Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-03

The ul9asCer ID fennsylVaDla turns out 10 be an appalling one. It will be aome days yet before it's full extent is discovered, but it is probable that the news will bs worse in- stead of better.
 Not less than a dozen boys who have been made insane by smoking cigarettes are in the insane asylum at Napa, California. There ought to be an effective warning for cigar ette-smoking boys in this fact, but 1t is not probable that there is.
 Recent experiments to ascertain within what limits the ear can distinguish the differ ence in the pitch of two sounds show that the smallest difference perceptible by untrained or only slightly trained ears appears to be from oue-sixth to one-fourth of semi-tone. It is said that peculiarity that seems to ap- ply alike to trained and untrained ears is that they detect upward difference more easily than downward.
 The Mobile Register is well pleased with the decision of the interstate commerce com- missioners that railroad companies taking frst-class fare from colored people must give them seats in first class cars, and says that Southerners "long regarded with impatience and disgust the way in swhich our railroad corporations take the money of oolored peo- pie and consign them to what is often little better than e hog pen"
 { The last census of Chilli indicates that Chilli is place favorable to long life. One man returned his age as 150. Next after him l comes woman aged 13S; two women and I aaalv | and 127 each have a representative, while there are seven 125 years old. Below that age the numbers mount rapidly, showing ! twenty-eight persons of the age of 120, twen- 1 ty-seven aged 1T5, and no less than ninety one aged 11e.
 1 The liquor law which WAS made by the
 Democrats of the New Jersey legislature doesn't work exactly as it was expected to. Not long ago it was discovered that the law
 forbade sales by the quart by retail dealers. This out into the business of many dealers and they proposed to surmount the difficulty l by taking out two licenses. But the courts decided that the law forbade a man to do
 both a retail and a wholesale business.
 Another annoying discovery was that all bot
 tiers must take out licenses and that grocers
 could not sell a pint bottle, must sell full quart or more at each sale, thus making pint
 bottles of wine illegal. But the worst is the
 discovery that the law made void all liquor
 licenses on May 20, by repeating the law ot 1888, and all sales since May 20 have beer
 illegal. Moreover, if the saloon keepers
 want to continue In business they must take
 out $250 licenses under the new act, no mat
 ter how long or short time ago they pait
 for license under the old law.
 On the 20th of this month the voters O
 Rhode Island will again vote on prohibition
 and it is thought certain that the vote vii be against it. Says the Providence Journal
 Prohibition is obviously failure in Rhod
 Island; it has had sufficient trial to sho1 that it's failure Is hopeless in the present con
 dition of popular sentiment; and in its fail
 ure it is seriously injuring the morals of tn
 community and dangerously lowering the re
 gard in which all laws are held. For thes
 reasons, if no other, the repeal of the amend