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Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20
Thursday, December 20, Isss.
THE CONSOLIDATED.

The meeting of the Consolidated road fam fly yesterday was entirely harmonious, al- though it has had perhaps no more impor- tant or interesting meeting in its history.
 President Clark's explanation of the condi- tion of the company, it's plans and prospects, was all that could be desired in the way of plainness. He showed that the company must spend good deal of money in addition to that which has been already spent if it would do what is pretty plainly before it to do. He would like to see all the leased lines united to the lessee, and all the improvements necessary made. In order to do this it will be necessary to increase the capital stock largely, and his mention of an increase to fifty millions of dollars, though it almost took away the breath of some of the old stockholders who have been with the com- pany from the beginning, will not make any extended scare. It is plain that if certain things are going to be done by the company it will cost great deal of money to do them. The money might be borrowed at low rate of interest, but the policy which has been decided upon will better please most of the stockholders. The capital of the company has been unchanged ever since the consolida- tion in 1879, when it was put at $15, 800, 900. The stock is selling at 24e, and there is not much for sale even at that price. There prob ably will not be much sold now until after the ''melon" has been cut, and perhaps not then, for the stockholders, who are now con graduating themselves and each other, seem to have faith that the road will pay ten per cent. dividend on the new stock as easily and comfortably as it has paid it on the old. It is very interesting period in the history of the company. Nothing like the expansion which is about to take place has before been made. When the improvements now under way and projected are carried out there will not be completer railroad in the country. There is no doubt that these Improvements will very greatly benefit the people of the State, and many in other States. Whether or not they will pay the stockholders as we'll as many of them now expect remains to be seen. It will take some years to determine that But there seems to be no lack of faith and hope in their breasts. They have cer- tainly reason to be pleased with what is about to happen to them, and they are. May the future be equally satisfactory and cheering to them
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

of vinegar, charcoal, and tar are obtained trscted cannot be burned in ordinary lamps, for it smokes too much; but it may be used in special lamps, which are. not dissimilar to the usual photogen lamps. The latter can easily be adapted to wood oil, and when the oil is mixed with certain quantity of photo gen it may be consumed in ordinary lamps. It costs about 3d. per pint, it does not ex- plode, and lasts twenty five times longer than photogen. When intended for lighting, it is extracted wholly from pines and frs. Thirty factories in Sweden make it's extrac- ton part of their business, and the produc- ton is now considerable.
 Since Antonio Galvao proposed his canal scheme to Charles V. in 1528 there have been before the public over forty different propo- sitions or schemes to construct canal across the Isthmus of Panama. As early as 1780 England attempted to seize the Niearsguan route, and in 1S49 company was formed in Holland to open the same route, and the Spaniards from the first regarded the Nicara- qua or the Tehauntepec route more favorably than others. Years ago the American engi- neers sent to survey route for ship canal acros the Isthmus reported against the Pana- ma route and in favor of the Nicaragua route. There was no prejudice in the case, as the engineers made reports on three different routes, and the decision was in favor of the route most practicable. Even the French engineers at one time favored the Nicaragua route, but when concessions on that line were secured by the United States, European capi- talists, headed by De Lesseps, turned to Pan ana. One object was to prevent the cons struction of any canal under American con- trol and the other to secure toothold at Panama
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

nothing secret about my business" And the poet made note of it. But the very next man to whom he spoke about it happened to be his friend, the burglar; who scoffed at the idea. "Why," he said, "secrecy is the very soul of success in my business. Never adver- tise, whatever you do." And the poor poet went out and bought three months com mutation ticket for the lunatic asylum Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20
9r,3 6uuds.
Howe & StGtsOH HIGH TIDE
 OF THE Christmas Tide

Now upon us. All our Holi- day Goods have been purchased and placed upon counters, and the stock in many lines is being rapidly depleted. We respect fully urge all who can to make early selections while stocks are full and the assortment best, thereby avoiding the final jam and confusion. We would also remind our kind patrons that the forenoon offers the best fa- cilities for shopping.
 N. B.-We shall be open ev- cry evening this week, as well as Xmas eve! Selections can be made and goods carefully held for special delivery as per your wish.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

A bill has been introduced into the Senate by Mir. Farwell, of Illinois, to increase the salary of the chief justice of the United States to twenty thousand five hundred dol lars and the associate justices to twenty thousand. It ought to become a law. The judges of this court are not well paid.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20
ghe 9nnrna1 aud Gnmrter.
Notice

we cannot accept anonymous or return rejected Communications In all cases the name of the writer will be required. not for publication but ns guarantee of good faith.
 Situations, Wants, Rents and other small sdyer- hsements, one Cent a Word each insertion.
 Display advertisements square Zone inchl one insertion SI 20: each subsequent insetion 46 cents: one week S3.20; onemonth $l0.OO.
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 Yearly advertisements et the following rstes: One square, one year, $40; two squares, one year $70; three squares, one year, $1O0.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20
Xmas Bargain Hints.

We have just purchased a manufacturer's s sample stock of Silk Umbrellas; the goods are frst-class in every way and the prices are from $1.50 to $2.50 under the regular rates. You can select $5 umbrella out of this lot for $3.5O.
 Childrem's CIOaKs at Reduced Prices. We offer lot of stylish garments (just received1, in sizes from to 12 years, at $5, $5.50, $6, $6.50, $7 and $7.50, just $2.5O less than regular prices. We also offer Extra Bargains in Ladies' Newmarkets.
 Special Drive in Purses and POck- etDOOks. This is lot of manufaoturer's samples. Prices from 10c to $3 each. Don't make mistake and buy one elsewhere. Ex- anime these first.
 Our Handk erchief Department is crowded with the best values ever shown on Chapel street.
 Look st $275 set Children's Books for $1; books in the set: Sunshine, Home, and Easy Books. Only Sl for all. We have the exclusive sale of this unprecedented value in illustrated books.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

Dr. Weisbach has been making some oare- fu1 measurements of the skulls of Beethoven and Schubert for the Vienna Authropoloei- cal society. In his report he says that Sohu- bert's skull, as compared with measurements taken of thirty German-Anstrian skulls, is slightly larger, longer, broader, but also somewhat fatter than the average. The forehead is somewhat smaller and hstter; the crown, however, is larger and more promi- nently arched the occiput is smaller, but more rounded; the face, on the whole, is broader and fatter. Compared with Schu- bert's, Beethoven's face was altogether smaller and much narrower between the cheek-bones, and especially about the lower jaw.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

A Democratic paper in Richmond, Vir- ginia, has an objection to the proposed na- tionsl law controlling the registration of vot- CTS and the appointment of election officers, which is that sueh @ law 'would result in none but negro congressman from several States" This is certainly frank.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20
EDTTORIAL NOTES.

It ia said that nearly $1Oo,O0O has been sent from Boston to Ireland, mostly by ser want girls, for Christmas gifts to friends at home
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

The report of the Illinois bureau of labor statistics on the mortgage indebtedness of the State is not very cheerfully received there. It appears from this report that one fifth of the total acreage of the State is blan- keted with mortgages, bearing interest at an
 average of about 2 per cent, which have
 been placed not for purchase money but for loans, while nearly one fourth of the total acreage is mortgaged for loans and deferred payments. The mortgage indebtedness on
 land alone outside of Cook county (Chicago),
 and not including railroad indebtedness,
 amounts to $124, ,0O0, ,0O0, and increase of 1s
 per cent. over the aggregate mortgage debt of 1880. This compares with an increase of
 per cent. in the decade following 1970 The total debt, including Cook county, equals $142, 400, ,Oo0.
 The extraction of oil from wood in Sweden is becoming year by year more important industry. Those parts of the trees which have hitherto been regarded as useless, such as the stumps and roots, are no longer left in the forest to rot, but are subjected to various | methods of treatment, by which, not only wood oil, but also turpentiae, creezote, acid
Morning journal and courier., 1888-12-20

Chewing gum is becoming very prominent. There are forty-two firms in the United States engaged exclusively in its manufac- ture Their trade is increasing, and it is estimated that the value of their product this year will not be less than SIC. 800, GOO.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
Europe's Utopia.

DR.. Alice Vickery of England alleges
that France must be the happiest coun-
try in Earope. She says that while the
surplus in women in Great Britain and
Germany amounts to nearly 750, 600
and 1, 900, 900 respectively, France in
1854 mad surplus 81 only so, 900
women, and marriages are more
prevalent in proportion to the popula
tion in Fran ce than elsewhere. France
has the lowest birthrate OF all European
countriea, 20. 8 to thousand, against
81 for Great Britain and 39 for Ger
many. The average number OF chill
dren in French family is now 2.3,
against A. 6 in England and Wales, 8. 25
in Scotland, and "a in Ireland. Ger
many has nearly five to family.
France has greater proportion OF
grown up persons than any other ma
tion in Europe, tho number of persons
in each 10, 900 between the ages of Ii
and go being, in France, 5. 1913; in Hol
land, 49s4; in Sweden, 1854; in Great
Britain, 1872; in the Unitcd States,
1898. France has the highest average
ages of the living 31.06 years, against
Holland, 27.76; Sweden, 81. 66; Great
Britain, 26.5 the Uaited States, 90. l.
In France, out of every hundred
deaths, those of persons over the age ol
so arc SO; in Switzerland, "a; England,
30; Belgium, 80; Wurtemburg, "a
Prussia, 10; Austria, 17.-lBrooklyr
Eacle
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22

and before she was we'll aware of his
Intentions, the little man had stood on
tiptoe and kissed her,
This unwonted caress had melted tho
ice about Miss Penelope's heart, and she
falteringly said "shc would"
"And wo will have that pot pie for
our wedding dinner" ho said teasing
ly.
The young folks were willing to cry
quits when they had been ordered
homo and learned the facts in tho
case.
"An' to think, Ponnic, ! called you
aud Ned fools, an turned right round
an done the same thing myself" said
Mrs. Bilberry senior, with happy con-
triton.
"You know the adage," slyly sug-
gested tho junior bride, as she af-
fectionatoly kissed her aunt's faded
cheek.
"No fool like an old fool" the senior
bride repeated msrrily. "An' ! leave
it to you if it isn't as true as the Cos
pelp
Miss Blossom was completely van
quished, but Mrs. Bilberry was par.
fectly happy. And our story comes to
good end.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
Hawthorne Leaned On His Wife.

Good out OF evil found pretty illus
tration in the case of Hawthorne's re-
moval from office. The famous novelist
was crushed by the blow, and staggered
to his humble homo full of bitter disap-
pointment. No one knew him then as
one of our greatest-yes, the worlds
greatest-men of genius. His wife
quietly left the room, says Conway, then
came back with an armful of wood,
kindled cheerful fire, drew his chair
up to his desk. brought papers. pens and
ink, and then, turning to him with a
beaming face. saii: Now you can
write y our book" The result was "Scar-
let Letter." and such fame as no novelist
in America, before or since, has at
tanned. 1t was all due to his noble wife.
Had she repined, and added to this bur-
den, the world would never have known
Hawthorne.-IBreo Eagle
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
Caught BY an Artists Sketch.

Artists do not always devote brush
and pencil to the portrayal of the beau
tiful; sometimes those potent instru-
ments are turned into weapons which
may reasonably be feared by evil doers.
A ready hand and brain are possessions
likely to come iato play under any cir
cumstances; they may even cope success
fully with brute force. This following
adventure is told by Mulready, tho
artist:
One bright, moonlight night, in my
student days, l was walking in street
in the out skirt, of London, little bet
ter than a country lane, when man
came out of the shadow thrown by a
large tree and produced pistol ad-
dressed mo in the usual robber fashion
with, "Your watch and money!"
81 am poor artist" said 1; "see,
these are my drawings. l have no
watch-I have never been able to buy
one" "Your money, then-and be
quickW All the time was watching
the fellows face; it was very white,
and think he was moro frightened
than twas. gave him all tho silver I
had about me; he said "Good-nigh@s
civilly enough, and started off towards
London. made the best of my way
home, and before I went to bed l drew
the mans face very carefully.
The next morning went to Bow
street with my drawing, hoping that it
might bc recognized by the officers
there, but no! The face, they said was
new to them. IF you leave the like
ness here" said the chief detective,
1--WE may perhaps como across the per-
son it represents" That very soon
happened-a fortnight had hardly
elapsed before l was called upon to
identify the man who had robbed me.
He had been arrested for murder aud
was easily convicted-[San Fran cisco
Argonaut
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
A Shotgun's Tremendous Load.

The ordinary shotgun, however per-
feet it may be, is altogether too tam,
aud ineffective q weapon for tho pro-
fessional Potomac duck-hunter, says
tho Washington Post. He must have
something that mows down the game
like a machine. He generally uses
what he calls a "big gun," the barrel
of which is from 10 to Is feet long,
and which carries pound and half
of shot and half-pouud of powder.
This engine of destruction is placed on
sort of pivot or rest in the bow of a
boat or skiff, with the muzz,e extend
ing overheard and tho butt resting
against packing OF rags or something
similar in tho bottom of the craft.
The man who uses it lies down flat
in the bottom and approaches the ducks
on the water by means of what is called
a Creeping paddle" which is very
short and which is work cd by one hand
stretched over the side of the boat.
When point has been reached suffi-
GENTLY near the ducks, some movement
is made to frlghteu th,m, and as they
rise in great futtering black clouds the
''big gun" is fred into their midst,
sometimes killing many dozen.
The rebound of these guns is so great
that they sometimes throw thu skif
back 40 feet, and even sometimes sink
it. The force of the rebound is caught
by the packing in the bottom of tho
boat, and, as may be imagined, moi
against tho shoulder of tho man wht
fires it. Another device of similar
character, practiccd by Potomac mar.
kot hunters, is to arrange from seven tx
10 old musket barrels on the edge of ,
boat and have the triggers Of all O
them connected by string, which
when pulled explodes the entire set. Ir
this way as many as 200 ducks hav,
been killed at one fire, many of then
canvas backs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
Mutilated as n Reminder.

A suspicious looking individual en-
tered barbor's shop in Manchester,
and while being shaved casually re-
marked =
'Isuppose good many of your Gus
TONERS forget to paya'
"No, sir" the barber replied, "thcre
was time whom used to give credit,
but never do now. In fact, nobody
asks for it any more"
"How's thatl"
"Well, you see," said the barber,
trying the edge of his razor on his
thumbnail, "whonever / shaved gen.
tisman who asked mo to mark it up
put nick in his nose with my razor,
and kept tally that way. They very
soon didn't want to rul up bills
There was tremor i the customers
voice as he asked from beneath the
lather.
''Do yod object to being paid in ad'
van cea- London Tit Bits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
The Lions Mode of Fighting.

Lions, as rule, hunt in family par
ties. A very old lion not quently
incapacitated from taking an active
part in pursuing game, is generally to
be found at the head of such coterie,
and on him devolves no unimportaut
part of the program.
Down to leeward, hundred or more
PAGES below, where the draught bullocks
are made fast when train halts for
rest, the young and active males and
lionesses place themselves behind what
available cover is found. This being
done, the old lion goes to windward of
the cncampment and shakes out his
abundant name in the breeze, so that
the odor from it may be carried down
to the excited draught animals.
One sniff of tho tainted breeze brings
every OK to his feet in a moment; then
standing, often trembling with fear,
they gaze with dilated eyes into tho i'm
penetrable darkness. Closer and closer
approaches the aged lion to his victims,
shaking and reshaking the dense, tawny
covering of his fore quarters.
Then, il the traveller harness be not
strong, he may look out for a stampede.
Should it hold temporarily, the agrees
OF, as climax to his former man nuvcr,
gives uttcrance to his deepest and loud
est roar, when tho frightened beasts, il
not secured by tho stoutest fastening
that can be obtained, will break free
and rush with inconceivable rapidity
into the very jaws of their foes, sccreted
to leeward. [Philadelphia Times
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
The Music of the Ancients,

The E yptian flute was only cows
horn with three or four holes in it, and
their harp or Tyre had only three strings;
tho Grecian Tyre had only seven strings
and was very small, being held in one
hand; tho Jewish trumpets that made
the walls of Jericho fall down, were
only rams horns; their flute was the
same as the Egyptian; they had no in
strumental music but by percussion, of
which the greatest boast mado was the
psaltery, a small triangular harp or Tyre
with wire strings, and struck with an
iron needle or stick; their sacbut was
something like bagpipe; the timbrel
was tambouriuc, and the dulcimer
was horizontal harp, with wire
strings, and struck with stick like the
psaltery. They had no written music;
had scarcely vowel in their language,
and yet according to Josephus, they
had 200, 600 musicians playing at the
dedication OF the Temple OF Solomon.
Nazart would have died in such q con>
cert in tho srsassst Of agony.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
Marbles a Languishing Snort.

Marbles, which once boasted as many
games as there are days in tho year, arc
now fallen upon evil times. Knuckliug
down is clean forgotten-if the art con-
tinues it is called by another name; the
alley-tor is confounded with his brother
of the rank and file; there are no longer
sold the finer varieties in stone aud
glass, or in colored and streaky mar BILE,
nor do boys, like sportsmcn, yearn for
a full bag; nor do they study any
longer the intricacic', the possibilities
and the subtleties by which their bag
may be filed. The game i, now only
played ly little boys-their bag is
small; their game is simple, and when.
ever they can raise penny, the mar
blss become vehicle for gsmb Ing. -
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-22
At a Fishing village in Scotland.

many nshermen with their Dags were
on their way to the station, for the fish
iug season was almost over. So they
said. But when one thousand boats
camc In, and twenty thousand fisher
folk werc that day in Fraserburg, to us
itlooked little like the end. Ia all this
busy place we heard no English. Only
Gaelic was spoken, as If wo were once
more In the Western Islands.
Il was the same in the streets. The
days work In the curing houses was
just about to begin. Girls and women
in groups Of threes and fours wero walk.
ing towards thom. In tho morning
light we could see that the greater
number were young. All were neat
'aad clead, with hair carefully parted
and well brushed, little shawls over
their shoulders, but nothing on their
heads. They carried their working
clothes under their arms, and kept
knitting as they walked. Like the men,
they all talked Gaelic.
When they got to work we found
that those strange stuffs which had
glistened in the torchlight were aprons
and bibs smeared with scales and slime,
that the white head dresses we're worn
only for cleanliness, that the shining
masses at their feet were but piles oi
herring. l have never seen women
work so hard or so fast. Their arms,
as they seized the fish, gutted them,
threw them in the buckets, moved will
the regularity aud the speed of machines.
Indeed, there could not be buster
place than Fraserburg. All day long
the boats kept coming in, nets were
emptied, fish carted away. The har.
Dor, the streets, the fields beyond
where nets were taken to. dry, the cur
ing-houses were alike scenes OF indus
try. If the women put down theil
knives it was only to take up their knit.
ting. And yet these men and women,
working incessantly by day and by
night, were almost all Western Island
srs, the people who. we are tod, are 81
,lovenly and so lazy! No one who come:
with them to the east coast for the fish
ing season will ever again believe in The
oft-repeated lies about their idleness. =
Harper's Magazine.