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Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
mr. Glaastone,s Views on Health.

The only casual indications that MT. Glad stone has entered his eightieth year are an increasing deafness and a slight huskiness in his voice, which latter wears off as he talks and he talks with abounding freeness, though as some one observed, he is also sta most at- tractive listener" One notable thing about his personal appearance is the brightness of his eyes. They are fuller and more uncloud~ Mir. Gladstone was lowered at his birth with 6 magnificent constitution, but he has all his life taken great care of it. Talking about MT. Bright he spoke respectfully of the care lessness with which his old friend dealth with himself. Bright" he said emphati- his health, and everything he should not" If he had enly been wise, and wise in time, there Is, in Mr. Gladstone's opinion, no rea- son in the world why he should not have
 been alive to-day, hale and strong. But he never would listen to advice about himself. Mir. Gladstone told funny little story about MT. Bright's habits on this score. Up to within the last ten years he had no recog- nizsd medical attendant. There was some anonymous and unknown person to whom he went for advice, and of whom he spoke oracularly. 'But," said Mir. Gladstone, with that curious approach to wink that sometimes varies his grave aspect, "he would never tell his name or say where he lived" About ten years ago MT. Bright surprised Sir Andrew Clark by appearing in his con sulting- room. Sir Andrew who knew all about his peculiarities in this matter, asked him how it was he came to see him. "Oh," said MT. Bright, 'it's Gladstone; he never will let me rest'' The mischief of long ne- glect had been accomplished, but MT, Bright acknowledged the immense benefit he re- oeived, and nothing more was heard of the anonymous doctor.
 MT. Gladstone seem to have acted men, tor to MT. Bright in other respects than that of his bodily health. He used to advise him as one panacea for preserving health and mind and body never to think of political matters after getting into bed or on awaken ing in the morning. "I never do that" Mr. Gladstone said s'I never allow myself to do it. In the most exciting political crises I dismiss curraut matters entirely from my
 mind when go to bed, and will not think of them till get up in the morning. I told Bright this and he said, That's all very we'll for you, but my way is exactly the reverse. think over all my speeches when I am in bed.'" Like Sancho Panzo, MT. Gladstone has great gift of sleep. Seven hours he al- ways gets, ffand, " he adds with smile, "I should like to have eight. I hate getting up in the morning, and hate it the same every morning. But one can do everything by habit, and when have had my seven hours sleep my habit is to get up."
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
REMINDERS.

Whisky was first made in Kentucky for medicinal purposes; but our climate is so healthfu1 that the distillers would be highly unproftable if they were to confne them selves to medicine whisky. Let scoffers re- member this.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
 A man last Sunday WAS about to lay his hand upon the door of church when a lit tie girl in the street said: "You can't get in there, mister" "Why," he said, "isn't this a ohurchf' "Yes," said the little girl, "but the preacher has gone to Europe for six months and taken God with m."-Detroit Tribune.
 In Brooklyn school last week the words 'taffiuence" and "lethargy" were given to be incorporated in sentences. Among those handed in were the following: "The Senate used all it's afhuence to pass the measure" :" s'The lethargy which Johns father left proy- ed to be of no benefit to him. ."-Christian Advocate.
 A new idea in spring fashions is that the dog must match the costume. The tramp, who was interviewed by cross dog and left 8 portion of his costume in the animals mouth, says the dog matched his trousers all right, but he thinks fashion is going to ex- tremes, and he will not follow it hereafter if he can avoid the dog.-Norristown Her aid.
 s'How are my prospeets." asked the candi- date of the chairman of the political commit tee. GulNk they WOulu D6 DeGt6r 1T your speeches contained more comments upon the questions of the day." "But have express ed myself in favor of honest government, re- duced taxation and -" "I know, but you never speak of Home Rule in Ireland Boulanger's flight and other live issues."- The Epoch.
 'Mr. Hobbs," said the dejected looking young man who had charge of the "pure Cal. ifornia fruit cider'' department of the big grocery store, ''I'm afraid you'll have to gei wrong, Filkins." inquired his employer ''Pye joined the church, replied the gloomy young man, land can't consoientiously sell that stuff for cider any longer, Mir. Hobbs not for any $40 month, anyhow. Chicago Tribune.
 Scene: Almost any parlor these evenings -"He seized her in his arms and kissed her ripe, red lips with frenetio abandon. She shivered and writhed in his close embrace. Her breath came in quick knickerbockers. Her eyes" Gladys-"Oh, Alfred, what nonsense are you readinga Kniokerboskersl' Alfred-"A little emendation of my own. The text says, Her breath came in quick; short pants. .'"-To-Day.
 "You have spent eight years in college, three at 8 theological school and two in the study of theosophy, and yet you do not intend to enter the ministry. May I ask what special career you are fitting yourself forr'
 "I am studying for marriage with @ Bos- ton girl," replied the scholastic enthusiast, his voice tremulous and dark, melancholy eyes lighting up with an eager, aspiring gleam.-Chicago Tribune.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
NEW CONN, MORNING,

better view now obtained it is evident that the Romans dug about four feet into the London clay, filled up the trench for two feet with mixture of clay and fints, sur mounted this structure with two feet of the hardest concrete, and then laid the tiles in sets of three courses, each separated by five feet of stonework. Apparently the wall was nine feet six inches high. A bastion has been found at the northwest corner of the ground exactly coinciding with that. marked on the map of Strype's edition of Stow in 1756, but seemingly of later work than Roman times, probably medieval. Many pits have also been found filled with ani- mals' bones, which may either have been used for the rubbish of the city or for the refuse of the slaughter houses in the butch ers' colony, which from Saxon times existed close by in Aoorgate street, etc. When the site of the French protestant church is exca- vsted it is expected that complete section of the wall and the ancient town ditoh may he discoyered.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
Tuesday, June III, 1889.
WORK FOR CONNECTS.

The Fassett prison bill having received the approval of Governor Hill has become 6 law, and at least part of those confined in the prisons of New York will have the pleas ure and the benefit of working. When the Sing Sing the senvicts were jubilant and wanted to return to work at once. They have had hard time of it in idleness The law is compromise affair, but it is much better than nothing. Under it's pro- visions convicts are to be classified in three grades with respect to the degree of their cor rgibility. The ineorrigible are to be em- ployed in menial labor and solely with regard to the profit the State can get out of them. The middle class are to be employed primari- ly with regard to the value of their product, but secondarily with regard to fitting them for self-support after discharge. And the most corrigible are to be employed with sole regard to equipping them with the means of earning living honestly in subsequent life. As far as possible public institutions are re- quired to obtain their supplies from the prisons; and small wages are to be allowed to the best behaved prisoners, to be paid
 
 minor provisions of purely arbitrary and unreasonable nature, for example, the restric- ton of the number of prisoners employed in any one industry to not be more than per cent. of the free labor so employed in the State, and the express provision that not more than one hundred prisoners shall be employed in making shoes, stoves or iron hollow ware, and then only for the use of State institutions.
 New York has learned lesson in this mat ter which may we'll be needed by the other States. Her legislature gave way to unthink- ing and demagogical elsmor and tried to run the prisons so that ''convict labor' wouldn't hurt anybody's interest or feeling. The re- suit was deplorsble and costly. The experi- ment will not soon be tried in New York again. AS convict labor never did, and prob ably never will do much injury to free labor, it is stupendous folly to support convicts in idlenesa
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No. i5S

size of that haul will be believed by any one who hears of it, but Capt. Stump's son Jobn lives at that same spot to day, and he will substaniate all I say about it. That fishery. in the days or it's first owner, was the largest shad fishery in the United States Enormous catches of shad at single haul were com mon to it, but the particular haul I re- fer to was something simply without parsl- Tel.
 Capt. Stump used seine at least five miles long. It was stretched across the mouth of the Susquehanna, and extended down the shore below Harve de Grace. One day in the middle of April, 1927, after this immense net had been stretched, terrible gale began blowing, and for four days and nights 1t was impossible to do anything to- ward pulling the seine in, as all the power that could have been put on the wfndlasses couldn't have drawn the net against the tide that the storm kept rushing down against it. But no shad could get past that net, and when the fourth day the wind changed and blew up the bay, and the windlas were put to work hauling in the seine, it became evident at once that it was burdened with such 8 collection of shad as had never got to- gether in one net before.
 "1n those days the farmers of lower Lan- caster and Chester counties used to go all the way down to Stump's fishery with wagons to fetch back shad, which they peddIed around the country, and also salted down in
 
 that the big seine at Harve de Grace had been staked by the gale spread through the region, and on the day the fisherman began to haul it in there were hundreds of wagons lining the shores. waiting for what the farm CTS felt would be an amazing haul, out of which they could get their supplies of shad at very low price. Usually they had paid from $20 to $25 per 100 for the fish. When the first instalments of the big catch began to come in Capt Stump sold the shad, thous- and after thousand, for $4 per 100, but as the mountain of fish began to accumulate on the shores, he was glad to give them away by the wagon load to all who would come and take them off his hands. He sent a msssen- ger out through all the surrounding counties notifying the farmers of the situation, and soliciting them 10 come and cart the fish away. The whole agricultural area of Cecil and other counties was fertilized that year with loads of as fine shad as ever came out of water. Besides the shad there were her. ring, rockfsh and sea bass by the ton. The lowest estimate that was madesof the number of shad that were taken in that great haul has placed it at 15,000,000.
 'It doesn't seem so long ago when that haul was made, and yet to-day there are no shad caught on that shore. There is no shad fishing in the Susquehanna above Columbia and more to speak of The dam across the river at this place, built to carry the Penn- sylvania canal across to the York county side, ,sdestroyed the fisheries above it 50 years and more ago, as the shad could not get above 1t.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
ADVICE TO ANGLERS.
Some Very Useful Hints to the Ama-
 fanr FfRhaPnnen

Some Very Useful Hints to the Anna. teur Fishermen.
 Novices intending to fish with flies should understand that little can be done this time of the year with gaudy flies. The most pre- ferable for this season are flies with brown
 hackles and dark-brown or black wings
 with the exception of the white moth-and
 remember also that all the flies used at this
 time be tied on small hooks-the smaller the
 better. Gsudy flies may be used to advan-
 tage in June, July and August, when the
 weather becomes warmer and insect life Is in
 its best period of development. A good fisherman tests his hooks before using them.
 If tempered too high they break under a strain of about three pounds. If not tem- pered enough they bend under the above strain. Do not use a nickel-plated reel If you can get one that is not so finished; and If the ferrules of your rod are nickel plated blaoken them with ink and then varnish them. Fish can see and hear. Although their sight is very acute, their hearing sense is only responsive to such sounds as cause the water in which they move to vibrate. Hence talking does not disturb them, although the heavy tramp of the fishermen on the bank of the stream or stalking the boat in any way from which the fishing is done alarms them. Clothes that make @ strong contrast with the natural sur roundings should not be worn. Now we have told you what is important for the ben eft of such of our readers ss do not know the essentials. We wish you all good luck, and shall be pleased to report your catches But remember you need not tell us of the big fish you hooked and lost, and besides, take along a spring balance, so that the ! weight of the fish may not be exaggerated- ! which you might possibly do in your enthu- ! siasm.
 There are three ways to fish for trout | daping is one, bait fishing another and fly casting the last and best. Daping is fishing | with a short rod among bushes or where or I dinary tackle cannot be used. Bait fishing | is what is name implies. For this mode earth or dew worms, prepared salmon roe, or perhaps better still, small fry, particularly ] the young of trout itself, white grubs found in decayed tree stumps, sometimes Q grass hopper or a cricket, and various other baits are used. In daping or bait fishing the hook \ Is sunk to within few inches of the bottom ! by means of buokshot, and afterward a quill or even a little twig is used as c float. ! This Is particularly desirable in fishing streams which are overgrown, as 1t serves to ! float the hook down the stream.
 But all this, while good sport, is mere ! child's play to the scientific angler. He has \ his artificial flies, his elastic rod of lance | wood or some other equally good material, \ his patent check reel, his silk and hair line | with it's silk worm leader and gut continua- \ tion. He casts his fly upon the waters and | it returns to him at his own sweet will, with | something attached to it which he has longed ' for many days.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
HERO IN HUMBLE LIFE.
A Workman Descends Into Casttl PIs 60 Pull Ous a Fallen Comrade.

A Workman Descends Into . Casting
 PIt to Pull Ous a Fallen Comrade.
 From the Pal Mall Gazette.l
 About eight o'clock on Saturday night, May 18th, as some workmen in the Siemens department of Thomas Firth 6 Sons, Shef- field, were about to remove 8 red-hot steel inget, weighing twenty-six tons, from the casting pit, a terrible accident occurred. The one hundred-ton travelling crane had been brought into position over the ingot, which stood in the casting pit, when, as one of the workmen, Stanley, was adjust ing the chain on the crane, his foot slipped and he fell into the pit, distance of fifteen feet, right down beside the column of red hot steel. Some idea may possibly be formed of the awful nature of Stanley's position when it is known that the ingot had but 8 few hours previously been sea of bubbling fluid in the furnace. And then @ deed was done at which ones flesh ereeps as one thinks of it.
 A laborer known fsmiliarly as "Sailor Jack"-we call him brave John Smith now realizing in 8 moment the awful position of poor Stanley, who lay there, stunned by the fall, close to the ingot, and was already ablaze and roasting alive, sized ladder, and, thrusting it in an adjoining pit, hurried down, enoountering an awkward fall through the ladder suddenly turning round. RecoY- ering himself in an instant, Smith rushed to the rescue, and stepping into the inner pit, that is the space immediately surrounding the bottom of the ingot Ca step down of three feet and 8 wid tn from wall to ingot of only two feet three inehes), speedily picked ur his mate, and succeeded in carrying him into the next pit, whence he was able, by the assistance of other workmen, to get him up the ladder. Then John Smith lay down, and was afterward carried in dazed state to the inirmary. When add that Stanley was heavy, robust man, and the sailor man oi only about nine stone in weight, and that he ] entered the pit with scarcely any clothing on and with his shirt sleeves rolled up, 1t will I be possible for your readers to form some I idea of what this man must have endured. Poor Stanley died three days afterward-a ! sadly unrecognizable object to those who hao known him best. John Smith, who was ex- posed for only few seconds less R time ba .nan ia Stanley, is doing fairly well' tnengn ne snd as ] hands.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
COMMUNICATIONS.
Sion WY PAner.

Stop My Paper.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Will you spare your readers any more oi the State House controversy? Ten or twelve years of it is quite enoughl Life is shorti We will be willing to agree to any thing in the matter if you will only let up on it. We are willing to admit both that the building rivals all ancient structures in point of architecture, and also that it is a miserable sham; or both that the town and city had sole jurisdiction over the building, or that neither have any; both that 1t is the proper place for the public library and also that it is of all places the very worst for such purpose. Anythingi Everythingl Only give us rest-or stop the paper.
 MANY READERS
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
No. g..

40 dozen Ladies Fancy Lisle Thread Hose, that are retailing from 75c to $1.oo per pair, we have closed from an importer and shall sell without reserve at the extraordinary price of 48c per pair. Styles are frst-class. Please do not mistake and wait too long before making a selec- tion, as they will sell from the word go, and we know of no- thing tottake their place.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
A Fellow Feeling.


 Judge Hunt, of the San Francisco Super for Court, is an enthusiastic fisherman. It is said of him that he will at any time ad- journ court to go a-fshing, but this has not been proved. The other day ease came up before him in which an important witness failed to respond when his name was called. teWhat's that2" said the Judge, Ca witness absenta Where is help ttI think, Your Hon. or" replied the attorney whose witness he was. s'I think, Your Honor, that he is in the country" ssIn the countryl" said the Judge, with a flush of anger, I'll see whether the court can be triaed with in this manner. at a heneh warrant issue"- "Bnt, Your Honor" said the attorney, in his blandest
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
A BIg Fish Story.

"rhere are not as many snad caught nowa- days in all the fisheries on the Susquehanna river in an entire season as were caught in one single haul of seine that Capt. Tom stump made at his Harve de Grace fishery in the spring of 1s27," said an old Susque- hanna fisherman. "It isn't likely that the
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
9rp 8nnfts. Howe & StctsOD
 THREE HuStlers! !
 No. |. Ladies Black Lisle Thread Hose, superior value, at 25c per pair.
Mo- l..
No 2.

100 dozen of Ladies H'Silhou- cite" Fast Black Cotton Hose, in all sizes, at 25cper pair. This Stocking is a magnificent qual- ity, very fine, we'll shaped, and is beyond question the greatest 25c Fast Black Stocking ever shown.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11

tones, "he must have missed the train this morning. He went fishing on Saturday, and"-- "Went fishing, eh2'' said Judge Hunt, modified, "ah, yes; we'll, he probably will be here to morrow. Call the next wit ness." And the wheels of justice again re- yolved
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11

The third anniversary of "Lsbor day" at Portland, Oregon, was observed by major ity of the craftsmen by working at their re- speotive trades. They said they preferred wages to play. The bill establishing the holiday, says the Oregonian, was forced through the legislature by noisy and sggres- sive minority"
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11

The old Roman wall of London, laid bare by the excavations for the new postefice at St. Martin's-le-Grand, becomes daily more interesting to antiquarians as further DOT tions are uncovered. A London paper notes the fact and then goes on to gay: From the
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11
WITH A SUITABLE
 TRUSS,

Properly adjusted, every person with Her. mia, or Rupture, may be made safe and comfortable, and often
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11

The British government will send one hun dred workingmen to the Paris exposition with view to studying mechanical arts from the workingman's standpoint. The government of the United States could well have afforded to do something of this kind.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-11

clever English girl. She calls herself an accountant and auditor for large households. She finds plenty of employment in looking after the business of few families of large expenditure whose heads have not taste for the work.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-27
SHOE-STORE TRAGEDY.
The Shock Which Killed Clerk of Ma
Years' ENneriemca.

The Shock Which Killed a Clerk of Many
Years Experience.
The shoe emporium was deserted.
All alone the clerk stood in the midst
of chaos OF unbuttoned shoes and dis
arranged slippers.
For over an hour he had vainly en-
deavo-ed to fit the foot, whims, eye,
pocket-book and other peculiaritie5 OF
proud and aristOcratic Mrs. D'Width.
He was tired out, disgusted with bus
mess life, and, in fact life Of any sort;
and as he viciously buttoned up the
dainty specimens of artistic footwea,
and crushed them into the cartoons. he
might have been heard TO utter things
in relation TO the proud Mrs. ID Widths
peculiarities which were considerably
removed from the plimentary, and
would have surprised and shocked the
leader of fashion and society could she
have heard them.
The poor clerk was discouraged by
his failure to make sale. lie was
weary OF these efforts of women to de-
ceive even the practiced shoe salesman
as to the size OF their feet; ana-as the
door suddenly opened to admit a trinity
bui t and pretti,y dressed little woman.
he heaved an anxious sigh before he as
sumed his ladies' -fine-shOe smile and
stepped politely f,rward.
Il will look at some fine shoes, COM
nonsense toes, low broad heel. high
cut yamp. hand-welted sole. Dongola
kid, and with buttons, if you please.
The clerks whole system received a
severe shock at the unusually suecinct
and complete description, which he
was Just about to obtain by shrewd
questioning. He recovered however,
sufficiently TO gasp, What size please?'
Il have been wearing" said the trim
little woman, "a number two-and-a-
half b, but I'm sure it is much smaller
than ought to be wearing, and think
I'll have this time three c. and il
that is not large enough, three-and-
a-half ID.
The trim little woman uttered hOr-
flied scream. The double shock had
been too great; the shoe clerk of long
experience lay upon one Of the gor-
geously upholstered diyans. cold and
lifalasa Puck.