Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-27
RDTTORTAL NOTES.

Rabbits are great and costly nuisance in
Australia. The number of rabbits killed for
the bounty last year in one Australian colony
was 10, 1s2, $50, and the bounties paid in that
year have been estimated at s., SOC, 900. In
addition millions of dollars have been paid
for hundreds OF miles of rabbit-proof fence.
And still the rabbits seem to be as numerous
as ever.
The Democratic campaign goes consistent
ly ON. A Democratic paper in Buffalo, print
ed in the German language, takes pains to
state that the report that President Cleve-
land had taken q temperance pledge to please
Mrs. Cleveland was base invention of the
enemy, and that he has recently shown that
he is 'ttrue to his habits of life" by drinking
spirituous liquors publicly"
The Democrats raise great shout when q
Republican declares that the Golden club is
spending money to promote free trade in the
United States. But Iron Era, an English
trade paper, says: "The Golden club is try
ing to raise large sum of money to be spent
in furthsring the free trade propaganda in
the United States. Lord Brassey has given
41 600, others less, and the hat is going
round"
There are some smart men in Athens,
Georgia. One of them makes business of
collecting all the waste paper, rags, etc., and
sending them out to the paper mills. he
carries 500 pounds at load, and gets II cent
per pound, or $3.50 load. He pays So q
load for 9 team, so he Is just 90 cents short
on each load. he is, however, 30 determined
to do something that he cannot see his error,
and persists in putting himself to great trou-
BILE to lose so cents per load.
The boycotters are having more trouble
than they bargsined for when they set out to
regulate the universe. The ssunion labsl
has been the principal method of boyeottine
used in the cigar trade. A manufacturer
who had quarrel with the Cigarnakers
union was refused the label, and organized
labor declined to buy unlabeled cigars. A
| cigarmaker Of Newark having Initiated this
label, the union brought suit to restrain him
from using It. The Vice Chancellor Of New
| Jersey decides that as the union is not the
manufacturer or owner Of the cigars It hai
no right to trade mark, and that its label d
| not 6t subject for legal protection. Boycott
the Vice Chancellor.
| For the benefit Of those who desire to com
pare the free whisky" plank of the Repub
lican party with that of the Prohibition party
we append the two. The Republican plat.
form, after recommending that the interna
revenue tax shall be taken from tobacco an6
alcohol used in the arts, says:
If there shall still remain o larger revenue
than is requisite for the wants of the govern
| ment we favor the entire repeal of interna
l taxes rather than the surrender OF any part
/ of our protective system at the Joint behesi
i of the whisky trusts and the agents OF for.
| eign manufacturers.
The prohibitory party platform declares:
'sFor the immediate abolition of the interna
revenue system whereby our national gov
ernment is deriving support from our great
est national vice, "
| Mr.. Kngore. the Texan objector In th,
house, is thus described: There is something
picturesque about him, and he would proba
bly, have worn golden spur had he beer
born two or three hundred years earlier. He i
more than ak feet tall, of tine proportion ant
noble carriage Broad shoulders, deep chest
thick neck, frmIy upon which sets larg
head adorned with thick growth Of whit
hair eombed back from q noble brow, an,