Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-09

stituents should not have their shsre of the river and harbos bill appropriation. So dividing this appropriation by the number of districts in the country, he finds the pro rats share would be s55, 900, and this is the sum he proposes to ssk for in an amendment to the river and harbor bill, for the purpose of improving the of Iowa by the exclusion of water there from during the spring freshets.
 In Iols, Kansas, they have . town mar shal who is about to learn something. He intruded upon e poker game for the pur- pose of arresting one of the players, who was charged with stealing horse. The accused person has demonstrated his inno- cencs and now brings suit against the mar shsl to recover the value of e large jack pot which was under discussion when the arrest was made. The quondsm prisoner alleges that be held an ace ful-Shsteyer that is-when he was hauled of to prison. and that but for his arrest he would have infsllibly gathered In ell the funds in sight. He feels that hsr should be e-rein- bursed for the loss he sustained, and there fore sues the marshal for the amount.
 It Is said tbst the habit of taking head ache powders" is increasing to an alarming extent among a great number of women throughout the country. These powders, as their name indicates, are claimed by the manufacturers to be positive and speedy cure for any form of headache. In many cases their chief ingredient Is morphine, opium, cocaine or some other equally in- jurious drug, having a tendency to deadsn pain. The habit of taking them Is easily formed, but almost impossible to shake off. Women usually commence taking them to relieve 6 raging headache and, fndipg 1t successful, soon resort to the powder to alleviate any little pain or ache they may be subjected to, and dually, like the morphine or opium fend, get into the habit of taking them regularly, imagining that they are in pain If they happen to mics their regular dose.
 Anthony the Wsnderer Is one of the characters of Russia. For more than forty years he has been psrpetually on the move, his peregrinations extending all over ST. beria, Central Aeia and European Russia. In the depth of winter, just as in the height of summer, he marches barefoot and al- most entirely devoid of clothing. Fifty pounds weight of iron chains are welded around his shoulders and body, while his waist ie encircled by an iron belt weighing thirty pounds more, closed with lock, the key of which he threw into the Arctic Ocean. Thus equipped, Anthony the Wan derer has spent two score years iu tramp ing all over the Russian empire, collecting enormous sums of money for the building of churches and schools in places where they are needed and without keeping a single kopek for himself. He Is venerated not alone by the ignorant peasantry, but also by the most highly educated and sfiuent classes, and men and women of all sorts and conditions of life are describ- ed as applying to him for advice in matters spiritual, worldly and even hygienic.
 Halley's ,met is expected again In 1911. After its appearance in 1882, Edmund Hal ley, an English astronomer, predicted fits return to psrihellon in l759. It returned that year, and was frtt seen by a farmer, John Palitscb, who lived at Dresden. Re owned a email telescope and employed 1t constantly. Psl!tsch was thres weeks ahead of the astronomers at the observs- tory at Paris. When these men saw the comet coming they kept the fact secret un- til they learned that an amateur had discovered 1t with his little telescope. Gar rett Serv!ss, writing of this comet in the Sun, says: "Halley's comet Is coming back-a comet which In 1056 shed celes. tial splendor over the Norman conquest, and whose terror-iuspiring visit was com memorated by the hand of Queen Matilda in the Bsyeux Tapestry, the comet that in 1456, the year of the battle of Belgrade, scared Turk and Christian alike, and wss mathematical by a bull from the pope; the comet whote strange scimitsr form still chilled the morrow of the ignorant and su- psrstitious at Its latest return In 1885. It Is yet far away, but the eye of science fees 1t, already within the orbit of Neptune, rush. ing sunward and earthvard with con- stantly increasing velocity as It falls along the steep curve of Its orbit"