Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-05

cent victims Of smallpox 1n that city were among the Germans. who, out there, it Is said, do not believe in vaccination.
 The prohibitionists of Cleveland are deter mined to keep their views before the public. They have hired a number of columns of one of the papers of the city, and their arguments are presented by the best writers they can command. On the editorial page these argu- ments are regularly and vigorously contro- verted.
 What will those who have been laboring to prove that women can do as much bookkeep- ing as men say to this The experiment of handing over the official ledgers of the Post office Savings bank in England to the female staff has not proved satisfactory, the amount of work obtained hitherto from the male off cials having proved far too severe a task for their lady successors, with the winters sea- son of overwork yet to come.
 Two French doctors at Grenelle have con- ducted, at the expense of rich Swedish phil anthropist, 8 series of experiments upon pigs, for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of alcohol on the internal organs of drunkards Fifteen pigs were treated daily upon various descriptions of alcohol and then killed after the process of alcoholization had gone on for some time. Each pig had @ different description of liquor. One had whiskey, another brandy, third ebsinthe, and so on. When killed their vital organs were found to be marked with small spots resembling ulcers. Their flesh was sound but when sent to market was seized as unfit for food
 The revised census of Scotland shows that while in 1871 the to Hns contained only fifty eight per cent. of the population, in 1881 the town population was sixty-two per cent. The increase in the population as whole l since 1871 is 8 little more than eleven per ,. cont, the most rapid rate of progress since ! the third decade of this century. There is 6 1 change in the distribution of the population. 1 The northern division, composed of Shet l land, Orkney, Caithness and Sutherland coun l ties, is the only one that shows falling of In the last twenty years. There is 8 steady decline in the proportion of women. In IS Ii l there one hundred and eighteen ant 1 five one-hundredths women to every one hun 1 dred men, while in 1881 there were only one I hundred and seven and six one -hundredths l The Knights of the Golden Rule are no
 happy. About three years ago the order wal
 organized in Cincinnati. It spread widel, l . d it's ''castles'' were established in severa | s ates. The benefciaries were di
 vided into three classes, accord
 ing to age, the third class taking
 in the older members. Things went or
 swimmingly for time, and the attractive in
 dacements drew n large membership. Bu
 the aged ones naturally began to die off, ant
 the deaths among the third class hay
 lately become so frequent that there ism
 money enough in the treasury to pay th
 benefits, and $e2 1000 is now due Wha
 paid in by the young members, instead o
 being appropriated to their use, has gone t
 pay the claims of the old.
 The wholesale trade of St. Paul, says tn
 Pioneer Press, is the most sensitive barom
 year it showed an advance of from 20 to 8
 per cent. as compared with 1880, and thi
 fall 1t is more than 30 per cent. larger tha it year ago. ''This increase is mor
 remarkable since it has been gained withou
 any exceptional exciting cause. It is to
 early for trade to have felt the impulse c
 the good crops of the present year in a
 parts of the Northwest. That will com later, and will probably swell the percentag