Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-21

brought out that the number of taxpayinp Indians more than doubled during the ter years between 1870 and 1880. There is every reason to believe that the present decade will show much greater increase.
 ,. MT. Conkling's assertion that he is out d politics seems to dispose of the rumor that he may be a candidate for the United States Senate in 1885,
 The Japanese are smart, but they are be- hind the times in deciding to create an hered- itary nobility bearing the titles of dukes, marquises and viscounts.
 That was fine looking body of delegates which sat in the Grand Opera House yester- day. The Republican party in this State is evidently still quite respectable in spite ot the secession of what has called itself ''the better element
 In Massachusetts women and children are driving men out of many industries The trades in which the former are very large majority are awnings and tents, buttons, dress trimmings, carpetings, clothing, cotton goods, woolens, fancy goods, flax and linen, hair work, hose, rubber, mixed textiles, pa per, silks, sporting goods, straw goods and worsteds, twenty in all. Sixty trades show 2 preponderance of men.
 The percentage of alcohol in Bayarfan beer is small, but the drinkers of it drink enough to make up for the lack of strength. Consul Hortsman says there are thousands of Bava oI their lives, and one man told him that ht had drunk seventeen quarts daily for many years. It is an established fact that students at Munich sometimes drink from ten tc twelve quarts at sitting. This would equa sixty glasses such as are sold for five cents in this country.
 The Tichborne claimant will soon be out of jail, and when he gets out he means to make it warm for somebody. He says that his opponents have had their day and thei1 triumph. He has suffered for years, but be- ieves his day is to come. His duty to his God, to his children, and to his friends and supporters is to live for no other purpose than to clear his character and expose the villains who have been concerned in the mon, strous conspiracy against him. Those who imagine that he intends to sit down quietly that those who have robbed and plundered him may get off scot free will, he says, find themselves sadly mistaken.
 From consular report recently published it seems that at the examination of recruits for the Russian army during 1882, of 1,OOO candidates examined 460 were rejected as being t'too narrow-chested, 50 had pulmo- nary tuberculosis, and 10 poverty of blood. y Of the whole, 575 per cent. were rejected for physical disability. It was found that over 50 per cent. of the young men of St. Petersburg between 20 and g years of age were fweak and sickly." Of the population of the city 1000 were affected with bodily in firmities, 771 were blind, TOT deaf or dumb or both, 188 without arms, and 282 without legs. Blindness was twice as common among women as men; but the latter showed large proportion of cripples. Of the I'll blind, 134, and of the TOT deaf and dumb, 409 cases were congenital.
 A number of prominent Germans of Mil waukee give MT. Schurz sharp and digni- fled rebuke for his abuse of MT. Blaine They say: We have right to speak thus tc you because we have already been ofte.l through public opinion compelled to defend your character, MT. Schurz, because we al low no one to assail man like you, whose honor is unassailable, unless direct proofi are produced Thus we defended you at tht time you were chosen, with the help of tht Missouri Bourbon Democracy, to the Senate of the United States. We took your par when you, in spite of your well-known dec laration "That disposes of MT. Hayes" final ly supported him, and for this demanded place in the cabinet: we defended you when they attempted to show that you decisions in the case of the Northern Pacif land grants were in your personal interest 1 and we made strong stand against the as saults of yoar opponents when you afterwar' entered into the editorship of the Evenin Post, controlled by Henry Willard, and ac cepted part of it's stock. Were we dis posed to follow appearances, we might so ia have forgotten ourselves as to take certail deeds of your active life and consider then lost all respect for you. But we have alway 1 judged your character as it appeared to us il 1 its entirety; we have never attributed un worthy motives to you and have never doubt ed your personal integrity. Why have yo1 not applied the same rule to Blaine by whicl you would be judged and by which we hay l always judged you?