Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-01

There IS more Democratic harmony III this neighborhood than the Democrats know what to do with.
 In 1850 Chicago had less than 30,000 peo- pie, Philadelphia 340,000 and New York 515, GOO: in 1880 Chicago had 503,0 ,000, Phila- delphia 947 900 and New York ,206, 900.
 It is becoming more and more evident that the idea that a great body of skilled and un- skilled laborers can be so organized and di- rected as to arbitrarily rule this country is destined to failure.
 David Dudley Field declares that the peo- pie of New York pay annually over $100,- 900 for recording the surplus words in their mortgages There is need of reform in the matter of legal verbiage in every State. The canals of New York State have had an unusually prosperous season. The volume of traffic has largely exceeded that of last year or of 1884 and the freights have been greater than for ten years past. For the first time in several years the boatmen complete the season with profit.
 The New York Star wants two more
  the present one and the other at Blackwell's Island. ''No doubt," says the Star, ''there will in short time be other East river bridges, one to Williamsburg, for instance" :" but it insists that the two mentioned, one to double the capacity of the present bridge and another at Blackwell's Island, must be begun early in 1887 and be well under way before the beginning of the year following. This seems like rather audacious proposition.
 Surrogate Stern, of Buffalo, has made 8 point which will attract the attention of the legal profession and of testators. The pro- bate of will was contested in which was the not uncommon clause that 1T any legatee con tested the will such legatee should take no legacy under it. The surrogate admitted the will to probate and to the disinheriting clause said that he construed the motion to be one of the construction of the will itself and that it was not contest as to the validi ty of the will in form, although in fact it wore that character.
 The board of trade of Scranton, Pennsyl vania, say that gas may be made in the coal regions for less than two cents thousand feet by using the dust and waste from the anthracite mines, which is now rejected worthless and allowed to lie unused about the mines an incumbrance rather than ad vantage to anybody. This gas is as good for fuel as that which comes from the gas wells and perhaps as cheap. Millions of tons of the waste available for mixing it lie on the ground about the coal pits and millions of tons more are thrown aside every year. No definite plans have been made for making this gas on great scale and distributing it by pipe lines to consumers at distance, but it seems to be vaguely expected that some thing of this kind will be done instead of hauling the coal hundreds of miles.
 In the Chautauquan Bishop Foss gives a rather dark picture of the religious condi- tion of the people of Denmark. He says The missionary work of evangelical Chris tians is more difficult and less rewarding in Denmark than in any other part of Scandina- via For this there are two very manifest reasons-the inordinate addiction of the peo- pie to pleasure seeking. and their lamentab1y low theory and practice concerning the rela- | tions between the sexes The royal family | are very fond of theater going and all classes l of the people follow their example. All sorts of sports and holidays abound. The careful reports of pastors show that in some parishes more than half the children are