Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-23
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An old army officer, who doesn't like dians, has at last freed his mind about it in letter of remonstrance and warning. Greece, Rome, Carthage, the Constantine pie of Constantine, hired barbarian mer- cenaries to do their fighting, he says. What was the result? :'Is the enlistment of barbarians to do our duty the beginning of the end! God forbid!"
 The Florida legislature has adopted a resolution that hereafter, when any mem- Der of that distinguished body shall allege that he has been misrepresented, mis- the performance of his duty questioned or his motives impugned by any newspaper, the representative thereof shall forthwith be excluded from the privileges of the house. Rather senistive for Florida legis- lators.
 A ridiculous story has been circulated in Oregon to the effect that President liar rison refused to shake hands with col O1Su WOlutu III OIGlduo hC 1hCL W 1ao that there, as in many other places, he was so hurried that he could not continue to exchange this form of individual greet ing with all who thronged to greet him; and this woman was among the hundreds of persons, many of them old soldiers, whom he was obliged to deny this courtesy to in order to reach his destination.
 Woman's inhumanity to man makes a good deal of mourning. A young man who is being sued by New York dress maker for the price of the dresses furn- of the first year of his married life his wife spent $75, ,000 for dresses and millin- cry. This, together with numerous other extravagances on similar scale of mag niicance, soon relieved the young man of his fortune, and so he puts in a plea o1 poverty as against the dressmaker's de- mands.
 The new sea postoffce seems to worl well. There are now in successful opera ton ten of these. There have been brought on IA inward trips from Bremen and Ham burg to New York 800,000 unregistered and over il, 900 registered letters, beside large amount of printed matter. Al this matter was prepared for delivery o1 arrival at port, either to the addresses il New York or to the railroad postofice running out of New York by the special, | selected clerks.
 Seven episcopal dioceses, those of Nebras ka, Albany, Tennessee, southern Ohio | central Pennsylvania. West Virginia an, | Pennsylvania, have sent answers confirm ing the election of Rev. Phillips Brooks a bishop of Massachusetts. Opposition s far comes only from New Jersey and Lon Island. There are ifty-two dioceses. Whe twenty-seven of them signify their assen and thirty-fve of the sixty-nine member of the house of bishops do likewise, D, | Brooks election will be ratified.
 The tower of public building now i course of erection at Philadelphia is to h provided with clock, which, for sig alone, will be one of the marvels of th world. The center of the dial (twenty-fy feet in diameter) will be 351 feet above th street. The bell is to weigh between 2t GOO and 25,O00 pounds and will be secon in weight to the great Montreal Cathedr' bell, which weighs 5000 pounds, and
 is calculated that it's peal will be hear even to the most distant part of the cit,
 Chimes similar to those of Westminst,
 will be used, ringing at the quarter, hal
 three-quarters and hour. The minu
 hand is to be twelve and the hour hand nj,
 feet in length, while tho Roman figures (
 the dial will measure two feet eight inch
 in length.
 The Oxford university income amount,
 to 965, 900 last year, of which e30, 900 car
 from fees and other internal services, t
 degree fees alone coming to just e10, ,0O
 The university draws about 916, ,0O0 fro
 various external sources, 913,OOO fro
 trust funds, R6. 900 from the colleges, a,