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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
SUCOESS.


 Female barbers are not having much suc- cess. Gentlemen will not go to them be- cause they dislike to be cut by lady.-Bur- 1ington Free Press.
 Do not censure the seaside hotel keeper for bragging about the cool temperature which prevails at his place. His circulars are writ ten during the winter season.-Boston Tran script.
 The nuisance of the hotel was ip the parlor warbling, "Oh. would were bird!" Well, here's a beginning for you," said the Iand- lord; and he handed him his bill.-Fort Plain Free Press.
 Fangle-"Waiter, called for spring chicken" Waiter-"Yes, sah; dat am spring chicken" Fangle-"Then you may take it back and bring me one in which the spring is not quite 30 finely tempered."- Drake's Magazine.
 Johnny-"Papa, want you to get me a lottery ticket to-day" Father-"A lottery tioketl No, sir; Johnny, my son.. lotteries look at this paper, my dear. My ticket has drawn a $10, ,e00 prize. Ameri- can.
 Diamond-"Who is that new man they've got out there in the center fielda I don't like his style What was his average last year, do you knows" Field-sI don't know what his playing average was, but he has record of having accepted 9S2 out of 1000 chances to pose for the grand nd."-Lowell Citizen.
 Jones-s'There are only two periods in mans life when he is greatly interested in his personal appearance" Jones-'When do they occura" Jones-"One is at twenty, when he watches the hair coming out on his upper lip, and the other is at forty, when he watches the hair coming out on the top of his head. .''-Omaha World.
 Professor Townsend is altogether wrong. The columns of the newspapers are not con trolled by the pope of Rome. It is the fore- man of the composing room who rules the roost. However it is 8 matter of small weight. Professor Townsend confounds the pope with the foreman, while in the editor ial room it is customary merely to ''con- found" the eforeman.-Boston Transcript.
 The Music Lesson.-Mrs. R.-''Why, pro lessor, what is the matter?' Professor Won Spielen (angrily)-s'Madame, I spend von hour und von half dis morning to explain to der young lady vos is der difference between von whole rest und von half rest, und she still take der half rest ven say der whole rest" Mrs. R.-"Why, Elsie, I am sur prised. Why don't you do as the professor tells yous You know you have plenty of time. Life.
 A pretty fan was presented to a little girl, and she, wishing to show her new treasure, hung it on her finger and held it out at arms length. A lady on entering the parlor was attracted by the peculiar attitude of the lit tie girl, and finally said to her: "Isn't 1t very fatigaing to hold out your arm in that way so long?' Said little Elsie in answer, with a deep sigh: "Isn't it always fatiguing to be elegsnt?"-Wide Awake.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
Tuesday, May 2s, 1889.
AREAs s0NARLE RILE.

The disaster at the Park Central hotel in Hartford called attention sharply to the danger which lies in steam boilers. As one result of the stir made by the affair bill providing for the licensing of all persons operating steam boilers has been favorably reported to the senate. By this bill the State boiler inspectors are created board of ex- aminers and are to meet once in three months in every congressional district. One hundred dollars fine is to be imposed on any one who operates boiler without license or employs another to do SO. The act refers only to boilers which are now required to be in spected. Applicants must be recommended by two reputable persons. Not only skill character and habits of the applicant, and no license shall be granted to any man of in- temperate or absolute habits. The licenses shall be signed by one member of the board and contain an oath for the faithful per formance of his duty by the applicant.
 The fee to be paid by the applicant is $2 for general, $1 for special license, and for each renewal fifty cents. Members must re- port to the secretary every month and shall receive $5 day of actual time spent at board meetings and necessary expenses-all fees to be paid into the State treasury. When member issues license, he shall receive $1 therefore and twenty-five cents for each re- newal When the owner of boiler cannot find licensed operator he may employ skillful and trustworthy individual for sixty days, land it shall be the duty of all persons now employed in the care and management of steam boilers to qualify for such work, under the provision of this act within three months after this act shall take effect, in the congressional district in which they are re- spectively employed"
 This seems to be reasonable measure. It would furnish some protection to those who live in the neighborhood of steam boilers, and it would not be unjust to anyone.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
A little Freshs NH
croudad car hoomino along

A crowded car booming along Madison street the other morning, loaded to the guards. The rear platform WAS crowded to suffocation, and so was the interior, but the Aberdeen street, just as though there were oceans of room. The folks on the rear plat tA' the yonng lady on, and by wig orous crowding she got half in the door: Then an old gentleman with a gray beard who was just outside said:
 tsThere's room for more inside if they would press forward"
 The old gentleman had an acquaintance just inside the car, and in @ facetious mo-
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28

compared notes, and blushed as much as their dark olive skins will let them ever since.
 Now you know why Ye Cha Yupg smiles and why Ye Won Yupg lsoks happy.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28

ment referring to the old gentleman, he call ed out:
 "Step forward, please, snd let the old lady in."
 Then he saw the young woman and realiz- ed that the passengers wouldn't understand and appreciate his wit and that they would think he alluded to the only lady there. The girl realized it too, and shot him @ dagger- glance, and the joker blushed crimson. This thing of being humorist is rather trying at
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
Water and Obesity,

Dr. Lorenzen, of Erlangen, has been dis cussing the influence of liquids on obesity. The first experiment. was made on himself. For period of nine years he drank large quantity of Erlapger beer daily. During four years of the period the daily quantity consumed amounted to ten litres. or two gal Ions one and ono half pints, or about twen- ty two pounds weight; during the remainder of the period the quantity ranged from five to seven litres in addition to one liter of wine. In this way he succeeded in inereas- ing his bodily weight seventy-eight pounds, and the usual unpleasantness of obesity made it's appearance.
 On shutting off the liquids his weight fell 14 pounds in seven days. If, however, more water was taken, but without alcohol, the weight increased again. Within five weeks he reduced himself to the extent of 23 pounds, the chest measurement diminished by 3 ctm., and the difficulties attending res- piration disappeared. Similar experiments carried out on colleagues, who were likewise heavy men, had similar results. The disap- pearance of fat on withholding fluids he en- deavors to explain on the hypothesis that the cells whose province it is to decompose all bumen, when large quantity of fluid is talk en, now expend part of their energy in the combustion of fat The fat they consume is replaced by fat from the tissue.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
Howe & StetsOQ SLAUGHTER
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Monday, May 27th, we offer 4ooo yards of the finest Ameri- can Satines, that retail at 25c and are oftentimes sold as French" at the extraordinary price of
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28

The State senate has done good thing in sustaining the veto of the oleomargarine bill by Governor Bulkeley. Connecticut has rarely, if ever, seen 8 worse specimen of legislation than the passing of that bill.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
1926 Per Yard for Choice,

This line is large, comprising all the handsome colors in styl- ish designs, and also includes some Fine Plain Colors.
 N. B.-A dress of 12 yards from these elegant fine Satines will cost only 72c more than for the common qualities. Please note exhibit of Satines in our window; samples to any address.
 One case elegant styles print ed Mohairs at I7c yard. These goods have never been retailed under 25c.
 One case double fold Cream Danish Cloths at 12Hc yard; the regular price is rye.
 One case Dark Printed Chal- lies at 6Ac per yard; commonly sold at Ioc.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
''Weel about, turn about,
 Do jis so, An ebery time I wheel about I iunnD Him Crow n

Rice closely watched this unconscious per former, and recognized in him a character entirely new to the stage. He wrote num- Der of verses, ,quickened and slightly changed the air, made up exactly like the original, and appeared before a Louisville audience, which, as MT. Conner says, went mad with delight, recalling him on the first night at least twenty times. And so Jim Crow jumped into fame, aud something that looks almost like immortality. 'SoP Smith says that the character was first seen ln piece by Solon Robinson called The Rife, and that he, Smith, "helped Rice little in fixing the tune."
 Other cities besides Louisville claim Jim Crow. Francis Courteney Wemyss. in his Autobiograpy, says he was 8 native of Pltts- burg, whose name was Jim Cuff; while Mr. Robert F. Neyin, in The Atlantic Monthly for November, 1867, declares that the origi- nal was negro stage-driver of Cincinnati, and that Pittsburg was the scene Of Rics's first appearance in the part, a large negro there, whose professional career was confined to holding his mouth open for pennies thrown to him on the dock and the streets, fursishing the wardrobe for the initial per formance.
 Rice was born in the seventh ward of New York in 1908. He supernumerary at the Park theatre, where "Sam" Crowen re- membered him in Bombastes Furioso, at- tracting so much attention by his eccentrici- CleS that E11lsOnS auo baFneI, tuo leaQlnS characters in the cast, made formal eom- plaint, and had him dismissed from the com pany Cowell adding that this man, whose name did not even appear in the bills, was the only actor on the stage whom the audi ence seemed to notice. Cowell also describes him in Cincinnati in 1899 as q very unas- stunning, modest, young man, who wore "a very queer hat, very much pointed down be- fore and behind, end very much cooked on one side" He went to England in 1886, where he met with great success, laid the foundation of a very comfortable fortune, and personally and professionally he was the Buffalo Bill of the London of half century ago. Ireland, speaking of his popularity in this country, says that he drew more money to the Bowery theatre than any other per. former in the same period of time.
 Rice WAS the author of many of his own farces, notably Bone Squash and The Vir- ginia mummy, and he was the veritable orig inator of the genius known to the stage as the s'dandy darky," represented particularly in his creations of Dandy Jim of Caroline and Spruce Pink. He died in 1860, neve, having forfeited the respect of the public e1 the goodwill of his fellow-men.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Ludwig nkelsteinhausenbloser lives in Cincinnati He ought to.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28

A movement is on foot to obtain high license system for saloons in Baltimore. It ia neaded
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28

An influential paper published in Madrid branches out as follows: tsWe venture to as- sert in all candor that the United States will yet give the black men tho right to vote at presidential elections, if no more"
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
BankstE China.

banks in China the Chinese possess thous- ands of private banks. There are 400 banks in Peking, 300 native banks in Tientsin and Canton has banks and pawnshops by the hundred The rates of interest are high, and short loans in tight times reach 33 per cent. The pawnbrokers charge 36 per cent year or 3 per cent c month, and the rates of ex- change from one province to another are very heavy. China has no national currency, and each bank issues it's own notes. These are much like American notes, save that they are in Chinese characters and on cheap white paper.
 CssThe only coin of the country is thescash," !" of which it takes from 1,0OO to 800 to make one dollar, and which coin, small as it is, is counterfeited. The cash is 8 thin round coin, a little larger than one of the big Amer
 ican cents ot century ago, and sometimes
 hole in the center, and is usually carried in
 strings of 100 or 1000 each. Gold bricks and silver nuggets are used in making large
 purchases and the unit of weight is the tael
 or ounce One ounce of silver, or tael, is
 worth about $1.40 Mexican, and a common denomination is a tep-tael piece, which is a
 chunk of silver cast in the form of 8 Chinese shoe. Gold bricks of the size of little cakes of Indian ink, and these, like the sil-
 yer, are subject to counterfeit. The busl- ness of the treaty ports, which includes that of all foreigners with the Chinese, is done in
 Mexican dollars, and each business house has a man, called shroH, who does nothing else but count money and pass upon it's genuineness.
 The Chinese do all their business with foreigners on cash basis, though the credit system prevails largely among themselves. They are honest in their dealings, and they stick to their bargains even if they lose by them. China has no bankrupt laws, and debtors are liable to corporal punishment from their creditors By not paving their debts they lose caste and are practically drummed out of business. It is a disgrace
 in China not to pay your debts, and, as
 rule, the whole nation settles up at New Years day, which comes in February. The result is that China never has a panic, and in the case of famine or failure of crops the government sometimes loans money to the people.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28

Properly adjusted, every person with Her mia, or Rupture, may be made safe and comfortable, and often
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-28
Zhe founder of Ethiopian Mlnssrelsy.

Thomas ID. Rice, Is generally conceded to have been the founder of Ethiopian minstrel sy Although, as has been seen, it did not originate with him, he made it popular on
 both sides of the Atlantic, and his image de- serves an aonored niche in it's cathedral. The history of "Jim Crow Rice," as he was affecsionately called for many years has been written by many scribes and in many differ ent ways, the most complete and most truth fnl account, perhaps, being that of Mr. Ed mon $. Conner, who described in the col- umns of The New York Times, June 5, 1881, what he saw and remembered of it's ooncep- ton. MT. Conner was a member of the company at the Columbia street Theatre, Rice, ''doing little negro bits" between the acts at that house, notably one sketch he had studied from life in Louisville the preceding 8 livery stable kept by man named Crow. The actors could look into the stable-yard from the windows of their dressing rooms, and were very fond of watching the move ments Of an old and dscrepit slave who was employed by the proprietor to do all sorts of odd jobs. As was the custom among the negroes, he had assumed his masters name, and called himself Jim Crow. He was very much deforned-the right shoulder was drawn up high, and the left leg was stiff and crooked at the knee, which gave him pain ful, but at the same time ludicrous, limp. He was in the habit of grooming queer old tune, to which he had applied words of his own At the end of each verse he gave a peculiar step, ''rocking de heel" in the man. ner since go general among the long genera ton of his delineators; and these were the words of his refrain:
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-26
THE NEWS OF A DAY.
Wyman Taken in Charge by
the Z. s. S.AuthOrities.
AS A. S. BURROUGHS,
The University Exercises Held Yes
day-Other Events of an In
tresting Nature.

1t turns out that W. w. Wyman, the
man who was arrested Monday evening
for sending an obscene letter through the
mail, is A. s. Burroughs, and that he
adds the practice of forgery to his other
accomplishments. Sheriff Aguirre has
in mis- possession the description of one
A. S. Burroughs, alias Frank Tracy, alias
F. T. Edwards, for whose arrest the au-
thorities of Napa county offer a reward OF
$50. On the 18th of June forged draft
was presented at one of the banks oil
Napa city, and paid. A document of a
similar description to the one described
was found in Wyman's pocket, which
will prove important evidence in the
case. The description of the man who
cashed the forged draft fits Wyman 30
exactly that there can be no doubt that
he is the man.
A. S. Burroughs comes from Oakland,
city which he left suddenly short
time ago under singular circumstances.
He had wife and two small children.
His fathcr-in-law is said to be very
prominent citizen of Oakland. Bur
roughs is an alleged literary man-one
of the sort that write verses and stories,
to be declined by the leading literary
magazines. Last April he managed to
scrape together enough money to start a
story paper, which he called Our Fire.
side Visitor. Only one number ap.
peared. 1t contained a number Of
trashy short stories, and one instalment
of a novelette, by Burroughs himself.
Then it collapsed.
Wyman, or Burroughs, was taken in
charge yesterday morning by the United
States authorities and transferred from
the City Prison to the County Jail. He
is in the same tank with Williams. He
secured lawyer, who advised him to say
nothing of the matter for which he was
under arrest, an order which he religi.
ously obeyed. In the afternoon he was
taken before Judge Ross, and his trial
was set for next Saturday.
In the mans room were found several
valises and large bundle of clothing,
The valises contained plenty of evidence
to show that be was the Alfred S. Bur.
roughs who is sought. There was a copy
Of the sole issue Of his magazine, and
three or four poems and attempts al
stories. There were two photographs o.
young and pretty girls and two Of babies
the latter evidently his own children
An advertisement, to the effect that ht
wished to purchase some small candy o.
confectionery store, was carefully writer
out ready to be put in the daily papers
Word was sent north of the capture
and the Sheriff of Napa county will b.
on hand in day or two to look at th
man and identify him.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-26
THE UNIVERSITY.
A Big Tendance at Yesterday,s
Proceedings.

Proceedings.
The Directors of the University oil
Southern California met yesterday morn
ing, pursuant to adjournment, in the
offices of the University Bank. The
financial reports were submitted and dis
cussed, but no action was taken, and the
meeting was again adjourned until 9
O'Clock this morning at the same place.
The college hall at the University pre-
sented lively appearance during the
afternoon, for in addition 10 the local
forces, strong delegations were present
from San Diego, San Fernando,
Pomona and other surrounding towns.
Great pains had been taken in decorating
the commodious chamber, and as re-
suit it presented very attractive appear
ance, the floral decorations being re-
maIkably handsome and wrought with
great taste. The proceedings were
opened with an invocation by Rev. H.
Cox, d. D., which WAS followed by an
able address by the Hon. r. M. Widney,
President of the University Council.
Then Mrs. Sadie E. Coe gave a very
artistic musical performance consisting
of Beethoven's Sonata, G sharp minor
Adagio, Sostenuto, Allegretto and Presto
Agitato.
The annual address, by the Rev. r. S.
Cantine, was next on the list, and was a
very eloquent and practical effort. He
was followed by Miss Leila A. Breed,
who, in the vocal rendition OF Schubert's
pretty piece, "The Wanderer," covered
herself with glory, for this charming
young lady has good voice and knows
we'll how to use it.
Ten-minute addresses were next in
order, and the following gentlemen en-
tertained the audience: Rev. j. w. Van
Cleve, Rev. E. S. Chase, Rev. T. G.
Warner, A. M, D. D.
Professor William Piutti, the famed
pianist, then rendered Liszt's "Rhap-
sodie Espagnola" and the "Folies d'Es-
psgne ct Soto Arragonesa," and this was
followed by an address by the Rev. M.
M. Bovard, A. NJ, D. D., President OF the
University. The programme then came
to an end with short addresses by the
following deans of the Colleges: Rev.
w. s. Matthew, A. NJ, College of Liberal
Arts; j. P. Widney, A. M. M, D., Col
lege of Medicine; Rev. r. S. Maclay, A.
NJ, D. D., College Of Theology Prof. w.
7. Randall, B. s., College OF Agriculture.
At 8 O'Clock in the evening the annual
reception to the faculty and students was
held by President Bovard, and was very
enjoyable affair. Today is the alumni
day, and at 8 p. m. the anniversary
meeting of the Irving Literary Society
will be held.