Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-24

Portland, Oregon, is doing we'll enough. Last year it's trade amounted to between $90, 900, 900 and~$100. .O00, 900, against $75,- COG, ,000 in 1887. The manufacturers of the city and vicinity aggregate nearly 4,0OO,- 900 and the value of buildings erected $3,- 590,00O.
 The beef producers and butchers national association want protection, and they intend to have introduced in all the State legisla- lures this winter bill requiring State in- spection of live stock-that is, all meat con- stunned in State must have been inspected by local commissions 'ton the hoof." This amounts to prohibitory State tariffs against beef butchers in other States. The governor of Kansas recommends such legislation, and several State legislatures, including Penn. sylvania. are seriously considering the idea. The butchers support their proposition with the argument that some inspection is neces- sary and national inspection is impracticable; and, further, that this is the best way tc break up the dressed beef monopoly.
 A noteworthy effect of the high license law in Philadelphia is recorded by the latest re- port of the Society for the Prevention oi Cruelty to Children, which was made on Monday. This report says that last year there was falling off in the number of com plaints, principally of neglect, and this is at- tributed in part to the enforcement of the high-license law. s'It is fact" says the Ledger, "tnat of the thousands of saloons that were closed up under the operation oi the law, the greater number were of the class offering special temptations to the poor and vicious, and the decrease of such computations might reasonably be expected to reduce ths cases of neglect and cruelty. If it has done so, as the returns seem to show, the law hal had far reaching influence on the happi ness of women and children"
 Dr. T. R. Allison, an English physician has been trying the experiment of living or lowance is one pound of whole meal, mad' into cake with distilled water, and on, quart of water. His account of his condition after week is cheering. In the first fev days he felt hungry, but about the fourtl day this disappeared, and he had no longe any craving for other food. His brain wal clear, his lung capacity had increased fv' inches, and both his sight and his hearing improved. He had lost seven pounds weigh but seems to regard this as rather an advan tage. Altogether he feels thoroughly satis ! fed with his experiment. It is 8 very econo mical one, the wheat for seven days havinl l cost only eight pence. "Tbis," he says, si .-s. zIr Iox n,io ,sv,. it."
 There is feeling in Illinois that it is abou time to pay some attention to the divorc question. Judge Horton has formulate | two amendments which have been placed be | fore the legislature. One of them is to pro vide against collusion between parties by em towering the Chancellor to appoint a solicl tor for the defendent whenever he suspect collusion, whose fees are to be taxed on tn
 bill of costs. This will prove check O
 suits hastily brought, and will certainly hay
 the effect of stopping the open fraud 80 ofte practiced in our courts. The second pro posed amendment is in the nature of
 penalty. It provides that the Chancelle may, in his discretion, decree that one (
 both of the parties shall not marry agai
 within certain fixed periods, not to excee
 ten years. The effect of this would be limit the number of divorce suits brought
 Illinois. Those residents of other Stat
 where the laws are more stringent would n'
 seek Illinois for easy divorces.
 A writer in the New York Sun tells ho l the street boys in that city work up. E