Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-13


 in duty bound to tell his wife where he spends the evenings when he is away from home. Our lady readers should cut this out and paste it in their bonnets.
 The usefulness of vaccination is illustrat- ed by the fact that not soldier of the 'Prussian army has died from smallpox dur ing the past ten years, owing to the thor oughness with which vaccination is practiced in the army.
 Much surprise has been caused by the publication of what is delicately called 'sthe subsistence account" of Vassar college We have no desire to unduly shock the young gentlemen who may read this, and will there fore simply remark that one of the items of this astonishing account is 'tforty bushels of onions."
 The example set by Professor Riley, the entomologist, in eating locusts, has been fol- lowed by Mir. Harmon and some of his friends in Westebester, Pennsylvania, and they like the insect diet very well. Locusts boiled about twenty minutes, then fried in butter until they are brown and crisp, and then seasoned with pepper and salt, are re- ported to be perfectly delicious. If we can eat locusts and English sparrows we may manage to live for some time
 The financial condition of Greece has be- come serious. Tobacco duties. which were estimated last year to yield 10000, 900 drachmas, having only brought in 2, 600, 900 drachmas. Cigarette paper has yielded of 000 draohmas; spirits have produced 390, 900 drachmas, instead of 2,140,000 drachmas; and wine 27O, 1000 drachmas, instead of B. 200, 900 drachmas. The deficit is reckoned at 16, ,000, 900 drachmas. A drachma of Greece equals 19.3 cents in American money.
 "Stepniak" announces that the Russian army is in 8 state of weakness. This weak ness arises, first of all, from the fact that the condition of the imperial finances allows of the mobilization and maintenance under arms of only 8 fraction of the nominal mili- tary strength of the country. According to "Stepniak," all the forces available amount to only about one-third of the number on paper Yet these 400, 900 men, efficiently organized and well led, ought to make an effective army. That they do not is the fault of the Russian commissariat, which is the second and chief cause of Russian n1ili- tary weakness. "Stepniak" illustrates this by the destitution of the Russian troops'dur- ing the last war with Turkey, though the government spent money without stint to make proper provision for them. He charges that the soldiers are robbed by the government contractors, and that military officers are responsible for this state of af fairs, taking bribes freely from the contrac- tors.
 The organ of the Mormon church in Utah, the DeseIet News, is convinced that the fed eral officials in that territory have been "of fensively partisan'' in their prosecution of the Mormons, and thinks they will be re- moved on that ground. The News says: "Ths Republican object has been to strip all 'Mormons' of the elective franchise and the right to hold ofice The reason for this is ,obvious-the territory must be held Repubi can in politics. This is impossible so long as the Saints hold the rights guaranteed them under the constitution, because it is a notable fact that as a body they have always voted with the Democrats. Without their votes the Democracy cannot carry the terri tory; with them, however, victory perehes upon it's banner With the sweeping. away of the Mormon right to vote the Democratic hold upon Idaho is extinguished. Tho -dost offensive partisanship is consequently being exercised in order to secure and maintain