Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-03

whole or ms Gr1a1 It QoeS not ue III nlS mouth to complain of the order which was made necessary by his own misconduct, and which he could at any time have terminated by signifying his willingness to avoid creating disturbance"
 They have some intelligent jurymen in Cleveland. One of them, in a case ended this week, stood out against his eleven com panions. It was discovered that the obsti-
 nate man had been wrestling with law books
 at home, and had said he did not care for the judge, and should construe the law for him.
 self. This made the judge very indignant, for the term, he ordered the juryman to be
 prosecuted for contempt.
 traveller bought an excursion ticket from Washington to Toledo, and, owing to deten. ton of trains, for which he was not responsi. ble, it's limit of time expired while he was still on the way. The conductor on the ter.
 minal road demanded regular fare, and put
 him of the train when he refused to pay. He
 sued the company whose agent sold him the
 ticket. on the ground that the contract was made with that official for the entire journey, and the jury, on the direction of the court, gave him a verdict of $500.
 It costs something to run one of the big Saratoga hotels. The proprietor of the United States, for instance, bought during the past summer, for the 6O,OOO persons whom he entertained, S7, 1000 pounds of beef, IL, for $3,172; 7,7s0 pounds of lamb for $2,- 416; 51,S77 pounds of chicken for $1O,4 :; 10000 pounds of butter for $4,71S; 10000 dozens of eggs for 4,269 and 68, ,0O0 quarts of milk for $2 1887. The total cost of pro- visions for the season was $99, ,479.42; the sum of $7O, ,00O was paid for rent, $50, 900 for help, and $50, 900 on the general expense account, making an aggregate expenditure of nearly $270,000 for season that began June and closed October l.
 According to it's annual custom, the St. Paul Pioneer Press has just published a de- tailed statement which shows the building operations in Minneapolis during the past year. The exhibit is remarkable one. The buildings erected during the pastfwelve months in Minneapolis consist of IA brick and stone stores, 5s frame stores, 1,561 dwellings, besides school houses, churches, elevators, flour mills, saw mills, depots, stables, etc. About one mile of business blocks has been built, or is in process, to cost $1, 112,sO0; the sum spent upon mills and machinery aggregates $1 ,o14 TOO; and the cost of the new dwellings will be about $2,OO0,O GOO. It is within bounds to put the total outlay for buildings and machinery at 5,oO0,000. Chicago, with ten times the population of Minneapolis, will only show an expenditure little over twice this amount.
 The New Orleans Democrat declares that there is an earnest feeling in Louisiana in favor of improving the public school system and it adds that Sit should be our aim, there. fore, to secure as much aid as we can from the Peabody fund" It appears from let erencs to a correspondence between the sup erintendent of State or local schools in Lou isiana, and Mr. Curry, the agent of the Pea body Education fund, the Democrat had said that the portion of the fund (which right fully belongs to the State had not been re- ceived.' Whereupon MT. Curry replies that the same intimation of the conditions upon which the fund was appropriated had been sent to Louisiana as to other States. AL though Louisiana has been beneficiary of the fund, it has not been so to the extent it might have been if her people had opened their pockets for the benefit of their own children. The Peabody fund is distributed to the ordinary free public school in the proportion of one dollar to two dollars raised by the community in which the school is To- cated. It further appears that so far Louisi- ana has not complied with the condition pre- cedent by raising money for the support in part of its own schools
 The working of society recently incorpo- rated in New York city by several prominent Episcopalian clergymen and others will be watched with interest. It is called the "Ser- yants Training House for Young Girls. D Easing it's theory upon the idea that careful training will alone make good domestic ser wants, the society has adopted a plan of special education. It takes children ranging in age from ten to fifteen years, who have been discharged from charitable asylums or and who, unprovidsd for, would be likely to drift into inferior positions in stores and factories, where they would have but little or no prospect of rising above life of constant toil or of earning an adequate livelihood. These pupils are found to be willing and anxious to improve, and are drilled in regular and sensible course of training. They are taught how to scrub, sweep, dust, clean windows, do chamber work and wash and iron. Especial attention is given to instruction in the art of cooking, and also to sewing, the pupils making and mending all of their own clothing. Besides this they are taught three hours each day the rudiments of an English education-how to read, spell and write a letter, and also given 8 sufficient knowledge of arithmetic and of geography and history. Ample time is af- forded for their recreation, and their relig- ious training is cared for.
 OUT OF POLITICS.
 Sarah Bernhardt was lately stoned while driving home from the theatre in PodmolOc-