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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1887)
m Iw gailjf gtotim. ASTORIA. OREGON: SCNDAY. ..DF.CEMBF.K 2. 1837 Amokg our exports to Australia are rock-drills, steam-pumps, mill machin ery, American stoves, tram care, barbed wire and lager beer. It is stated on reliable authority that nearly one hundred thousand former members of Powderly's Knights of Labor have gone over to the new organization. The anarchists have $30,000 for their monument to the Haymarket murderers, while a fund for a monu ment to the brave policemen who were killed only amounts to $4,000. - i m m ' ' " Georgia upholds the dignity of the press. One of its courts has decided that a newspaper man cannot be com pelled by a grand jury to testify in a case where he had pledged his word to keep the source of his information sacred. A Philadelphia capitalist, Hamil ton Disston, has expended over $1, 000,000 in reclaiming swamp lands in Florida. A number of thriving towns have grown up in the reclaimed terri tory, and the work of dredging and cut ting canals is being energetically prosecuted. Lockteb, an English scientist, de clares that the entire universe had its starting point at the meteorite. An other one declares that the beginning was caused by an impulse of nature. Now, if Lockyer would tell us how the meteorite was started, and the other party inform us what made nature so that it could "impulse," we might got nearer to tho beginning of impulse. Industrial exhibitions pay in this country, especially in the north. "With the profits of this year the Minneapo lis exposition pays off 60,000 of its debt, leaving only $9,000 of arrearage. A similar exhibit in Boston has even a still better record. The mechanics' fair in San Francisco is another re markable illustration. It has been able from the profits of its annual exhi bitions to acquire, free from debt, con siderable valuable property adjacent to tho new city hall, and to warrant assuming new obligations of greater magnitude than any hitherto risked by the managers, in another quarter of the city, relying upon the profits of future exhibitions to redeem them. The Carnots of France are in one re- spect like the three generations of! Mendelssohns. When Abraham Men- j pearo 0f i,;s glory, delssohn was a young man he was Were it not for doubting Thomases spoken of as the son of the great Men-1 many of man V great accomplish delssohn, moaning Moses HM-; sohn; and when he was an old man he Men have been stricken down with was renowned as the father of the out warning. Doubt put in motion great Mendelssohn, meaning Felix e investigation which ascertained i i -i . o i "Je cause. After the discovery of the Mendelssohn, the composer. So when causCf the world was ign0RUlof any LazereHyppoliteCarnotwasayoung lemedy with which to stay theter man he was famed as the son of the il- fible slaughter of humanity jand. med- lnstrmns finrnnt Now lift will bo known as the father of the distin guished Sadi Carnot of the French re public It is thus that family reputa tion sustains itself in Europe. "Rear Admiral Hen'eage, who has just taken over tho command of the Pacific squadron in succession to Sir Michael Seymour, has been charged with special instructions on two points of some interest," says the St. James Gazette. " He is first of all to visit Alaskan waters with a view to the pro tection of British interests there; and, subsequently, he is to make a special report for submission to the postoffico department on the Canadian Pacific railway as an imperial route to the east This naval command has lost forever that isolation which was a characteristic feature when it took four months' steaming to get to it, and it has, beside, gained immensely in importance, owing to the develop ment of commerce on both sides of tho North Pacific." Os Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, stands the great statue of Lib erty Enlightening the World the gift of France to America its right hand, stretched toward heaven, bears a cluster of brilliant electric burners, forming the most powerful light that shines on land or sea. This light, which is enclosed and defended by heavy plate glass, is proving wonderfully fatal to birds. Last sum mer on one morning alone, 1,372 birds, actual count, were found lying dead around the foot of the statue. The great light attracts, allures, dazzles, and maddens the birds; they fly to ward it with amazing and uncalcu lating swiftness and break their necks against the defending glass. This suggests the thought that there are other creatures besides birds who can not bear the light of liberty, and who dash themselves to pieces in it In sober truth, there are creatures among us who, having flown out of the dark ness of old world despotism into the light of our liberty, become utterly dazzled, confused and crazed by it It seems to cancel all power of thought and self-control. If the light was not sternly defended, they would put it out As it is they break their necks against tho transparent but adaman tine justice which defends, and which can alone protect the light of liberty. The negotiations upon tho fisheries question havo boon temporarily sus pended so as to enable tho Canadian commission to visit Canada in order to study the situation more fully from the dominion point of view. No statement has been made by the com missioners to the press regarding tho result of tho negotiations thus far, but from what has leaked out it ap pears that the United States commis sioners demanded of Great Britain the admission of full commercial rights to American vessels in Cana da and the placing of vessels of both countries on an equal footing as re gards the navigation of the harbors of both. This demand was met by the Canadian commissioner with an offer to concede not only unrestricted navigation of Canadian waters to ves sels of tho United States, but also the privilego of inshore fishing in return for the consent of tho United States to a new reciprocity treaty based on that of 1854. This demand the Unit ed States commissioners are unwill ing to concede, holding that the rights which they demand are rights which they should not bo asked to buy. So the matter rests for the present There is little chance for tho adoption of the Canadian proposition if for no other reason than that tho question of revenue adjustment, which would, of course, bo affected by a reciprocity treaty with Canada, is just about to be dealt with by congress. WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE? How the Element of "Doubt" Leads to Grand Achievements. The world is agitated again over the question of who was the author of Shakespeare's plays. The world is full of doubting Thom ases. Thernan who has been successful in exciting the present momentary in terest in the subject is like most suc cessful agitators, an Irishman. He claims to have discovered a cipher running through the Shakespearian plays which proves them to have been written by Lord Bacon. It is also claimed tliat there is a cipher in the epitaph on the mossgrown tombstone which, properly interpreted, leads to the same conclusion. This age shows a decided inclin ation to pry into mysteries. It can make no difference to Shake speare now whether tho world be lieves he wrote the plays that bear his name or not. The plays are immortal. Ignatius Donnellv cannot rob us of Se8rand works, even though he em im was impoasiDie. Doubt led the way to the li;ht, and Warner's safe cure solved the seem ingly unsolvable problem. Its friends tell us with conclusive proof that the unsuspected kidney disease befouls the blood and causes most of our diseases! For years the heart was looked up on as the most important oriran in the body but doubt led to further in quiry, which developed the fact that the kidnej's are the real blood puri fiers of the sj'stem and these organs now attract the first attention of the careful practitioner, ft is now a re cognized fact that if they are put in a healthy state by the use of that re medy possessing such wonderful cur ative and cleansing powers most of the prevailing diseases of the system will be easily overcome, since" their cause will be removed. How unimportant, in comparison with such problems, is the present discussion as to the authorship of Shakespeare ! This Is a Fact. In P. J. Goodman's S3 seamless calf shoe purchasers will find the best value tor tneir money on the const. Fine Groceries. Fine Groceries. Give Thompson & Ross a call and ex amine the many novelties thev have in stock for holidas' trade, and for those wno appreciate a line article. 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