Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-16

had been in the house several years when MT. Blaine entered it, and knows what his career has been. He says: T think that am able to judge whether man is honest in public or not, and I should be false to my duty and to the truth if I did not declare my solemn conviction that there is no man in public life whose public and private charac- ter is more free from stain than MT. Blaine's. believe him to have been actuated by the purest motives in all his public acts"
 The project of cutting ship canal across the province of Holstein, connecting the North Sea with the Baltic, is now being taken up by the German authorities in earnest. The canal is to run from near tho mouth of the Elbe to the harbor of Kiel, Germany's chief naval port on the tEOstsee" It is to be con structed of such dimensions as to permit the largest ironclads in the German navy steam ing from the Baltic to the German ocean, or vice versa, thus avoiding the necessity of making, at present, the long voyage round the peninsula of Jutland Detailed draw ings on the subject are to be submitted to the new Reichstag.
 Recent figures make the unpleasant show ing that the consumption of intoxicating liquor in the United States has far outstrip- ped the growth of population. The number of gallonsSof liquor consumed yearly since 1S4O has increased as follows: 1S40 T, ,OOO,- GOO; 1850, 94, COG, 600; 1860, 202, ,000, 900; 1870, 29s, ,OOO, GOO; 1880, 5o6, ,OO0, 900; 1883, 655, ,O00, 900. While the population has only trebled in the last forty years the consump- tion of intoxicants is ten times greater than it was in 1640, and the amount of money ex- pended in the purchase thereof is twenty or thirty times greater, Our annual expendi- ture for liquor exceeds $500, ,000, ,OOO
 In 1880 there were something oyer 51 ,0OO,- 900 inhabitants in the United States and 67, 900 paupers. In 1881 there were over 34, ,OOO, ,OO0 people in Great Britain, of whom 1 ,016, ,000 were paupers. In every thousand people of Great Britain twenty-eight and a half were paupers; in the United States, of every thousand people, one and third. Or, to put it another way, one person in every thirty-five in Great Britain was pauper; one in every seven hundred and sixty in the United States Does anyone suppose that if trade had been the policy of the United States the number of paupers would have been sma1lers
 Dr. Ord, who has been engaged for two years in studying the death rate as occurring in people of various occupations, stated it re- gently as follows: He first numbered the persons engaged in eighty occupations in 1881. In 1882 and 1883 he noted their deaths, excluding all who were under 25 and oyer sixty-five years. He chose 1000 as the average number of all the persons in all the occupations. This gives the deaths of peo- pie in hotel service at 2,205; wine and spirit merchants, 1, ,525; cabmen, 1, ,482; butchers, 1,17O; Iightermen, 1905; earthenware mak- CTS, 1, ,742; filemakers, ,662; cutters, 1,309 medical men, 1, ,122; farmers, 675; agricultur- al laborers, 653; gardeners, 559; clergymen, '556.
 When the crown jewels of France, the sale of which is now approaching, were valued after the revolution of 1799 they were esti- mated at $4, 200, 900, and they consisted of 7,482 diamonds, 506 pearls, 280 rubies, 150 emeralds, 134 sapphires, Fl topazes, 8 gar nets, and amethysts. From the treasury in which they were deposited they were sub sequently stolen, only a small portion being recovered. By the purchases made by Ma poleon and the Bourbon kings their value in 1882 had reached $4, 50O, GOO In 1875 new inventory was taken, the number of jewels being then 77, 7,486 and their weight 19, 900 carats. Among those now to be sold are jewels which belonged to Anne of Brittany when she married Charles VIII, and others which were the property of Cardinal Riehe- lieu