Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-10

oosten notlons arS &9Aefauy very goo
 ones. One of the latest and best is plan t secure the education of cooks. The plan vii
 be based on the pledge of ], GOO housekeeper
 to give $5 a year for the support of the schoe
 and employ those who can show certifcat
 of having received 8 course of instruction
 there. supply of pupils will be draw.
 from the maritime provinces of the Dominion
 Ii natives do not apply, and the cost of
 term of practical lessons will be from $1O l.
 SEQ, the payment of which will be secured i
 necessary by an assignment of wages.
 Some of the Democratic organs are begin
 ming to recognize the fact that the party ha got it's hands full. Thus the St. Louis Re
 publican says: ''The situation in the Demo
 cratic party is peculiar. It may even be called
 crltlcaI. There are no perceptible prepara
 tlons for the struggle, still more than year
 distant. The party is in condition of re
 pose, and averse to the consideration of the
 claims of candidates and of issues And yet
 there IS at least one issue which the party
 knows it must face before the end of the present year. That issue is found in the per son of ex Speaker Randall" The tariff for revenue Democrats evidently propose to l make the Speakership contest test fight. Some one in France has made an estimate ! of the average cost of living among the work ing classes in that country, and he finds that the expenditure of sixteen families, fairly re- presentat1ve of different orders of laborine people, varied from $222 to 5000 per annum 1- per cent. of the total expenditure, clothing l6 per cent, and food G1 per cent, s per cent. being reserved for miscellaneous pur- poses. In the matter of food he found that the highest expenditure registered was 72 per cent, and this item of expenditure was thus distributed B per cent. for bread, 14 per cent. for meat, 13 per cent for milk 24 per cent for groceries, and 16 per cent for mis- celianeous ailments. The greatest expendi- ture upon bread in any individual case was 48 per cent.
 The report of the Society for the Preserva ton of the Irish Language states that at the beginning of the present century probably not more than four hundred persons could read and write Irish, whereas this society
 
 Irish books. Their publications continue to be in great demand. The number of persons in Ireland who speak the old language is nearly 950,00O, as against nearly S1e,oOO in 1871, although the population has during that period diminished, in round numbers, by 252, ,0o0 persons. This. as pointed out, is nearly equal to the number of Welsh people speaking Welsh "Not only" it is observed, "has Leinster increased it's number of Irish speaking inhabitants, but Dublin has made considerable advance in this respect, partly fulfilling the old Irish prophecy"
 The horse race has reason to rejoice in the prospect that the time is soon coming when street cars will not be drawn by horses. Electric motors and cable systems are already l working successfully. A cable hne was open- ed in Philadelphia Saturday. The line is l 6a6h went over the route twice and the speed srvs..~-- -- N-o -S-.RSS sReSS cars drawn by horses The endless cable is } 3, POO feet long and is made of crucibIe steel | It is kept in motion by two engines, each of I 100 horse power. The cable is grasped by ] what mRJ be called an iron hand under the I car, and this hand is opened and it's grip re- l axed when it becomes necessary to stop the 1 car. By renewing the grip the car Is started, l for the cable is always moving This kind l of motive power has been used to propeI street cars in San Francisco and Chicago for I several years.
 The London police force has just been l 300 men. It now numbers II, 200 ! men, who have to guard seven hundred l square miles. Great care is taken in add | ing to the force. Every applicant for place has to stand clear feet inches I without his shoes.' rule rigidIy enforced He | next fills out blank intended to test his | general intelligence and ability to read 1 and write; next the eye-sight is 1 tested by requiring him to read print at a l certain distance, requirement that throws out ! 3 good many, with another surgical examina- ] tion. The candidate has to produce testi- l nonial of character, signed by his last em- l ployer and 1.-two respectable honsekeepers, who have known him five years and who will l also themselves be inquired into, before the I is accepted. At first he receives l fifteen shillings week for two weeks train ! ing, during which he has manual of twenty ] pages to master. If he is not dropped then i as deficient the oath is administered and he l becomes third class constable at twenty four shillings a week; he does not go on l beat but is reserve man for the first week | In time he will rise to second and first class, respectively twenty-seven and thir- 1 ty shillings; the shilling may be reckoned at ] twenty five cents. The London policeman's lot is evidently not very happy one.