Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-12-30

went into the union army. Mr.. Gratvold
had not heard from him since the war un
I'll Tuesday last, when he received lette,
from N. Frey, president-elect of Switzer.
land, recalling the Incidents of his life on
the farm in Americs and of the war, and
telling of his success in Switzerland.
What drunken man can do and come
ont alive is strikingly shown in the per.
formance of David Galloway of Washing
ton. He took notion that he would dive
down the smokestack of locomotive pass-
ing under bridge near the Smithsonian
Institute. He made the dive from the
bridge all right, but missed the stack by
about foot and struck on the boiler of
the locomotive, whence he relied to the
ground. Here, too, with arunkard's luck
he missed death beneath the wheels and
was picked mp uninjured beyond afew
bruises.
If Brother Stead doesn't look out he
will get himself disliked. This is the way
he talked to the confederation ot women's
clubs in Chicago the ether lsny. The zaost
disreputable women In Chicago are those
who are lowered by fortune and proyi-
dence with all there il In the world to be
desired in the way of wealth and social
position, but who squander everything
upon themselves, and, forgetting the un-
fortunate ones, live only for their brothers
and sisters. These women pass lives of
leisure and think only of themselves
Therefore, in the eyes of God and man,
they are lower than the most abandoned
woman in Fourth avenue.
Another strip of Indian lands, the north
ern part of the Colville reservation, in
Washington, will probably be thrown open
to settlement next fall. Government sur
yeyors completed their survey of the strip
about a week ago. The reservation is
umbia boundary line, on the west by the
Oksnosan river, and on the south and east
by the Columbia river. The portion to be
thrown open for settlement extends the
whole width of the reservation and from
the British Columbia boundary to about
thirty-six miles south. It has an approx
innate area of $500 square miles. There
are few Indians on the strip, who will
receive each 100 acras before the land ia
thrown open to the whites.
Says an Episcopal clergyman: Many
bishops of our church are in the habit of
describing themselves 'by Divine permis-
.inx, ,sabo,, 80, tbafr ,1tooasa In onsoi.l
documents. A certain bishop, whose
name need not be given, not long ago had
occasion to send such document to q
most devout, but not highly educated, lay
man. Thsreupon, Ii became the duty of
the lsyman in question to draw mp and
sign an official document relating to some
Church business, and noticing the phrase
referred to in the bishops paper he thought
1t was incumbent upon him also to reeog-
nize the divine guidance. So, in entire
Smith, By Divine permission grocer and
dealer in all kinds of -four and feed" Tho
paper never got Into the archives of the
Church, however, as he was requested to
draw up anotherl witt the objectionable
phrase esn.ttsd ..-.--..-..
A decision tRss has just been rendered
in the French courts is of much importance
to all dealers In foreign literature In that
country. TIE original suit was brought
by the Comte de Sesmaisons, formerly
French minister to Hayti, against the Paris
branch of the publishing house of Brentano
for damsges for the sale of New York
newspaper which contained an article
which the plaintiff alleged to be hbe!lous.
The court condemned Messrs. Brentano to
costs. OF course the latter took an appeal,
but the higher court confirmed the judg-
ment of the lower, although 1t reduced the
costs to 100 francs. This is the first case
of the kind that has come up, and the de-
cision seems to be in plain accordance with
article 40 of the law on the press, which
allows the prosecution of simple vendors
tin default" of managers, authors or print
ers. The court held that the Proprietors,
publisher and editor of the New York pa
per, being foreigners, were out of the reach
of French law, and thst, therefore, Messrs.
Brentano were amenable. Any foreign
booksellers In Paris, therefore, may be
prosecuted If they have in stock any book,
pamphlet or newspaper which contains
anything libsllous against any Frenchman
named therein.