Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-01

drance, as they pleased. But on the fourth day of this year new factory law went into l operation for the regulation of the work of
 children. A complete staff of inspectors has
 been appointed to enforce the following stip- 1 ulations of the new law: 1. Children under | ten years of age must not be allowed to work | in factories. 2. Workers from the age of twelve to fifteen years must not work more
 than eight hours a day. Night work for children can only be authorized in establish ments where the process of manufacture can- not have bad influence on the health. Ev- en if allowed, the work must not exceed four hours. 3. The work of children must be regulated in such 8 way as not to prevent their going to school three hours every day. 4. The owners of the factories are obliged to admit inspectors and their assistants into their works at any hour of the day. -.
 An Italian professor at the University cf Paris has been collecting some very interest ing facts concerning the comparative motal- ity of European armies. He finds that of every ten thousand men 57 die annually in the German army, S4 in the English, 92 in the French, 112 in the Austrian and 116 in the Italian. The proportion of deaths in the German army would thus appear to be much lower than in any other, and it be- comes very small indeed if we count only the deaths from natural causes, for an enormous number of deaths in the German army are suicides. On the other hand, the mortality 1O, 900 in England, PA in France and 269 in Germany. Much more care is apparently taken of the health of the soldiers of the FatherIand than of it's private citizens. The higher rates of mortality in the English and French armies are probably due to the risks run by troops stationed in tropical and ma. larious countries. The excessive mortality among the Austrian and Italian soldiery is no doubt partly due to the very high death rate among the population generally of the two countries.
 The liquor dealers of Buffalo have if the report of their proceedings is correct, lost good deal of the patience and dignity which they once had. They have begun to issue weekly paper devoted to their interests. And it is said that they have held secret meet ing at which aggressive measures against all persons openly favoring restriction in the liquor traffic were agreed upon. The especial purpose of the meeting was to consider &C., tion on the new danger threatening the saloon interest in the high license bills now before the legislature. Tine meeting, however, went further and planned an attack on the Citizens Reform Association which is eff clently backing up and bracing up the Board of Excise in it's efforts to close the saloons on Sunday. The liquor dealers declare their be- lief that the Citizens Assoc 1ation is actively ture, and are greatly enraged over it. They declare that ''We, the liquor dealers, saloon keepers and brewers" are already overtaxed and maliciously persecuted by fanatics who are anxious to escape their fair share of taxa tion by putting the burden on our trade, and by so doing will drive many poor but honest men, who have their little fortunes in their bar fixtures, out of business. They therefore resolve "that this organization refuse to patronize any man engaged in the scheme for the advancement of high license and the in- jury of our business and that each member of this organization use his best endeavors to induce men who dealing with him and furnishing him with stock to r5fuse to pat ronize or deal with any of the fanatics en gagged in the crusade against our legitimate business" The probability Is that if the liquor dealers of Buffalo carry out this pro- gramme they will hurt themselves more than any body else.