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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
LIGHT.

Light housekeeping frequently follows 8 matrimonial match.-Boston Gazette.
 The grasshopper is taking hoptimistic view of Oklahoma Washington Critic.
 Coffee from an infected port must be fumi gated. That settles it.-New Orleans Pica- yune.
 The first impulse of a boy with new watch is to assure himself that none of its 175 parts are missing.-Jewelers' Weekly.
 It was a mean city editor who sent the new reporter over to the city clerks office to get list of the poets licenses. American.
 Purchasers of telegraph poles should visit New York. They will find they are coming down quite rapidly there, now.-Yonkers Statesman.
 Pigs in Cl-v-r.-Busy Merchant Co clerk) -"Where's my penl'' Clerk-'The office boy has it, sir; but one of the marbles is lost. t."-Puck.
 There is generally war cloud in the home of young father who SO far forgets himself as to walk loud when baby sleeps.-New York Journal.
 If the child is the father of the man, the stepdaughter must be the mother-in-lsw of the ex-Widow, which is possibly why they do not get along very we'll together -Harper's s Bazar.
 A Boston man has bought piece of land one hundred and twelve feet long and six inches wide-too long for a necktie, and hardly wide enough to tie mortgage to- Boston Post.
 A "Down East" paper refers to nice old lady in town. thus: Although nearly 80 years of age, she is still remarkable woman of spotless character, who is revered by all."-Boston Post. 4 Common Trouble.--Seribuler ate two Welsh -rarebits, three portions of terrapin, a plate of ice-cream, lemon merineue pie, and lobster salad, and now says he's got
 the writer's cramp.-Harper's Bazaar. There is 6 good deal of talk about the white lead trust; but we wish to state posi- lively that no one wants to trust white lead until it is thoroughly dry-especially if his trousers happen to be blsck.-Rochester Post Express.
 Mistress-'' Really, Norah, I wish you could contrive to make yourself look little tidier." Maid (daughter of Erip)-" Faix ma'am, ye're always wantin me ter put so
 much tidiuess inter yer house, tine divi1 8 morsel I've left to spare for meself. Fun. A worthy Chicago divine addressed his congregation on Choosing Life Partners, ? and every person in the church that had reached years of discretion smiled at the idea of any one in Chicago choosing part ner for life. 'It was too absurd for any thing" remarked one fair Chicagoan. nespolis Tribune.
 An overcoatless man, with a generally dreary look about him, entered Jefferson avenue saloon the other day and called for a glass of cider. It was placed on the counter before him and he took @ sip, assumed g look of deep disgust and backed off. Anything wronga". .queried the bartender. "Yes, sir; it's working" "Yes, it has worked little." "Yes, sir, and I don't want it, sir. Any durned thing that will work when it ain't obliged to can't get no encouragement from this chicken-oh, no, I've seen the folly of it"-Detroit Free Press.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
Tuesday, May 2I, 1889.
A LABOR PROBLEM.


 The labor agitators of Europe have great The Swiss government has paid enough at tention to one of them to call au inter-ne- tional conference to meet at Berne to arrange something like uniformity of conditions in the factories of different countries, so that there should be in all the same hours of labor and the game restrictions on the labor of women and children.
 This is rather large sized idea, and, at first sight, an attractive one. If in all countries the workers in factories could have short hours and fair pay, and if the women and children who are obliged to work could be we'll protected and cared for,a great step in advance would be taken. But there are diff culties in the way, some of which are point ed out by N. Leroy -Beauliers, Frenchman problems. He protests against the plan above outlined on the ground that unifor- mity of manners in different countries, if it could be brought about, would be fatal to our civilization; that uniformity of weights. measures, and money, and of all the laws regulating international dealings, is good thing, but uniformity of life among the men and women ot different countries would put an end to all progress and development, and ought not to be aimed at. He main tains, moreover, that, owing to the differ enee of the productive power of labor in different countries, uniformity of hours would be the ruin of those countries in which the laborer has, in order to compete with more favored races, to make up for the inferiority of his powers by lengthening his hours of toll. For instance, he points out, if the Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian, or Hindu were to insist on having as short a day as the Englishman or American, he would be hopelessly beaten in the markets of the world, because he cannot accomplish as much in the hour as the Euglishman or American can.
 This seems to be 8 sensible protest, but it will probably not receive much attention from the reformers who think that they can abolish poverty and trouble by making cer- tain regulations for the world to live by. It is not yet plain how to make everybody comfortable and happy, nor is it yet plain that everybody can ever be made so.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
Woman HandsomslY Reinforced.

Science comes creeping to the front and sheepishly afirms what woman's intuition discerned centuries ago. Silence has been bending it's back over dusty volumes. It has been studying earth and air and water and disease. It has reached 8 conclusion which woman had practically indorsed since the beginning, to witt That spring house. cleaning is necessary to health; that to this yearly regeneration of the household goods are due the superior health and strength of civilized nations. Men hate ouse-cleaning because they are dull creatures and have only a regard for their present dignity. It gals a man to drink cold tea and eat 8 cold chop from the corner of the mantel or the kitchen pantry. A man has no imagination, his soul cannot override the kitchen furniture in the front hall, or bars of soap, rusty nails, and tack hammers on his library table, and picf- ure to himself the splendor of the afterglow But science now proclaims that dangerous disease germs, wicked and infnitesimal, Turk about the habitations of man, dangers for which there is no remedy save soap and al- kali and water and a woman with towel on her head and dust broom in her hand. Science has silenced man.
 MT. storey.s Experience on show Sum-
 day.
 From the Pal Mall Gazette.l
 MT. G. A. Storey, A. R. A., is amusing artistiotic circles just at present with very humorous account of ''Show Sunday" and the people who frequent that place on that day. There is the depreciating artist friend, and the British matron who wishes to know if these ''are all your pictures, MT. Story" and who leaves hurriedly with her three daughters upon being shown f'Lsdy Godi- va" which is not generally exhibited Then the framemaker who craves permission to come in, and stands before the chef d'oeuvre of the year and says, "Well, that's what I call fine piece of work, Mir. Storey, first ratel" 1T am glad to hear you say so. Mir. Jenkins.' "Yes, first rate. It ought to be seen on the line, though says it as oughtu't. Mir. Goodall has one of exactly the same competition, and that ought to get it good place." ''The same composition, MT. Jen- kinss Surely not!" "Yes, the very same the best composition; none of your German sort' An, mistook youl You refer to the frame; I meant the picture" ':Of course meant the frame; but the picture, well, that ain't bad; but what would picture be with out its framef'
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
THE AIR FULL OF BIRDS.
Migration of she Feathered WhistIers
 at she Island of HeIigeland.

From the Youths Companionl
 The Island of Heligoland, in the North sea- is nothing but 8 triangular rock of per haps a hundred acres, but there is probably no spot of equal size on the earth's surface that is of more interest to the student of birds. "The fact is," says Mir. Seebohm, 'that this little island is the only part of the world of which the ornithology has been properly worked. Every little boy on the cry unfortunate bird which visits the island has to run the gauntlet of about forty guns, to say nothing of scores of blowpipes and catapults.
 "The flight and note of every bird are fla miliar to every islander. new bird is in- stantly detected. The fisherman steers with gun by his side; the peasant digs his po- tatoes with gun on the turf and heap or birds on his coat.
 ''Every bird which appears is whistled within range with marvellous skill. The common sorts are eaten, the rare ones sold to the bird stuffer and the new ones taken to Gatke, the ornithologist."
 Mir Seebohm visited the island some years ago to witness the autumnal migration. :sFor nearly week, :" he writes, "the weath- CT was unfayorable. There was scarcely halt s dozen birds on the island. On the 12thi of October the afternoon was calm, and in the evening breeze sprang up from the south east 1 called upon Gatke, who advised me to go to bed and be up before sunrise, as in all probability should find the island swarm ing with birds. Accordingly I turned in soon after ten.
 At half past twelve was walked with the | news that the migration had already begun | Hastily dressing myself I at once made fol | the lighthouse. The night was almost pitch | dark, but the town was all assir. In every street men with large lanterns and sort o1 | anglers landing net were making for the l lighthouse. As crossed the potato fields l birds were continually getting up at my feet ''At the lighthouse an intensely interest 1 ing sight presented itself. The whole zons i ot light within range of the mirrors wal | alive with birds coming and going. Moth | ing else was visible in the darkness of tht l night but the lantern of the lighthouse wig. netted in drifting sea of birds. From thu | darkness in the east clouds of birds wert emerging in an uninterrupted stream.
 s'I should be afraid to hazard a guess a to the hundreds of thousands that mus have passed in couple of hours, but tn
 stray birds which the lighthouse keeper sue
 ceeded in securing as they futtered agsins the wire netting amounted to almost thre
 hundred.
 "The night was starless and the town in 1 visible, but the island looked like the out
 skirts of gas lighted city, being sprinkle
 over with brilliant lanterns. Many of tn
 larks alighted on the ground to rest and al lowed the Heligolanders to pass their nei 1 over them On some nights as many as nj teen thousand skylarks have been taken the island.
 "At about three o'clock in the mornin
 the clouds broke, the stars came out ana tn migration came to an end, or was oon'inue above the range of our vision"
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
DAY MORNING, MAY 2l, 1889.

eessant work have preceded this exhibition, and products of the skill and ingenuity of the colored people have been forwarded from all parts of the country. Great skill is shown in the fine needlework, embroidery and knitting exhibited, and some exquisite specimens of ladies' underwear are shown. One girl has on exhibition variety of stock ings made in different colors, made by her- self on knitting machine, while another girl is at work on 8 beautiful tufted rug There are exhibited also specimens of pen manship and free hand drawing, and certif- cstes will be awarded for the best exhibit in the various departments. One department is devoted to the mechanic arts, and contains specimens of work done by colored printers, cigarmakers, machinists, wood-workers and shoemakers.
 Anti -Semitism has become so intense and aggressive in Vienna as to create powerful and vigorous opposition. Two hundred and fifty firms in Buda-P -Pesth have published a common declaration to the effect that they will cease visiting Vienna's International Corn Market in consequence of the growth of the Anti-Semitic movement in that city. Similar declarations have been signed by the corn merchants of Miskolez, Arad, and Pressburg, in Hungary, and by thousand others in Prague, the majority of whom are said to be Christians. This action has told so upon the commercial and industrial class es that the Vienna association, formed to at- tract visitors to the capital, has formally set it's view of affairs before the Austrian premier. Trade and industry, says the asso- citation, especially the art industry, are at the lowest ebb in Vienna, principally be- cause rich foreigners avoid city in which those who spend money are held up to op- probrium and hatred, and also because the wealthy Jewish residents studiously refrain from any display of luxury in order to escape the attacks of the Anti-Semites. The me- moral closes with @ petition to the govern ment to denounce Anti-Semitism.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
NO. I2O
The Spanish Regents Easter Task.
 From the Pal Mall Gazettel

The Easter ceremonies at the Royal Palace at Madrid must have been very interesting, when the Queen Regent, towel in hand. and followed by the Countess of Sastago, who carried silver wash basin, and by the Nun- eio, who poured the water into it from a jug of gold, washed the feet of 8 dozen happy proud begga1s. After the ceremony, Her Majesty, according to ancient custom, knslt down before the altar at the end of the room and remained for some time in silent prayer, while the honored guests of the day were at once conducted to the dinner table, at which the great of the land served the dishes. As the washing of feet takes place on the even of Good Friday, when all good Catholics ab stain from meat, the meal was composed of "fasting fair. Here it is: Salmon, congor with rice, panado Of sardines, fried hake, eel pate, fried cod, tunny onelette, fried soles, whiting, oysters, stuffed artichokes, cakes, rice pudding, Dutch cheese, olives, apples, oranges, nuts, prunes, almonds, etc., the lar- ger part of the good things being literally Fbagged" by the beegars, and carried of to the restaurant and exchanged for coins of the realm,
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21

It is related that 'Old Hutch" the great Chicago speculator, recently wept while wit 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.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21

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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
------------------------ EDITORIAL NOTES.

The decision of the British court of appeals that women cannot sit in the county councils of England has made stir. Parliament will be asked to give Woman her rights in this rasnent
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21

Properly adjusted, every person with Her. mia, or Rupture, may be made safe and comfortable, and often
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
White Goods Department.

Superior White Victoria Lawns and India Linens, from 10c, 12111c, 15c to 25c per yard. Also Persian Lawns, Spot Mulls, Swiss Mulls, Nainsooks, P. KS, Checked and Striped Nainsooks and Cambrics all at popular prices.
 New styles and superior qualities of En- Rlish Overshot, Stripes and Lace Checks, also Carreau Lawns; all at 23c and 25c per yard.
 Great assortment of 40 inch Side Band Apron Lawns, with DEEP Hem, at 15c and 1Sc per yard.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
More Live Bargains.

Two cases Ladies' Ribbed Jersey Vests at 13c each, or two for 25c.
 Children's acid proof Fast Black Ribbed Hose, sizes to s11, at 19c pair, worth 25c.
 One case extra size Ladies' Gauge Vests, in beautiful Balbriggan quality, at 25c; would be cheap at 3715c.
 Large line of superior quality Hermsdorf and other aoid proof Fast Black Hose, for Ladies and Children, at 25c per pair.
 Children's White Gossamer Vests, high neck and long sleeves, in all sizes, at prices varying from 5c to 25e per garment.
 One case Ladies' Balbriggan Vests, low necks and bodies, at 13c each, or two for 25c; sold last season at 25c
 One case Ladies' fine White Vests, bodies with high French neck, at 25c each, as a bargain.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-21
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02
Advice to Mothers.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used when chill
dren are cutting teeth. Itrelieves
the little sufferer at once; it pro-
duces natural, quiet sleep by re-
lieving the child from pain, and
the little cherub awakes as "bright
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lieves wind, regulates the bowels,
and is the best known remedy for
diarrh9a, whether arising from
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ty-fve cents a bottle. tv26.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02

Anent the centennial celebation
Of the first inauguration Of George
Washington as President of the
United States, the Globe-Demo-
GRAFT says: 1t is singular fact
that much has been written about
Washington, particularly with re-
gard to his superior personal Writ
ue, there is nothing to show def
nitely that he was ever a member
of any Church. He attended di-
vine services regularly, and lived
an honorable and exemplary life,
but as to his being a commune
cant, the record is surprisingly
uncertain.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02

A man travelled a long way to
Oklahoma to get a piece OF land.
He took his wife and four little
children with him. He staked off
his land and squatted on il, he
and his family undergoing many
privations. Yesterday evening
he was shot to death by two
claim,jumpers. Kind,hearted peo-
pie made up a purse, buried the
body of the husband and father,
and sent the widow and orphans
back to their old home. The af-
fair did not create much of a stir
in Oklahoma, and the press dis
patches mentioned it in half a
dozen lines. 1t is only one little
scene from the great tragic drama
enacted in that distracted coun-
try.-Nashville Banner.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02
Alden's CyclOpedia of Uni
yerSal Literature.

Volume XII. of Alden's Cyclic
pedia of Universal Literature is
richly freighted with literary
gems. AS in the preceding vol
umes the biographical sketches
are concise but clear and interest
ing, and the extracts from the
writer's represented are ample
and have been selected with ex-
cellent Judgment. AS illustrating
the scope of the work we give a
few of the famous names which
appear in this volume. William
and Mary Hewitt; Huber, the
blind naturalist; Thomas Hughes,
whose TEN Brown books have
endeared him to boys throughout
the English-speaking world; Vic
tor Hugo, the French poet and
novelist; Humboldt, the immortal
scientist; Hume, the illustrious
historian; Leigh Hunt; Huxley,
the great biologist; Saint Ignati-
us, who earnestly desired martyr.
dom; Jean Ingelow; Washington
Irving, the first American who Sc
cured literary recognition from
England; Helen Hunt Jackson;
Henry James; John Jay, the spot
less jurist; Thomas Jefferson; Ed,
ward jenkins; Douglas Jerrold;
Sir William Jones, the great ORR
entail scholar; " rare Ben John.
son :" Josephus, the Jewish his.
torian; Juvenal, the great Roman
satirist. Although these embrace
many nationalities and cover man.
V centuries of time, they are only
few of the large number of au'
thors represented. 1t is an inter
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02
River Men Attention !

Please take notice that there is
false work under each span of the
G. o. & S. w. r. r. bridge over
the Tennessee River except the
Draw Span. All boats, barges
and RATS mast, therefore, be guild
ed so as to pass through the draw
span and thus avoid danger.
JAS. l.. FRAZIER, Sup't.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02

Some blood was shed over the
settlement of Oklahoma, and
many of the boomers left the Ter
ritory because they could not find
land to enter. Scarcity of water
and food caused much suffering.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-05-02
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1889.

The schedule Oh the mail routes
between here and Bethel Springs
has been changed SO as to leave
here at 6 "A. NJ. and arrive at 6
pm.