Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-31

Some Of the German men Of science are very patient and precise. One of them has taken four heads of hair of equal weight and then proceeded to count the individual hairs One was of the red variety, and it was found to contain 90,000 hairs. Next comes the black with 103,000 hairs to it's credit. The brown has 109, ,000 and the blonde 140, ,000.
 Under the provisions of the new city char ter which goes into operation in Philadelphia next year it is estimated that $fO0, 1000 more per annum will have to be paid for the sala- ries of city officials The mayor, who now gets $5, 900, is to receive $12 ,000, which will
 make him the highest paid chief executive of any city in the country. That the people of Philadelphia will get much better work for the big salaries they pay may reasonably be doubted.
 The people of Massachusetts are 'sdoing we'll, judging from the condition of the say ings banks of the State. The total amount of funds now held by the 172 banks is $304,- 403, orr, and the amount of interest earned
 on this sum is 61-100 per cent. The.total number of depositors is 906, ,039, an increase of 57,252 over last year. These mostly small depositors, only 2,137 of the single deposits made being over $500, and the total number of deposits over $500 is only fl, ,451 The total amount deposited during 1886 was $66, ,s04, ,72S.
 Rowling labor agitators don't care much about facts. One of them recently address ing crowd in Chicago declared that there were in this country 1000, 900 men without work and 15, ,00O, 900 more who did not know at what moment their means of subsistence would be taken from them by the "capital- ists." According to the last census there were in 1880 less than 13,e00, 900 "men" of all conditions in the entire United States. The aggregate number of male persons of all
 ages engaged in all classes of gainful occupa-
 tions was less than 15, 900, 900, and of these
 more than 1000, 900 were farmers and nearly
 3, 3,000, 900 were occupied with professional or
 personal services.
 In the Court of Queens Bench in England
 case has been recently decided which is of
 interest to all who travel on steamships
 The plaintiff, a woman, had received in-
 juries while endeavoring to get out of an up
 per berth on a steamship by aid of 8 chair.
 She sued the company for damages on the
 ground of negligence in not providinga step
 ladder or some other proper means to enable
 her to descend safely from her berth. The
 defense was that the company was not bound
 to furnish ladder; that chair was safer
 means of descent, and that the plaintiff was
 chargeable with contributory negligence in
 not having called for assistance. In spite of
 an evident leaning of the judge in the op-
 posite direction, the jury gave the plaintiff $1 ,000 damages.
 The first circular of information for the public benefit sent out by the national bu- | reau of education relates to music in the schools and takes strong ground in it's favor.
 Music. it is urged, tends to happiness and happiness to virtue and good citizenship.
 Further, it conduces to morality. t'The child's spiritual nature is broadened and 1 deepened unconsciously, and thus made more painfully sensitive to the assaults of evil
 and much more ready to welcome the benign influences for good with which our civilized