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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-28
WHITE.


 Swadley-snaggs says he Is a failure as far as success is concerned. Criffs-- In other words, he's a success as far as failure is conoerned.-BostonC Cor- fer
 Bagley-There goes a man whose hair turned perfectly white in single month, Tagley-Some great sorrow? Bagley-Nop. He stopped dyeing.-Har- lem Life.
 "A fit husband for my daughter! Why, in the first place, she is half a head taller than you" Well, sir, don't expect to be so short after I'm married. Life.
 NThe Bearings of a Hint. .-He-Nice dog, very! Have you taught it any new tMcks since I was here last? She tsweetly)-Yes; it will fetch your hat, if you whistle,-Puck.
 Rural Housekeeper-Yo are late this season. Familiar Tramp-Yes, mum; had ter come by roundabout way 10 avoid tn folks wot offered me work last year.-New York Weekly.
 Taking Their Meals Out.-Guest-one cracker and a beer. Waiter-Same for you, sir? Second Guest-Yes; hold on guess one portion of cracker will be enough for both of us.-Puck. Eve treated Paradise as though
 It were of little worth: And now her daughters are not slow
 To clamor for the earth Judge At Pawnbroker' s.-'I'll take that pair of gold earrings you have in the window marked four-and-six. And would you pierce my ears for me?" Certainly, maam William, bring me those bagpipes out of the back shop Judy.
 You'll have to hurry up on this build- ing" said the boss to a gang of labor- CTS. We're ahead of time now, ain't we?" suggested one of the men. Yes, But the contractor wants to hurry and get it all up before it falls down. - Washington Star
 Interesting Young Lady (who has been asking a great many questions)-- Oh, there's a great worm got hold oi your hook! Aged Fisherman Ia little bit tired)I know; put it there. I. Y L. (puzzled but persistenD-But, excuse me, how can the fishes see to bite the hook ?-St Pauls.
 Not from His Standpoint.-PopuIist How much did you say you owed, s1,- 900? Now, my friend, with free silver | 1t will cost you only $500 to pay that off. Farmer-Umph! I'm afraid that wouldn't do me any good Populist- But why not? Farmer--I want to Dor. row $1000 more.--Life. Fortune Teller-You may in time make good income, but you will never | be rich. Young Man-Ehg Why not Fortune Teller-You are not saving l. you are wasteful. Young Man--My, my I'm afraid that is true You have 8 wonderful gift! How did you know was wasteful? Fortune Teller-Yor have just wasted five shillings getting your fortune told.--Heusehold Words.
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CONCENTRATIONS.
A Postscript to the Whitneyville Celebra.

A Postscript to the Whitneyville Celebra-
 tion.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: In the proceedings of the Whitney vile centennial have neither heard nor read any reference to a. transaction of some interest which occurred Sep tember 2e, 1793. For the good will and regard have and do bear unto the Congrega tional church and society in the town," wrote Joshua Munson, a young citizen, aged twenty eight, q convey one certain piece of land near the dwelling house of Captain Caleb Mix, on which for them to build a meet ing house containing in quantity one half acre" This lot is bounded east on Cheshire road, so called,' eight rods, and south on Enos Bradley.
 The last transaction or record con- meeting MT. Munson with Hamden was dated March, 1795. He removed to Canaan C'Canaan Mountain'). where he owned a large tract of land, kept dairy of forty cows, and twas quite king among his fellow citizens. The eldest of his twelve children was Levinus, who graduated at Yale in 1911, and became judge of the supreme court of the state of New York. Joshua Munson was present in New Haven when the town was invaded by the British in 1779; he was thirteen years old.
 MYRON A. MUNSON,
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 AT HARRISBURG.

To-day the contest for the political Pennsylvania may be decided. At least an attempt will be made to decide it. convention is to be held. is very con- f1icting. The claiming and the bluffing are protuberant and exuberant on both sides. Quay says he will win unless he
 is sold out, and his opponents say that
 to that happens Others say that there |are unpledgad delegates enough to make
 the situation wholly uncertain. Quay is personally conducting his campaign from his headquarters at Harrisburg. A majority of the State committee are for him, but its chairman is anti-Quay, is a candidate for reelection to the po- sition, and by the usage of the party
 has good deal of power in making up the roll of the convention. He has de- V the roll, saying he would put upon 1t l "the names of the duly accredited dele gates elected by the regular conven- tions, leaving absolutely to the State convention the duty of passing upon all contests" There is, talk of rival rol,
 to be prepared by Quays friends on
 the committee, and there is also talk of two conventions. Some people are lock- l ing for a riot. Extra policemen have
 been sworn in in preparation for trou- ble, and the situation grows more and more stormy. Quay's performances dc
 not indicate that he is at all sure of a
 majority. Whatever happens it will
 take the party a long time to recover 1 from if
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 TT. WAS TH E CAT,
from it.

"The harmless, necessary cat" may not'ibe as harmless as it has been said and sung to be. Physicians of Bright on, England. say they have discovered that diphtheria may be carried from one family to another by cats, and that the pets themselves may and do suffer from disease which they communi- cate to human beings and which when it develops in the latter takes the form of diphtheria. In Brighton, recently, there was an epidemic of diphtheria which was confined to a single section of the city. For considerable time the doctors were unable to IocateI the cause of the disease. Milk used by the af- fiicted families was analysed and the school building was thoroughly over hauled without revealing the origin of the outbreak, and the dwelling houses were found to be in good condition. Finally it was observed that in each family where there had been a case or diphtheria there was a pet cat. No sooner was this fact noted than the physicians had plain sailing. This dis covery of the first coincidence was fol- lowed by that of others. It was soon learned that in each case the family eat had two or three weeks before the breaking out of diphtheria, suffered from a disease which had appeared as an epidemic among the felines. the symptoms of which were similar to those of diphtheria.
 It was, it was the cati Now if some scientist will discover that poodle dogs are deadly to the human race it will be d good deed.
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ways regarded 1t as unfounded until a few days ago, when, in examining some old family records. he found convincing evidence that the two men were de- scendants, on the mothers side in each case, of a common ancestor, Hannah Grant, wife of Jesse Root Grant, the Generals father. was a Simpson. Her father, John Simpson. was a farmer who, before he removed to Ohio, lived in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, twenty miles from Philadelphia, His father, in turn, was William Simpson, who is supposed to have come to this country from the North of Ireland be- tween 174S and 175O. He settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on land bought of John Penn. and later served in the Continental Army. He died in 1s16. He had another son besides John and two daughters, one of whom, Ann, married John Davis. Their son, sam uel, was the father of Jefferson Davis. Thus the Confederate President and the Union General had the same great grandfather, a man of some note and himself soldier.
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to come back. It is to be hoped that they will; so don't cut up all your real lace for fear you will later wish you hadn't.
 These ornamental bits of lace or filmy material take great variety of shapes,
 and so. too, appear on gowns of any material. One is shown here on a dress
 of navy blue crepon, and above it comes a collarette of puffed navy-blue velvet topped by cream-colored lace and fast ened with a gold buckle in front The
 jabot itself is cream colored lace. The sleeves, which are shirred several times
 to form two puffs, are of blue and scar
 let glace silk and the belt is of the same, fastening with soft bow at the side.
 Rich laces of all kinds have been for
 long time a conspicuous item in dress Iadornment, and ordinarily fashions shift fast enough to give to the item of
 long service a vacation period of retire. ment, but lace is an exception to this
 rule and will not have chance to re-
 tire into the dark closets and clothes
 presses. The lover of lace may com plain that the fashion of punching the
 costly fabric about the throat does not
 do it the justice that the passing fash | ions of festooning the web of wide
 skirts or of spreading it over the wide
 revers we are now wearing do, but on
 the other hand punched lace looks well,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-28

Pontiac, Michigan, is going little fur Ther in the enforcement of Sunday laws than any other place yet heard from. Restaurants, saloons, candy stores and tobacco stands are closed on Sundays, and ice cream dealers may not deliver their goods to customers on that day. Now over hundred citizens have sign ed petition asking that the livery sta- bles be closed, and yet another petition has been circulated and extensively signed asking that milkmen and fcemen be prohibited from plying their business on Sunday.
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The various attempts to light Ged- ney's channel by electricity have been very interesting and suggestive, and the latest move Is looked upon as high ly ingenious. In the preliminary work the direct current was used; but the lamps along the "lane' are now lighted up by the alternating current, so that the conditions of distance are success fully dealt with. The primary voltage or pressure of the circuit is 1000 volts, alternating current, and this is trans formed at the lamp to 100 volts by means of little Converter" of 600 volts capacity, fitted right inside of the wooden buoy, or anchored mast, of which the lamp Is the head, like the handle of a walking-stick. Altogether over six miles of cable are used to connect the lamps with the generating plant on shore. In the earlier work the lamps were set in kind of protect ing frame, but they are now covered by "a. very tough and thick bell glass. Each lamp is of 100 candle-power. Foreign governments and lighthouse boards have watched these experiments with much interest, as their demonstrated practicability will lead to many modi- fications in the lighting and night de- fence of important harbors.
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Fourteen prominent publication houses in Germany have organized on Association of Christian Book Publish CTS" Its object is to use their craft and business in the interest of the prin- ciples of Christianity, and to antagonize the spread of pernicious and anti Christian literature in every shape and form.
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even if 1t isn't the very finest quality, and some of the beautiful limitations cannot, when so disposed. be, distin- gulshed from the most costly real"
 FLORETTE.
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Notice.

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 FASHION NOTES.

Fischus Becoming an Important Item
 To distinguish autumn dresses there will be no more marked characteristic than flchus, which promise to be as generally worm as was the central box pleat down the front of blouses. All sorts of soft and blended shades of muslin will begused for these. and deli- cate gray chiffon clouded with swirls of pale pink will be befrelled softly with pure white, attaining soft coloring that is most becoming. It may be that in this fancy, the adorable little lace "barbs" that made women of the last period of flchus, perennially young, are
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-28

It is said that the number of members of the new parliament who have the same Christian name and surname is unprecedented. There are three John Wilson's, two George Joachim Goschens, two William Abrahams and two Robert Wallaces in the House of Commons. With the exception of the Goschens, who are father and son, the other men who are namesakes are not related. One Abraham is a Welsh, the other an Irish member. Both the Wallaces rep resent Scotch constituencies, aid are English barristers. Robert Wallace, the member for one of the divisions of Edinburgh, is Scotchman by birth and training, who held at one time ia chair in a Scotch university, but Robert Wal lace, Q. C., the newly elected member for Perth, is an Irishman by birth, an- tecedents and education.
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A writer in the Baltimore Herald has discovered what he regards as proof that General Grant and Jefferson Davis were relatives. A rumor to that effect, he says. was current in the West during the rebellion, but he had al-
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As a, result of the recent interna- tional conference in Paris, steps have been taken in most of the Continen- tai countries to protect the birds use full in agriculture by helping to destroy injurious insects. A list of birds con- sidered helpful in this regard has been published by an authorized commit tee. It includes number of the sing CTS usually allotted to cages, as well as others sacrificed for ornamental pur- poses. A period of three years is to be allowed to the various countries to arrange their laws in accordance with the decisions of the conference, and after that time there will be a great change in the trade with birds.
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The University of Pennsylvania has made a speciality in the collection of works relating to German philosophy and literature, and has recently pur- chased the library of the late Professor Beckstein of the University of Rostock and many other valuable German works, including standard reference books, cyclopedias, lexicons, literary journals, etc, and now has German library of fifteen thousand volumes and manuscripts, which is supposed to be the largest and best collection of its kind in the country. It is the plan of the University of Pennsylvania to make the sending of American students to Germany as unnecessary in all respects as it is undesirable in some respects, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The town of Fresno, California, has secured a supply of electric power suff1- cient for all its requirements of light, heat, and power through the utiliza- ton of water power which hitherto has run to waste. The. source of the power ts a stream and waterfall in the foot hills of the Sierre Nevada, thirty-three miles distant from the town. A column of water eighteen inches in diameter, falling down precipice 1,412 feet, drives dynamos giving 1,2OO horse power. The lighting and street car system of Fres- mo will be run with this power, and it is estimated that the force in the harnessed river will be ampleato supply the town with all the electric power 1t may need when 1t has reached to five times it's present 10000 population.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-08
On. Consistency

Considerable criticism has been made
of the course Of the \. L. \. at Seat
tie Tor the nomination IF candidates
OF foreign birth for School Dlrec-
tors a. being inconsistent with their
principle If Putting none but Amer
leans on guard" Their candidates
were Andrew Chilhcrg, a native of
Sweden. \. : Wells, who first saw the
light oi day in New Brunswick, and
Mrs. Niuniired Thomas, Il daughter OF
old England, who now seeks to run
the monetary system OF this country
on single standard gold basis
inconsistent it undoubtedly Is, but
the policy OF making nominations
that would attract the support of for
eign-born citizens shows that there are
shrewd wire-pullers at the bottom of
the A. =. \. movement, and it excites
the suspicion tina. there is more OF
blgotry than patriotism for an incen-
tive when 1t comes to putting their
plans into active force. \ truly hon
est course would have been to NOM
mate candidates in stric: accord with
avowed principle and have submitted
their cause on its true merits. Those
foreigners who have been caught by
this device will learn in time that they
have been used as the proverbial cats
paw by the sly old monkeys that have
chestnuts to roast, who are doubtless
now chuckling with glee over the sue
cess Of their scheme.
This is the honest opinion OF one
who, while native born American,
believes in the fullest freedom in mat
tiers of religious belief. He yields the
palm to none in devotion to the old
flag. and the principles OF the grand
constitution upon which our govern
ment is based. 1t was religious intol-
erance that nerved the sturdy arms OF
the pilgrim fathers to rear a temple
to religious liberty, with Plymouth
rock for its cornerstone. 1t now
seems to be duty to admonis! the
generations that have descended from
that grand party of frce-thinkers and
iree-worshipers to pause and reflect
before they censure others who may
ossess as much sincerity OF thought
and honesty of impulse as they or their
revered antecedents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-08
Whittier Are We Driftingp
Review nem.l SeattIe.

The day of triumphant Democracy
is drawing near, but the victory will
not be along the line of Cleveland's
leadership. Democracy must return
to the huts and factories of the people
from whom it derived its power. Nor
will its victory be along the line OF
populistic storms. Never will DEM
ocracy triumph by running after
shadows that reflect themselves from
the bank of England. Nor will the
American Eagle be free as long as
England directs our financial and
foreign policy. Democracy must re.
turn to first principles. Let us be
true Americans first, then let us run
our affairs for Americans. And those
not satisfied with our institutions and
laws, and the way we manage our af-
fairs, invite them to leave. 1t is i'm.
material TO our people what other
governments desire or need, if our
government stands by the needs of
Americans. Democracy must act for
Americans, and must act independent
of and in spite OF other nations. The
Democratic party must restore silver
to its place as money; it must take
the telegraph and telephone and make
them part of our postal system it
must legislate the national banking
system out of existence, and thus pre-
vent private monopoly OF the peoples
money. The Democratic party should
now take John Sherman at his word
and government issue its treasury
notes instead OF borrowing money
from the banks, and then constituting
them banks of issue. Free silver, pos
tal.telegraph and telephone; treasury
notes and repeal of the national bank
act, should be the platform of the ma
tional Democratic party in the cam
paign of 1896. With such deciara-
ton, the national Democracy will be
the party of the people and the party
of victory Mt the next national cleo
ton.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-08
The Elections.

State elections Tuesday were gener-
ally favorable to the Republicans, ow-
ing to the discomfort in the Demo-
cratic party over the course of the ADJ
ministration. The majorities in the
legislatures elected make some radical
changes, and it will be seen that some
OF the Southern States have been
transferred to the Republican column,
and in this Cleveland has his wish
that the "solid South" should be
broken. The majorities on joint bal
lot, as now figured are: Maryland 40
Republican, Utah Is, Ohio IS, Ken
lucky 4, New York GS, Massachusetts
145, New Jersey 80 and Iowa 90.
The vote for Palmer for Secretary of
State of New York show Republican
majority of $4,000, which when con-
trasted with the 10000 majority for
Morton last year, is certainly not very
encouraging, SO far as the Empire
States future vote is forecast.
The Republicans for the first time
in thirty years have elected Governor
in New Jersey. Greggs' majority over
McGill is 10000.
A Republican gain of $4,000 is
shown in Pennsylvania. The Demo-
Gratis elect the 7th member OF the Su-
perior Court by 1000 majority.
Lnwndes, Republican nominee for
Governor of Maryland has majority
of about 1900.
The Republican State ticket in Ken
lucky was carried through the COM
bined aid of the Populis,s and the A.
P. A. Bradley's majority is about TO-
600.
The Democratic majority in Missis-
sippi is from $4,000 to 10000, and the
Populist vote is only about 10 per
cent. OF the total. The present Legis.
lature has % Populists; the next will
have but 8.
The Populist vote in Ohio-and tor
Coxey too-is 5000 less than last
year. The Republican majority will
foot up 10000. James X. Garfield,
son Of President Garfield, was elected
State Senator.
The Republican majorities in Iowa
range from 10000 to 10000.
The Populists are almost wiped out
in Kansas. Many counties that have
been differed by Populists the past
four years will now be turned over to
the victorious Republicans.
Nebraska, Colorado and Utah are
the hide and tallow" that in this in.
stance go with the carcass.
While the returns are not all in, the
above summary is not far from cor
rect. 1t is just such rebuke as the
Democrats needed to indicate the
course OF safety, return to the DEM
ocracy which protected the rights of
individual citizenship, and which,
under the leadership of Jefferson and
Jackson, gave us century of I'M
bounded prosperity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-08
THURSDAY, Oct. 10. 1895.

THURSDAY, Oct. 10, 1895.
The ladies of South Union met for
prayer meeting. and after that the w.
G. L. U. President called short busi-
ness meeting.
The roll was called with four mem.
bers present. The Treasurer reported
something over 50 in the treasury.
Then the President called on the dif-
ferent Superintendent to ascertain if
they had any reports to make. The
Superintendent on Franchise reported
that they are receiving a space in one
OF the county papers, the WASHINGTON
STANDARD, devoted to w. c. Il. L..
work.
On franchise and other woman's
work. They reported that they had
written to three different unions for
clippings and original matter on fran
chise and other woman's work.
And now, instead of a small space
in the STANDARD, they had given us a
whole column as we'll and the Super
intendent requests the union to aid
her in this work.
EMELINE STEWART,
Rec. Sec. W, G.. Il. U.