Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-15

Inelr WOfk nolds out better, put they, 100, 1 now have no money to spare, and the trade l in liquor has fallen off seriously. MT. Miller says his association made a mistake in oppos- l ing high Hcenselaws. Such laws he thinks, reduce the number of saloons; the competi- tlon in the trade is less; the drinking places are kept in better order and on the whole that policy is best for all concerned
 At meeting of the Academic Information ale de Coifure held recently at the Goat and Star hotel, Piccadilly, in London, M. Eugene Menard delivered lecture in which he gave an historical review of the powder cultures from their introduction until their disappear ance about the beginning of this century.
 According to M Menard, ladies' cultures seem to have attained their greatest extrava- gance during the reign of Louis XVI, when the caricaturists of the day represented hair dressers as mounted upon high steps while
 preparing ladies' cultures. Leaders of fash ion underwent trying ordeals in order to out vie one another in the magnifcence of their headdresses. When about to attend court ball it became necessary for them to sit up the whole of the night and following day while their elaborate cultures were being executed, so that they were sometimes twen- ty-four and even thirty-six hours under the
 hands of the coiffeur, who piling tier
 upon tier of ornamentation on their devoted
 heads.
 Some time ago Professor Virchow brought
 together the results of an inquiry into the relative proportions of the blond haired dark
 roI 4Lo ohi
 of the German empire. Since then the in
 quiry has been extended to Belgium, Aus tria and Switzerland, and embraces nearly eleven million children in it's scope. In d lecture at the Berlin Academy of Science, Professor Virchow now shows that more than 50 per cent. of the school children of Central Europe belong to the mixed type The distribution of the purely blond type, which contributes something over 25 per cent, and is associated with unmixed leu tonic blood, is rather curious. It is highest in Hanover, where iUsforms 43 per cent. of the population, but it is very nearly as high in the extreme east Prussian and Pomeran- ian districts, where history. and tradition locate a preponderating Slavic element, and points to the completeness of the gradual industrial conquest of those regions by the Teutonic race.
 The American Copyright League issue address to the country their labors in be- half of an international copyright law, for the purpose of giving foreign authors proper ty in their books when published in this country. They recall the fact that such statesmen as Webster, Clay, Everett and Sumner have during the last fifty years advo- cated international copyright. The present scheme does not require convention of powers; it is simply to establish founda- tion of justice in the laws of the United States, from which appeal may be made to other nations, especially, of course, to En- gland. The league say: Congress excludes Chinese labor because it interferes with white labor. But Congress still compels the American who writes book to offer his la bor in the market against labor which is not merely cheap, but is actually unpaid. The property of foreign patentees is defended in this country; the foreign playwright is al lowed perpetual property here in his acted play. But the foreign author of book is condemned to 8 status worse than the slaves; he is the victim of public plundering. By permitting such an outrage the United States is destroying it's own authors at home and leaves them exposed to extensive piracy abroad. Such policy, based upon dishon- esty and injustice, must undermine all the supposed benefit to popular intelligence de- rivable from the confscation of foreign liter