Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08

Over nine thousand bills have been intro duced into the Forty ninth Congress, which is several thousand too many.
 Professor Thacher was not only learned man. He was also good man. He has lived long and useful life, and has been generally honored and beloved. Such life as his has a vast influence for good.
 Iowa women. appear to be really and con- sistently kind-hearted. They have held convention at Des Moines and resolved that plumage where the life of the bird is sacri- feed to obtain the ornament"
 One of the most powerful labor organiza- tions in the District of Columbia has drawn up and forwarded letter of thanks to the forty odd members of the house of repre- sentatives who had the candor and courage to vote against the delusive Labor bill passed last week.
 An eminent chemist has been analyzing samples of beer obtained from brsweries and saloons throughout the State of New York with results cheering to beer drinkers. The eminent chemist finds that competition has put an end to adulteration, and that beer is now as pure as it can be.
 An office has just been opened at Brussels for the sale of orders. Four hundred francs are to be paid on application, which will be | returned if the order be not procured. The of a Papal order, 6,500 francs; nicham l (Tunis) round the neck, Z, 300 francs; nicham | (Tunis) in the buttonhole, 1000 francs; St.. | Sylvester and St. Gregory Qtaly), 4,5O0 | francs: Order of Christ (PortugaD, 5000 | francs; Isabella the Catholic (Spain), 4,00O francs; Order of Venezuela, 5000 francs. | The most absolute discretion is guaranteed. l A bill known as the Scott bill, to prevent | the sale of imitation butter, is urged upon l the attention of congress by the American l Agricultural and Dairy association. They say that one million tons of the sham butter are sold annually in this country, almost all of it being bought for the real article. They say that the sale of the bogus butter serious l ly affects the dairying interests of the ooun' | try It appears also from the dairymen'f statement that the sham butter defes detec tion in taste, color and odor, but can be dis tinguished from the genuine by the micro 1 scope.
 The English recently photographed som'
 of their Burmese prisoners just before execu
 tion, and they have been severely criticised
 for the act. Colonel Hooper gives the fol
 lowing version of the facts connected witt
 the case: The camera was placed in position
 before the prisoners were placed against thu
 wall. The men were blindfolded at tn
 time and knew nothing of the fact that tn
 camera was there. The words of command | were in nowise timed to suit the exposure o the plate which was instantaneous. Tn
 words of command, Ready! Present! Fire
 were given by the officer in command of tn
 firing party precisely in accordance with tn
 regulations for volley firing, and no delay
 any kind took place between the wsrd
 tPresentP and 'Firer No previous attemp
 had ever been made to secure the picture Q
 an execution.
 The people of California expecting t
 make good deal of money out ot fruit Says the San Francisco Bulletin: When
 single ship was dispatched daily laden wit
 wheat for the European market that circum
 stance attracted the attention of the whol
 country. But it had no such industrial sig
 nifeance as the sending off of trains lade
 with citrus fruits, or the great number of car laden with green fruits dispatched from cer