Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-03

Francisco school board by the Republicans has made quite stir. There is much oppo- sition to the idea.
 It is many years since there has been such genuine interest and hearty enthusiasm in political matters shown by the New Haven Republicans. They are very wide awake.
 Some people will be very much dissp- pointed if the world comes to an end the day before election, according to the prediction made by an Alabama preacher, and after election some people will be sorry because it did not.
 A paper by Rev. J. Grant Mills on the liquor traffic among African natives, read be- fore the recent church congress in England, says that the total exports of spirits to Africa by the leading opponents of civilization dur ing 1887 amounted to 6,628, ,056 gallons. This quantity was divided among the differ- erent nations in these proportions: Germany, 5, ,4S1 400 gallons; United States, TAT, ,030 gallons; United Kingdom, 39s, ,960 gallons; and Portugal, 646 gallons. Germany there- fore, says the London Truth, stands facile princeps in the pious work of exterminating 
 as quantity, for all the German liquor is ex- ported from Hamburg and Bremen, and we all know what that implies.
 A blacksmith earned $1.0711S in 1869, the last year of a Democratic tariff, and paid $3 25 per 100 pounds for nails. He earned $1.sO in 1880, and paid in the same market g per 100 pounds for nails. Under Democ- racy his days work earned 31 pounds, and under Republicanism 90 pounds of nails. A glass presser in the O'Hara works at Pitts burg earned $150 in 1860, the last year of a Democratic tariff, and paid $2. 50 per dozen, or about 21 cents each for the goblsts he made. In 1880 he earned in the very same establishment $2.50, and yet he paid only 35 cents per dozen, or cents each, for the gob- lets he made, which were better than any produced in 1860. Under Democracy his days work earned 2 goblets, under Republi- canism his day's work earned 8S goblets The London Times records the death of | MT. Paul Isaac Hershen, at the age of eeven- \ ty-one years. He was 8 native of Galioia, of \ Hebrew origin, and became at an early peri | cd of life e convert to the Christian faith. AS missionary he was an active promoter of the objects of the London Society for Pro- noting Christianity among the Jews in Eng I land and the East. He became in succession director of the House of Industry for Jews al
 Jerusalem and of the modern farm at Jaffs which institutions were established with ' view to encourage useful industries among the Jews and native Syrians. In the year
 1859 he retired from work in the mission
 field in order to devote himself to literary Ia
 bors. For nearly fifteen years he pursued
 his researches in the Talmud and Midrashin
 with great perseverance.
 The depletion of the Pennsylvania oi
 fields has called attention to the Kentuok.
 oil region, and syndicate of Pittsburg capi
 talists has sent prospectors into that regiol
 to ascertain how much land can be leased
 the terms, etc. Their insructions are to SC
 cure all the territory in the oil fields that th
 owners are willing to lease at reasonabl
 rates. It is thought that they will not hay
 much difficulty in coming to terms, as tn farmers and planters are very anxious to hay