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Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
STACK ED.

The 'letters that never came" are stacked
up somewhere between here and New York.
Boston Post.
We cannot learn the condition of other
things in the markets, but telegraph wires
are lower than they have been for good
while.-Lowell Courier.
Our Jewish young ladies, if they fail to
catch on this year, need not lose heart, for
next year is leap year also according to the
Jewish calendar Hebrew Standard
Wife-What do you think about this little
Josef Hofmann affair, Johns
Husband-I think the public has been
overworked and ought to have a rest
Epoch.
Lady docking at east side Harlem fat)-
There seems to be water in the basement.
>Landlord-Yes, madam, but at this hour
of the day it is high tide, you know.-Iexas
Siftings.
Her only chance.-A.-"Why does Miss
Elderly go on the ice every time there is skat-
to see men at her feet. From the German,
in Texas Siftings.
Brown has threatened to kick me if he
meets me out in soeiety. Suppose you were
me, and should see him come into the room
what would you doa"
''Sit down."-Judge.
The patent Office is stuffed. full of inven-
tions, but no one has yet invented plan by
which the originator of a great invention may
be sure of reaping the reward of his genius.
Some other man generally secures that
Texas Siftings.
Miss Homersham, who is lecturing in Eng
land on nursing, recommends that the sick
room should contain only two chairs. s'One
a very comfortable one Tor the nurse and a
very uncomfortable one for visitors who stay
too long. Hartford Times.
esI do not think, madam" said husband
when taking his wife to task, "that any man
of the least sense would approve Of your con-
duct" E'Sir," she replied, "perhaps you are
the best judge of what people of the least
sense would do."-New York Ledger.
Mrs. Bjones-I hear that young Mr.. Sissy
is still in search of a wife.
Mrs Jsmith-Why, thought he was mar
riedi
Mrs. Bjones-So he was She's left him.
She's the one he's in search of.-Life.
Omaha girl-Did you really go to see ttLa
Toscas" Why, the correspondents said it
was outrageously immoral.
New York girl-WeI, it isn't quite SO bad
as that; but, at the same time, it is not the
sort of play would care to send my moth
er to.-Onaha World.
Mrs. Youngwife-'Do you know Charley
is dreadfully extravagant2 He pays So. so
for his gloves" CharIey's mother-'tDid he
tell you sos" Mrs. Y.-"No; but he grum-
bled because Fido took them to play with,
and so I just went to the store where he deals
and got pair for poor Fido's very own, you
know g. M.-tYes, men are very extrava-
CANT; Charley's father was before him.
Chicago Mail.
In few weeks the papers will be much
more interesting to the man who is weighed
down with business cares during the day.
He can then read that ''Flipkins got his base
on balls, went to second on SINNERS fum-
BILE of Bonny's hot one, and took third on
Stubbens wild throw-in of Murch's fly to
left, only to die at the plate on splendid
double play off Sinnick's grounder to Me-
haffy to Snagsby. y."-Norristown Herald.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
by this living lightning rod reduced to ashes
the noble animal and the house.

The trial of libel suit in Boston against
mercantile agency was interesting. The
judge instructed the jury that the business
of the agency is legitimate; that the inqui-
ries made of it's agents and the information
supplied by them must be regarded
as if made by the principal, and if
the inquiries are honest and thorough and
the information truthful according to the in
formant's belief, the communication is privi-
legged. Proper care, he said, must be given
to the selection of agents and the collection
of information, and the reports sent out
must be honestly believed. If rumors are
reported, they must be reported as rumors,
and the person who sends them must not
add to them or give them new meaning by
comments or suggestions of his own. The
information must be given as information
simply, for the simple purpose of perform
ing the contract with customers, and not for
spite or i'll will. With these instructions the
jury found verdict for the defendants.
A lot of curious wills have been resurrect-
ed by writer for Cassell's Magazine. One
lawyer said: CHOW is thisa You leave all to
a stranger when you have relatives, nephew
=" 'tMy nephew is a geod-for- nothing
spendthrift, not worth a ha'penny." "Oh,
dear, no; since you last saw him, two years
ago, he has made large fortune" "Dear
me, that is quite another thing. In that case
I make him absolutely my heir" John Reed,
the gas lighter of the Walnu. Street Theater
in Philadelphia, willed that his head be taken
from his body and the skull be duly prepared
and employed to represent Yorick's in the
play of ssHamlet.n DR.. Ellsrby of London
willed his heart to one friend, his lungs to
another and his brains to third with orders
that they should be preserved properly, and
trust he would come back and torment the
unfaithful one. The legacies were refused,
nevertheless. A man named Furstone left
$35, 900 for any man legitimately bearing the
name of Furstone who would find and marry
a female Furstone. A Scotchman left to
each of his daughters her weight in $5 bank
notes. One got $3.50, 200 and the other $685.,
600. A New York man is said to have
willed that his seventy. one pairs of trousers
should be sold at auction for the benefit of
the poor and that they should in no way be
meddled with or examined before the sale,
and that no person should be allowed to buy
more than one pair. The seventy-one pairs
it is said were duly sold to seventy one differ
ent purchasers and each found 81 ZOO in the
pockets of his purchase. woman anxious
to give to her servant her clothing, jewelry
and other little articles called them her 'tper-
sonalty' in her will and the servant came in
for $50, 900 cash
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
LincoIn's Last Laugh.


Mr.. George Van Duzer, of this city, has
presented to the Grand Lodge library por-
tion of the collar worn by Abraham Lincoln
at the time of his assassination. Mr.. Van
Duzsr was present at Ford's Theater on that
fatal night and relates the following Incl
dent:
. The army under General Lee having sur
rendered TO General Grant few days pravi-
ously, Secretary Stanton, on the 18th of
April, 1865, telegraphed to Governor John
A Dix to stop the draft, as it was consid-
cred that the war was virtually over
AT Ford's Thsater. Washington, D. c., on
the evening Of April 14th, 1865, the play Of
"Our American Cousin" was being enacted.
In the scene, just before the fatal shot of the
assassin, garden settee was standing on the
stage opposite the Presidents box. Mary
Meredith Zone of the characters of tine play),
followed by Lord Dundreary with her shawl
thrown over his army, came upon the stage
and the lady took seat upon the settee.
GIancing over first one shoulder and then
the other she exclaimed:
'tMy lord, will you please be so kind as to
throw that shawl over my shoulders? There
appears to be such draft here.''
Lord Dundreary Immediately replied:
'sYou are mistaken, Miss Mary-there is
no draft. The draft is all over.''
The President instantly saw the point and
laughed very heartily, as did the entire au-
dience, who arose and cheered. In few
moments more the assassin had done his
v ork and a nation was in tears.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21

The New York Citizens COMMITTEES on
High License has done public service in col
Letting some facts and opinions concerning
the working of the high license law in Me-
braska. This law fixes the minimum license
fee at $500 for places Of less than 10000 in.
habitants and 81, 200 for those of larger
population. The local authorities are left at
liberty to raise the fee to any figure they may
see fit. It provides for local option by Civ
ing to the authorities of cities and incorpo-
rated towns and villages the right to refuse
to grant any licenses, and similar right to
county authorities with reference to unincor-
porated communities. It has also a civil
damage clause, which requires the holder of
license to give bond in the SUM of Sc, 600
for the payment of damages resulting from
his liquor selling.
This law has been in operation seven years,
and there has therefore been an opportunity
to thoroughly test it. Governor Thayer gives
it as his opinion that the law "has been of
material benefit to the interests" of the State
and has proved "a step toward the advance
ment of the cause of temperance and good
order" Chief Justice Reese of the Supreme
court says that in its practical operation it is
as good system of regulation as can be de-
sired, tending strongly to drive the baser
elements out of the business and place it in
responsible hands. Judge Cobb of the Su-
preme court says that it is "benefcent and
salutary statute" it 'slessens crime and pau
perism" and promotes the general welfare
in satisfactory degree" Judge Maxwell
IL
| number of saloons in proportion to popula-
ton and placed the traffic in Intoxicating
| liquors completely under lawful control. "
Judge Dundy, of the United States District
court. expresses the opinion that The amount
of liquor consumed is much IaIs than under
the old system, and that drunkenness, crime
and pauperisrn are materially lessened. -
Judge Mason, ex-chief justice of the Supreme
court, says the law has "proved a benefit to
society,"" and Judge Pound pronounces it ga
decided success producing "marked
change for the better" Frank w. Lewis,
secretary of the Law and Order league at
Lincoln, says the law tends to the following
| results: To greatly diminish the number of
saloons, to place the sale of liquor in the
hands of persons of some financial RESPONSE
| bility, to check slightly the quantity of
liquor sold and in degree the amount of
drunkenness and the consequent pauperism
and crime, to make it possible to control the
saloon moro efficiently and more economical
| ly, to diminish the sale of the cheapest and
most noxious liquors, to deprive the saloon
| to some extent of an undue and mischievous
influence in local and State politics.
This is the way high license works every
where. 1t is no longer an experiment in
Nebraska, and the testimonial from there is
valuable
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
Choking Catarrh.

Have you awakened from disturbed sleep with
all the horrible sensations of assassin cutching
your throat and pressing the lfe-breath from your
tightened chest? Have you noticed the languor
and debility which succeed the effort to clear your
throat and head of this catarrhal matter? What
depressing influence it exerts upon the mind,
clouding the memory and filling the head with
pains and strange noises How difficult it is to rid
the nasal passages throat and lungs of this poison
Gus mucus all testify who afflicted with ca
tarrh. How difficult to protect the system against
its further progress towards the lungs, liver and
kidneys all physicians will admit. 1t is a terrible
disease and cries out for relief and cure.
The remarkable curative powers, when all other
remedies utterly fail, of Sanford's Radical Cure
attested by thousands who gratefully recommend it
to fellow sufferers. No statement is made regard
ing it that cannot be substantiated by the most
respectable and reliable references.
Each packet contains one bottle of the Radical
Cure one box of Catarrhal Solvent and an In
proved Inhaler with treatise and directions and is
sold by all druggists for Sf.00.
POTTER DRUe & CHEMICAL, Co BosToN
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
IrreligIon In Boston society.


The most wonderful tales are related of the
doings of certain leaders in society right
here in the very center of city brimning
over with Puritanical views On Sunday
morning the bells toll and the streets in GER
tain sections of the city are black with SOL
enn ehurch-going people, and on Sunday
evenings many of these same devout pedes-
trians of the morning HE themselves to more
than one charming drawing room, whers sim
liar congenial spirits also meet and while
away the hours in music, brilliant bon mots
and few scandalons tales until well into the
morning.
If this were ALL however, it might not have
so bad an influence upon others, to whose
ears strange stories of these Sunday night
reyels come floating. But what of the mer-
ry parties who weekly meet in delightful
house not dozen miles from Beacon street,
and after the early evening being passed in
music and gay small talk, usually wind up
the night by impromptu cotillon or an
hour or two with round dances. And all
this too in staid Boston on Sunday night
At another house within a stones thrown of
Commonwealth avenue there are Sunday
night suppers where the guests usually in
clude two or three bright women, and any
where from a dozen to a score of equally
clever men. Follnwing the supper there is
usually some good music and always beer and
cigarettes, in which the women indulge with
apparently as much zest as the men. At
another house also in Boston's Mayfair there
are quiet little Sunday night games of poker,
with the company evenly balanced as to sex,
and where the limit is not SO small as to
make it a matter of Indifference what ones
losses are.
might cite number of other instances
,rxyai iah irrI,% io -,
| reyels, but why go on! The strange part of
the situation is, however, that the above rev.
ellers are all prominent people in what is
known as the chest society,"
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
The Drawing. of oh1e.go Palate..

The caterer of one of the leading restau
rants in the city says that fewer oysters have
for some years. 1T know of nothing he
continued, Sin the eating line that has had a
longer run than the oyster, but at last the
American appetite seems to be repuaiating
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21

There are large Gotten mills in this coun-
try but the largest cotton mill in the world
is that of Krahnholm in Russia. This oolos-
sal establishment is said to contain 340, 900
spindles and 2,200 looms, disposes of force
OF {, 300 horse-powe and gives employment
to 2. 900 hands,
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t is better to see the rain rain than the
snow reign.
There seems to be some doubt whether Mr..
Vanderbilt can legally import ten~thousand
dollar cook. But the law of the stomach is
a mighty one and some way will doubtless be
found to let Mr. Vanderbilt have his ''gas-
Economical director"
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21

f'Look here!" she exclaimed s'This is
terrible. You charge me twenty-five cents
for that card of buttons, and back east I
could get them for ten centsn eyes, ma'am,
but just think of the elegant climate you get
throwed in with every card of buttons."-
Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21

The attempts to employ dogs in the senti-
mel service have SO well succeeded that it has
been decided to extend them to the whole
army il the mountains of Bosnia and Herzs-
govina. Consequently the dogs are being
ployed in the great maneuvers in the sum-
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
I. CONN. WEDNESDAY MORNING,

it, OF course you will always find blue
points on the banquet bills of fare and ct
receptions and SO on, but the oyster on the
whole is on the wane. In fact the epicurean
taste is on the alert for something new from
one end of the bill to the other. Lobsters
are not what they were, but the clam is
about the same. It is the same with some
other things. Take IA breakfast for instance
in winter. It used to be the epicurean ca
per to have buckwheat cakes and golden
syrup. But it is very seldom that any of the
ton ever calls for that now. Mince pie used
to be the pastry par excellence with US, just
English plum pudding is in England.
We now have less call for mince than any
other pastry. Apple dumping, with hard
or wine sauce, is the favorite, and sherbets
and ices are in demand the entire season.
can remember the time when a fish dinner
was considered quite the thing, but we sell
dom hear of it any more. Roast beef is
the standard in meats, and that reminds
me that we now get good roast beef in
Chicago as you can get anywhere. It was
not always SO. A few years ago you had
to divide your salary with the cuisine to
get a cut of beef that you could eat. I
don't know what we coming to, but
can see disposition to wanJ something
new. In a few, years the oyster will be
relegated to the table of hoi polloi u
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
9fIedical.
CLAIRVOYANCE.

MRS. J. J. CLARK. Business, Test and Healing
Medium, ass CROWN STREET, convinces all who
visit her that she is genuine clairvoyant. Do not
fail to see her even if you have been disappointed
with others. Hours to IL a. M. 2 to p. m. and
evenings Diagnosing by lock Of hair by letter
90 f27
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21

This government is apparently in tight
place financially, notwithstanding the great
surplus in the treasury. This month the al
lowancs for the Boston custom house is thir-
teen thousand dollars short of the amount
expected, or more than one-fifth of the whole
monthly payment. The cause assigned for
this ruthless cutting off of expenses is def
cient appropriation.
The Georgia railroad commission has pro-
vided for an important reform to be inaugu-
rated May 1. Heretofore cents have not been
used in making change for railroad fares. If
the price of the fare is 81 cents, for instance,
25 cents is accepted, and if the price is %
cents 80 cents n taken, no change being pass
ed smaller than a nickel. After May 1 it is
ordered that exact change shall be made.
This will require the importation of cents by
the railroad companies, and gradually the
coppers will pass into general circulation.
Snakes have not thawed out yet in this
part of the world, but snake stories come
from other regions. The following account
is given of little affair which occurred in
San Luis Potosi, Mexico: A family succeeded
in catching baby rattlesnake with forked
stick and domesticating it. It grew to be
fourteen feet in length and became tame and
playful, never showing anger when handled
by the children, though never allowing any
one to touch it's rattles. 1t followed its mas
ter like dog. Recently many of the houses
were struck by lightning. The snake, seeing
the bolts falling fast around the home OF its
infancy, determined to die for its benefactora
and forthwith climbed to the roof and in 6
| perpendicular position standing ON its head
shook It's rattles violently at the heavens, de-
flying the lightning. The electricity attracted
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
Hoods Sarsapoi1Wa

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best blood-purifying and strengthening reme-
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and give new life and Vigor to the entire body.
"Hoods Sarsaparilla did me great good.
1 was tired out from overwork, and it toned
me up.' MRS. G. e. SIMMONS, Cohoes, N. Y.
81 suffered three years from blood poison.
took Hoods Sarsaparilla and think I am
cured.'' MRS. NJ. J. DAVIS, Brockport, N. Y.
Pet2'i1fGs the Blood
Hoods SarsapaEilla is characterized by
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Send for book containing additional evidence.
Hoods Sarsaparilla tones up my system,
purlfleS my blood, SharpenS my appetite, and
seems to make me over" j. I. THOMPSON,
Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
Hoods Sarsaparila beats all others, and
is worth Its weight in gold.' [. DARLINGTON,
$50 Bank Street, New York City.
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S5 Made
only by c. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
The gnurna1 and Gnnrier.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE C1TY, 10
CENTS WEEK, 80 CENTS MONTH, 81. 90
FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. TEE SAME
TERMS By MAIL.
Wednesday. March 2l, Isss.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
MAGNETIC Treatment.

DIR. E. W. CLARK, the gifted magnetic healer
and electric physician successfully treats diseases
of every name and nature with his magnetic heal
specially. Electricity scientifically applied. Of
flee hours to IL a m, to p.
mRtf 22S GROWN STREET.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21
Pet2'ifes the Blood

100 Doses One poIIar.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-21

The "letters that never came" are stacked
up somewhere between here and New York.
=Rostan Post
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-13

steam, spot, quoted at Sc; March. 1850 .94c;
April, 1870. Csc; May. s1S.20c; June, SOC;
July. 8. I21S. Sc: city steam. I-15c-
Butter quiet and steady; Western 14032c. Cheese
In light request; Western, ll40l2e.
CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-THE condition of things to-
day on Change showed more clearly than the
absence of outside business and the overwhelming
influence of Hutchinson. he had brokers II the
wheat and pits. and established prices at which
he would either buy sell all the crowd desired The
week with prices, the whole, lower, and the
markets duller than seven days ago. Compared with
last Saturday the price of May wheat this morn
ing l2c lower, 1l2c lower, and oats 3sc lower
There plenty of gossiping but little trading in
wheat to-day. May opened lsc higher, at Sic.
moved up to li6c during the frat hour and kent
between that figure and SO7sc during the
balance of the session, closing finally
who were evening up their trades for the week. A
true account of the operations corn to-day,
sists in saying that Hutchinson ready to buy
amount at OIL $50 and ready to sell any amount at
range of prices for the session. There was no one
who cared to venture outside the pegs and the bust
mesa narrow, light scaping In which only few
took part May opened at 81 SEC. Sold as stated be-
at 51ssc. See. The The interest aaa IN oats was
better than in corn, as they not pegged.
May sold at 81 ioc and 81 sac. closing at 81 Ssc.
Speculation IN provisions reduced scale and
almost entirely local. there being too little IN the
daily variations to induce outsiders to send In fresh
orders to either buy SELL Arrivals of hogs were
to expectations, and prices were maintained. The
packing in Chicago since Nov. i Ii 55Z 600 hogs,
Lard ranged at 1907. S5c, and closed at 7.SOc
decline of .02lac from yesterday. Pork remained
steady at S14. 32i1O14.4O, Nav closing at $14.35;
short ribs slow at 1907 ~ 1ac and closed at
1906 decline of .O5c- A better demand existed for
other meats, and sales showed fair increase. The
a