Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-08-07

initiate him.
Senator Hawley voted against passing the
River and Harbor grab over the Presidents
veto, and Congressman Buck of the First
district voted for it. The Hartford Times is
trying to make it pleasant for Mr.. Buck b,
calling attention to the fact that if Mr.. Haw-
ley's vote was right MIR. Bucks was wrong
The wealth of the United States now ex
ceeds that of either Great Britain or France,
but the average wealth per capita is less here
than in those countries. The wealth of the
United States is $40, 700, 600, 900, or 5000 per
capita of Great Britain, $44, 100, 600, 900,
which is 81, 200 per head France, $37, 1OO,-
100000, or $1,o45 per capita In 1S49
Great Britain's wealth was five times as great
as ours. This is a good showing for the
United States and is doubtless very consol-
ing to many who are worth 5000 but do not
know where their next meal is coming
from.
A parrot in East Twenty eighth street,
New York. shrieked so much that complaint
was made to the Board of Health that he was
"a curse to the whole neighborhood," The
counsel of the Board promptly notified the
| owner of the bird that continuance of the
nuisance would be dealt with as "a violation
| of the sanitary code, which subjects the Of
fender to punishment as for misdemeanor."
AS this action had the effect of speedily rid
| ding the neighbors of the abomination the
| precedent is likely to prove one of which
other persons similarly afflicted will not be
| slow to take advantage.
| The Nilometer used for the purpose of
measuring the height of the Nile is situated
on the Island of Roda, opposite Old Cairo.
| 1t consists of square well or chamber, in
| the center of which is graduated pillar
divided into seventeen oubits, each about
81 ZIG inches long. Owing to the elevation
| of the bed of the Nile the relative proper
/ ton of the rise of water has been altered,
| and it now passes about one cubit and two
| thirds above the highest part of the column.
The state of the stream is proclaimed in the
streets of Cairo during the inundation every
day by several criers, to each of whom @
particular district is allotted. From twenty.
four feet to twenty-six feet may be taken as
the ordinary maximum of the rise at Cairo.
At the recent Prohibitory convention il
Iowa commi tee of lawyers made report
reviewing the prohibitory laws of the State
at considerable length. and concluding tha
there are no statutory provisions or penal
ties for the enforcement of the amendment
regarding the sale of ale, wine, and beer
also that section ], $50 of the code cannot ap
ply to ale, wine, and beer. The proviso il
that section which exempted ale wine. ant
beer from its operation being annulled by thu
amendment, the section, therefore, canno
now apply to those liquors, because they
were not prohibited. The amendment MAY
take from statute, but it cannot enlarge tn.
| powers of q statute. What the seller Nigh
lawfully do before under or without Ii
cense, he can still do, though unlawfully, be
cause there are no statutory penalties to pun
ish the unlawful act. Additional Legislation
is therefore necessary to enforce the amend
ment as to the sale of ale, wine and beer
| Those who think there ia no good India,
but dead one will have to change thei
minds if they care anything about evidence
! Last March the government gave a contrac