| Show EDITORIAL NOTES the late strike of the masons iii in london was a terrible failure they th y lost by kicking agai agal against e st the bricks the mouse gouse committee on ways and means in regulating the tariff have reached the wool question making some reductions it read bead the I 1 I 1 oleomargarine or butter made madd out of refuse grease has become a big business over iain lain is in vested in im it investors are making a fat thing out of it coullias Co coal allias has been discovered of good quality on ona a farm near Sutton fiill more moie county nebraska ic I 1 t was waa found in the process procesa of boring with a well augur for fur water at a depth of feet royalty encourages the telephone it la Is now introduced into persia persig the shah is patronizing it queen u e en victoria has recently ordered d the t h a apparatus for osborne house hou der ea which is the country seat of her majesty in the isle or of wight the ogden amateur for march 6 0 isager Is a very y interesting num berand the name of mr john P smith appers as its editor his introductory and other articles are arc well written and the amateur con continues tin ues aes to improve with age seven suicides are reported in the chicago papers for sunday the uit the adage of the better belter the day the better the deed will not apply in these cases self murder is d a dreadful crime and 14 i becoming very common in the great cities of the united states Itis it is estimated that the califor Cali call form fori nia and nevada specimens of minerals for the paris exhibition will weigh five hundred tons life under ground is to be represented by diagrams of the comstock Com como toek tock lodea lode iode and the sutro tunnel will ba bg clearly exhibited the general direction of underground currents of electricity h h to the northwest north west bo says dr juch ard owen professor of geology in the indiana state university who has been conducting a series of experiments peri ments for the purpose of ascertaining that point the hoosac tunnel is not sot a favorite with the traveling public it takes ten minutes for a passenger train to pass through it and it id 14 very dark and full of smoke only three equi distant lights for the guidance of engineers servos serves to vary the gloom and they make the general darkness more Li decus the alamond R company have secured the contract with the utah and northern and union pacific companies for the transportation of the freight from the terminus of the former road idad to montana this company used to carry the freight from fort benton but the extension of the U N will do away with most moat of the river traffic to montana as well as freighting from corinne A farmer in ohio whose wood pile had been depleted by thieves determined to punish the culprit and detect him at the same time so loaded a good stick of wood with gunpowder the explosion occurred in the congregational church at bellevue on the fbi following lowing sunday k and now the question is whish which pious ploua deacon supplied the fuel for that sabbath day chicago talks of introducing tha the bell punch system into saloons Virgi virginia nice nici made by it last year it is estimated that drinks per diem them are swallowed by the dram of the phoenix city which at one cent tax per drink would yield about a year it is certainly a more equitable mode of taxing the liquor traffic than the license system which imposes the same tax on the small dealers as on the large washington terna TerrA territory ory wants to be admitted as a state A constitutional tUti tut ional ODal convention will be held on the lith of june the election for delegates to the convention will take place on the ath of april with half thel of utah arid arld less than half its population washington ashington Vy is more likely to obtain its ita desires in this respect if congress can afford to be unjust utah can ann aff anford afford ord to wait and be patient russia and turkey tarkey appear to be fixing up their peace treaty without any regard to the other powers and do not seem to care a continental for the congress read the synopsis s 7 of the peace provi provisions at ons I 1 in n our dispatches russia is more reasonable in her demands than before the british lion showed its teeth and turkey considering its helpless con may congratulate itself upon the terms of the treaty petroleum is one of the great exports of the country the income from this source has decreased however while the volume has increased from 1866 to 1871 the quantity exported was I 1 and nd the amount br brom 1871 1571 to 1876 twice as much oil was shipped but the income ivas evas was only the decrease in price from 34 cents to 15 cents per gallon accounts for the great falling failing off in the receipts the N late te sioux war cost the coun try according to the statement ot the quartermaster quarter master general the casualties were enli enlisted ted men killed two officers cers ceTa and enlisted men wounded the war was waged to support an utter violation of treaties with the red men and is offered in proof of the boast that one trained soldier iq 14 quai equal in battle to a dozen wild in titans what has haa the country td show for this waste of blood and treasure the california legislature hak has ha under tinder consideration another measure for the protection of the public from the libels of a licentious and unprincipled press it is called the retraction bill of course it is de dei i bounced by papers which gain their livelihood by personal attacks but it makes no restrictions on the lib erty elty of the pres press other than compelling papers to confine themselves to facts and ang abstain from libel and abuse upon pain of having to take it all back per sonai journalism requires a setback all over the union A jk formidable opposition fo to the texas pacific railroad scheme is a aid said to have been organized and tom scott will have to keep wide awake or it will supplant his hid project j ct it designs the building of a railroad from san antonio to the city of mexico with new orleans as the connecting seaport it is considered that this thia would be of immense advantage to the gulf states and for the material prosperity of the whole country therefore the fhe government is to be asked to pledge its credit for an amount not to exceed to assist the enterprise and the aid ald of mexico is to be invoked and a commercial treaty negotiated to effect the desired object several senators are said to bo be interested in the scheme parson newman alias leviticus 18 U S consul for the garden of eden has turned his back on washington since president hayes snubbed the church with the chimes newman has declined and he ia Is going to make a new opening in the city of baltimore here he can nourish his hia oiliness with oysters and teach the lovers lovera of earthly luxuries how to wash down the bivalves bivalve a with his hia celebrated hot scotch you who buy milk and want to know whether it is genuine cow juice or a watered article try the german test teat here it is A well polished knitting ne needle needie edle edie ia is dipped into a clean vessel of milk and immediately withdrawn in an upright POs position if the sample is pure some som e of the fluid will hang to the needle butia water has been added to the milk even in small proportions the fluid will not adhere to the needle A man died last week through the effects of inhaling the fumes of nitric acid A carboy of the acid exploded in a freight car and several of ot the employees were sent into the car to empty it they were cautioned about breathing while in the car but one of them named john welch took a deep breath was taken sick immediately and died a few days after in great agony this should serve as a caution the rapid diffusion of intelligence in our own times is illustrated by a report of the time it took to telegraph the speech of the queen of england in opening parliament it consisted of words seven minutes after its delivery ic it was forwarded and in 23 minutes and 10 seconds it was in the hands of the czar of russia the sultan suitan of turkey ke v had bad 1 it t in 40 minutes it was read in new york in 54 minutes while it reached paris and berlin in 14 minutes lutes in an hour newspapers in great britain had the speech ready to set up in type and publish to the world A IL gay and festive widower of Brunsw brunswick rh Jck fek new jersey named oliver P dunn aged 94 91 years wants to wed a willing widow mrs Mrs Mra elizabeth way aged 80 years both are good looking and andin in good health and are members of the first baptist church but the hardhearted hard hearted pastor thinks their years are too many and will not unite them in matrimony and none of the minis minia tena tara ol 01 the vicinity will vill tie the nuptial knot bo so their young affections are doomed to be blighted and they sigh in single in the absence of a clergyman clergy mandain vain ly seeking for the way and elizabeth wondering how it can be dunn the statement that the imago image of the last object seen before death remains im impressed messed on the retina of the eye has received support from scientific experiments in germany it has been discovered that light falling on the retina causes changes in the pigment contained therein and hense the retention of the image linage reflected tho the pigment is determined terin ter mined ined to be identical with lut lu euteine eine a substance detected in the serum of the blood and the yolks of eggs prof ruhne kuhne of heidelberg succeeded in photographing from a dead rabbits eye the image of a window sash in front of which the animal had bad been exposed before being killed there is evidently something more in the idea than mere superstition the exposure of the treatment of prisoners in the trenton new jersey penitentiary has hag aroused the whole country and cret creat great indignation is everywhere expressed against the christian officials bf that institution they treated prisoners in the same spirit which prompted the utah penitentiary 11 sweatbox 11 one keeper testified in an offhand off hand way that he saw baw as many as nive five or six convicts at one time with gags in their rulo trio mouths uthe I 1 saw men chained down to the floor at the same time gagged BO so tightly that they could hardly breacht men bound to that modern adaptation of the rack the At stretcher their hands fastened to the ceiling and their toes touching the floor convicts chained to the floor with their handcuffs on often heard screams coming from the dungeon had seen a woman with black and blue marks on her wrists who told him that she had been strung up hanging up is tco good for the monsters who inflict such tortures upon the helpless persons placed in their charge |
