallon of any other known remedy. bottle of it is now one of my choicest possessions, and at the first symptom of cough or cold fly to it for the relief it never fails to give.''
 DR. FLOWERS LUNG COR. DIAL is without question the most wonderful Lung remedy ever discovered. It eradicates the germ of CONSUMPTION as no remedy has ever been known to do. It stands without a rival for COUGHS, COLDS, BRON- CHITIS, ASTHMA and CON- SUMPTION.
 Price $1 per bottle. A copy of Dr. Flowers Rules for the Treatment of Consumption ac- companies each bottle.
 The Flower Medicine Co.,, l,762 Washington Street,
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-13
Color Blindness Among Frenchmen.

DR.. Worms, medical officer of the
Chemin de Fer du Nord, has just pub.
lishetl some startling figures with regard
to the color-blindness that he found
amongst French engine drivers, porters,
and guards.
He examined over n thousand men.
and of these one-tenth hesitated at dis.
tinguiShing different colors.
This was bad enough, but four men
were absolutely color-bIind, and saw
not the slightest difference between
white and red, blue. green, and gray.
Forty-one distinguished red easily.
hut contounded green, blue, and gray:
and sixty-four could tell blue, but con.
fused green, gray and red.
1t is n startling fact that these men
have all passed the ordinary examination
for color blindness which the French
laws impose MS test prior to employ.
ment i'll railway service.
No idea would be more CHASTITY II m
that of an engine-tlriver seeing the dam
ger signal set up against Inn, mstukinr
it for white light indicating that all
was right
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-14

playing with the Srastika, and
all life, and the loathsome lizard,
the endangered thread, and the owl
headed vase make a most impressive
contrast. Not only this, bus the vase
and the Srastiko impart to the group
especial historic valae, their introduce
ton being justified by Schliemann's
discoveries in the Troad. In the treat
ment Of the drapery Mr.. Valentine has
been no less successful than in the
anatomy of his figures. He IN
troS,pces several different textures.
requiring, =. widely-diverse manipu-
lation. Yet everywhere the lines
are soft, eyidencins close study OF the
technical demands Of hisNSrt as well as
the greatest patience. The nss1re OF
Andromache may appear shade nfOSnss
robust than the accepted Greek type of
female beauty, but it loses nothing by
reason Of that fact. On the contrary,
the liberty Mr.. Valentine has taken,
not with the laws, but with the
conventionalities Of Greek art, has
enabled him to make our ideal andre
mache a reality. His creation is an
Andromache fit to be the mother Of
heroes, and whom we can follow into
her captivity, feeling that she "could
suffer and be strong" 1t illustrates
more satisfactorily than any other
artistic portrayal Of Andromache We
have ever seen what we conceive to be
the Homeric model. When we COM
pare the group with Valentines
great achievement in monumental
sculpture. consider the differences in
the schools in which the two are worked
and the respective influences Of those
schools, we recognize the sculptor's
power more fully than ever before. In
producing the Andromache group he
had in measure to emancipate
himself from the traditions and the
technique of the school of his
immediate preceptors. lie commenced
the work with a view to making it his
chef d. oeurre. Whether, now that it
is finished, he will be content to let it
stand for such we know not. We are
inclined to think that no one who is
so true an artist as is Mr.. Yalen-
tine can be satisfied except when
engaged in giving form to some ideal.
Nevertheless, we believe that we shall
be sustained in the opinion that he can
afford to rest his reputation upon the
Andromache group. 1t will, we be-
leve, pass triumphautly the ordeal Of
the most searching criticism.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-14

President Cleveland has been elected
the first honorary member of thu Mer-
chants Exchange at Buffalo.
Theodore Thomas has used his right
arm so much in conducting his orches-
ira that he is said to be threatened with
a new kind Of paralysis.
Governor Swineford, Of Alaska, de-
votes his leisure to the task Of painting
the summer beauties Of winter in Alaska
in the Sitka ALASKAN. which he edits.
Miss Susan b. Anthony, on a recent
visit to Washington, was dressed in
black, with dainty lace at her neck, and
her brown-gray hair cOmbed smoothly
down.
When Julian Hawthorne was asked
what sort of a time he had recently out
in Chicago, he is said to have replied ::
Not so much Of time as eX-
perience."
NJ. Rochefort has rendered his resig-
nation in the French Chamber Of Depu-
ties because Of the rejection by that
body of the proposition to extend am
nesty to political offenders.