Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21

messing the play of "Little Lord Fountleroy." Eerybody who has been made to weep by him, and they are many, will be deeply moved by this touching incident.
 The story of the Kidnapping of the late Allen Thorndike Rice in Boston has been re- vived with many hitherto unpublished de- tails. His father obtained divorce from and also obtained custody of the child. Thorndike was placed at school in Nahant in 1859, and from there he was stolen by his mothers friends and carried to a yacht, which landed the party at New Hampshire port. Thorndike was then six years old. After wandering over New Hampshire, Yer mont and Maine, to elude detectives, the boy, disguised as girl, was taken to Balti- more by boat There his mother joined him, and the pair fled to Europe.
 It is not often that water is an aid to fire, but the United States Miller publishes an account of very exceptional fire which was practically enabled to become destructive by big tank of water. The tank was on the roof and connected usual with all parts of the building by pipes. There was thunder shower and lightning struck the roof, setting it on fire on the leewsrd side of the tank. If the tank had not been there the rain would have put the fire out, but under it's shelter the flames ate away through the timbers un- til the roof caved in. Then the heavy tank crashed through down to the cellar and por- sions of the burning roof falling through quickly set fire to the whole structure.
 It is now thought probable that the Fifty first congress will be called together in extra session about the middle of October. For several reasons that plan has its advantages, though it is to be remembered that an extra session is necessary not so much for legisla- tion as to clear away the impediments to prompt action at the regular session. Oi these impediments there will be an unusual number at the beginning of the next con- gress. There are, for example, at least eigh- teen contested election cases to be settled But such cases cannot be attended to until after the committees are appointed and the rules are adopted; and in regard to the l rules some very material alterations are in tended, which will probably occasion two ol | three weeks of debate.
 l In Springfield, Massachusetts, there is ob | jection to the throwing of handbills, circu' Tors, pamphlets and other advertisement about the streets. The Republican says O. ! the matter: The abuse of showing thu
 streets with hand-bills has grown to sucl proportions that something must be done t stop the nuisance and disfgurement. Thi
 thing makes the town wear an untidy look
 and the men and boys hired to peddle th
 "fies" are often very careless of the right
 and feelings of citizens; they assume privi
 leges that ought not to belong to them
 This sort of thing is not permitted in En
 glish towns, and it is high time the cit
 authorities stopped it here. It may be ado
 ed that this method of advertising has D
 value to those who indulge in it, and ce
 tainly no one ought to desire to see it COT
 tinued at the expense of neatly kept street.
 What the colored people of the Unite
 States can do in the industrial and mechan
 cal arts is made apparent at Philadelphia
 the Quaker City association. Months of ii