Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-24


 the railing surrounding the monument, and | attempted to place them in position. Sud denly the stone fell and crushed him to
 death on his fathers tomb. The sorrowing
 mother claimed damages to the amount of
 1000 francs from the constructor of the mon-
 ument, but it was urged for the defendant
 that the boy was the victim of his own i'm
 prudence, and that the rules of the cemetery
 forbade any interference with monuments.
 But the court decided that this prohibition
 did not apply to families wishing to decorate
 tombs or attach wreaths to crosses, and
 awarded the widow the full amount of her
 claim
 The house committee on ways and means
 has reported g. bill to authorize the estab-
 lishment of export tobacco manufactories,
 and allowing drawbacks on imported articles
 used in manufacturing exported tobacco
 The report accompanying the bill states that
 for many years large business has been
 done in the exportation of manufactured
 tobacco and at this time more than 10.000,
 900 pounds per annum of tobacco manu- factured in the United States is exported for
 consumption in foreign countries. In the course of manufacturing this tobacco large quantities of sugar. icorice, paste, rum, al cohol, and other articles used, which customs duties or internal revenue taxes levied and collected by the United States. The duties and taxes add so materially to the cost of manufacture that the manufac- turers of tobacco for export find themselves at great disadvantage ill foreign markets in competition with manufacturers of other countries The committee thinks it will be wise to relieve American manufactured to- bacco exported to foreign countries from this burden as a means of stimulating and in creasing our foreign trade.
 Mir. Smith, q member of Parliament, has an interesting article in the January number of the Contemporary Review, in which he warmly advocates the 'industfial training of destitute children" maintaining that leafh= ing to earn living otttstfips if Importance the acquisition ef knowledge from books He favefs giving English children ah eemeii= tafy schooling Hp to the age of la or fl, and after that, # they are not employed, com polling them all to attend industrial night schools, where the boys are to be taught iiearpentry, tailoring, shoemaking and print ing" and the girls sewing, cooking, wash ing and domestic economy us far as possible" his main object seemingly being to get hold of those children who spend too much time in the streets, where they become idlers and criminals. Mir. Smith points out that the classes cos5 the State fifteen mil lion pounds sterling yearly, whereas 5O0,Ooo ohi ha nSeFuI. supporting work at an outlay of one pound sterling head year, being five hundred pounds altogether. The writer makes the startling statement, which IS cal culated to awaken the sympathy of the most stony hearted. that in the ''low parts Of London statistics show that one-fourth ot the children go to school without breakfast, and that their dinner consists of piece of butterless bread, possibly accompanied with tea.
 A 60 O." writes from Lincoln's Inn to the London Times: The policy of Prince Bismarck with reference to Germany's inter est in colonization has of late undergone remarkable change, which it may be of ln- terest to contrast with his publicly expressed opinions of some fourteen years back. On the 9th of February, 1871, the great Chan cellor was Gas Dr. Busch, his note-taking sec retary, informs us) dining at his quarters at Versailles with various guests. The terms on which peace vas to be imposed on con- quered France were being then hotly dis cussed in every capital in Europe It was commonly believed in London that, besides exacting many miliiards, Bismarck would de- mand from France twenty ironclads and also the cession of Pond;cherry. The last sugges- ton Bismarck called ''clumsy invention, and he then enphatically said: ''I want no colonies They are good for nothing but to supply stations. For us in Germany this CO., lonial business would be just like the silken sables in the noble families of Poland who have no shirts to their backs" He added l further remarks in the same sense. If tue chief as is suspected, authorized the secre-. tary to write as he did, it would seem that 1 the Chancellor's change of opinion as well as his change of front may be dated at least later than 1879.