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Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
CHINESE REPORTERS. They Probably Write More Accurately
 Than Europeans.
From the North China Herald. l

LFrom the North China Herald.l
 The Chinese language, as the natives use it, has great force, huency and direction. It is practical, as the nation is practical, and those who use it are too independent to aban- don the speech and writing handed down to them through so long line of ancestors. It will be made the medium of instruction in science and is very suitable for becoming SO. They have contractions for all their cnaract- CTS which foreign students do not trouble themselves to learn, but the use of which, l in fact, qualities the Chinese to become short hand reporters of speeches in their own Ien- guege.
 They do not practice speech-making, but if they did and the native newspapers form ed staff of shorthand reporters they would not need to learn any foreign system. They can report quite fast enough themselves with wonderful quickness. Their hand muscles are pliable, their fingers small and the writ ing brush they employ is an instrument SUD- erior to the steel pen or the quill. The soribes at an imperial audience probably write all or nearly all that is said.
 Scribes who are paid by the piece get through large amount of copying in very short time. Yet, let none expect a teacher who is paid by the month to write fast. He has every reason to be slow. But copyists paid so much for thousand characters try naturally to transcribe as many thousands in a week as they can. The rapid work of such copyists, especially if they are allowed to use eontractions, favors the conclusions that by using Chinese characters specialists could easily write all that good speaker says. As to whether they could compete with the quickest European stenographers may per haps soon be brought to trial in Japan, where many thousands are now learning to write in the Roman characters. The new school will soon proceed to add shorthand to Romaniza- tion, and then it will soon be decided which is the best adapted for swift and accurate re- porting. -...
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

law, with A. R. Sabin, assistant superintend- ent of Chicago public schools, as president the other officials being attached to schools and libraries; and with board of twenty counselors of men and women eminent as teachers and librarians. These counselors select the list of books for the year, and dip 1omas are to be issued as awards to members who have read the required books for four years. Against this plan it is suggested that Q certain class will read simply to get the diplomas and without real interest. But the reading will be likely to do them some good.
 Occasionally man is found who knows his own mind very thoroughly. John Gregg, an inmate of the county jail at Washington, Pennsylvania, is one. About three years ago he wrote the will of an old lady, and at her death, soon after, he became the execu- tor of her estate. The will bequeathed her real estate to cetain relatives, but made no mention of her personal property. The lat- ter was claimed by relative unnamed in the will, but Gregg refused to give it up on the ground that he knew that the dead woman meant that it should go to the relatives who had received her real estate. The matter got into the court, and the case was decided against him; but Gregg, who is described as man of decided religious views, still re- fused, and was sent to jail for contempt. He has now been in jail over two years and says he will die there rather than give in.
 There are several ways of getting living in this world. MT. Stevens owns several acres of land adjoining the city of St. Joseph, Michigan, on the south. Through the farm runs large rayine, at the head of which are never.failing springs of pure water. At some distance below the springs are located his frog ponds-three in number. Water is supplied to the ponds through pipe from a large, deep lake formed by dam placed across the ravine near the springs The largest of the ponds is we'll filled with lily pads, Canada bog moss and other varieties of water plants said to be essential to the life of othes frog, The smaller ponds are fringed Fswithsthese plants, while the centers are kept comparatively clear. MT. Stevens estimates that there are now no less than 200, 900 tad. poles, polywogs and small frogs in the three ponds, and his statement is undoubtedly cor- rect, as the bottoms of the ponds are literally covered with these peculiar looking little fel- lows. These will be ready for the market early next summer, and will bring anywhere from $1. .25 to $2 dozen.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
A HATFIRLD,S FATE

For many years the Hatfelds and the Mo- Coys have been engaged in killing each other whenever provoked. And it hasn't taken much to provoke either the Hatfelds or the McCoys. The vendetta which has been car- ried on between them has been as vicious and persistent as any of those told about in southern Europe. The two families are large and lawless, and they have been very successful in keeping out of the reach of the law. Indeed, such has been their reputa- ton and action that the law has been little delicate in reaching for any of them. But there is change in the programme, and one of the Hatfields is to be hanged February IS unless he is rescued or commits suicide. His crime was murder, committed nearly two years ago, as sort of New Years celebra- tion, in the evening of January 1, 1888. This Hatfield with others of his clan surrounded the log house of the McCoys at Pikeville, Ky., set fire to it and waited to shoot down the Mccoy family as they came out. A daughter and son of old Mccoy came out and tried to extinguish the fire and were shot dead. Ellison Hatfield confessed that der in the first degree, and the Court of Ap- peals has affirmed the sentence. Hatfelds home was in West Virginia, and there was some controversy about his arrest, the gov ernor of that State demanding his surrender, because he said that Hatfield was unlawful ly arrested in West Virginia by Kentucky officers without warrant and hurried across the border. But the Kentucky authorities decided to keep him.
 This is good beginning. The vendetta has been disgrace not only to the region where it has been carried on, but to the whole country. It is to be hoped that now justice has begun to work that it will not stop until its work is complete.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
IN PAIRS.

Two for assent-An engaged couple New York Journal.
 The trapeze performer is of necessity light and ddarsy.-Merchant Traveller.
 The natives of Alaska are a cold and dis tant people. Philadelphia Inquirer.
 When choir singers salary is raised 1t helps him lift up his yoice.-1onkers Ga- zette.
 Strong presumptive evidanoe-6nding your neighbours pocket pencil in your oat bin.-Gripssck.
 No one thinks of 8 borrowed umbrella un. til more rain comes, and then the borrower wants to use it.-New Orleans Picayune.
 drunken man sees everything double but his money. It is only the man who saves who sees his money double.-7onkers States. man.
 First bootblack-Where did you get dat Scent piece?
 s% Second bootblack-Shine6 a one.leeRed man.-New York Evening Sun.
 Yabsley-I would rather talk to good, sensible girl any time, than dance. Wick wire-Well, why don't you do SOB YabsIey (sorrowfully) ly)-They won't listen to me- Terre Haute Express.
 "You ask for the hand of my .daughteri What expectations have youa"
 "Why, none at all"
 "Neither has my daughter. Take her and be happy."- Fliegende Blaetter.
 Tonsorisl artist (eontemptuously)-s what good are you Harvard fellers, anyhewi Yer can't play football, yer can't play base ball, yer can't row; all yer can do is to get an education. ."-Harvard Lampoon.
 Dick-sT intend to marry you whether or no. know you love me. I shall not go un- til get your consent" Miss Flirtte-ftYou have it." Diok-"Ah, knew should tri- umph." Miss Flirtte--"Of course meant my consent to go.n-Chicago Journal. sc Plugging bees" are fashionable in western churches where funds are hard to raise. Here in the East any man who has ever been hugged by an able-bodied bee would be willing to contribute Hbsrally to avoid Q repetition of the experiment. Journal.
 Wife-"John, you're drunk again." Hub by-"No, m dear, only rehesrsin'; m goin' on amateur shtage ash drunken man, that's waste your talents on an amateur stage any longer. You want to seek professional en- gagemept at once. ."-Texas Siftings.
 Young husband-Seems to me, my dear, this chicken is pretty tough.
 Young wife-I know it is, and can't un. derstand it at all. picked it out myself.
 "Did you examine it closely"
 eIndeed did. looked in it's mouth the first thing, and could see it hadn't even cut its first teeth yet. t."-New York Weekly.
 Tramp-Thank you, very much, for the lunch, mum; but could you spare me twen- ty.6ve cents2
 Woman-Mercyl What do you want with twenty-five centss
 Tramp-Well, don't want it for myself, mum. Pm just collecting a little money here and there, the same as the rest of the profession, and when we get enough we're going to found home for destitute tramps. Judge,
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
9rp Goods. Howe & StetsOn CHILDREN DELIGHTED!
 MOTHERS SATISFIED l! OLD SANTA'S Headquarters
 IN OUR BASEMENT A Busy Place.

Come early in the day and see what nice presents you can buy for SC, roc, I3c, I5c, ISc, 200, 23c, 25c, 2oc, 35c, 3oc upwards. Iron, Tin and Wooden Toys of every description; mechan- ical toys.
 Dolls, Doll Carriages, Ora. dies, Beds, Bureaus, Sideboards, Chairs, Tables.
 All kinds of Card and Board Games, Tenpins, Ring Toss, Faba Baga Boards, Blocks, Wheelbarrows, Carts, Wagons, Rocking Horses, Sleds, Tool Chests, Desks.
 Harmonicas, Music Boxes.
 Framed Pictures are selling lively; special values at 4oc, SOC and e5c each.
 Bargains in Stand Work Bas- kets from 75c to $4.5o.
 .nlad U0A Nn.- l-vs
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
No. 3o3

awful fires beneath. It was a relief e we turned to descend to see Pico, bronzed and purpling. clear as steel against tender sky, and the red roofs of Horta circlipg the edge of the peaceful and smiling bay.
 EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
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 STEAMING velvets and Pushes. Spe- cial attention paid to the steaming of Plush Ulosks. CARPET CLEANING. Carpets talk en mp, beaten or secured, and relaid at short notice. The Forsyth Dyeing and
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Such fogs as we have nowadays are quite English. This is the only admirable thing about them.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
Strength of Baking Powders,
By Actual Chemical Tests.

Cubic Inches
 NAME. LeaveniDg Gas per Oz DR. PRICES, Most Perfect Made, 1882 RAMsEY,s R.sIsEY, tPhosphate, when 1 fresh, 1sIs. HAYWooD's (when freshl, la4 HAYWoOD'S (not fresh, s5.4 QUEEN (Aium Powder), 1i5.s CLYBoURN's. 1c67 PAYNE'S, 1854 ROYAL, 1926 EUREKA (Alum Powder), 101.4s HERBERT 6 CO.'S, 964 CHIEF 9S6 DARNELL &.Co.'s, s5.s BARNES (Alum Powder), g 9l4s GARDENER's, s6.4 REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS AS TO PURITY AND wHoLEsoMKNEsS PRICES CREAM BAKING POWDER. & Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder does not con- tain Alum, Ammonia or Lime, or any adulterant.- States Government
 The Cream of Tartar used in Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is the strongest and free from all lime and other impurities. The best Baking Pow der made.-Prof. FETER COLLIER, Chief Chemist Washington, D. O..
 Ihave several times examined baking powders in the market to determine their purity raising pow CT and influence on the health of those using them. Powder the best in all respects. In raising power it stands at the head. It is pure, clean elegant and healthful preparation. have used "Price's'' in my family for years.-Prof R. 0. KEDzIE, late President Michigan State Board of Health.
 sAn Alum Baking Powders, no matter how high their strength, are to be avoided as dangerous. Phosphate and tartaric acid powders Hberate their terioratlon. dl3
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

Many spectators in Wall street are hoping that at last Jay Gould is a "bull." The oth- CTS are hoping that he isn't. He is not telling what he hopes:
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

The Hartford Post has found a girl who would not answer proposal for marriage unless the young man came around at high noon. She wanted to see the man she was going to marry by something brighter than Hartford gaslight. New Haven girls can see of marriage.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21
FIRST FLOOR.

Plush goods, Celluloid goods, Leather Goods, Perfumeries, novelties in Sachet Bags, Hand Painted Chamois goods, Silk and Satin Glove and Handker- chief Cases, Toilet Cases, Man. icure Sets, Shaving Sets, Fancy Stationery, etc., etc.
 Store open every evening until Christmas.
 w- Read advertisement in this weeks Palladium for spe- cial Xmas notice.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

In Buffalo Presbyterian church recently the pastor requested that the people put their contributions for certain object in an envelope, writing on the outside an appro. priate quotation from the Bible. When the collection was taken up the pastor took each envelope and read the texts to the congrega tion. They were such passages as :'Cast thy bread upon the waters," and ''The Lord will provide" But there was decided sensation in the congregation when the pastor picked ur an. envelope and read "The fool and hii money are soon parted"
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

An eminent scientist has evolved the the- ory that water as an element to extinguish fires in large and high buildings is failure. He claims that when combustion evolves . certain intense degree of heat the water thrown upon the flames emits powerful volume of hydrogen which burns with fright full fury. This scientist sets up the theory that these fires must be treated in different manner, and expresses the belief that gas will be the successful weapon with which to fight fire at some future day. Gas has been quite extensively experimented with, and it has been effective in close rooms, but in the open air the gas evaporates and soon loses its strength.
 eAnY effort to promote and sustain an in- tereat in good reading among young people is worth attention and perhaps imitation. In Illinois ssThe National Young Folks Reading Circle'' has been incorporated under State
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

Tropic Life and 'Semi-Oriental Gus toms of the Islanders Of Fayal - Beautiful Scenes From Saracenic D0mes at Horta-Coquettish Fayalese Women.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

Fayal is a tiny spot in the great Atlantic The gradual and regular elevation of it's sur. face towards the lofty, but peakless, center of the island, gives seeming or scenic ina-
 portance and nobility to the soft outlines of It's distant heights. Numberless pleasant ex-
 cursions can be made within the distance of
 an easy days journey from Horta-indeed between rising and bed time you may visit any part of the leland but the grand object
 of ceaseless interest to stranger or native is
 the vast Caldeira (Portuguese-ke oaul-
 dron) sunk eighteen hundred feet in the apex of the low eoned islands center. The Azores are of volcanic origin. Over there | just four miles from Horta is Pico with its eight thousand feet high still smoking chim- ney, at whose top recently passed night. And this Caldeira is 30 far as I can learn, the largest known extinct crater upon the earth's surface. It is just nine miles from the city of Horta. The ascent is gradual l and scarcely noticeable, through the valley of the Flemingos and other pastoral wales where the Fayalese peasants may be seen at their best, for about six miles. Then you arrive at succession of heathery ridges crowned with stnnted trees, whose dreari- ness is only now and then relieved by herds of cattle, or men and women bearing brush wood and rushes upon their heads, slowly returning to Horta or their valley homes be- low. These lonely ridges eeem intermina- ble; but at last on the ascent of one you come instantly to the very edge of the tre- mendous crater. To the eye it's rim ia a perfect circle six miles around and it's walls drop sheer from the rim eighteen hundred feet. It's floor Is seemingly perfectly level with the exception of tiny secondary cone. where not so very long ago steam and smoke ascended. Around in every direction is succession of gloomy marsh and shadowy tarn. Bushes grow in the marshes, and the Fayal peasantry make dangerous descents for these, weaving them into Q rude form of | rope. There is nothing in the entire scene but hideous desolation. The peasantry re- gard the location grewsomely, and locate
 every evil of witch and warlock as emana- l ting from the dank and dreadful place. To any impossible person it's unsounded depths. | it's dark and forbidding sides and it's almost | unfailing fogs only inspire dread and terror. l Even as we stood on it's dangerous edge the | fogs rolled in from the sea, and, wallowing ! and Tapping, swirled and whirled into the vast and uncanny bed, filling it with dark l and writhing masses. So, one could easily | imagine, it once boiled and spumed from the
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-21

The use of fine sawdust as a dressing for wounds and as vehicle for medicamsnts or antiseptics is suggested. It is said that the dust, freed from splinters and sharp bits of wood by sitting, when used alone and dry. makes clean and grateful dressing; that it readily takes up and holds the discharges without packing or adhering, and that 1t is easily rendered antiseptic by any of tho meth ods used in preparing antiseptio cotton or wool. Awell known medical authority also suggests that our yellow pine sawdust, rich as it is in turpentine, would prove of itself a valuable antiseptic application.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-27
TnrI IIn..

Go OUT aud SEQ Barnes win a good race
on poor horse today.
TnE question recun, who got all the
Doodle Tie bookmakcn lost on Bridgcligh2
TnrRE was 10 cent book opened yes.
tcrday in the saddory paddock aud II did
"a land Office business.
SOMEBODY must have received q very
straight Zip on Bridgclighi yesterday when
lac put $500 on him at 3 to I.
LENAS, with nncty.Ryc pounds mp, ran
third 10 Jim Williams In New Orleans,
March 20, ono mile In l:iii
Business will be entirely suspended this
afternoon In order TO ascertain how many
people tho race track will hold without
tearing down the fence.
TuE boys on the reporters stand were
not hilariously happy yesterday afternoon.
A smart man had no show yesterday un-
lcss ho owned u selling platter.
WuArs tho matter with the Prince
Charlcys this Year, They are winning
everything In sight. Two OF them FIRST
under the wire yesterday and one second.
TnE backcnoi Bliss are unanimously Of
the opinion that he ought 10 change his
name. The name is not suited 10 their
condition OF mind after the race. This
comes from ono who knows whereof he
speaks.
GEN. Inv WALLACE, the author Of Ben
Hur aud tho Hon. James phcan, were Of
the Judges Yesterday. They are not mss.
cots, Il may be remarked parcntheiically.
The General probably knows the differ
cnco now between q horse race aud q
chariot race, aud between scsterccs and
Doodle.
Tupon and Endurcr killed each other
before reaching the stretch, aud had moth
ing LEFT when their jockeys called on them.
Lotto Wall, admirably ridden by Barnes,
let them pump iliemselye, and won, al
though, had Barnes been on Comedy, II
might have been different. Pike Is q
grcat Jock. do you mind.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-27

March exceeded the value OF merchandise
imports by s., S33,326 The net exports Of
gold, 81, 7l2, 22i for the month, and about
81, 600, 900 of silver made about $500, 600
paid abroad against Interest duo and uu-
dervauations. For three months the net
export OF merchandise and specie repro
sented about half tho estimated interest
and AUTHORIZATIONS, These figures show
that in spite Of much weakness in specu-
lativo stocks, the foreign Investments still
exceed Withdrawals OF foreign capital and
OF late the demand Tor railroad and other
bonds has been exceptionally strong. In
European markets the general tendency OF
prices is upward. Since April tho fall in
the average prices of all commodities here
has been fully half OF per cent.
The dry goods business in other cities Is
fairly on level with last year, aud prices
are well maintained. 1t Is good sign
that collections in this branch seem to be
greatly improved. The grocery trade has
also been more active. No sales Of lake
copper are reported here, but London
prices are still lower, while TIN is stronger.
The demand Tor lead seems to be supplied
Tor the present, and S365 is the latest
quotation. While the number Of failures
has been very large thus far this year,
there is not the sense OF uneasiness which
would usually attend. The business fail
urcs number 2l3 us compared with total
OF 2i6 last week and go the week previous.
For the corresponding week last year the
figures were 923