Show AN octogenarian A temperance lesson soil of a sin singular ular ly impressive kind was given to a N Y sun san reporter who paid pa id a visit to mr weed wed the veteran printer editor statesman on his birthada birthday y last tuesday I the mr weed who is more fomil aar jar with american politics and politicians of this century and hashim self played a prominent and always honorable part in public life carries his old age better than some do the prime of manhood mr weeds sight is growing dim but his memory is as fresh and accurate as ever of his habits babits and life lie said when I was a printer in ill my earlier days I w was as an abstainer from all beverages supposed suppose to be inton intoxicating cating even from beer tills this was not because I regarded total abstinence as a virtue but because iliad I had no taste for drink I used to sec see i my iny fellow workmen take their beer and I never thought it my business to find f fault ault with them because they liked it and I in later years I became an inveterate smoker and the caricatures of me always represented me with a big cigar ciar D in in my I mouth I never used tobacco in any other form about A bout twelve years ago I had a spell of sickness and when I was getting well my physician advised me to leave eave off smoking I have not smoked since in fact I have felt no desire f for octoba tobacco eco since for a number of years yearn I have taken a little wine with my dinner THE north american review for december is in all respects a good number the writers without exception are men eminently comac competent for f or the tasks assigned to them IT while hile ot the subjects discussed there is not ono one which does not possess a living interest indeed were ono one called upon to enumerate the contentions tent ions that are today to day exercising mens mind minds those treated of in this number of the review would certainly occur to him abou amou among the first the most important and most opportune of all the articles is one by the hon john A kasson entitled the monroe doctrine in 1881 1681 11 in this statesmanlike paper or pro amente as it might k not hiapo ly be called and is certain tain tobe regarded by foreign publicists the obligation of the united states government to effectually assert its supremacy throughout the western hemisphere is demonstrated both by the arguments of authority all and pre precedent ced ent aud upon the grounds ground 13 of reason then follows a discussion of the death penalty conducted by tile rev dr Clice Verl judge samuel hand and wendell phillip phillips the policy cf mr Glad stones talleo government toward Ire ireland lall is strena strenuously ou aly defended by 11 II ai arnold nol forstr son soil of ill laic chief secretary for ireland Ire and th paper is confessedly an till apperti appeal to the judgment and thu tile sympathy of americana in the tile struggle ii now on across the atlantic mul tind is s arnce a ful practical admission statesmen lire are not indifferent to ti the enlightened enlightened public opinion of the tile united states four physic physicians inus and surg coni of the first rank lial namely liely drs W A john Asli hurst burst jr J clarion arion 11 sims and john T 11 review review the history of president Gar garfielda fields case finally the hon ilon david A wells W el la treats of in federal taxation OUR SUPPLY of lumber is gradually alv declining owing to the great and often irreparable destruction of ti through accident or neg negligence g imber it flence and the ever increasing dc de maud inand for the various domestic and industrial purposes people acquainted with the approaching lack of lumber for our own wants arc are casting their eyes about for fresh sources of supply in ili the state of michigan michi i an it id is estimated that there are only feet of pine lumber but on the other hand band there has bas just been bi discovered up the spanish river in canada in the country north of lake a region of pine forests so extensive ext el asive th eliat at tile comparatively small portion explored is citi estimated mated to contain 24 00 oo 00 Q square a re f feet act of p pine i n c of course the ente enterprising and ubiquitous yankee saw that this spanish bliver I region was too good a tiling thing to let go a begging be u a few of them from alpena midi mich have contrived to obtain no less IM than five townships of timber land they think it will pay to bring Z the timber across the lines in spite of the tile import dut duty Y T burrau of statistics of the united states in its recent quarterly report shows the value of the im imports and exports of the united states carried respectively in united states vessels during tech tach fiscal year from 1821 to 1881 inc inclusive in in 1821 the imports and exports carried in american vessels was and in foreign in ill 1857 were carried in american vessels and in f foreign from th that aty year earthe the value carried in american vessels began bean be an to decline and th that at in foreign to advance until in 1881 the american an marine carried and the f foreign or so that at present the foreign trade of the tile country especially its passenger traffic is mostly in the hands of foreigners foreign ere chiefly british |