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Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
ON LY.

It is said that one of the members of the national house of representatives is crazy man. Whatl Only onea-Boston Post.
 Mother and daughter examining Christmas presents: Daughter: "Are both of these box. es of candy differeRta" Mother: 'fNo, neither is ke."-Harper's Bazar.
 Heron-Allen has just completed work en- titled ''Ashes of the Future" We are anx- ious to read it, in order to find how long we must continue to get the blamed thing out once @ week.-Lowell Citizen.
 'sIt's very cold" remarked MT. McCork1e as he came in to dinner. ''My hands are per fectlv numb"
 "Then they match your skull perfectly, ]" was the unfeeling comment of his wife, Omaha Republican.
 A New York paper tells of number of sparrows attacking and killing full grown eat. The story is rather gauzy. A number of sparrows might kill an elephant or rhi- noceros, but it takes pils driver to kill a cat.-Norristown Herald.
 ithnetic-Laura-'tSo you are really engaged to him, deari He is forty, you say, and you are twenty-just twice as old as you, love. Dear me, when you are forty he will be eightyl" Clara-stGood graciousi hadn't thought of that. ."-Harper's Bazar. Says MacDonald: sNothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown" " Therefore the full grown bulldog that you start from it's slumbers when you make a short cut 'cross lots must be considered any thing but good.-Boston Transcript.
 Little Stuart had spent his first day at school "What did you lesrn?" was his auntie's question. "Didn't learn anything. J "Well, what did you doe' fDidn't do any thing. There was woman wanting to know how to spell 'cat,' and I told her. r."-Alton Telegraph.
 He (to Miss Breezy)-What a wonderful amount of self.possession your friend, Miss Wabash, has, Miss Breezy.
 Miss Breezy-Yes, poor Clara and am sfraid she always will have self lf-possession. This is her sixth season, you know.-New York Sun.
 "Ma," said Bobby, running into the house, 'eyou said that if did real act of kindness this afternoon could have piece of pie, and I've just done it." ''What was the act of he ate the pie. And Bobby replied between bites: "A cat came into our back yard and didn't stone it."-The Epoch.
 "If women are not good enough to belong to the Masons. said fair one, with pouting lips, the other day, twill you please tell us why ?" "My dear, that is the very trouble. You are too good. The necessity for your membership does not exist Masonry was founded to make the men better, and the Lord knows they need it."-Masonic Record. Boston young lady-"Don't say vase, Pol ly; the word is pronounced 'vawze.'" Coun- try cousin-"Certainly, dear. We'll, as was saying, I went down town to buy some lawze to trim my hat, and walked st such pawze that people must have thought was in for a rawze, and when got to the store my fawze was as red as fire. Do correct me when say anything countrifed, won't you Anastawzia. ;" Boston Beacon.
 When ice is thcik, and deeps the snow,
 And winter days are drear O!
 Man wants but little here below
 Zero
 -Roston Courar
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06

prints these from all the southern States but Louisiana and gives the increase in the tax Ievies of each year from 1875. The total in crease in real estate and personal property assessments is as follows Alabama forty-one millions, Georgia ten millions, Kentucky ninety y-seven millions, Maryland five millions, Mississippi sixteen millions, North Carolina five millions, Tennessee fifteen millions and Texas twenty millions. In South Carolina and Virginia only has there been decrease, the former losing i've millions of valuation and the latter four hundred thousand dollars. Railroad and manufacturing interests account for large proportion of this increase, the former having grown 123 per cent. in the States named during the last seven years.
 The growth of the telephone system in Europe shows great variation in the several countries during the three years from the end of 1888 to the close of 1886. The in crease in the number of telephone lines was greatest in Switzerland, where it was 1,700 per cent, (from in 1883 to 36 in 1SS6); Ger many 333 per cent. (from 21 to 91); Austria 267 per cent. Grom 3 to 11); Russia 233 per cent. (frem 6 to 20), and Sweden 200 per cent. [from to 15). In Italy the number of telephone lines increased but 23 per cent. (from 13 te 16); in Great Britain 19 per cent Grom 75 to 89), and in France Il per cent. drom IS to 20). Germany had at the close of 1886 the largest number of telephone lines, 91, and Austria the smallest. Il. The increase in subscribers has been in propor- ton to the growth in the number of lines. Switzerland here also heads the list, sub scribers having increased by 4s6 per cent. (frem 855 in 1883 to 4,900 in 1sS6). In Germany the increase was 308 per cent. (from 3,613 to 4,733); Russia 291 per cent. Q,451 to 5,2s0); Sweden 267 per cent. from 1,553 to 5,705); Austria 24s per cent. (from S70 to 3,032); Belgium and Holland 151 per cent. (from Z, ,331 to 5,858); Great Britain 107 per cent. (from 7,2s7 to 15, 114). France and Italy are at the bottom of the list, the in crease in the number of subscribers in the former country having been only 62 per cent. (from 4, 437 to 7, 175), and in the latter 52 per cent. (frem 5.5O7 to 8,346). Great Britain still has the largest number of tele- phone users, 15, IA; Austria the smallest, 3,O3a.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
Friday, January 6. 1888.
PROFTT SHARING.

Dr. Frommer, 8 German economist, has made study of profit sharing, and, as is usual with German investigators, he has done his work thoroughly. He has not, how ever, found great deal of material to work with. The cases of profit sharing that are included in the books devoted to this sub iect, together with those of more recent ori- gin, probably number not more than hun dred and twenty in all. Of these, many can not be considered as really representing the principles of true profit sharing; indeed, the German economists investigations cause him to reduce the number to less than thirty
 pr. Frommer's conclusion is not enthusi- aatically in favor of profit sharing as the great industrial regeneration. He finds that it can be made serviceable only in trades where supervision is either difficult or prac- ticalIy impossible; or where the returns are obviously and immediately in direct depend enoe upon the skill and industry of the work men. Much less can be expected of such highly organized industries are pursued in great factories, under close supervision, where success depends largely upon the business skill displayed in the treasurer's office. The
 
 the operative and bonus at the end of the year is too remote and easily jeopardized by business incompetency to avail much as stimulus; and upon this stimulus the eficien- cy of profit sharing chiefly rests.
 It is evident that profit sharing is not yet cure for the evils which are troubling workers. The Providence Journal well says of the matter: The trial, to be conclusive, must extend over long period of years, bal ancing the content and satisfaction with prosperity against the discomfort and sus- picions that will arise from the results of bad business. A slow process of education, both for the capitalist and for the laborer. must be gone through with before the sys- tenn can become widely adopted, and when adopted, meet the possibilities which it un- doubtedly may have in store as means of bettsring the relations between capital and labor. And further, there must be eliminated as far as possible the fortuitous circumstances that are apt to surround these trials, the in fuences at work from the special prominence given them, and the quasi-philanthropica spirit with which they are generally entered into.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06

their looks fIom little stems of cord or horse hair. It is said that this mechanism of the wig does not show when they are new, but I never saw one that did not show it's secrets any more than I ever saw Chinaman's queue that was not heightened with black thread or horsehiar. These married women are made to look still less attractive by their fashion of wearing their wristbands almost under their srmpits. The strongest predi- lection is for red dresses, and their next strongest is for wearing them for lengths of time exceeding human belief. Their wigs serve instead of other covering, so that one is next to never seen in hat or bonnet, no matter where or how far she goes. Even on railroad journeys they go bareheaded. They are not allowed to cover while in church, where they sit apart from the men, and I have heard that among the strictest of the orthodox the women may not cover in the presence of their husbands. However, a perusal of Deuteronomy and Leviticus (which beg leave to state are books in the Bib1e) will show exactly what the strictest rules of the race were, and, in the main, remain to- day.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
NEW YoRK,s POLISH JEWS.

People Whose Rules of Life are Al
 most Identical With Those of Bible
 Times.
 [Frox the Providence Journal]
 On Sunday is the best time to see this colony, because then it offers the strangest and strongest contrast with the life that surrounds it. East Broadway is the main thsroughfare in this colony. The onoe grand avenue of the rich Quakers of forty years ago-the street that led ts the houses of the pregenitors of Henry Bergh and Berry Wall and the now aristoeratic Reossyelts The solid big houses are there yet, with their high stsops and broad fronts and how sadly changed. Pillows and carpets hang from their upper windows, what were once the dining rosms and parlors are packed thick with werkmen and wsrkwomsn making clothing, and the windows and walls are lined with bales of the cheapest coats and trousers imaginable. Queer, blousy women in greasy wigs and very odd-looking men in long boards are running hither and thither The roadway are full of refuse and waste, the air is heavy with bad odors, the breath on all the window panes is the breath of squalor, neglect and indifference to appear over the doors. The characters are Hebrew. The only words we can read are proper names, nearly all ending in the letters ''sky" or ''ski." Sunday to these folks, as to all but the liberal Hebrews, Is as Monday is to us. There is only one way in which they observe our Sabbath. That is by closing their thsaters. They do this because our laws forbid their being opened.
 By mounting any one of dozen flights of steps we can step from New York to modern Asia Minor almost to ancient Judea. It is in the syRagogues that this change confronts us. They arc bare, forlorn placss-mere rooms full of benchss-but they are highly important to this strange community. Here the rabbis preside, and the ribbi is, as he used to be, the chief source of authority and wis dom. He breaches here on Saturdays, teach ss school all the week. helds ceurt perpetu- ally ss . Judge before whom all disseAsiens and disputes are brought, marriss, christens, confirms, blsssss, advises, sxhorts, chastisss, and, in a word, guides and controls his flock Like nearly all the men he wears a velvet cap, and like all he rsfrains from shaving his beard. His language is sometimes He brew, but in most cases he uses the tongue of his people, singular mixture of Hebrew and Polish, or Hebrew and the tongue of what ever other Slav race he belongs to. All about the neighberhood are booksteres, and the books are all printed in one polyglot or another corresponding with the talk of the people.
 The young girls are more or less fair and pleasing to the eye. The majority are swart, but some are very fair blondes with golden tresees. All the married women look alike, however, for all have shaved their heads and wear Wigs-of black hair, proceeding in
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
A Christian Science Episode.


 A Christian scientist, whose time was fully occupied in thinking about the unreality disease at two dollars per think, once treated highly unappreciative man for chronic ner- vous affection of very painful character. Under the glowing promises of speedy re- covery which the healer made, the man came every day to get his two dollars worth of thought on the non-existenoe of his com plaint, and all went we'll for several weeks. At the end of that time, the pain continuing with cheerful assiduity that could not be disregarded, she patient grew restive and in- timated that although he had paid out forty dollars, there was not cents less pain than before. He also respectfully submitted that clear statement of just about when the amelioration was expected would be highly satisfactory to him and his family, who were cramped by the daily depletion of their funds Then the Christian scientist waxed wroth and said: 70, you of little faith! Know that you would already have been cured if you had believed me when I told you that your pain was not real. Pain and suffering do not exist they merely phan- tasms of the brain. There is no such thing as matter" continued he with much ems phasis that it rattled some silver dollars in his pocket, 6none whatever; the only real thing is thought. All this is too subtle for your commonplace mind, and hence I can do nothing more for you; you had better go and fill your coarse, unappreciative system with drugs" Then vision of forty dollars that had vanished, and of pain that had vanished not, came before the mind of that long suf fering man and he arose, and he took the Christian scientist and he mopped the floor with him, smiting him sore upon the head and back, so that when he was through, con- gestions, abrasions, contusions, incipient ec- chymoses and epistaxis were among the phe nomena presented by his Christian counte- nance "There is no real suffering" said the unappreciative man with whitening scorn. "The bruises on your alleged head are entirely hypothetical; the choking gave you was simply an idea of mine, and devil ish good idea too; the pain which you feel is merely an intellectual fantasy, and your noss bleed is only one of the ideal conceptions of the cerebral mass. Believe these things not to exist and they vanish. Good day, sir" And the patient departed.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
MemOry and Dreams.


 The past is all of one texture-whether feigned or suffered-whether acted out in three dimensions, or only witnessed in that small theater of the brain which we keep brightly lighted all night long. after the jets are down and darkness and sleep reign un- disturbed in the remainder of the body. There is no distinction on the face of our ex- periences; one is vivid indeed and one dull, and one pleasant and another agonizing to remember; but which of them is what we call true, and which dream, there is not one hair to prove. The past stands on a pre- carious footing; another straw split in the field of metaphysics, and behold us robbed of it.
 There is scarce family that can count four generations but lays claim to some dor mant title or some castle and estate; claim not prosecuted in any court of law, but flat tering to the fancy and great alleviation of idle hours. mans claim to his own past is yet less valid. A paper might turn up Gin proper story book fashion) in the secret draw CT of an old ebony secretary, and restore your family to it's ancient honors, and rein state mine in 8 certain West Indian islet (not far from St. Kitt's, as beloved tradition hummed in my young ears) which was once ours, and is now unjustly someone elses, and for that matter Gin the state of the sugar trade) is not worth anything to anybody. do not say these revolutions are likely; only no man can deny that they are possible; and I the past, on the other hand, is lost forever; our old days and deeds, our old selves too, and the very world in which these scenes were acted, all brought down to the same \ faint residuum as a last nights dream, to l some incontinuous images, and an echo in | the chambers of the brain. Not an hour,
 not mood, not glance of the eye, can we
 revoke; it is all gone, past conjuring. And | yet conceive us robbed of it, conceive that little thread of memory that we trail behind
 us broken at the pockets edge; and in what
 naked nullity should we be left! for we only | guide ourselves, and only know ourselves, by
 these air-painted pictures of the past.
 1 Upon these grounds there are some among us who claim to have lived longer and more l richly than their neighbors; when they lay
 asleep they claim they were still active; anc l among the treasures of memory that all mer l review for their amusement these count 1T ! no second place the harvest of their dreams
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
MEANS DYSPEPSIA KILLERS.

Prepared by Dr. Mark Woodbury; put up in Log enge form in little boxes convenient to carry. cure Dyspepsia and Indigestion. You should get box Only 50 cents lIria1 box 25 cents sent to any Dooittle Smith, 24 and 26 Fremont street, Boston Mass. 1a5 nr
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
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Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
$16.5O.
Mems and Young Mems TrOwsers

Mems and Young Mems TrOWsers
 All our stripes, checks and mixtures, sold heretofore for $6, $5, s4.5O, $4, $s.5O. are cut to the low price of $2.50. An excellent as- sortment of late styles from which to make selection at prices never before named here for like quality of goods. Your choice fer $2.5O.
 Children's overcoats 50c., and overcoats sold for $3.50 and $5 cut to $2.5O. Also coats sold during the season for $10, $9, S. 50, $7.50 and $6 50 marked down to $5.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE C1TY, 15 GENTS WEEK, 50 GENTS A MONTH, $500 FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
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SCIATIC RHEUMATISM.
CLAIRVOYANCE.

MRS. J. J. CLARK. Business, Test and Healing visit her that she is genuine medium. Her veget- able curatives, compounded by herself, have Surprising control over disease. Hours to 12 a. m, 2 to D. m and evenings. Diagnosing by lock of hsirshv letter S2 oc14
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
AitoINTYRE, \ MAGUIRE & co.
 "THE PEOPLES DRY GOODS STORE" We wihy all the compliments of the
 Se onya few opportunities offered:


 CHoAKS- something Every adorned with new tickets; Wp Newmarket Buttons bestowed on the determined He goods packed Now s are here stated
 SILK AND DRESS GOODS. Remnants are good of makes
  We at such an enormous 
 Hamb mburs9.
  carefully the  combined placed 
  ell Hwns none Hannburgs manufactured
 Dome9ticS3- eandB n sold wish take January They hvaue emphor 
 $5 Blankets for $3.3o, li-4 at that. MCINTYRE, ,MAGUIRE & co. S37 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06

IN THE
 UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES practice of more than thirty years. and fre- quent visits to the Patent ohice has given him famiiiarity with every department Of, and mode of proceeding at, the Patent 0ffice, which, together vith fine fact that he visits Washington seuni. monthly to give his personal attention to the Inter ests of his clients warrants him in the assertion that no office in this country iH able to offer the same facilities to Inventors in securing their inventions by Letter Patent-end particularly to those whose applications have been rejeCted-an examination of which he will make free of charge. @s Preliminary examination, prior to application for patent made at Patent 0ffice, at small charge.
 His facilities for procuring Patents in Foreign Countries are unequalea.
 Refers tomore than one thousand clients for whom he has procured Letters Patent. 1yiSd&w
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
$8.50. ANOTHER CHANGE.

In the higher grade of coats, sold till now for $20, SIS, $15, are marked down to $12. This gives an opportunity to get stylish coat for about half price. We must close them out and every one goes at the price. The best cloths we have handled this season in all desirable eo1ors marked down to
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06

The returns made by the Controllers of the southern States show that the South has been doing we'll enough lately. The Tradesman
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06

No wonder Chinamen think this a good country to get living in. MT. Holcomb, lately secretary of the American legation at Pekin, says that out of the 400, 900, 900 in- habitants of the Chinese empire fully 5OO,- 1000 spend less than $1.50 month for food.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
$12.OO. ANOTHER SWEEP.

This time we take all our fine coats left on hand, sold till HOW for $22 and $25. They have all the fine feature of elegant coats. Down to
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1888-09-05

as pay while member of that body
docs not stick very closely to him,
and the reason most everybody un.
derstands. The TINES is for q Re-
publican in some other county, as
Knox county has had this place for
forty odd years, while ether counties
have good men that would more
than compare with Mr.. Houk in
moral or intellectual ability. But
if Mr.. Houk could unitek the party
thoroughly, still he hashad the po-
sition as long as any man ought to
have it. AS no Office is created for
a special man, and as other gentle
men have wsrk ed hard to maintain
the integrity Of the party, there.
fore their rights and interests should
be considered. The republican pa.
ty must make forward movement
and to do that she must put forward
good men who can and do com
mand the confidence of the best
element of the party.