Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-10

Maryland have advanced more substantially than their contemporaries of any other State. In Baltimore alone they pay taxes on between two and three million dollars worth of prop erty.
 New York builders are doing great deal less building on specultion than they did. The decline In the speculative fever is due in part to the uncertainty caused by strikes. Contractors now insert in their agreements @ clause freeing them from damages if delays are caused by strikes. This has tendency to discourage strikes and also increase the danger of strikes among those builders who put up dozen or more residences at time as speculation. Consequently there is less speculative building this year in New York than for some time past.
 The faculty of the Ottawa Normal school think that the fact that there were no honor students and not one qualified for the gover- nor generals medal is due to rules permitting young men of the school to call on young women of the school and pass evenings to- gether. Until recently the rules to prevent the commingHng of the sexes were of the
  to recognize each other on the streets. If it appears that the relaxed rules are likely to result in too much calling and too little study the old methods will again be employ ed.
 A suit for divorce which has been begun in New York raises a novel point of law. The husband got divorce from his wife some years ago, afterward married her again and now seeks second divorce. The ques- tion arises under that provision of the statute which prohibits 8 divorced defendant from remarrying. In this case the wife was de- barred from marrying another man. But was she barred from remarrying her divorced husbanda. This point was raised in 8 recent case that went to the Court of Appeals. The trial judge ruled that the same divorced par ties could not lawfully remarry. The Court of Appeals remarked that it was very close question, but said that it was not necessary to decide it in the case then up.
 It is the humidity that hurts. The Phila- delphia Record says that on Monday, August 6, in the melting room at the United States mint the thermometer showed 1e6', at the gas works fire room at Twenty-third and Market streets the mercury climbed to 11S', amp in front of the blast furnaces at the Baldwin Locomotive works the figures regis tered 115'. In all these places the men wore next to no clothing. "The whole point is," said one of the workmen to the reporter, ''that these men are not reached by the hu- midity. They are working in places where the artificial heat is so intense as to drive out the humidity of the air, and 11s' of heat in pure, dry air is not felt so much as mix ture of 9Oo of heat and 80 per cent. of humid ity. It is the humidity that tells on people and sorely tries their vitality"
 High ncence has worked admirably in Pennsylvania, as it has wherever it has been tried. compilation of the returns made by the clerks of the courts in the various coun- ties discloses the fact that the entire number of licenses granted in Pennsylvania is 7,724. This is only about 800 in excess of the ens tire number of drinking places which existed at one time in the city of Philadelphia alone. | It is nearly one-half less than the number of saloons in Pennsylvania in 1887, which was ! 4,553. These saloons paid the State last 1 year a revenue of less than one million dol- lars. This year it will derive from the li- censes of those which remain 8 revenue of $1, ,S35, ,963. In some of the counties the sa- looms were not cut down in number propor- tionate to the decimation in Philadelphia. But there wae not one of them, excepting Dsuphin, where there was not decrease.