Show E D 1 1 T 0 R I 1 AL LS 0 0 THE JEWS aws AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES AND PORK rork EAT ERS THE washinton star remarks as follows fellows concerning the alleged freedom of tithe lithe he jews jewa as a race from I 1 will ox and ether other ep epidemic demic dis dla eases in the tho case ease of the iho london small pox ep epidemic ide ido rale th the e ie remarkable fact egl igl has as been iio llo noticed tieta tletA that only one ono case caie of this frightful disease has oil tho the the iho attention of the medical officer of we the jewish board of Gua the same exception frain from epidemic diseases has been noticed among the jews in all countries and it is attributed to their thir mode of living it lat an in teres terea tin tiu question in a sanitary point polut pf af view to what eydent e tent dept mortality t ali all ty from such diseases may piny be lin limited gilted to pork ork eaters esters bilious disease is largely attributable it Is well known to tb the use of pork polk but afi the jp jews 1 ws not only reject eck pork from their dietary but they also piso under re laws exercise extraordinary care caro to se secure re the meat of animagi that are in a perfectly ily fly sound nd and healthy conditI condition oR when kii kli killed le d jn in our oun market markets sp for fok instance they deal only with be certain raid rain butchers who provide them with meat from animals selected and killed under tho the conditions of asli rules THE 4 X MORMONS AT wilu i york herald is devoting a little attention to the U mor or mons 11 enthat in that city and VILA ni ty and sends out opt its reporters to hunt 1 1 up PP thomm thorn and their meetings s one of iliesco gentlemen recently went over to to endeavor to obtain interviews with tho the authorities ties of the branch of the church in that suburb oli on sunday afternoon feb peb 4 oue one of that r baiera reporters attended d the in meeting eating of tho the saints at ilg grand street Fi treet williamsburg and in iti the the next day ha dt in his own way the place th aliv people and the proceedings after which he remarks I 1 f I 1 cc rhose to whom the success s of ot mormonism niam is a problem have only to study the brooding and resolute enghu enthusiasm spasm that actuates act batis sueh such su ch men as elder eider bywater by water in the pr a pah pap tion of doctrines mingling the sublimity of prophetic passages from daniel and revelations wic wig with eta state stafe le indents of personal experience of an exciting n g and mysterious nature thi the e expert 1 pe 1 rt neurologist who should have studied orie one by one tha the faces of cit the tiie group assemble assembled din in that lit tia tig hall hail on the second story over a grocery store would have been at no loss 0 o determine termine the nature of that influence which has made mormonism Mormon isma isra an bm aggressive gres sive give and untiring political factor during the last twenty years WATER SUP sur SUPPLY P L Y Tail winter time ti isone bisone of the times when the advant advantage awe ame of a constant and full supply of pure water can bo be seen by everybody and when everybody considers such water handy to have in the house and wishes he had lied it in the house if he lias has not got ga 1 it there at leas least this ills liis wife does those who are dependant on the water ditches for their supply of water waler v ier ter for domestic use as well as for animals are often much put pui about in the winter time to find the amount of fluid that they need laced to obtain it within a convenient distance and to obtain it elean clean and fit for fon drinking and for fur culinary pur pol pow when tho the frost is severe the hie ditches are frozen up so that it in is to obtain any water waterland wat erand and when you do obtain it in many instances you have llave travelled through the snow a considerable distance for it when the frost relaxes and the snow melts we the water is often muddy and aud not at rt all inviting te to those who object to water and dirt mixed and it is not always tho cleanest kind of gets into the water ditches in freshet times and in dinies times of rain the ditch water ia i always muddy jore there aro are the of the streets running into iland occasionally casio nally he drain ings of corrals and yards this cannot be lire lyre prevented because there Is no other w way y fer for the streets and the surface boil soil generally in the thu cily city to bo be drained excepting by means of the water ditches dutches there is no other sewerage in the city and if there were c it would be dilli cult to keep the surface drainage from running into the water ditches the fact is the ditches are not attractive nor ner healthy places to go to for water for domestic use at least in the middle and lower parts of the city even when the water is at its best beat AS the city grows and buildings multiply and the population becomes more dense this thia evil will naturally increase and without any auy prospect of prevention so that for pleasure and heal health th the laople will wil I 1 be necessitated to sek seek their water supply through other channel channels the most satta satisfactory factory of which is tha the city waterworks water works by means of them good filtered water neither warm iee iee ice cold coid nor muddy can th bd obtained at a trifling annual coat all the time tim el can cap be obtained not after tram tramping ing three or four fout blocks through the snow but inside your house or at your back door at your option it is true the cost of having havink the water brought into your house is rather jather heavy beavy blit but then like selAw 0 digging g ing a well or providing in g your yourself with ith any othen other convel i first cost bi 4 and the other will be coln coin para timely small by means bivans you can have in jour your house ever over av available al lable lauie the best water attain attainable abier abler heing being better ahai ahan well water which js s often gusly impregnated with substances percolating through the surround ing soil soll the creek water Is neither hard nor soft being softer than well water and dotso not so soft as min rain water and aud is probably especially when filtered the purest and healthiest water obtainable hereabout a GRAPES FOR POR WINE VINE tam mission or california grape was the first and for some sonie years the only eatable grape grown in abis this vicinity it is now in large largo part supplanted by other and hardier varlet varieties ies les it is a good grape buu bul there are others preferable for the table and particularly for wine vine and many are hardier and mature earlier in the season the mission grape form formerly erly W wa the variety principally if it not excle exclusively ively cultivated in california where whore it thrives remarkably well as indeed does every variety of grape introduced there many other varle varie varieties tle tie Q Amer american amerlean ican feAn and especially european have been extensively planted in that state and with such satisfactory results that it is now prevalently advocated to do away with the mission grape in favor of other varieties considered indubitably Isu superior perlor it is is held beld that the nils Alls mission sion slon grape will not make a first classi class wine and it is strongly recommended either to root it out and plant better varieties or to graft it with these supe varieties the sacramento record union has several times advocated the abandonment of the cultivation of the tho mission variety all wines made from that grape baving having a peculiar earthy or i ground taste which cultivation idies not work out the interests of af pf the wine manufacture in that state are held to demand thia this bon ban mateo keller the experienced and wine manufacturer fac of los angeles angelea in a recent ietter letter to the of that place advocates the abandonment of the tho culture of the mission and its substitution ution by varieties which are known to be good wine grapes it la Is necessary for california tc produce a good white and red wino wine to meet ibe the demands of the great masses of wine drinkers in america and elsewhere which cannot be done with the white and red wines made from the mission grape it is neither drinkable nor sa leable anywhere it has no bouquet or good aroma to recommend it and it is only bought at ruinous rates for sophistication and is thus injuring california wines in public estimation to a serious extent it has become au an axom in viniculture that the iF r prin ii ir of much greater importance the soil but the climate of california suit fuit every variety of the grape there ia Is no failure known while he the most exquisite varieties of granes grapes that bear so scantily at home homo bear abundantly here therefore it fsr for of the utmost importance that no io time should be iest lest in planting those varieties varlet lea iea of vines that yield the fine wines of burgundy medoe medoc spain and und the rhine and to tw transform all the nils Alls mission sion slon vines in existence into foreign vines of the most durable qualities by grafting this must be done at last and the tha sooner it is done the less loss the vineyard proprietors will have to sustain delay is bu butr making bad worse worsen mr keller speaks of his own success with other varieties and says that he does not intend to keep a mission vine in his vineyards having imported more than two hundred varieties of choice foreign vines for grafting i so ar as thi this territory is con carped in corise cerise consequence quence of the till shortness of the tho sl season eason and the severity of the winter hardy vines are to bo be preferred A t the e tender ones needing burying to preserve them from injury froni oom frost those and the waif half hardy will be the most ex extensively teti plan pian plante dand te those which mature their fr fruit uit earlyan earby in the sea seaon season on ared ater are the only varieties desirable for general gendral culture and of them the haray baray ones more particularly ticul arly saving the trouble of covering in tho the fall and uncovering in the spring this does not apply to that portion of the territory south of the rim of the basin notwithstanding this it is interesting to learn of the experience of the of california because cau can the climate of this territory and the capabilities of the soil resemble those of california in many particulars ANOTHER ELECTORAL DECISION tim TUB tripartite arbitration electoral commission ha hab has decided by another strict party vote of eight to seven not to go behind behind the returns in the louisiana case and therefore to accept the vote of or that state slate as returned for hayes and wheeler this seems to be bei generally regarded as virtually settling the presidential question guestion in favor of the candidates named and throwing i ng tilden liden and hendricks endricks II out of the field field these partisan decisions have a cut and dried appearance as if the commissioners had early m made ade up their minds to vote unswervingly ly in a manner fo to favor their party candidates candidate s regardless of any other consideration the thet decisions lil in these cases have rome some noteworthy peculiarities being although given in id the interest of tho th republican party of a nature supportive of the democratic principle or interference noninterference non of or federal federa authority in state affairs yet the yea of the votes is given by a strictly republican majority and hud the nay bya by a strictly democratic majority tending to snow show that both parties act rather upon the expediency of Isec securing temporary party advantage than upon principle both the majority and the minority voting contrary contrary to their respective acknowledged principles if it had happened that the majority tyhan had been democrats instead of republicans tbt the votes would have been of a nature to favor the election of tilden and hendricks hondricks as much as they are now to favor hayes and wheeler bo so that in either caselt ia is not upon the merits of the question that the dispute would have been decided but upon the mere fact of the peculiar party loan lonn leanings Ings of the commission this is not a pleasant thing to contemplate nor does it indicate that the affairs of this great republic are conducted upon a very exalted plane of public policy worst of all ali these decisions have not only dragged the supreme court of the united states from its supposed neutral eminence into the mire of politics but have induced the majority of the members of that court to demonstrate that their decisions arb are lot not neutral 0 abst t formed upon party considerations and within strictly party to the tho nation at large thiv this is a degradation and debasement of that high court df of judicature from which it will with difficulty recover itself and ikover if ever over after a ion lon iong long time and a liberal serles series of deeff decisions to which no tai thi takht litof of partisanship can possibly ap apply P lyp N bo so far as the public at large is concerned the people many m any of them aro are pretty well sick of the presidential squabble and will be only too glad to have it settled any way and with either set pet of candidates on top to manifest much immediate immediato concern over the party tricks tricka by which that settlement shall be reflected I 1 k I 1 I 1 MONTANA AND THE NARROW GAUGE A from helena 13 elena eiena lon montana states that governor potts yesterday feb fb 16 approved a billi bill passed by the legi legislature lature of tha that territory granting a ubilda of for the construction of a narro harro w gauge road from franklin frankiin idaho to helena miles or M so being beings virtually a continuation bf tho utah northern road wl which 1 I h i now pow runs from O ogden oden 0 den to fr franklin an airl this act appears to bein belu be in answer to the recent proposition of jay gould and other ea steril 1 af rall rali railroad road magnates to continue tho the narrow gauge from cache valley vailey to montana in consideration of a subsidy Y in bonds to something like the amount named theatt the act it is stated will have hove to go before the people of montana for their action on the loth of april next if they vote in favor of it which they probably will it may be expected that shortly thereafter arrangements will be entered into for the commencement recommencement re of work upon the road of course the track will be laid from fral Frai franklin aklin northwards in order to take advantage of the present railroad connection for the transportation of the necessary material as well as for the I 1 continuous use of the road as ex tended if the extension of the northern railroad shall be commenced this summer and also the exten extension sion alon sout bout southward hward of the utah south bouth bouthern southern there will be bd work for somebody in utah and business will be likely to be enlivened accordingly and the work upon the denver and sait bait lake railroad rall Kail road if commenced will berve serve as a abill further impetus to I 1 the approach of better times in business matters the tho montan ians appear to be greatly in earnest over the early obtainment of railroad connection with the rest of the tho union in the belief that it will be their temporal salvation and the means moans of tho the advance of their territory into an era of unprecedented pros prosperity perit which plea piea pleasant faut saut Fant anticipations it is to be hoped bope d will be fully foy realized |