Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-15
MORNING. JANUARY I5, 1885.
". The task of covering all the coffins with oak cases has just been completed.

A years trial of the high license system in l Missouri seems to have justified the confidence | of it's advocates. Under it's operation the namber of drinking places in the State has 1 fallen from $500 to 3, 15O, while the revenue
 from licenses has leaped from $438. 900 to $1, ,164 ,000. Two defects in the law have been disclosed but both can be easily reme- died by the legislature. The rate for wine and beer licenses was put at a nominal sum, with the object of encouraging the substitu- tion of light beverages for strong drink, but the usual result has followed in the general
 practice by such licensees of selling strong
 drinks also; and the minimum penalty Of $40 for violating the law has proved alto geJher too small The advocates of the sys-
 tenn hope to see both of the defects remedied
 by a requirement. that all dealers shall pay the higher tax, and by suitable increase of
 the penalty for violating the law. With these
 changes it is believed that the revenue will
 be increased to s1 5000 year with still further decrease of illegal selling
 London paper asserts that the Queens civil list is the smallest enjoyed by any sovereign. when viewed in relation to the
 wealth of her dominions. The revenue of
 the British empire may be approximately stated at e210, 100000. The Parliamentary allowances to her Majesty and the members of the royal family amount to e537 GOO. If
 we add the net receipts from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, the total of the royal income may be put at e640, ,000, or as nearly as possible 0.3 per cent of the sum .1,, 4o +loa C4o4, Czar disposes at his own pleasure of @, 450,- 900 per annum; the nominal revenue of Rus sia for the year 1882, as given in official re- turns, having been e106, ,000, ,000. The Prince of Montenegro takes not far from ' per cent. of his country's available resources ii e., e4, 100 out of e60, GOO. He is also public pensioner of Russia to the extent of e4, 800 year, and accepts e3, 900 more from Austria for the construction of carriage roads in the principality.
 The record of the business of Mrs. Leg gett's boarding house in New York during the last six years is interesting. It is boarding house for business women, and it's plan, though not charitable in the usual sense of that word, is benevolent. The founders purpose WAS IO Indk0 IL S6iI-STSIalnlQS, WD1le giving to the young women who found homes there comfortable and pleasant lodgings such self-respecting woman might find reason ably satisfactory, with abundant and whole some food, for price barely sufficient, with good management, to pay the cost, and less than that demanded for much less attractive and healthful lodgings elsewhere in the city. The price of lodgings with board has been for the last three years from S3. 75 to S5.50, except for two specially large rooms, for which, with fire, six or seven dollars has been paid. All women working for a livelihood have been received except uomestics, and the house has always been full. It had at first accommodations for thirty boarders, but an- other house was taken at the end of the first year and the number of boarders increased. Three of the years showed small yearly loss, but in each of the other years there was profit which little more than offset the losses. No death has occurred in the family and only one case of serious illness