Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-31

Bears are increasing Tn Maine. Iney nave been decreasing in Wall street lately.
 Velocipedes of every kind have been ex- pelled from the streets of Berlin by an ordi- nance of the police, the legality of which has been expelled by the Prussian court of com mon pleas, to which some owners of bicycles and tricycles appealed.
 Boy Preacher Harrison, according to his own estimate, has converted between forty and fifty thousand souls in his career. Evangelist Sam Jones says that he has made between eight and ten thousand converts during the past year, and that ninety-fvs per cent of his converts ''stick."
 Strangely enough most of the attempts at cooperation have failed in this country. Another one is to be made in New York city, and it's work will be watched with in terest. The Cooperative Alliance, Limited, will consist of members of the exchanges, boards of trade, clubs and associations, and will start out with a capital stock of $1OO,- 900, divided into 2,00O shares of $50 each. In the beginning the business of the store will be confined to groceries, and through out, of course, it will be conducted for cash only. The association hope to save to their members at least an average of ten per cent Some competent man will be en- ployed to supervise the purchases and sales, and none except pure and unadulterated ar ! ticles will be offered for sale. At first the store, which, it is expected, will be opened | in the autumn, will be run in 8 modest way, | SO that expenses may be kept down.
 I The spread of education in England has had encouraging results, according to figures | recently made public by MT. Edward Stan hope, the new vice president of the council, and his predecessor, MT. Mundella. The latter, in common with other competent au- 1 thorities, attributes the marked decline in the numbers of the criminal population to the l influence of the education act and of the in dustrial and reformatory schools. While ir 1860 the number of prisoners sentenced te penal servitude was ii, 1916, in 1884 it was only 9,50O, notwithstanding the great in
 crease of populations; and further, the mum
 Der of prisoners under thirty years of ags
 has fallen nearly one-half From the statis
 tics displayed by MT. Stanhope it would ap
 pear that the school accommodation is ever
 in excess of the requirements of the popula
 tion. Within the past fifteen years it ha increased ITO per cent; so that there arr
 now 4,826, ,000 school places for 4,311 ,OO'
 pupils-the number of children on the reg l isters in 1884.
 le A sergeant of cavalry on active service il Arizona against the Indians gives plaus
 ible answer to the inquiry, Why don't tn
 United States troops catch the raidinl
 Apaehesa He says that the Indians hay
 from five to seven good saddle horses each The soldiers are compelled to follow witt one horse each, loaded down with blanket
 overcoat, two cantsens, lariat, picket pin side lines, nosebag, eurrycomb and brush sometimes four to six days rations, par
 nikin, tin cup, and numerous other ittl
 traps that are of no use, but always in th
 way. Then come the gun and field bell
 with fifty rounds of cartridges, with 10
 more in the saddle pockets, then the pistt t and belt, with twenty-four pistol cartridge
 stWeigh man with all this, {" says the se
 peant. "and then turn him loose after an II
 dian pony, with shell of saddle, gu -- - and ammunition, and an almost nude bucl and see which wins in the race of thr'