Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-09

A Ml6waukee preacher is to be brought be- fore a committee of his church for buying chewing tobacco on Sunday.
 Petitions for the increase of capital stock are numerous and important this winter. The Bell Telephone company asks leave to double it's capital, making 1t $20,000,000.
 Canadian insurance companies endorse 8 good idea by announcing reduction in pre- miums upon all vessels which carry store of oil for the purpose of putting it on the water in storms.
 The coroner's jury in the case of the death of a child in Iowa have brought in 8 verdict of s'death from willful neglect on the part of the parents, under the influence of persons who profess to be Christian scientists" Tne verdict will carry with it no legal penalty against the afflicted parents, and it's only value is to emphasize the folly of dealing with dangerous diseases by method which only applies to those which eau be affected by mental influence. In the effort to make personal property bear it's just share Of the tax burden the 1ooOS- sors actually administer the oath. Thomas G. Sherman, in recent address before a ! legislative committee of that State, gave some instructive figures relative to the disap- pearance of movable taxable wealth. In the | State at large 11S, ,2S6 watches were listed | for taxation in 1882; while in 1887 the num- | Der had fallen to 4,631. Comparing the 1 county of Hamilton, Cincinnati, with the az | ricultural county of Geauga, the number of l watches in the former decreased from 9 ,2Sa | to S,659 in that time.
 In school district in London there were many parents who reported no children in | their families. In order to find just how | many children were thus being kept from | school the school authorities got two mon | keys, dressed them gayly, put them in 6 | wagon in which was brass band and started l through the district. At once crowds ot ! children appeared and followed the wagon, l which drove to neighboring park, when the l school officers went among the children dis ! tributing candies and getting their names and l addresses. They thus found that over sixty | parents kept their children from school; and as result of the monkeys, the brass band and the candy about 200 little boys and girls I have been set at study.
 | The yearly consumption of tobacco in Flu. rope, according to the Uhlands Wochen schrift, is about 214 pounds by each inhabi tant. In the Netherlands the proportion is little over pounds to each inhabitant, il Austria- Hungary pounds. in Denmark 3. pounds, in Switzerland 8. pounds, in Bslgi um 3.2 pounds, in Germany pounds, il Norway 2.3 pounds, in France g. pounds in Sweden nearly pounds, in Spain 1. pounds, in Great Britain and Ireland 1.3 pounds, in Italy 1.25 pounds, and in Russi 1.2 pounds. In the United States the propor { tion is said to be greater than that of an European country except Holland-41 pounds per inhabitant. The largest revenue derived from tobacco are those of France Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and the Spain and Italy.
 The young African explorer, MT. Arno
 gave an account of his adventures on tn
 Dark Continent before number of geogrs
 phers in London 8 few nights ago. With n
 European companion, and no large and we
 armed band of native porters, he succeede
 in making his way from Natal to Bengueli
 and thence eastward, across the great water
 shed Of the Zambesi and the Congo, to tt
 almost unknown country of the Garangaz
 over whom reigns one of the most remarks
 ble of African potentates, Msidi. MT. Arne had much that was interesting to say of tt strange cave dwellers, whose fame hs
 spread to Egypt, of the devastation cause by the slave trade, and of the deyelopmeI
 of the India rubber industry, which bit
 fair to take the place of the rapidly decrea
 ing ivory traffic.
 A Philadelphia judge has just laid dow
 some law concerning those who ride in stre cars passenger rendered a five dollar bi
 in payment of his fare. The conductor coul
 not change it, and after an altercation pl
 the passenger off the car. The passeng
 brought suit for assault and battery again
 the conductor. In his charge to the jury u
 judge said: .sWhen passenger gets on
 street car it is his duty to pay his five cen
 fare, and if he cannot pay it, it is his duty
 get off, and if he does not get off, the co | uuCloI uds HISnl to u5o aS uuCn LULU uo
 necessary to put him off. Any man who h
 $100 bill, if the rule were otherwise, mig
 ride around in street cars for the balance
 his life without paying fare" Under tht
 instructions the jury acquitted the condr
 tor. The railroad companies of Philadelpl
 are said to be greatly pleased with the res
 of the suit. They say that they have los
 llaree number of fares simply because pass