Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-07

AuotQeE VlctoTy 1uI tno NeW hafeus. 4uo dog-days are almost over.
 The total wealth of this country is esti- mated at about $eo ,ooo, ,ooo, 1000, and yet there are those who feel poor.
 A western woman recently wrote book entitled "How to be Good, though Homely," !" and not copy of it has been sold.
 The Senate Investigating committe now in Chicago has brought out the fact that where as the price of live cattle has fallen from $26 per hundredweight to SIS in the last five years, the price of beef to the consumer has remained substantially the same. This is not as 1t should be.
 A man is liable to fine of $25 in London for Sweeping or throwing any refuse, dirt, ashes, deoayed fruit, upon the foot or car riage-way pavements." In Paris when man throws scrap of paper into the street he is waited upon by polite officer, who requests him to pick 1t up. In New Haven man can throw anything smaller and less trouble some than dead horse into the street. A queer society, called ''the Order of the Mystic Clrclo," has just been organized in Philadelphia, and will soon be duly charter, | cd. It's objects are the protection and relief ! of unfortunate husbands. And ouly those | men are eligible for membership who have wives who make their lives unhappy. Int society already numbers two hundred mem. bers, and, it is said, 1t will soon have . membership of 5,000.
 Ohio wool growers are much displeassd b, the circular of the National Association 0 Wool Manufacturers, declaring that wide spread and thoroughly organized movemen of New England wool manufacturers, for ire raw material, will urge congress to redue the rates of duty upon wool. The wool grow ers' association has adopted resolutions de claring that this movement means free trad for agricultural interests of the West an protection for the manufacturers of the Eas and they will resist 1t to the extent of the power.
 The letter of a young midshipman on tt British frigate Northumberland, which ca, J ried Napoleon from England to captivity St. Helena, has just been published. He sal that he heard the ex-Emperor say to s George Bingham, while in transit, that lost Waterloo because in the hurry of orga izing his army during the Hundred Days
 was compelled to place the uniform of tl Old Guard upon his new 1evies. These inc
 perienced troops fell victims to their own 1T
 pstuosity in the battle, and when they sta1
 ed to retreat the other troops, mistakil
 them for the veterans of the Guard, imagin
 that all was lost and stampsded soeordingl = This Is strange If true.
 Il The public departments in Washingt
 are full of oranks, says Washington corr
 spondent of the Chicago Herald. A clerk
 the War department imagines he has t
 power to read the thoughts of others. He
 almost continually in some kind of r
 with his fellow-clerks. He calls himself
 theosophist. In tho treasury there is a Ia
 whose hobby is surgery, and she claims
 have obtained her knowledge of the sciel
 from some of the most celebrated surges
 long since dead, the medium of communi
 tions being her membership in some sort
 mystic society founded in Egypt m, - centuries before-the Christian Era. This
 male crank gave much trouble to the dc ! keepers at the White House when Presid Garfield was shot, In the same departm 2, there Is a morose clerk who firmly belle
 he has been spiritually married to the E
 press Josephine, and that his wife and
 born in the spirit world await his prese