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Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE RIRD ID
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THE SLAUGHTER OF THE BIRDS.
 Not long ago Henry Bergh made a vigor-
 ous protest against the enormous destruction
 of birds demanded by the fashions of the
 milliners. He says that there are at least
 who dress fashionably and many of them
 wear several birds on one hat. This demands
 the slaughter of about 5000 900 small birds
 in this country annually, for about 1 1000, 900
 are imported. Many of our birds are killed
 and sent to Paris to be dyed. MT. Bergh
 wants Congress, the press, and the women of America, to put stop to this slaughter.
 There is much to be said in support of this
 protest. Science has been Investigating the matter and has made an impressive state
 ment. It makes out an even stranger case than that of MT. Bergh. It estimates that there are ten million bird-wearing women in the country. Numerous dealers are men toned who contract to supply forty thousand or fifty thousand bird skins year. Forty thousand terms were killed on Cape Cod in one year, and now they are almost extermin- ated there. Science continues: But scarcely bird can be naned-fronn the rarest to the commonsst, from the plainest of the spar rows to the most gorgeously arrsyed denizens of the orchard and forest, from the tiniest warblers and humming birds, to jays king fishers, cuckoos, and the larger woodpeckers, and even ptarnigans and grouse Gin frag ments or entire), and the largest of the shore birds, with bills half foot in length Gan outre and grotesque effect seeming to be Nv hot ia f0 be met with as an appsndags of the female head-dress The assemblage of diverse and incongruous forms sometimes met with on the same hat is often striking in the extreme; birds from the opposite ends of the earth, and of the pathological scale of classifca- tion, being wrought into most inharmonious combination, viewed even from the artistic standpoint. Bearing on this subject, and il- the range of taste in such matters, used for hat establishment, may be given the following inventory, furnished by or friend, of what recently met his eyes in Madison avenue horse car. The car contained thirteen women, of whom eleven wore birds as follows: CD heads and wings of three European starlings; @ an en- tire bird (species unknown), of foreign origin; (9 seven warblers, representing four species; (4 large tern: (5) the heads and wings of three shore Iarks; (6) the wings of seven shore -larks and grass-fnches; CD one-half of a gallinule; (8) a small tern; co turtle dove; (10) virso and yellow-breasted chat; CID ostrich plumes.
 In addition to the slaughter of the birds for ornament is that for food. It is asserted that million rails and reed birds are killed in a single month near Philadelphia. These and other facts which might be mentioned show that MT. Bergh's protest was not un- timely
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
Black Goods

The stock is almost altogeth- CT comprised of new goods. We quote present values and our reduced price: Silk Warp Hen rietta, 2.25 for 1.S5, 200 for 1.75, 1855 for 1.55, 1.65 for I.5o, I.5o for TO, I.55 for L.7o, I.25 for ITO, I.I5 for 100. Surah Twills, 100 for z.5G, 95c for 69e, 75c for 5oe, 55e for 45e. Cashmeres, new Spring impor- tation, I.25 for 100, 100 for 75c, 85c for 65c, 75e for 6oe, 65e for 5oc, 55c for A5e. Nuns Veilings. 65e for 65e, 65c for soc. Silk Warp Yelling, 200 for 1.65, I.6o for I,55 Alpacas, Mohairs, Jacquards, Grape Cloths, Satins, Tricots, etc., all come under the same reduction. Grapes way down regardless of cost or value.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
MIR. WEES MEETS WHITMAN.
His London Account of What He Saw
 and Heard.

L
 and Heard.
 From an Article in the Pall Mall Gazette by the
 Rev. H. K. Haweis.i
 I had always intended to visit Walt Whit man should I ever get the chance. The chance came to me a month ago December, at Philadelphia. He lives at Camden, a town just across the ferry. I had never shared in the general vituperation which greeted Leaves of Grass when it appeared in an English dress much there was re- pulsive even in that expurgated edition. There seemed to me flashes of genius and clear insight which no age, least of all our own can afford to despise. The man who wrote ''Whispers of Heavenly Death" could not be mere licentious charlatan. The re- volt of Whitman against rhyme is like the re- volt of Wagner against stereotyped melody, and in his way he seemed to me to be in search of freer and more adequate method for conveying the intimate and rapid interior changes of the soul. Over and above this, Whitman's wild stanzas, with their lists of carpenters tools and "barbaric yawps," their delight in the smoke and roar of cities, as we'll as in the solitudes of woods and the silence of mountains and seas of prairies- seemed to me to breathe something distinc- tive, national, American-with all his con- fusion of mind. I could hardly read his superb prose description of the Federal bat tlefelds-and those matchless pages the assassination of President Lincoln (of which he an eyewitness) without feeling that Whitman was no 6gurehead- more monkey in fact-but a large and living soul, with certain width of aboriginal sympathy, too rare in these days of jejune thought and | palsied heart.
 In Camden the old man lives quietly and inoffensively. The people like him-he has | survived calumny and abuse. The gentle | ness and ease of his disposition has endeared l him to all who come habitually in contact | with him. but he seeks no one, is in failing health, and lives poorly, but not uncomfort | ably. His friends and admirers have lately presented him with horse and carriage, and what is better, the wherewithal to keep it. Before that almost the only exercise and amusement of his failing years consisted ir going to and fro on the crowded boats ove1 | the wide ferry between Camden and Phila delphia, looking at the people, and chatting especially with the common men and little children; on the whole, he seems to think nature less spoiled and sophisticated ther,
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
nzlW HAVEN, CONN, MONDAY MORNING. MARCH l. 1886.

l plant: ''The solid part of the root contain. farinaceous matter, and, when deprived o it's acrid properties by drying, is ca en by the Kalmucks. From some fanciful notion that the fearful disease, hydrophobia, could be counteracted by water plants, Alisma was idly pitched on as specific by empiriss, but it is now no longer in repute."
 The Eads ship railroad scheme is appar- ently fourishing, and it's friends are working very skillfully and effectively. MT. Eads wants the United States to join with Mexico in guaranteeing interest at five per cent. for fifteen years on the cost of construction, fixed for the purpose of this guaranty at seventy-fve million dollars. Mexico has agreed to be responsible for one-third of this interest, and the United States is asked to be responsible for the other two-thirds. This guaranty, however, is to take effect only after ship of four thousand tons displace- ment has been raised from one ocean and de- posited uninjured in the other. It involves a possible payment by the United States of two and half millions year for fifteen years, or thirty-seven and half millions in all, Uut GulS OIly 0u COuSlGlOA tudG buS "olh is successful and has demonstrated it's suc- cess by doing what it was designed to do.
 A kind of concrete is now being used for building purposes in Paris. It is composed of eight parts of sand, gravel and pebbles, one part powdered cinders, and one and a half parts unslacked hydraulic lime. These materials are thoroughly beaten together, their mixture giving a concrete which sets almost immediately, and becomes in few days extremely hard and solid, which proper ty may be still further increased by the ad- dition of small quantity, say one part, of cement. Among other constructions to which this material has been applied is a house three stories in height, ,65 by 45 feet, standing on terrace, having perpendicular retaining wall 200 feet in length and 20 feet high. Every part of this structure was made of the hard concrete, including foundations, vaults of cellars. retaining wall, and all walls, exterior and interior, as we'll as the cornice work, mouldings, string courses, balustrades, parapets, and the building is without band iron, lintels, or wood through ont
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01

brain in very young children, say or 4 years, requires all of twelve hours in rest or sleep. The period is shortened gradually until, at 14 years of age, the boy is found to need only ten hours. When full grown and in a healthy condition, the man may find 6 night of eight hours sufficient to repair the exhaustion of the day and new-create him for the morrow. But if he discover that he needs more sleep he should take it. There is surely something wrong about him per haps a forgotten waste must be repaired. His sleep, evidently, has not been made up; and until it has and he can spring to his work with exhilaration for it, he should sen- sibly conclude to let his instinct control him and stay in bed.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
How Many Hours for Sleep.


 There is an old saying that has frightened great many people from taking the rest that nature demanded for them, "Nine hours are enough for 6 fool" They may be, and not too many for a wise man who feels that he needs them. Goethe, when per forming his most prodigious literary feats, felt that he needed nine hours what is bet ter, he took them. We presume it is con- ceded by all thoughtful persons that the
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
SPECIMENS O] Tremendous
 Reductions on C1Oaks and
 Shaw1S.

Paisley Shawls 1900 for 1000, 15.oo for 1o.5o, 1875 for 15.oo, 3o.oo'for 24.oo, $500 for 25.oo. India Shawls 37.5o for 2o. 50, 5000 for 4o.oo. Cash mere Shawls, recently import ed, 25 per cent. less.
 Children's Cloaks about half price.
 Newmarkets 500 for 2.5o, GOO for 4.75, 1000 for 7.5o.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01

| some one. Ohio having abolished contract | labor in the State prisons, the convicts are becoming idle, and it is seriously proposed l in the legislature to set them at work on the | public roads in chain gangs.
 The signs of progress in Japan are numer- ous. It is now proposed to change the press l law By the present law the writer of any l defamatory note or article in a newspaper is punished, no matter whether his note or expected revision he will be made puuisha- ble only when he cannot prove the truth of | what he has published.
 A bill has been introduced in the New
 York legislature providing that no person shall be a conductor or driver on a surface
 railroad in New York unless he has lived a year in the State and four months in the city. It is said to have been brought for ward in the interest of conductors and drivers, it's purpose being to prevent the ina portation of persons from other States dur ing 8 strike. As the constitution of the United States declares that ne State can take from person the right to work and earn 8 living, this bill will probably not be success full.
 The Pennsylvania railroad company is wise in not attempting to force it's employees into the scheme of insurance that has been planned. The circular sent to the men by the company contains the following: At ! tention having been called to tho fact
 that considerable number of employees ob- iect to some of the features of the relief fund
 recently established and as that department l was organized solely for the benefit of the
 employees and their families, and is therefore
 one in which they have direct personal in
 and as it's success depends upon the hearty cooperation of all parties interested, it has | been decided to call representative meeting
 of the employees to afford them full oppor-
 tunity to express their views upon all ques-
 tions connected with the relief depart
 ment.
 The statement is made in some European | papers that the Russian Alisma, or water plantain, is remedy for hydrophobia. The
 roots are collected in August, dried, grated
 and spread on bread and butter. Two ol three doses are taken in this manner, nigh
 and morning, and a cure is supposed to b'
 effected. The Alisma family is a group O
 aquatic plants, which grows in still water
 with tapering leaves resembling those of tn
 plantain, and rather handsome flowers
 Twenty years ago Rev. c. A. Johns, an ac complished English botanist, wrote of thi
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
ALL DRUGGISTS SELL
BuRD0cK BLOOD BITTERs. nal 3teod&w1t
Consumption
 Conquered !! WHEN THE DOCTORS COULD
 DO NO MORE.

CHAS. A. CABRERA, 32 Hawley Street,
 Boston, Mass, writes
 "One 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 fhe first bottle took new lease of If ,nand can honestly say to-day that one spoonf Il of this remedy is worth more to the sufferer from Lung troubles than gallon of any other known remedy. A 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 rival for COUGHS, COLDS, BRON- CHITIS, ASTHMA and CON- SUMPTION.
 Price S1 per bottle. A copy of Dr. Flowers Rules for the Treatment of Consumption ac- companies each bottle.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
ROOTS GOLDEN HOOP OINTMENT.

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Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
EEfTORIAL NOTES.

The weather which has afflicted the peo- pie of this region this winter is said to bear a close resemblance to that which has pre- vailed in England. If it's English of course it's all right
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01

The convict labor question is a trouble some one. Ohio having abolished contract labor in the State prisons, the convicts are becoming idle, and it is seriously proposed in the legislature to set them at work on the public roads in chain gangs.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01

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Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
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Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
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Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
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tDaily except Sunday.
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A Man Of Grief.
LIKE LAZARUS.
His Relief and Joy.

The Doctor says: When MIR. James Ed
wards, of senoi, began to take "Guinn's Pr
oneer Blood Renewer," | saw him. He
was covered, body and extremities, with q
characteristic syphilitic eruption that SEEM
the second time in about ten days, when he
was so changed In appearance by having the
scales removed n the eruption healed,
that / hardly knew him, and in n remarkably
short time he was relieved of all appearance
of the disease.
n. B. DREwRY, NJ. D.
Spalding county, Ga.
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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-12
Vacations for Clergymen.

There comes a time when the roads
are piled with snow, when the wind
whistles around the church, and the few
who brave the storm shiver in their
pews, and try to think of the words of
the preacher rather than the long cold
way home. There comes a time when
the sections efforts fail to secure warmth
and comfort in the country church. At
this time il becomes hardship to leave
the fireside and struggle with the storm
in order to attend church; and the min
lister gives his carefully-prepared SER
mon to a dozen listeners. Why is not
this time most fit vacation? Why not
give the minister an opportunity to at
tend the lectures and concerts, to avail
himself of the culture and advantages of
the city? Many country homes are
closed, while their inmates enjoy the
winter helps Of the city. Then why not
close the country churches in January,
or some other winter month, when the
vacation would be truly appreciated,
and let the dwellers in the city continue
to enjoy their August vacation ?-Church
Register.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-12

Mr.. Martin Farquhar Tupper's auto
biography contains store of interesting
anecdotical matter. Indeed it is quite
the most readable thing the author of
"Proverbial Philosophy" ever wrote. In
speaking of the dangers to which a
writer's manuscripts are alwayi open,
he tells us of faithful maid arranging
his study and always putting his papers
in awful confusion. Upon my caution
ing her." he says, mot to detroy any
thing, was Mortified by the unconscious
Audrey's instant reply: 'Oh, sir, Inever
burns no paper but what what is spoiled
by being written on!'" And he goes on
to say that in prehistoric days when we
sported with loose powder and shot and
paper wadding, was guest for some
days in September with James Maclaren
at Ticehurt, and recollect his horror at
finding that the luncheon sandwiches
were wrapped in some of his most pre-
cious MMS.-for he was writing a trea-
tise ON finance, and those leaves were
covered with calculations-and that his
shooting party were ramming down their
charges with the recorded labor of his
brains. THE Argonaut.