Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-15

The Paradise club of New York is going to have as much Paradise as it can. It has completed the lease or purchase of 10000 acres of forest and 50 trout lakes in various parts of the country.
 A Canadian paper would like to know why 5,eO0, 900 Canadians should pay more to be governed than 60,000,0o Americans pay. The thirteen cabinet officers at Ottawa re- ceivs $105, 900 year, while the eight cabinet officers of the United States receive $64, ,000.
 High license continues to find favor. The Oregon legislature, which has just adjourned. fixed the license on spirituous liquors at $400 year, and on malt liquors at $200. Gov. Pennoyer was hard pressed to veto the bill, but he refused, although he allowed it to be- come a law without his signature. The act will take effect ninety days after its passage. People are asking, says London letter in the New York Commercial Advertiser, what will become of the Times. Its present posi- tion is far from brilliant. Its advertise ! ments have fallen off, its circulation de- creases every year. this year there is no diyi- dend on it's stock, and the expenses of the Parnell proceedings have already cost it ! about s120, 0,000 And now, in addition to ! all this, it is the laughing stock of the coun- ! try and is ruined as political organ.
 | Cents are still novelty in some parts of Z Georgia, but the New Era of Talbotton in \ that State says that it is & common thing in that town to see 6 customer "fing cent on | @ counter and call for an apple, stick of candy or some other merchandise of which 6 nickel purchase would be a real extrava- gance." The Savannah News, moralizing on this says: "Wherever the cent is introduced spirit of economy is likely to be cultivated Every town in Georgia ought to use this cir culating medium"
 A Georgia physician writes to the Atlants Constitution that the solution used in tho hand grenades now offered so extensively fol sale is easily and cheaply made by taking twenty pounds of common salt, ten pounds of sal ammoniac (muriate of ammonia, to bt had of any druggist, and dissolving in sev l en gallons of water. When dissolved it car bs bottled and kept in each room in the house. In case of fire, one or two bottle should be thrown with force into the burning |
 fire will certainly be extinguished.
 Some years ago Secretary Rusk bought
 choice hog of an eloquent divine of Madison Wisconsin. But as the animal proved to 2 unsound, he made the clergyman take 1 back. Some time afterward the clergyma ! was preaching a sermon on the prophet Jere 3 miah, during the delivery of which he aske D in solemn tones, "Now, then, my nearer,
 what did Jeremiah doa" In the congrega
 tion was an old fellow somewhat the worf
 for liquor, who knew of the incident related
 and when the clergyman paused, apparentl
 for reply, he shouted, ''He made ye tai
 back the hog, consarn ye."
 Having been asked his opinion about u
 retention of Indian Commissioner Oberl
 Senator Teller of Colorado has written le
 ter to Secretary Welsh of the Indian Righ
 association saying that he could not suppe
 Oberly, because, when Oberly was superi
 tendent of Indian schools under Preside
 Cleveland, he removed teachers who we
 Republicans, and put in good many ineo