Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-08

of Perhaps they went to New York.
 The origin of the saying "Public office is public trust'' Is again under discussion. President Cleveland, Dorman B. Eaton and Thomas NJ. Cooley are shown to have used it, the latter as long ago as 1877.
 A Japan paper says that since the United States prohibited Chinese immigration there has been very perceptible increase in the number of Chinese immigrants to Japan. Recently 4s6 arrived at Yokohama, and "Most of them are now employed in tea-fr- ing godowns at the rate of remuneration which none but Chinese would accept.
 A recent judicial ruling upon the impor- tant question, When is a man drunkf is; "When consciousness becomes modified in any degree whatever through the influence of alcohol, and when, or as long as, no exercise of independent nervous force is adequate to restore it to normal state, the man so af- fected is drunk" Cut this out and paste it in your hat. When you can read 1t and understand it you can be sure you are sober.
 Since May 5, 1853, the killing of deer on Cape Cod has been forbidden by law, under heavy penalty, and the result is that the 50, GOO acres of woodland between Sandwich, Falmouth and Plymouth are throngsd with deer, now quite tame. When the law was not in force about 200 deer were killed year. ly. For ever 200years that region has been a favorite hunting ground. Among the rel. ics in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, is an old rifle once owned by famous hunter of Plymouth, and on the stock are 200 notches, each notch representing deer slain by the Puritan Nim rod.
 An idea of the density of London fogs can be had from the following from the Pal Mall Gazette: Yesterdays fog was simply horrible in patches. At Queens road, Bays. water, at 6:3O, had to hire boy with { lantern to find me a hanson which wa buried in the fog in the middle of the road way. My cabby had to walk, leading hi horse with his lamp in his hand, close to th' curbstone almost as far as the Marble Arch The sound of the voices of those lost in th' l fog, the ghostly glare of the hanson lamps which seemed strangely far apart, and th | far-away shimmer of the gas lamps, mad ! the frosty fog of last night thing to dream l of, not to tell.
 Not all the Methodist ministers are op | posed to dancing at the inauguration ball 1 Says one of them in the Indianapolis Jour nal. The action of the Methodist minister I in Indianapolis and Columbus is withou sufficient warrant. If they wish to expres their individual and independent opinions they have perfect right to do so, and n
 one can object; but whatever they ma l think of it themselves, the manner in whicl they are presenting tito the public eye
 looks like grotesque presumption and fanati cism. It places the church in false ant indefensible position before the country
 The Methodist discipline was not made t
 control an inaugural at Washington or In dianapolis. These things are wholly within
 the domain of secular affairs, to which tn
 church has a very remote relation, and upo
 which she should not speak at all unless fla
 grant improprieties and scandal mark then
 which no one believes will be the case.
 More than 150 languages and dialects al
 current in India and British Burmah- wit
 their 256, ,00O, ,000 of people, and the distint
 alph abets of these countries, many of wnic are very elaborate, outnumber all others