Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-08

2, 2,O00, 900 acres in Florida, and Scotch sym dicate 800, 900 acres in that State. The Lon don firm of Phillips, Marshall & Go. has l. 300, 600 acres in this country; another Lon- don firm, ,750, 600 acres. A German syndis cate owns ], 100, ,000 acres. An English com pany possesses 700, 900 acres in Mississippi; another has 750, 900 acres to it's credit. A dozen other forcing companies or individuals have acres figuring in the hundred thou- sands.
 An Albany physician says that Americans suffer more generally from Brights disease and nervous complaints than any other peo- pie, because they sit down so persistently at their work. While Englishmen, Germans and Frenchmen walk and exercise, sn Amer ican business man will go to his office, take his seat in his chair, and sit there all day without giving any relief to the tensions of the muscles of the back. The result is that these muscles surrounding the kidneys be- come soft and Habby. They lose their vital- ity. The kidneys themselves become weak and debilitated If business men would walk more and stand instead of sitting at their desks their health would be much inn proved.
 The Republican party hasn't done much for free whisky in Ohio. When the present high license law was enacted, May 13, against the strenuous opposition of nearly all the Democratic members of the General As sembly, there were 5000 saloons in the State-say one to every 219 Ohioans. The law wiped 4,000 of them out of existence at once; 6s9 more put up the shutters in 1887; an amendment to the law last winter, rais- ing the tax and extending local option to the townships, wiped out 2, Al more; so that theratio of saloons to Ohioans is now to 406. Before the enactment of the law the saloons paid nothing to the State; this year. they pay it $455, 900 directly, and pay into the county treasurias $1 ,822, GOO.
 N. E. Doty of Rensselaer, Falls, New York, writes to the New York Tribune to ask whether it is true, as prohibition speaker stated the other night, that "the minister who was invited to open the Republican con- vention at Chicago with prayer, was obliged to put that prayer in writing and submit 1t to the inspection of liquor dealers present before he was allowed to offer it, lest there should be something in 1t offensive to them" The Tribune answers this question as Tol- lows: The only thing that surprises us about this statement is it's feebleness and inade- quacy. He might have added that all of the clergymen who opened the Chicago conven- tion with prayer were drunk at the time; that Senator Hoar was taken with delirium tremens while the convention was in session. that Warner Miller war arrested for playing the bunco game on 8 Methodist bishop whose acquaintance he made for the first time in the general conference; and that Ma jor Mckinley ladled raw whisky out of 8 hogshesd to all corners on the floor of the convention. If our prohibitionist brother is going to lie at all he may as well lie in a manner to arouse the admiration of other liars. He is evidently man of considera- ble promise in that direction and ought not to allow his prospects to be marred by nasty and i'll considered efforts like the above at the outset.