Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-14

1 Entomologist Riley's prediction that the 1 seventeen and thirteen year loeusts will visit 1 us together this year for the first time in 221 years is not very cheering. Once in 221 | years is quite often enough for such a com I bination of evils.
 1 New Hampshire man has f'remembered" l his ''deaf wife" in his will by ordering that l she shaIl ffave ten thousand dellars if she
 will remain unmarried m dried for eight wseks after l his death: She ought to and probably will l be able to wait eight weeks before marrying again.
 According to Professor Taylor, of the De. partment of Agriculture, the simplest test of pure butter is sulphuric acid. A few drops combined with real butter will turn it first a whitish yei1gw af1d In ten. minutes brick l red Oleomargarine tested in the Eants way turns at first to clear amber and in twenty 1 minutes deep crimson. Use glass rod in | mixing the acid with the butter.
 High license has worked well in Illinois There the licenses for selling malt liquors are $f50; and the lowest fer general liquor l selling are $500 This law fias reduced Chi eago saloons from one thousand in number | to five hundred, and raised the city revenues over million dollars. In nineteen other i cities of the State there were 738 liquor sa-
 looms last year, which paid sso,Ooo year. Now the number is 468, but they pay s253,- 900. In Cairo arrests for drunk enness fell l off fifty per cent, and in Springfield, the l capital, fifteen per cent.
 TN. .-l.L L IL England, for piracy, for having plundered one ,the German liquor boats which circu- late among the fishing vessels iii ths North
 Sea. These boats are simply floating bar rooms and go around among the fishermen
 while they are at anchor to sell them liquor and tobacco. The prisoners boarded the boat in question and forcibly robbed it of about $e00 worth of it's stock. They were liable to the penalty of death; but got off with impris
 onment at hard labor for terms ranging from
 nine to twelve months.
 They do some things differently in France.
 Michael Murphy, an Irish emigrant in Paris, was convicted and punished for melting to murder. He was not skilled in the niceties of French law, and seems to have thought
 that it would permit him to do with impuni- ty all that is tolerated by the tyrannica1 code of Great Britain. He accordingly proceeded
 to follow the example of his compatriots at
 home, by publishing the names and ad-
 dresses of the jurors who found him guilty. l This course has been regularly adopted by l the Irish Nationalist press since the passing of the Crimes Act. But the Code Napoleon l treats MT. Murphy's desire te gratify the l harmless curiosity of his friends as . crimi-
 nal attempt to intimidate jurors in the dis charge of their duty, and that enthusiast for
 liberty has accordingly been prosecuted and ] fined one thousand francs.
 | The change in the administration has, it
 appears, caused quite boom in plug tobacco | in Washington. "We sell much more plug
 than any other kind, i" says the manager of 8 l prominent tobacco establishment of the city. l ssThere is a very large number of southern people here, you know, and they all use plug tobacco. You couldn't get a Southerner to
 use soft tobacco unless it was the case o1 l some old fellow whose teeth were so bad h.