Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-07

 the State, and wants the legislature to enact them out of existence.
 The records of vital statistics for NewYork city show that there were over four thousand more deaths than births within the municipal limits last year. But New York yearly swal lows up a multitude of outsiders and thus continues to grow.
 It may be stated as proposition, says the Meridian (MississippD News, 'that the most peaceable and most tractable of the negro race are the full-blooded negroes, whether they are 'educated' or not. The negro is thing approaching conspiracy or an em- euten
 Some men are born rich, while others are born lucky. An old Georgia farmer named Dickey, who has for years barely subsist- ed on the mesgre crops he has been able to wiring from the wretched soil of his farm, has just leased his land to a syndicate for 100 years at $12, 900 year and more if the hopes of the speculators are realized. The cause of his good fortune was the discovery of bed of the best marble in America on his promises. Maine has great many thrifty citizens. Governor Burleigh in his annual message just delivered at Augusta states that in the sav- ings banks of that State there are deposits aggregating about forty-one millions of del lars, and of this large sum over one hundred | thousand depositors have less than $500 each. The entire vote at the State election was IA ,567, and it will thus be seen that num- Der not far from the voting population of the entire State have deposits in the savings banks.
 Nitro-glycerine bids fair. say the doctors, to become an important remedy for diseases ! of the kidneys, and experiments are now making in cases of Bright's disease. Nitro glycerine of pure quality, possessing all the 1 explosive power of the substance, is prepared l in alcohol, which removes the explosive quail ity, in the proportion of one part of the nitro l glycerine to 90 parts of alcohol, and is then 1 prepared with sugar or milk in tablets. Thus prepared it is called "Trinitrin." A patient | in Philadelphia hospital has had the dose increased until now he is taking eighty grains a day. He has had Bright's disease and the effects are said to be highly satisfactory.
 Pensioners are interested in bill which | has just passed the House and which will save them several hundred thousand dollars Heretofore an attorney has been allowed . fee of $10 for obtaining an increase of pen sion, the amount to be deducted from the pensioners allowance. Under the new reg ulation q claimant who thinks himself en- titled to an increase of pension can obtain the proper blank from the commissioner ol pensions, fill it out himself and swear to fl
 before any person authorized to administer an oath and return it to the commissioner
 The rest of the work will be done by gov
 ernment officers, and the fee is reduced tt
 $3, and is limited to attorneys in the Stat
 or territory where the pensioner resides, thu
 relieving him of the extortion of the shark
 who haunt Washington and make their liv ing out of ignorant claimants.
 The Nicaragua canal bill as passed by tn
 house seems to be about right. It expressl
 and explicitly provides that the United State
 is to be relieved of all liability of any sort fo
 what the company may or nsy not do; the