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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
Fun in a Telegraph Office.


 Paid one of the Western Union Tele graph receivers yesterday:
 stDo you know that few people outside the doctors and the telegraph receivers realize how many babies are born to the world? Why, there isn't day, Sundays included, that don't handle from fifteen to twenty five 'baby telegrams,' as we call lem. By these mean telegraphic announcements of the advent of little strangers. There is a good deal of human nature in these mes sages. Of course they are usually sent to the little one's grandparents, and they take on all shades of exuberance from the wildly exalted ecstasy of a first-born to the cold, formal and not i frequently disgusted an- nouncement of the sixth. I will say, how ever, that after the second or third event of the kind the lightning is not drawn on so recklessly. The slower process of the mails is considered enough for the emergency. The coming of the first, however, is as sure to bring out an excited telegram the sun shines It is great fun to watch the senders of these first baby dispatches as they pre- pare them. A young father comes in with hurried step and exultant, beaming face. He grabs blank and dashes off something like this: "Great news! Mary very ill. Fine boy! Then he tears that up Somehow he doesn't want the rude tele- grapher to know the name of tho gentle but happy sufferer, and he tries it again (Expected event realized-a little girl; wife doing well, "Bqt pshaw," he says, .'that's rather a cold way to speak of her to her own father and mother''
 ''Wife, why of course she's wife, but don't like that" and he tears it up. Then he starts again and this time he says: Con found the telegrapher, he shan't know any thing about it, and he writes: ''It has come-eight pounds-female. Mother all right" He looks at it Iii m.aute, and tears it up with the remark: "They won't know whether that means Jersey calf or Ham bleeonian colt" By this time the young man has got into sweat, and grabbing a pencil he dashes off: It's girl. Mother doing nicely" and after looking at that five or six minutes, and it may be with moist ened eye, he signs his first name and hands 1 it in. They're all about alike. these first young fathers. They're proud, happy and conscious and yet they will do almost any thing to conceal their identity. Sometimes, | the young man comes in showing signs that | the great domestic event has been too much | for him, and then have to take the pencil 1 and help him out, and do it in practical
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
ADVICE.

Every bride is beautiful, and it is mys- tery where all the plain married women come from.-New Orleans Picayune.
 The New York Sun has an article headed: ''What the Fishermen Want" Presume the answer to that is ''fish. ."-Detroit Free Press
 The new book, ''Advice to Homely Girls, ? is not success. They don't buy it-they send their brothers after it.-Philadelphi;a Call.
 In Zululand ten head of cattle is the aver age price of girl sold in marriage. Here girls are often given away for a calf-of a husband. State Journal.
 s'Are you fond of looking at the starss'' asked Bromley of De Guy. ''Well, yes, , answered that engaging young man, E'some- times; but as rule the chorus is good enough for me. Philadelphia Call
 The booksellers make good thing by changing the school books as often as possi- ble, and it is sometimes suspected that the committee and schoolmasters make little in the way of commissions. Hence we have three, little mades from school.-Boston Transcript.
 Alphonse has just been rescued from drowning by young man. Here's dime for you" ssWhat? Only a dime for saving your life?" ''Yaas, dear boy. It would be immodest to give you more. One must pre- tend, you know, that he doesn't think too much or Q1IDS61I. .-CQ1caSO N6WS.
 'I am so pleased said Clara to her little friend. "Last Saturday they gave me such beautiful doll for birthday present. :" 'Ah, you still play with dollsa I don't; am too big now" EsAnd what have you done with yours!' ''I have L cked it in the cupboard. l. will do for my children" "But suppose you have no children?'' ''Then it will go to my grandchildren.
 Mrs. Homespun-''No, I can't say that I like Mrs. Jones. She's awfully stuck up since she was married. The way she puts on airs is just killing. ] thought I should die the other day when she spoke of her 'cellor. Before she married Jones she called it fsul- ler,' same as all sensible persons; but, good Lord! she's so lifted up now that you can't touch her with ten-foot pole, and nothing short of 'cellor' will do her. Isn't it ridicu- lous?'-Boston Transcript. Without presuming to moralize upon that class who are themselves sufficient reward and compensation for any of their own short comings of habits, mental characteristics or training, we may be pardoned for saying that, while we have elegant suffciency of piano players, tidy makers, Kensington painters, and even those who can cook after fashion, there is painful and depressing lack of girls who can sew on buttons-so they will stay.-Haverhill Gazette.
 ''Didn't you sell any peanuts?" inquired the experienced train boy of the new recruit.
 ''No,' was the reply.
 "Go through the car an give each passen- ger a peanut"
 The new recruit did so.
 ''Now try lem agin,'' said the train boy of experience.
 Presently the new recruit came after more peanuts.
 "You want to keep your eyes open in this business, young feller," admonished the ex- pert, reflling the basket. "Anybody'll eat a peanut what don't cost him nothin', an when he once gets the flavor he's gone. You ve got to study human nature. "-New York SuR
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
Monday, February |, 1886.
AN INTERPRETING ISSUE.

AN ESHENO 1SSU E.
 The issue between the President and the Senate in the matter of furnishing the papers making charges on which District Attorney Dustin of Alabama was removed is an inter esting one, and one in which the President does not at present appear to very good ad- vantage. The Republicans have not acted hastily in this matter, but to-day they will it is said, order an executive session and au- thorize MT. Edmunds, chairman of the Judiciary committee, to summon the attorney general to appear and bring the desired pa pers with him. They expect that he will come, but not with his papers, and say that they are in the Presidents possession. That is as far the Senate can force things, and as fan as it has determined upon it's course for the present. All the Republican Senators are satisfied that they are in the right and the President is in the wrong, for they are stand ing by all the precedents, while he is stand ing in position that none of his predeces- sors has ever assumed. There are, however, said to be four or five among them who are averse to entering into contest with the President, and can be induced to keep with their associates only by pressure. They take  this position, not because they think the President is right, but on the ground that it is better political wisdom.
 The Presidents action in this matter is de- cidedly inconsistent with what he has said The Providence Journal we'll describes the situation as follows: He (the President) de- cllnes to..furnish the enlightenment which he has declared due to the public. This part of Civil Service Reform he now repudiates, and repudiates in a manner which may do the greatest injustice to able and honest men. He did not begin by standing on the express words of the Constitution; he made political capital, perhaps secured his office by giving out sort of higher law, which the people had right to expect would rule to mat ters great as we'll as small. He now finds himself in quandary because of his party, and he ''wabbles.'
 It is said that Messrs. Lamar and Bayard do not endorse the Presidents course, and his action is thought to be due more to the advise of Villas, Whitney and Manning, who are prompted by the great pressure of Demo- cratic politicians not to let these papers, which they have prepared and endorsed escape from friendly custody, for they all know them to be full of unfair accusations. But the President cannot afford to follow such advice.
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NO. 27.

way. I get the address and I simply write: 'The little stranger is here. It is a girl (or boy). Mother well" :" and then the man pays over his half-dollar and nearly pulls me through the window in his fierce desire to have me go and give the baby bath. There is great fun in telegraph office when the baby business has been particularly good, I can assure you.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
Consumption
 Conquered !
WHEN THE DOCTORS COULD
 DO NO MORE.
CHAS. A. CABRERA, 32 Hawley Street,

CHAS. A. CABRERA, 3s 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 I can honestly say to-day that spoonful 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 I fly to it for the relief it never fails to give.''
 DIR. 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 d rival for COUGHS, COLDS, BRON- CHITIS, ASTHMA and CON- SUMPTION.
 Price S1 per bottle. AcOpy of Dr. Flowers Rules for the Treatment of Consumption ac- companies each bottle.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
ssAunt Clara, a,',-Wbo Peddles Apples
 M CanitOl.

Washington Letter in Chicago Inter-Oceanl
 Miss Cleveland was at the Capitol as q sightseer this week with a couple of friends, Mrs. Wiley and Miss Love of Buffalo, and the latter is an uncommonly pretty girl. The party were escorted by Col. Wilson of the army, but ex-Speaker Randall took them in charge The person who took the greatest interest in the visit of the Presidents sister was "Aunt Clara," the eccentric old woman who has stand in the Capitol where she sells apples and guide books and photographs of public men. She is peculiar creature, who has been tending her little bazaar in the same place ever since the days when Henry Clay was Speaker and gave her the permis sion to put it there. As people pass she of ten calls to them: 'fSee here, pretty lady, won't you buy guide book of me-" and when prominent statesman goes by she throws out her graphing irons and hauls him to until she has persuaded him to send her a half'a dozen of his photographs to sell. Sometimes MT. Edmunds and MT. Randall stop to talk with her, but Gen. Butler is her especial favorite and she told me the other day that she loved him more than any man in public life since Charles Summers time. When Sumner died she closed her stand for several days and seemed to mourn him as if he had been her lover. Gen. Grant she used to worship, and it is said that one of the last letters he wrote to Aunt Clara, in answer to one that she had sent him, telling of her prayers for his recovery
 When Dom Pedro was in Washington Aunt Clara created great sensation by throwing her arms around his neck as he was passing through the Capitol and giving him hearty kiss. Then she cried out loud enough to be heard all over the rotunda: "I've kissed king! I've kissed king"
 The old emperor was good deal astonish- ed at first, but when it was explained to him that she was harmless creature with weak mind he took an interest in her, gave her lot of his photographs to sell, and wrote his autograph in book she keeps for such sou yenirs. Aunt Clara afterward made lot of fac-similes on tracing paper and sold them at profit.
 She didn't learn of Miss Cleveland's visit until after she had passed her stand and en- tered the Senate gallery but upon being told that the Presidents sister at the Capitol she abandoned her stand with all it's contents to the care of a policeman and rushed over to take look at the latest lioness. She tried to enter the gallery to speak to Miss Cleveland, but the doorkeeper prevented it, at which Aunt Clara became very much enraged. Go ing around to the opposite gallery she took a mental photograph of the party and the next time Miss Cleveland goes to the Capitol she may expect to be waylaid.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01

Out of four hundred and thirty eight cases sent up by the justices court of Providence, Rhode Island, to the higher courts three hun dred and forty eight were discontinued and only thirty-one resulted in conviction. This stdiscrepancy'' is altogether too large
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01

l this country have good reason to complain if | Congress, under the plea that the value of l silver bullion is now depressed, should dis l regard their demand for volume of money I sufficient to meet the needs of 8 constantly l increasing population and expanding inter l nal commerce and stop the coinage of silver? It seems quite evident that every silver dollar now owned by the government might 1 now be practically in circulation, through it's representative certificate, but for the persis- tent discrimination against silver of the Treasury department. There seems to be singular obscurity of mental vision elasticity of conscience on the part of some who insist that the United States silver dollar is dishonest dollar, but admit that if the coinage is stopped the mil lions already owned by the government may properly be put in circulation. If our silver dollar is dishonest the United States should neither coin it nor put in circulation that which is already coined.
 The question of silver coinage is one of expediency.
 The interest of the great majority which seems to demand its continuance will doubt less secure it. Yours truly,
 HENRY ROGERS.
 Pronouncins the Word Depot.
 A gentleman sitting with a friend, who is a railroad ticket agent, writes:
 'Td just like to know what depot real ly spells, said the ticket agent.
 "Why?' I asked. "Because it's pronounced a dozen different ways every day at this window. Now you just sit down and listen. Pm going to open the window for the sale of tickets"
 A very stylishly dressed, but rather af- fected-looking young lady, appeared at the window.
 'Is this the Boston and Albany daypo." she asked.
 ''It is, miss,' politely replied the clerk
 Then there appeared dapper little fellow highly perfumed, dressed in the extreme of fashion, his dainty mustache curled and eve ry hair in his head laid just so. He wore gold bowed eyeglasses and carried tiny cane.
 "Ah, may ask, please, when the train leaves this dippo:" Then a large old lady wearing a gingham dress and d green sun bonnet came bustling up with basket on either arm. 'Is there any train going to Muster af- 1 ter six tonight from this deepot!" ''Thats three," said the agent, "and I'll | wager anything that the young lady coming ] will ring in another change on the word if | she speaks at all' l 'FIs there a parcel and package window at | this depoe?" she asked, giving marked em- phasis to the final syllable
 An artifcial-looking woman, with the l powder in blotches on her red face, came | next.
 'I'm going to New Yawk," she simpered, ''am J in the right dippo?" ''That's the newest and worst of ell!" cried l the agent, sinking into chair with asp. 1 A stout old man with shirt and collar of unbleached muslin and long, loose coat of l brown linen, came to the window. | EtIm a loOkin' for the Boston and Alber- nay railroad station house. Hev I found l her.'
 I ''You hev," said my friend, with perfect | gravity. And a moment later we were both 1 laughing heartily, the old man who had | found herr having disappeared.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01

Each member of the present Congress has $500 packages of vegetable seeds and 500 packages of flower seeds to distribute this year.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
MORNING. FEBRUARY l, 1886.

| with him, nor is it caused by the present | issue with the President. 1T have long had | it in my mind," he says, land I think the | present situation shows the necessity for it.
 There is no need of secrecy in considering l nominations, except when personal charges are involved, which propriety demands ought not to be public. I am quite sure that ma jority of senators on our side agree with me, and so I want to agitate the matter. It is a change that is bound to come sooner or later. I expect to have it reported and vote taken"
 The King of Bavaria has been much dis tressed because his manager, Herr Perfall, had failed to provide him with real night ingale. In Wagners ''Parsifal' the song of @ nightingale plays part in the story. This is usually produced by skillful flute player behind the scenes. e'This will not do" said the exaeting royal critic; Eve ought to have real nightingale" Herr von Perfall prom ised to do what he could toward engaging nightingale as one of the company. There is man who sings in the public places in Munich who has a rare capacity for imitat- ing the songs of different birds. He was diligently schooled, and conveyed to the Kings isolated theater. His Majesty be-
 ieved that he was listening to real night ingale at the next performance of 'EParsifal,' J and sent most fattering letter of thanks to the director. It is fortunate that the King is not so expert and critical a naturalist as he is an artist, otherwise he would have in quired how Herr von Perfall contrived to persuade that nightingale to sing so vigor ously in the end of October, when all other nightingales are dumb.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

New England weather has not lost any o its reputation in this vicinity during the past week.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
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Henry George, at a revenue reform dinner in Brooklyn, made this remarkable state ment, apparently in earnest I believe that free trade will get rid of the toothache. l believe the toothache is probably one of the worst curses of this country. It comes mainly from poverty. The people are too poor to get their teeth attended to. I be- lieve it is within the province of free trade to give every man, not merely comfort, but affiuence.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
J. N. ADAM & CO.,, 886 and 088 CHAPEL STREET
Specially
 Interesting.

For week, beginning Mon day, the Ist of February, we shall devote extra space in our store to the display of Linens and Made-up Underwear. Of the latter we have bought very largely and on very advantage ous terms, and we would like to have the opportunity to con vince those who have not been in the habit of buying ready made garments, that they can be bought at very nearly the cost of the materials and noth- ing sacrificed in the quality of the work. We also undertake to agreeably surprise those who have already given up the mak- ing of their underwear by the cheapness of our new stock. The prices will be less than Sixth Avenue prices about which we so often hear. In fact the manufacturer said to us that if we sold the goods as we said we would it would raise the biggest racket ever was" Well-we will raise it.
 In regard to Linens. Our special early importations are nearly all received. The goods are splendid. he value excel lent. Towels, Table Linen, Napkins, and all kinds of Ma pery from the best Scotch, Irish and German makers. Our inti. mate and close connection with these foreign markets enables us to present the goods at prices free from intermediate profits, and to offer to our customers all that the middlemen were wont to claim. Please do us the f. vor of an early examination.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
TRYELECTRICITY.

Go and see Dr. Cummings. His method differs from all others. His success is wonderful. spe cialty of Kidney Complaints including Bright's Disease, Consultation free
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01

The railroad cars of Russia are among the most commodious in the world. They resem- ble the cars ia use in this country rather than the compartment cars in use in Europe, but in Russia the aisle is shifted to one side, so that the seats on the left will accommo- date three passengers side by side, and those on the right side but one. This is especially convenient when the car is not crowded in night travel The end doors of the car, instead of opening upon the platform, lead into small enclosed vestibule, whence doors open out at right and left.
 A scientific journal gives an account of pianoforte made in Paris in which paper was made to take the place of wood, the whole case being made from paper so compressed that it was enabled to receive hard surface, which took perfect polish. The color was cream white. The tone of the instrument is reported to be not loud, but very sweet. The short, broken character of the sound emitted by ordinary pianofortes is replaced by soft, full, quasi-continuous sound, resembling somewhat that of the organ. It has been suggested that the evenness of texture of the compressed paper may have some influence in effectibgsshis modification of sound.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.

has failed. as fifteen years experience has proved. If you are troubled with Catarrh or Neuralgia or Rheumatism. Throat Lung troubles, General lehility Headache q KidneY Disease.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-01

THE great business. test and healing medium
 l has returned to the city and be consulted at her residence 22S Crown street. Mrs. Clark is reliable medium and never fails to satisfy all who visit her. She locates disease and indicates the ap propriate emedy. She also compounds valuable medicines from roots and herbs Hours from to 12 a. m., and ? to p. m., and evening. o1 tf