Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-18

character to the State under the stimulus Of a crazy yell for reform, and it will place a premium on stupid or knavish service by re- fusing to pay public officers holding impor tant trusts requiring large bond decent re- muneration for their responsibility and la bor.
 A recent investigation shows that from the point where the Paris drains enter the river at Clichy the aspect of the Seine is that of moving mass of vegetation, like the f'sudd" of the upper Nile, only that it is full of pu- trid matters not found in Egypt. This ''sudd" almost interrupts the course of the river and converts it into morass of mud The odor arising from the fswater" is inde- scribable. At St. Denis the horrors culmi- nate. The river boils under the action of the gases arising from it. Lumps of filth rise from the bottom and come to the sur face, suddenly exploding and forming circles on the water, quickly effaced, but incessant- ly repeated. The Seine is nothing but an immense foetid mass of putridity formed by chemical decomposition, the surface of which, all boiling with globu1es; shines in the sun.
 If all the judges in Mississippi were as fear less and outspoken as Judge Featherston. affairs in that State would be in better con dition than they are In charge which he gave to the grand jury at Holly Springs the other day he said: You will deal out justice regardless of race and color. I had hoped that Marshall county would stand. out free from the crime of Ife-taking. I had hoped that this would be an exceptional communi- ty, but the tidal wave has struck Marshall, and you have one case at least to look into This crime has done the State Of Mississippi more harm than any other. It has made our own citizens dissatisfied and fearful. It has deterTed others from coming here and set ting don't care what herculean efforts may be undertaken to induce immigration, they will be of no use until people are assured everywhere that life and property are as sacred here iii Mississippi as they are any where else in the world
 The popular libraries introduced in Paris have proved an immense success In 1862 the first municipal library was founded and two more were opened in 1865 and '67, but ttS 16IoIGly 1CtO InoI6 were On1y u1no, while next year there will be forty. The total number of volumes is 100, ,247, the average annual increase being about 5000 During the last twelve months 60, 900 volumes were lent out, and of these only BIO were in jured or mislaid. It is estimated that each volume was, on the average, read by five persons, making a total of 550, 900 readers. Three-t -t1fthS Of the vo1rmes xUere oova1r b1,+ if is noted as satisfactory that the demand for novels has not been nearly so great in pro portion as for musical works which show an increase of 69 per cent; the demand for books in foreign languages has increased 61 per cent, and for works of history 43 per cent, the increase for novels being only 38 per cent.
 By way of counterblast to the glory of colonial enterprise the Paris Justice has been publishing some interesting figures. It is pointed out, in the first place, that the French colonies across the sea entail the sacrifice of some 200 lives year, the an- nual mortality in the infanterie marine be- ing TO in ,000, as against 8 in l. .000 in the case of the Continental army. This loss of life is by no means compensated for. by pc cuniary gains. Thus the total trade of Coch- in China is about $50, 900, 900 year, but of this less than a fifteenth is with France; and as most of the French imports are consumed by the French soldiers and officials, the ad- vantage even of this s, 100000 worth of trade is not very real. As for Algeria, it is estimated that it costs the French taxpayers $10,000,0 year; and, however liberal an allowance be made for indirect commercial advantages, the balance must be very much on the wrong side. The same writer calcu- lates, allowing for interest at four per cent, that Algeria has altogether cost ten milliards since 1880, or just twice the German indem- 1,itv