Show LENT 1 tho present ial period of the forty days fist is now half inthe larger cities of tha civilized world annually comes the presumed abstinence of alio religiously inclined from abo worldly and sensual excesses and of alio rest of the year commencing this year on february ath is marked on the calendar as ash wednesday alio nd ca hulin church in particular 1110 at least supposed touba enoa fast of forty excluding Sun daysi an takina of but no ancil a day duri tho pe and entirely from all descriptions of il h r animal greaso in their diet considering tho n s 1 ly in an hygienic point of view out silo of any t it is certainly healthful from tho fact eliat it involves a very licht and cisily digested diet for quito a number of consic uhro diya and must ba produs tiye of botler physical wf i j f 1 J among tho better fed portion of tho Aug lician or boman catholic section of fie religious communities of the outside than n thousand ally well rend but unheeded books ou human hygienic science aliis period though comparatively cd among tho of rutih acci carries with it both a BC rious reminder and lesson of which arc without considerable value to tho world at large anc chui of russia has evidently at last made up his maud to stand the imminent risk of being blown into by dynamite for alio biko of having a formal coronation of my in tho holy cay of moscow due mation of tho coming event having been mado his minister of war now proceeds to weed out of the russian army all officers or other cre on whom alio very slightest suspicion of nihilistic sympathy rests and selecting none but those aub or superior military commanders who can in his probably mistaken opinion bo CM catly relied upon order them to literally fill the streets of moscow with soldiers for a week or moro before alie of tho imperial at the same timo wo learn that harr most loo Hait minn bachmann and a host of other socialists otherwise nihilist leaders have commenced their devilish plotting and machinations for alie murdering of tho already terrified conr upon the moment of his imperial triumph tho unfortunate ruler has nl ready been warned of fate by a message printed on alno vellum and delivered into his hand it is said that tho conspirators will not be able to reach him at all on the designated d ay iy but it certainly loks queer that printed messages can be handed to lam in escaping alio strict scrutiny of alio royal buirds guir ds ibid it would appear that if it suited II artmann and his aliquo to do anything moie than tho poor czir they had certainly ways and means at their ready disposal to do it the nihilistic attempts on tho pro sent czir cz ir would seem to be little moro than a system of terrorism inaugurated and kept up fur alio sole purpose of scaring tho obstinate ruler into granting n u as well as other much collisions and accidents to no portion of the disaster record of the as yet brief period of A D 1883 why it is that railroad come all in n bunch as thoy certainly appear to do is something post mortal once in a while though somewhat rarely r officials get a up on an unlucky train themselves an accident of that kind occurring a of weeks ago in which president jacwitt of road to be on a train eliat ran into another on tho louisville r and in which accident an and two cars got badly mashed up luckily no rne injured if suli su li men got more frequently shook up and scaled especially on their own loads there would bo fewer accidents of that description for but few aro directly traceable to anything but rank criminal acs tho part of train men and train dispatchers and anch occurrences as alio jowitt episode would most undoubtedly causo greater precautions to bo taken presidential aspirants for a place in the election of isai aro already entering tho list lists s and training for the attainment of a four years incumbency of the white house among choso icho aro evidently aiming to enter tho contest of aro grant who seeing to have acquired a liking for tho presidential scat ben bi tier the cross eyed and politically versatile governor of mag lincoln the present secretary of war who appears to bo anxious to follow in tho footsteps of liis illustrious father and ben II arrison of indiana curious to say all aspirants so far named do claim any ambition to occupy the executive chair but their friends aro undoubtedly talking earnestly of several favorites and ii a suspected all parties arc at lea it secretly cognizant of and encourage the political efforts made in their behalf pity they cannot occupy tho pi all at once it would certainly assure us of ono good incumbent im after they got through has got tho prohibition fever copenhagen the capital is p havo especially strict municipal lawi beai ins on tho subject alio 1 liquor shops in hat city loing compulsorily reduced in number to mid hcan penalties abc to bo imposed upon dealers who sell intoxicants to persons under ly beira of ago or to persons already under tho of liquor the other hand it is officially report cil that tho degrading and disgusting habit of eating opium is assuming alarming proportions in that kingdom especially among iho young fashionables fashio nables of both in iho larger cities TUB manner of the decision in tho weber county mandamus anso that before tho came up on appeal court of tho territory a week anso is the biggest land of an ariu cacatin favor of the bill scantly introduced trod into congress for the establishment lish ment of an additional judicial district for utah allowing us four dish id judges instead of tarco as at with the inserted proviso in tho bill that in all cases coming up before tho superior territorial tribunal on appeal tho j audgo who gave the primary decision shall bo ineligible to tho caso in tho particular mandamus caso referred to above abo appeal became little better tarco from the fact that two out of tho tareo judges had already decided upun tho same or similar cases in their several dittick and luicir mauds being already undo up on alio subject tacy were morally to hear over aaen let lu appo thai congress will tee the justice or pacing alic hill recently intro ducca by mr willias Wil lils for alie purpose spoken ot above si that cass taken up on appeal can be hnidj w uh |