Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-06

can afford to.
 Four of the Republican candidates for Congress who have been nominated in Massa- chusetts are not lawyers.
 There will probably be fewer divorces for ''the Scriptural cause'' hereafter in New Hampshire. The Supreme Court of that State has ruled that whenever adultery shall have been cause for successful divorce suit it shall be the duty of the court officers to criminally prosecute the offending parties. The Pennsylvania regular" Republican State committee says it has assurances from
 General Stewart L. Woodford, Senators Eye, Logan, Hale, Allison and Hawley, and Go ugressmen Kasson and Burroughs that State for General Beaver and the whole Stal- wart ticket
 During the last two years nearly 3 ,50G sail ing vessels and .steamers have been lost throughout the wovld, and of these moro than 300 have never be en heard from since their last sailing and we re long ago classed as missing" Disasters M river and lake in American and Canadian wa. 'ers have swelled
 the list greatly, far beyond what might be
 reasonably supposed.
 Senator Jones, of Nevada, who is spoken
 of as Secretary Folger's successor, has given
 Chicago reporter full outline of his views
 on financial questions. He thinks the na.
 tional debt should be paid off as fast as pos
 sible. The capital so released he thinks finds investment in the newer western and south ern States and makes money easier and more abundant in those sections. He favors some plan of buying out the holders of the per cent. bonds and substituting bond with lower rate of interest. This, he is persuad ed, would be good business operation for the government
 The census of English convict prisons just completed shows that of the 10, 261 prisoners
 three.fourths are, on medical authority, fit for hard labor, and only one -thirtieth unfit for labor of any kind. That part of the population which is between twenty five and thirty four years of age contributes far more than it's proportion of criminals This, Sir Edmund du Cain says may be taken as the criminal age, after which a tendency to crime ! rapidly diminishes. It is suggested that if those whose career evinces a marked criminal tendency could be locked up or kept under supervision till they had passed say, forty years of age, a vast deal of criIus would be prevented. This suggestion is & highly un- practical one.
 Sir Samuel Baker, the celebrated traveller,
 has given his opinion concerning the course
 to be pursued in Egypt by the British. The first consideration being the commercial one he says tkat commercial affairs de pend en-
 tirely upon the equilibrium of the political l situation, and that to render this certain and
 stable the Khedive must be supported for g
 year at least by British army of occupation
 This, according to his ideas, need not be com- posed of British troops, but should be made
 up, as to rank and file, in certain proportions
 of the Soudan anGl Turkish troops. all being
 oficered by the British. The only question
 seems to be as to the number and quality of
 the troops to be maintained in Egypt, and
 this Is matter of little general conseq uence.
 The Khedive has lost the respect of the inau- ential Egypti ans; he must be sustained in the interest of England and 'of Europe"
 Among the most ingenious and complicated
 mechanicaL achievements of modern times is gigantic clock, just completed by Messrs.
 Lund and Blockley of London, at the in stance of Mir Premchund Roychund, we'll known native of Bombay. Some time ago