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other hand, is 12, ,480 feet, the deepest seas as we'll as the highest lands being in the north- ern hemisphere. It is curious fact that while 90 per cent of the land is lower than 5000 feet. only IT per cent. of the sea is shallower than this, so that if the surface of the whole solid land should "be reduced to one level under the ocean, then the surface of the earth would be covered by an ocean with uniform depth of about two miles,"
 Mr. Julian Sturgis traces tho cause of dis content in Ireland to the chief working class of the country, which is the tenant farmers. The population of the country is agricultural; out of 1, 571 1896 men who had definite oc- cupation in Ireland in 1881, 902, ,010 lived by agriculture. The great majority of Irishmen work on the land and live by the land. They are tenant farmers of peculiar class. The tenant farmer is ia pleasant fellow, shrewd and quick-witted and not strictly veracious; an excellent husband and father, loving his land, but treating it neither too wisely nor too we'll; fond of occasional excitement and intelerant of regular toll; yielding to author ity, especially to the authority of his priest;'' not the stalking horse of the Irish orators. It is these men for whom the country exists and who must be consulted before there can be any settlement of the Irish question. They want home rule, MT. Sturgis says, but it is with them the means to the end, and the end is the settlement of the land question 50 that they shall pay no more rent in any shape or to any people. They wish to become owners of their farms without buying them and to hold them forever afterward without paying any rent for them.
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the,ice It was get down abont 300 yards from shore. and Billy Goggin, brave and experienced officer, undertook to do the rest. Laying his single paddle carefully in the boat, he showed it along until he felt the ice becoming risky. Then the craft was the boat splashed into the water, while the officer sprang in. He worked the paddle with will, and soon crossed the channel, The nose of the boat was lifted over the Hoe. few feet from the eager, shivering young men.
 said Goggin, warningly. The four men had made rush for the boat.
 "Climb in one by ons," said Goggin.
 "Here you go frst.' said Ash to White- eides, who was crying violently from the re- action to his nerves. One by one they got in and the officer started across the channel again. It was now over 800 feet wide, and with load of five hard work for one man with single paddle.
 "Pretty hard rowing, ain't it?' said Paul. son.
 ''That's my business" said GoggiH rough- ly, as he bent to his work. Like the Esqui- maux they crossed the ice again with the boat on their shoulders.
 The patrol wagon conveyed the rescued frozen, and completely prostrated from the excitement and exposure. All of them went to he'd at once, where they were found 6 short time afterward by Tribune reporter. They are all strongly built, healthy young men, and were disposed to feel quite jolly over the affair as their benumbed limbs began to thaw out. They made greas sport of White sides because he had wept through fear and had lost his head.
 Ash said that when they first discovered that they were adrift they walked two or three blocks south, opposite the malt house, to see if the ice still held there. At first they supposed the break in the ice was caused by some warm spring in the lake at that point. Here the channel was only twenty feet wide at first, but opposite the malt house they found it about fifty feet wide and growing momentarily. Ash thinks the break extends from the Government pier to South Chicago, and that this immense foe is going out into the lake as fast as the of-Rhore wind will carry it. Johnson, who was raised on the water, wanted tc swim across, but the others wouldn't let him do if
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
Thursday, February 2. 1888.
THE POsToFFECE.

The adverse report of the Senate Postofice committee upon the proposition to further reduce letter postage was net unexpected, for it is the general feeling that the time has not yet come when it would be wise to bring let ter postage down to one cent. This will come in time, but there is Ro hurry. But
 what the people do want, and want badly, is an improvement of the postal service. The recent use of the postoffce as a political ma chine has badly crippled the service. The
 attaches of the department have been poorly
 classified and badly paid. In some sections
 of the country private funds have been raised
 to perform the work which the government
 has neglected; and in various quarters, and
 notably in the South and West, mail service
 has been unbearably slow and irregular and
 infrequent. Even in the highly civilized
 State of Connecticut it is difficult to send mail with any certainty or celerity.
 The improvement of the present mail ser vice might reasonably be made before letter postage is reduced to one cent. And there
 ara other things which might be done. The l Providence Journal thus points out some oi them: The manner of exchanging mails be- | tween nearby stations needs to be much i'm. 1 proved, there is need for the material exten I sion of the free delivery system, for better organization and compensation of postoffce
 employees, and in the larger cities at least fol 1 much prompter collections and deliveries For years the country has demanded that
 street letter boxes shall be supplemented bJ boxes for the depositing of papers and pack ages, yet only two cities of the country, and those very recently, have been allowed this convenience. There is in England scarcely 6 small town which has not it's free delivery, and some of less than ten thousand inhabi- taats have from three to four day, while in London the deliveries in the business sec tions are almost hourly. Here no city can boast mere than six deliHeries,' except that eight are made in a small part of New York
 city, while it is said that-the use of cancelling
 machines is confined to the Boston postof1ce,
 where they were placed at the cost of the
 owner of the patent.
 The people can wait comfortably for one- cent postage But they are made very un- comfortable by the way the business of the postofice is now done
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
CONSIDERING,

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is publishing geod deal of poetry lately. That is really kind of Ella, considering the high price of coal.- Sonerville Journal.
 Blobson, who never goes out or comes in without falling over antique jar or piece of bronze, persists in calling his wife's col lection "break-your ck."-Burlingto Free Press.
 The Reason-sThe Electoral college seems to be falling into disfavor," remarked Chm so. "We1l, I don't wonder at it," replied Fangle; fit pays no attention to base ball. ? Life.
 Wakeful Too Late-Higgins-"They say that since Gagley failed he's been troubled dreadful1y by insomnia" Wiggins-"Just like him. He never was wide awake at the right time. Life.
 People who ride on the New York elevated railroad are having many narrow escapes just | out what street the guard shouted the other day.-Yonkers Statesman. ] We are constantly hearing of newspa pers \ that are devoted to this or that interest, but | the most successful ones we find are mainly l devoted to the interest of the men who pub- | fish them.-Boston Transcript. l A MT. TeweA has just been charged by
 a policeman with, as he expressed it, giving | him 'fwipe on the face with the back of I u. | of Towels to wipe faces!-Funny Folks.
 There is mountain of coal in Wild Horse
 valley, Wyoming, which has been burning for thirty years, and yet we have hard work l to keep our kitchen fire over night. These l things don't seem to be well balaneed.-Bos- ton Post.
 A correspondent wants to know why At
 lanta has no historical society. We'll, the
 main and oYerpowering reason is that the pioneers are afraid they would be called on | to contribute fifteen cents for some purpose
 or other.-Atlanta Constitution.
 "Did you ever go tobogganing, Mir. Win-
 terwheat?" ''No," said the old man, "but once stepped into the elevator well and fell | down four stories in three-tenths of a sec- l ond. That is fast enough for me; I'm get l ting too old for much excitement. Bur. | dette.
 Brown (whispsring to Robinson)-"You gre safe enough in asking Dumley to drink. ! He's just sworn off, Robinson Calling to Dumlsy)-"Dumley, come and join us!' Thanks, no, I've sworn off. Tell
 the bartender to send me good cigar. ."-The 1 Epoch.
 l ssDarringer, I've been looking over my cash
 account for the year. I actually spent $500 1 for beer and whisky" 1 Bromley, that's awful.' "Stili it saved me good deal of worry f in buying clothes and such things for the family yl"-Philadslphi Call | The historians now tell us that Cleopatrs l had red hair and wore freckles. We are also
 inclined to think that she had hare lip
 large red hands, talked through her nose and
 stammered. We don't know . great dea
 about these things, but it is always an easy matter to catch the general drift of the pro | grassive historian and head him off by cut ting across lotg.-Burdette.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
SuperstitIoHs of Actresses.
From GaIignani. l

Parisian actresses appear to be very super stitious mortals, and correspondent has been collecting few of the notions enter- tained by some of the principal members of the profession.
 The reading of f'La Toscan was fixed to take place on Friday. Now Sarah Bern hardt, who affects not to believe in God, is, nevertheless, exceedingly supekstitious and dreads that day. So the reading had to be put off. The production of this same play was delayed weeks and weeks because the tragedy queen peremptorily refused to act with M Volny, for whom Sardou had writ ten part. She objected to Velny, not on account of the actor's youthful appearance, as she alleged, but because she is convinced that he has the sfevil eye." When Riche- pins sMacbeth" was brought out some time ago on the same stage at the Porte St. Mar tin. the tsdivine Sarah" had notion that the playing or singing of the witches music would as certainly entail misfortune upon her; consequently some other composition had to take it's place. From some cause she displays a positive horror for anything of saffron tint-an antipathy that is shared to some extent at least by large number of people on the stage.
 Mlle Bartet, who succeeded Mnle. Sarah Bernhardt at the Comedie Franchise when that blazing meteorite vacated the Rue de Richelieu, is not exempt from similar weak nesses Mile. Bartet says that it brings bad luck to look out upon the audience from the left side of the curtain when it is down; and
 Mile. Rsichemberg, one of the youngest and most charming of the noted actresses at the same house, either from spite or conviction, is as fully persuaded that the right hand is the unfortunate side. The inevitable result is that there is always something of c tussle
 between them when bsth meet at the round
 hole in the middle of the curtain.
 Nor must these charges be laid at the door of young actresses only. Anais Fargueil,
 the celebrated comedienne, who is now in
 her sixty eighth year and the doyenne among her sisters of the Paris stage, is 50 far privi- legged ss to possess bona fide birth caul, which she carries wherever she goes, believ- ing that it shields her from violent death. She was born in the one she carries and would not part with it on any account. It is her @gis, her palladium. She hugs it close whenever she hears dog howl or the cock crow at midnight, or when the death-watch ticks in the wainscot. Another retired &C., tress had a pecaliarity worth mentioning. This actress was Mile. Roussell. She invari- ably went on foot to the theater by the same road she took the first time. This once we'll known tragedienne was born at Mort in 1641, and is now forty six years of age. Marie Laurent. who was born in 1926, and who, in her sixty-frst year, is still accounted 1 sfstar" at the Ambigu, apprehends trouble and disaster whenever the curtain, having started on it's ascent, is allowed to return to ! the floor; and Mile. Agar, who so bravely
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Howe, & StGtsOn MORE BARGAINS
 FOR OUR GREAT MD D-WINTER SALE.

24o pieces Hamburg Edges at I2 1ac per yard, worth from IS to 200. These are wide en- broideries made on good fine Cambrics.
 Extra bargains in Hamburg Edges at 5, & and LOG per yard.
 Linen Torchon and Medici Lace in all qualities. Special January bargains at 5, 8, 10 and 12Hc per yard.
 22-inch Black Silk Velvets at $1.25, $I.5o and $I.75 per yd. These three grades are way .un- der price. Usual retail prices are $I.75, $2 and $2.25.
 Children's Astrachan Sets, Muff and Collar, at $1 set. Marked down from $2.5o.
 Fur Trimmings soc a yard ; formerly $1 and $1. 50 per yard.
 Job lot Woolen Mittens in black, brown and navy blues at s I2Nc per pair, made to sell at 25c.
 2,ooo yards dark Prints, ex- tra heavy cloths, (wider than Century Cloths at 6Ac a yard; formerly Ioc.
 JUST FOR A FLYER!
 One case of Ladies' Black Lisle Hose at 2oc pair. We offer this case of goods in con- nection with the balance of the tans, modes, browns, navy Lisle Hose, and we have had a live sale on at 2oc pair.
 We also offer the balance of our Misses extra long top Der by Ribbed Cashmere Hose at 29c pair; sizes 7, 71a, 8, 8H; colors, wine, seal and navy, 1m- ported to retail at two times the price.
 The balance of our Ladies Scarlet Wool Vests and Pants at 7oc and $I per garment. We have nearly every size. They are splendid goods.
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NO. 27

sang the 'sMarseillaise" at the Palace of the Tuileries during the Commune, while the cannon boomed it's awful music from Mount Valsrien, is sOrely troubled and psrplsxsd if, at rehearsals, she finds an edd-er an even (no matter which)-number of nails lying about the stage; for then she knows she is going to be sick before the end of her en- gagement.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
1aaediCa1.
Magnetic Treatment

DR. E. W. CLARK, the gifted magnetic healer and electric physician successfully treats the fol lowing diseases: Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Asthma, Lung Diseases, Rheumatism, Humors of all kinds. Diseases of the Eye Ear and Throat, Ner vous Difficulties, Uterine Complaints. Female Dis eases and in fact all conditions of either aris ing from impure or impoverished blood or disturbed conditions of the system. Office hours to 12 0. m, to D. m. and evenings. Consultation free.
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GLAIRV0YAMCE.

Medium. 22s GROWN STREET, convinces all who visit her that she is genuine medium. Her veget- able curatives, compounded by herself, have 8 surprising control over disease. Hours to 12 a. m, 2to5 p. m. and evenings. Diagnosing by lock of hair-bY letter, $2. oc14
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EDITORIAL NOTES

There's nothing like paper. A New Jersey factory is making paper bed clothes that are light and cheaper and warmer than other fabrics, and paper doors are being substi- tuted for wooden one in house building, and are found to be better every way.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02

The Knights of Labor who are so eagerly signing petitions for government telegraph probably do not know just what they are doing. Only two per cent. of the whole pop ulation are regular patrons of the telegraph, and of these S5 per cent. are brokers, bank CTS, business men and speculators, whom the Knights have no special desire to help.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
The annrna1 and Gpmrier.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CrFY, 16 cEtsTs WEEK. 50 CENTS A MONTH, $500 FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. THE SAMM TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02

The valued policy law of New Hampshire has not been conspicuous success. The loss of property by fire in the State during the year 1887 is officially set down as amounting to $1, ,620,511, or nearly three times the amount of fire loss of the previous year. The insurance paid on last years losses is given at $9ss, ,591, leaving about $700, ,000 worth of property destroyed upon which there was no insurance.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
;, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY :
Notice.

We cannot accept anonymous return rsjecteo communications. In ali cages the name Of the writer will be required not for publication. but as guarantee of good faith.
 SITUATIONS WANTED. one insertion 5Oc; each subsequent insertion 25c.
 WANTS, RENTS, and other small advertisements occupying not more than six lines, insertion 75c; each subsequent insertion 25c.
 One square lone inch) one insertion, S1.20: each month, S1e.0C.
 Obituary notices. in prose or verse, 15 cents per line Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and fu- nerals 25 cts each. Local Notices % cts. per line.
 Advertisements on second page one price and a half.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own imTRe diate business, Gall matter to be unobiectiopable) and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let For Sale. etc.
 Special rates furnished application for contracts covering considerable length Of time, 6 large space.
 Yearly advertise nents st the following rates: One square, year, $40:. two squares. one year, S70; three squares, one year, $loo.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
MADAM CLARK

THE GIFTED READER
 Of present and future as revealed to her in ar ticles of jewelry is now located at 99 ORANGE ST. Her system is strictly and original Your pres anna over your jewelry as she holds it and tells you what she sees. Madam Clark also gives magnetic treatment. Terms S1. When messenger is sent S2. Magnetic treatment S2. j25tf
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02

Perrfer-JOuet Champagne TN Maguums'' two quarts) for the holiday din L ner. All grades of Clarets, Sherries and Ports at very reasonable prices.
 EDW. E HALL 6 SON, d2D ITO Chapel Street.
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Mr. Pratt, the United States consul at Te- heran, who has been studying opium culture in Persia, where very fine article is pro duced, says he believes large regions in Cali fornia and the southern States are well adapted to the cultivation of the white pop py, and, in view of the superior quality of Persian opium, he details the methods of cul- tivation in vogue there as guide for our poppy raisers. It might not pay this country to produce much opium.
 Forty or fifty years ago nobody thought of eating Glove apples," as tomatoes were call ed. But times have changed. The tomato pack of 1887 was about 800, ,0e0 cases above the average annual pack of the past five years, ,and about 6a0, ,0oO cases larger than the average yearly pack for the four years, 1885, 1SS6 The total number of cases packed in the United States and Canada during 1887 was 2,S17 ,04S, each containing two dozen tins, making a total supply of 7,609, 152 cans. And nobody knows how many were eaten EtraUo
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02

The Sugar Trust means to have things it's own way, and it has undertaken to handicap the small wholesalers for the benefit of the large ones. All wholesalers have heretofore received discount of one-half of 1 per cent. without regard to the quantities bought by them Hereafter this discount will be allow ed to those who buy less than 100 barrels, but those who buy more than 100 and less than ,000 barrels will receive discount of Il per cent, while all who buy more than 1000 barrels will receive 1-2 per cent. Under such conditions 8 few large uholesales can undersell all others. The tendency of such a policy is to place the wholesale trade in the hands of few persons.
 Dr. John Murray contributes to the Scot tish Geographical magazine an instructive paper ''On the Height of the Land and Depth of the Ocean, After careful comparison of the most recent surveys, he concludes that the mean height of the land is 2,250 feet, oi more than twice the height given by Hum- boldt in the beginning of the century. The latter'a error probably consisted mainly in underestimating the height and extent of the great Central-As plateau, of which nearly million square miles are at an elevation oi oyer 2,00e feet, 7,800 miles being above 24, 900 feet. The mean depth of the sea, on ths
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02

1WbHIgW6SECUElHI HIBTCId HI G6S TIGy which will not permit the substitution of Inferior drugs in the preparation of a medicine for the re- lief of suffering humanity, should al sayS be the incentive of the manufacturer. That this is the principle which aninates the proprietors of
 Bakers Great American Specific is proven by it's effectiveness as destroyer of all external and internal pains The most powerful proportion, hoyeproduced a sure remedy for Rheu- and effectual cure for Coughs, Colds, Cramps, Colics and Cholera Morbus, and faithful healer of Burns, Bruises, Sprains and Scalds. Skill and knowledge have combined medicine, which. CT failing is supplied in large bottles at 50 cents and it's name is
 Bakers Great American Specific
 Can be had of all dealers in medicines. Prepared only by Maurice Baker & Co, Portland, Maine. Doolitte 6 Smith, 24 and 26 Tremont street. Boston Mass. Selling Agents. .
Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
PANTALOONS.

Selling heretofore for SC, $5, $4, s3.50, marked down to $s.5O. Stripes, checks, silk mixtures and solid colors.
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BOYS $5 CHANCE.
REFERS AND CAPE COATS.

Extraordinary bargains offering now. Blue chinchilla Reefers, wool lined, silk
 sleeve lining and silk velvet collars. Cape Goats in Scotch mixtures.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04
Real Estate Craze.

w. +. Richardson, a prominent bust
ness mar of Duluth, who, with a party
of Minnesotaians, recently visited San
Diego, California, thus describes the
wonderful real estate craze prevailing
at that place:
AT San Diego the party attended an
auction Of desirable" property, leaving
the city by excursion and %journeying as
ollows: BY street car, one and one
half miles by ferry, one-half mile by
motor line, two miles; by railroad train
five miles down OF TO a narrow sand
strip which bears 20 San Dieogo about
the same relation that Minnesota Point
does to Superior. The point of sand
was a natural breakwater between the
ocean and bay, exposed to storms. and
not a house in sight except away across
the water. Heye were gathered $4,000
people, bands of music, five of the best
~auctioneers on the Pacific slope and
property was disposed of amounting to
$4,000. One twenty-tive-foOt lot
brought 81 800 and the lowest price paid
was for a particularly Objectionable sand
hillock which brought $40. Every
person was fed with sandwiches. tea and
coffee and everything except real estate
was free, transportation for the nine
miles included"
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04

st. Valentines day is approaching. and
in accordance with a custom ancient in
origin and disreputable in practice,
many are already making selections from
the endless variety Of dirty daubs, de-
signed to represent the most execrable
phases of human character, by which to
anonymously annoy their enemies.
The custom is outrageous in its char
deter, and it is a matter for earnest gratu-
lation that it is rapidly becoming OBJ
solete.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04
Give Them q Chance!

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery. Very won.
derful machinery it is. Not only the
larger air-passages, but the thousands OF
little tubes and cavities leading from
them.
When these are cloeged and choked
with matter which ought not to be there,
your lungs cannot half do their work.
And what they do, they cannot do well.
Call it cold, cough, Group, pneumonia,
catarrh, consumption or any of the
family of throat and nose and head and
lung distractions, ali are bad, III ought
to be got rid of. There is just one sure
way to get rid of them. That is to take
Boschee's German Syrup, which any
druggist viii sell you at IS cents a bottle.
Even if everything else has failed you
you mag depend upon this for certain.