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Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

under the old system, only five persons were rated as millionaires-that is, as pos sessing 1000, ,OOO marks capital. Under the new system the number has risen to 105, and forty-six of these are thaler million aires, which means that their capital amounts to 3,0OO,0O marks, or s15O, 1000. In Duisburg the number of millionaires has risen from two to thirty-two, and in Frankfort it is calculated that the yield of the income tax will be larger by three and a half million marks this year than last.
 The report of the Detroit Public Lib rary commission for the past year con- tains figures for the last five years which go to show proportionately how great hold the various classes of Literature" have upon the reading public of the Michigan city. The Detroit showing is different in one important respect from that of many other cities, for it puts fc- ton as low as 57.S0 per cent. for 1891, whereas much higher proportion is ire quently noted and commented upon else where. In 1887, it was 65.32, and during the next three years it steadily fell till it reached 56.46 in 1899, rising last year in considerably from this "low-water mark" History, biography and travel comprise $50 per cent. of the total number of books issued in 1890, gain from the 6.6S of 1887; literature, poetry and drama are credited with 4.33 per cent, against 3.S0; religion and philosophy with 1.56, against .93 science and arts with AS, against 3.23 juvenile books with 15.71, against 14.92, and German with 4.34, against 3.S6.
 When John Brown, shortly before his death, expressed anxiety for his family when he should have gone the way of all flesh, there were many Abolitionists who vowed to assume that responsibility. One of them now writes to Miss Kate Field, in Washington, to say that the old hero's fa- vorite daughter, Mrs. Ruth Thompson, is now dependent upon an aged and infrm husband, who is scarcely able to work; and their daughter, girl of eighteen, is struggling through the Normal school at Los Angeles, so as to support the family by her services as a teacher in time Meanwhile, Miss Fields correspondent is trying to help them by selling genuine autographs of the old anti-slavery leader. A mortgage on the home and some old store-bills have been cleared off. The writer says: ''Where the next dollar will come from I do not know. but do know it is needed. still hope to sell more of the letters, as I have half dozen left. I hear that dealers East are getting from $15 to S25 each. Possibly you may see the way to interest some friend who would be pleased to help"
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
GOldin the Stars.

"A meteorite recently found contained gold i ts composition. Several scientific men Of COT siderable note cansider this proof positive tha here is gold in the stars.J
 Ho, poor folks all over the earth. Have you heard it, the beautiful news, To relieve you from poverty's dearth, And to save you from poverty's blues? A meteor fell in the West
 That was striped with auriferous bars, And scientists therefore have guessed That there's plenty of gold in the stars. Then away with all hunger and woe, And away with all sorrow and want, Let your spirits exultingly flow
 While you join in the glorious chant. Oh, why be with sorrow oppressed? There is gold in Arcturus and Mars, In the Dipper, the Twins and the rest There Is plenty of gold in the stars! Oh, ye toilers with sensitive souls, Who are chained to . tediou- grind, Now the burden away from you rolls And is left in the distance behind. Cast the shackleS that bound away And forget the disf1guring scars You can soar as you will from to-day, There is plenty of gold in the stars. Oh, ye slaves to the rigors of fate,
 Who live but to struggle for bread, Whose love has been curled to hate Bid good-by to the era of wrong,
 Bid goodb by to the pitiless bars, Behind which ye have struggled so long, There is plenty of gold in the stars. Let us hear of injustice no more,
 Nor of riot surrounded by dearth; God is merciful now as of yore,
 And has never forgotten the earth. Ye who grovel in poverty's ditch,
 Look to Jupiter, Venus and Mars; They are nearer by far than the rich, And there's plenty of gold in the stars.
 GEORGE HORTON
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
Xumt11a1 aud Guuriet.
The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
 Hshed in Connecticut.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

There is at present very little probabil- made, and the Nicaragua scheme is in very definite and promising shape. If it is car ried out it will make some remarkable changes. For instance: New York and Liverpool by "The Horn" are equally dis tant from San Francisco, viz, 15,600 miles, and the same is true of all other ports on the Pacific coast. By the canal New York will be distant from San Fran cisco 4, 300 miles, while Liverpool will be distant from San Francisco 7,600 miles, or a difference in favor of New York over Liverpool of 2,7O0 miles; and this differ ence in favor of New York over Liverpool holds good as to all the ports on the Pacif ic coast of both North and South America. At the present time there are more than seventy millions of people in and around the Pacific ocean who will be brought nearer to New York by distances varying from three thousand to ten thousand miles than they now are. This takes no account of the vast population of China and India. A reference to the map will show that the east coast of China is nearer New York by Nicaragua than to Liverpool by the Suez. Shanghai is three hundred miles nearer New York by the Nicaragua route than to Liverpool by Suez. The distance from New York to Yokohama is shortened six thousand miles by the canal. This brings Nav York two thousand miles nearer Yo- kohama than Liverpool is by Suez, thus giving to New York an advantage over Liverpool in competing for the trade of Japan. This advantage, which is the cost of transportation for distance of two thousand miles, should enable New York to monopolize the trade of Japan. The same is true of Corea.
 Of course the Pacific coast would be the part of the country most benefited by the canal. But increased prosperity there would benefit the whole country.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
DR. EDWARD ROTH,

Who brought about the above result in Mir. Hyland's case, is graduated physician of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, also a graduated druggist and chemist of the New York College of Pharmacy, and pre- pares all his own medicines from selected drugs, of which he is from experience a a judge. His charges in every case are reasonable. He is located permanently at 87 Church street, opposite the Postoffce, where he cures catarrh, as we'll as all dis eases of the nose, throat, lungs, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys, skin and nervous diseases, rheumatism, asthma, bronchitis, consumption, dyspepsia and deafness.
 Office hours from 9 to il a. m., to 1 and to p. m., Sundays excepted. Con. sultation free.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

fair and they think we believe in reciproc- ity.-Judge.
 self, old man, I don't suppose you get down to the store at s o'clock. the way you did when we both worked for old Minksi" ''You bet don't! get down at 6:30, and keep my eye on the clerks. = Boston News.
 Hungry Higgins-W'at io you think O this idee that man is put back on earth a second time; one style O Twin even up the other, sorterl Weary Watkins-o, I dunno. If there's anything in it I must "a done heap of hard work when I was here before. Indianapolis Journal.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
The old saying that con-

The old saying that "con- sumption can be cured if taken in time" was poor com fort. It seemed to invite a trial, but to anticipate failure. The other one, not SO old, "consumption can be cured" is considered by many false.
 Both are true and not true; the first is prudent one cannot begin too early.
 The means is careful llv ing. Scott's Emulsion Of cod-liver oil is sometimes an important part ot that.
 Let us send you a book on CAREFUL L1v1NG-free. sco1-r & BOVINE. Chemists. 1sa South 5sh Aven''e' New York.
 Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-iiver , oii--all druggists everywhere do. sI.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

There are a few old toll bridges in Maine which still perpetuate curious law. They have signs proclaiming that | all persons save "paupers, Indians and clergymen" must pay toll on crossing. It is gravely said that President Mcleod l did not make 8 dollar out of the great l Reading deal which he consummated and | which put millions into some pockets. If | the statement is true MT. Mcleod is indeed | a remarkable curiosity. Baseball is good deal of an industry. There are two factories in Philadelphia that use up in the season one hundred horse hides a week each to cover baseballs They are alum tanned. One hide will fur nish covers for ten dozen No. 1 balls and five to eight dozen inferior ones. Horse hides for this purpose sell from $2. 50 to $4 each, as to size. Rips are also used. They sell at IA cents foot and sheepskins $3. 50 to $S dozen. The best regulation balls sell at $1.25 to $1.50 each.
 It is fact of curious interest that Will
 
 active promoters of the Missouri Pacific railroad, the first road built west of the Mississippi, did not himself take ride on | a railroad train until one day last week, when he journeyed from the country Mis- souri town where he lives to St. Louis. Forty years ago Mir. Ellison was man of some importance in Mississippi valley pol itics, and was one of the leaders among the enthusiasts who at that period of west ern development were projecting steel highways to every habitable portion of the great west.
 Coal appears to be quite generously and generally distributed. Last summer a German named Cremer, who made jour ney to Spitzbergen, discovered thick beds of coal there and at Bear island. His trip lasted only six weeks, but it was long enough for Cremer to ascertain that coal mining is quite possible there, although perhaps, owing to the climate, not always in regular manner. The thickest beds of coal are on the east coast of Bear island and are about five hundred feet thick Along the Spitzenbergen coast coal wa. found in layers about yard and hal thick. The curious discovery was made a . Kings bay of the grave of Dutch sailor with the date 1741 as clearly written as i
 made the day before.
 By the new system adopted in Prussi
 for the collection of the income tax, al
 persons are compelled to make forma
 declaration of their incomes, which are n
 longer assessed arbitrarily by commission !. CTS. The result is rather astonishing. A 7, first thought it would seem probable tha ' the returns would exhibit great shrinkage
 but, as a matter of fact, they have increas
 ed beyond all expectation. The explana
 ton presumably is, that men possessin
 wealth went to enjoy the credit of havin s, it, even if they have to pay pretty liberal
 ly for the advertisement. In Dusseldorf
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

MT. JOHN HYLAND, 91 Chapel street, New Haven
 q had pains all over my body, and was all stuck up with plasters.
 Had a Severe Cough that was always with me, and I would have spells of sneezing that were terrific and the water would run from my eyes in streams.
 Had No Smell or Taste,
 t'There were buzzing and roaring noises in my ears and would always seem to have cold in the head, and my head ached constantly, and I always wanted to hawk and spit to clear my throat. My stomach was very irritable, and often I could get nothing to stay on my stomach, as I would vomit everything I would eat. I had g dull feeling and no appetite whatever. had gotten so bad that before quit work two years ago, I would faint away at my. work. had tried dozen doctors without relief, but under Dr. Rcths treatment improved in short time, and now can say feel well. No asthma or cough. can smell and taste and eat as l please. No headache or sneeZing spells In fact, all my bad feelings are gone, and I advise others afflicted to try Dr. Roths treatment and get wen''
 Mr. John J. HyIand was in the employ of Peck Bros. & Go. for 10 or il years as brass moulder, and is well known in the trade, and lives at 91 Chapel street, New Haven, Conn.,, and this state ment might be easily verified.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
4t1y 6nnds.
Howe & StctSOl.
 TRADE BooMERsl

TRADE B00MERsI
 We offer just one case of 100 of the largest size best quality White Cro- chet Quilts at 98c each, perfect goods and worth $1.25. Housekeepers should investigate.
 We offer GA Fringed Chenille Covers, in a good line of colorings, at $1.25 as the biggest drive ever shown in Chenille goods.
 We offer an immense line of 80 inch wide Print ed China Cloths at loo per yard. The designs are very handsome---in imita- tion of China Silks and as we control them for this city we have made a leader of them at loo y'd, though made to sell at 12 1-2c.
 We offer 125 pieces All Wool Dress Goods in Scotch mixtures, stripes, plaids, checks and plain goods, at soc yard; styles are the very latest.
 We offer 12 pieces Nov city Storm Serges, 45 in. wide, at 75c y'd; nothing made more desirable.
 We offer a large assort- ment of Printed China Silks at soc yard; hand some styles that cannot be found elsewhere in this city.
 We offer 100 dog Gents Unlaund'd White Shirts at soc each as the great est Shirt bargain ever shown by us; they are worth 65c.
 We offer Ladies' Black Cashmere Gloves at l 9c a pair, reduced from 29c.
 We offer Mink, Beaver, Otter, Monkey and Krim- mer Capes at about HALF PRICE. You can buy $42.OO Capes for $22.5O.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
Itch and Salt Rheum.

Itch and Salt Rheum.
 ITO all afflicted with the itch salt rheum or J. any skin disease that scales and drops G ,,os oif is az harrnless as butter. that will heal the dis eased parts in frem to 10 weeks, no matter how iong standing or what remedies you nave tried, and build a new skin as healthy new born babe's the disease never te return again. Not sold to druggists. To be had only from F. PETRE, East Haven, Conn.,, HOO and 10c stam. Cor maiD for . os. jar. yib tys ]
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
Ta11t1drIe5.

Eammdr1es. THE FORSYTH CO.,, With all the newest inventions and improve ments at their command, are equal to all de- mands made upon them in the way or First Class Work.
 Dyeing Of all articles of wearing apparel, inciuding
 Cleaning. We are the headquarters for New York and New England for the cleaning or lac0 cur rI1ine' also cleaning of window shades, portieres, plan- kets, mems suits, ladies' dresses, etc.
 Carpet Cleaning. The fall of the year has become the popular season for taking up carpets, Whlcn, py oul p.v y cess of cleaning and steamlng, VIII pe fio oA Q" dust and moths.
 Laundrying. Business in this department is brisk: No work sent out that is not up to the highest stanoaro' Orders received by telephone. Goods called for and delivered. THE CO.,
 OFFICES: 878 and 645 Chapel Street.
 Works:
 aTATE AND LAWRENCE STREET.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

There are few old toll bridges in Maine which still perpetuate curious law. They have signs proclaiming that all persons save "paupers, Indians and clergymen" must pay toll on crossing.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
wAKEMAN,s wANDERINGs.

In the BalearIc Islands-On the Med fterranean sea-The SunIit, Zcph- yrus, Sleepy Harbor and City of PaIma-CoIorfuI Scenes and Ways Hint in Home-BuiIding 10 Rich Americans.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

Paints, Oils, Etc.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

It is gravely said that President Mcleod did not make dollar out of the great Reading deal which he consummated and which put millions into some pockets. If the statement is true MT. Mcleod is indeed a remarkable curiosity.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-14
Free Speech.

It is to be regretted that occasionally q
few thoughtless persons show a disposi-
ton to offer petty violence to public
speakers who do not represent their polit.
ical views.
We outgrew such crude methods of
controversy long ago. This is The era of
free speech and free discussion. 1t
makes no difference whether q man
agrees with us or not, 80 far as this right
is concerned. Every man has the right
to speak his sentiments, observing the
ordinary proprieties of time and place,
and he is responsible only 10 the law, in
the event of his transgression of statute.
His hearers must listen, and reply at the
proper time, or withdraw from the place.
As law and order loving citizsns they
put themselves in the wrong and injure
their cause when they menace d speaker
or offer him even the slightest violence
We do not believe that these words OF
admonition are much needed here in
Georgia, but it is well at the beginning
of hot campaign for the people to get
in the right frame of mind, and prepare
themselves for fair discussion. Give
both sides hearing. If you don't like
what speaker says, beat him in the
argument. To resort to violent methods
simply makes the victim more popular
with his party, and increases his inAu'
euce. When the people think that a
man is prosecuted they rally around him.
In this campaign let Georgia be land
of free speech atlanta Constitution
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-14

- The gold the dontists bury away in
human teeth amounts to 1,S00 pounds a
year in the United States.
If dull, spiritless and stupid if your
blood is thick and sluggish; if yonr ap-
petite is capricious and uncertain, you
need Sarsaparilla. For best results take
Dc Witt's.-Wilhite and Wilhite.
II The world-famous grape vino at
Hampton Court, the largest in England
and supposed to be l25 years old, bore
nearly 200 bunclles of grapes this year.
The fruit was packed in boxes and sent
to the Queen.
- There are 1l0 distinct Christian do
nominations in tho United States. Or
these there are 10 varieties Of ALetho-
dists, II of Baptists and II of Presbyteri-
ans.
-Itis is a fixed and immutable law that
to have good, sound health ono must have
pure, rich and abundant blood. There is
no shorter nor surer route than by
course Of De Wits Sarsaparilla.-Wilhite
& 1YilhIte.
"A Mr. Goodman, of London, bet
that ho could smoke eighty-siX cigars
down to an inch in less than twelve
hours. lie did it with forty-two minutes
to spare.
= The highest priced piano in the
United States belongs to tho Marquand
family, of New York city. 1t was de-
signed and painted by Alma Tadoma and
cost $4,000.
Mrs. l.. r. Patton, Rockford, III.
writes: "From personal experience can
recommend Do Wits Sarsaparilla, a euro
for impure blood and general debility. p
Wilhite j. Wilhite.
a North Carolina negro is said to be
running for Congress OIL platform which
demands payment outright to every eX-
slave of $500, one half Of which is to go to
the former master.
Tho consumption Of cigars, cigar
cites and ehcroots in this country in-
creases at a very rapid rate. The number
smoked last year is estimated 1T nearly
eight million.
1yo truly believe Dc Wits Little
Early Risers to Eo the most natural, most
effective, most prompt and economical
pill for billiousness, indigestion ana III =
active liyor.-Wilhito Il Wilhite.
negro church in Athens whito
and colored minister were preaching TO
q largo congregation. The audience OBJ
iccted to the term "negro' as used ny
the white minister, which finally dcyc!-
oped Into row in which both preachers
wcrc attacked, the colorod man being bad
ly cut
"A very curious fact stated by
writer in Longman's Magazine is that
cloud is always raining. Even in sum-
mcr, when tic cloud over our head is
white, tho drops arc falling from it. But
they arc very small and they cvaporato
before they reach tho earth. In ovaporI-
ating they pass from tho cloutl-partclo
stage to tho haze-parliclc stage; from
saturaton to simple condensation, or tho
dry dust PARTICLES on which the condensa-
ton took place may bc left perfectly dry.
Itlsa general truth that whenever a cloud
is formed it begins to rain. The minute
particles of water come down III millions.
Tho distance they fall depends on their
size. If tho air the cloud rests OIL is dry
aud warm they do not get far. If it is
chilly they collect III masses and form
drops Of rNin that reach the earth.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-14
He Robbed q Safe.

BRUNSWICK, GA, Aug. 31.-Judge
VIM. r. Blain, ordinary Of Glynn Coun-
ty, was taught in the act to-day of rob-
bing the safe Of Jacob Nicholson, whole
sale grocer.
Nicholson has been missing money for
six months and set trap by marking
some silver and placing detectives on the
lookout in tho store.
Judge Blain to-day walked into the
storo back to tho office, whilo tho book
keeper, cashier and assistants wero away,
unlocked the safe and with skeleton
keys opened tho money drawers, taking
out handful Of silver. The detectives
sprang from concea.ment and arrested
him with the money and keys in his
hand. Blain said, "Lord havo mercy
whom tho detectives grabbed him. Later
he gave bond.
The nows Of tho robbery and arrest
paralvZed busines for awhile.
Judge Blain was universally beloved,
and had secured the nomination without
opposition for the second torn as ordina-
ry.
Blain before his election and after was
Michelson's confidential friend, and they
seemed to be mutual admirers. Through
this friendship and under the preteXt o.
having safe like NIichelson's that would
not work, Blain secured Nicholson:
mbination, and after that tho fitting o
keys to the money drawer was easy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-14
The Bite Of O Snake;

The heads of most of the venomous
snakes, including the "rattlers," bulge
just beyond the neck. Without e1cep-
ton they have fangs, either always erect,
or raised and laid back at will. These
fangs are long, sharp. pointed teeth, with
hollow groove running their entire
length. At the root of each farg is a
little bag OF poison. When the snake
bites, the motion presses the poison sac,
and it's contents flow down through the
hollow in the tooth into the puncture or
wound. The harmless little forked
tongue is often spoken of by the unin.
formed as the snakes ''stinger." Now,
there ia no impropriety in the name, as
che poisonous snakes do rot sting, but
bite, their victims. There is no creature,
sven if brought from foreign countries
where "rattlers" do not exist, but will
halt aud tremble at the first warning
sound of the rattle,
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, with others, has
been making experiments with the
venom of different serpents. He has
found that, aside from its poisonous
qualities, il contains living germs, which
have the power of increasing enormously
fast. So, you see, when an animal is
bitten, these tiny bits CT life, entering
with the poison, cause harmful action to
begin almost at once. DR.. Mitchell has
found the nervous center controlling the
act of striking seems to be in the spiua
cord, for if he cut off snakes head, ano
then pinched its tail, the stump of it,
neck turned back, and would have strucE
his hand had he been bold enough tt
hold it still st. Nicholas.