Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-12

It is not cheering that the most poorly paid working. girls in Lendon are those en- gagged in the work of sewing and binding bibles. A London journal remarks that ''for every heather abroad who can be in duced to use the sacred volume for anything else than gun wadding dozen of these girls l are driven to perdition at home."
 Some rich Milwaukee brewers recently gave five hundred dollars each to the Young Mems Christian association of that city The action of the association in accepting these gifts has aroused the indignation of Mil waukee clergyman, who thinks that relig ious society has no right to accept any aid from men who are engaged in the liquor bus mess.
 Many girls in Russia are of the opinion that it is good thing to be independent. The womens industrial schools are over crowded. The girls learn bookkeeping, type setting, shoemaking, bookmaking, making of toys and artificial flowers, wood carving and painting. Schools, libraries, women and children hospitals, and many private offices in Russia, are now superintended by women
 The wool market this week shows the lar gest transactions in domestic wools ever known in Boston, the total sales footing up 6, 76S, ,000 pounds, of which only 170, 400 pounds was foreign wool. Three houses sold over million pounds each. Some dealers have been buying heavily, which indicates their confidence in the future course of the market, but fully sixty per cent. of the wool o15 4o who have sold ahead find it difficult to meet contracts made early in the season. For the past nine weeks the sales have averaged over 4, $50, 900 pounds a week, which is an unpre- cedented business. All of which is very en- couraging.
 Thus far five retreats for inebriates have been licensed in England under the Habitual Drunkards act of 1879. These retreats are under the supervision of government in spector and his report for 1884, made public last month, contains some curious informa tion. During the year seventy-two patients were admitted and sixty two were discharged The licensee of the Dalrymple retreat tor men only) has compiled g tabulated exhibit of forty-nine cases of inebriety that have come unuor QlS care 2nu sGuOy. OI buosc tuo inspector selects twenty-five for use in his report. All the twenty-five are Protestants; all are fairly we'll educated; four are marked "college." All are from what are considered in England "gent1emanly" occupations. Thir- teen are married, one widower, the rest single. Their ages range from twenty five to ifty-three. +.
 School systems, according to "educators" who run them, are improving every day. What they will be in the year 1900 nobody can tell, but the Norwich Bulletin lays out the following interesting programme for the days work for school children: One hour, sewing; one hour, washing and ironing; one hour, cooking; one hour, table setting and other branches of housekeeping; one hour, music; one hour, dancing; one hour, painting; one hour, modelling and sculpture; one hour, reading; one hour, writing; one hour, arithmetic; one hour, bookkeeping; one hour, industrial education; one hour, civil government; one hour each on geogra phy, algebra, trigonometry, Latin, Greek, French, German, botany, astronomy, tariff and free trade, farming, and the weather This will be enough to keep the children of 1900 busy.
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