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Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24

the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, N. de Quatrefages, in little work, published In 1877, called Les Pygmees,' being one of the sBibliotheque Scienti6que Contemporalne. A summary of our knowledge of the subject up to the date of publication will also be found in @ lecture on "The Pigmy Races or Men," which gave at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on April 18th, 1888, and which has appeared in the proceedings of the institution. More tangible evidence of the existence and character of these people is now to be seen in the Csteologieal Gallery of this museum, whore is exhibited the skeleton of one of the tribe called "Akka," !" which was sent to us some two years since by Emin Pasha. It is that of full grown and perfectly well proportioned little person, four feet one inch in height. The principal points of interest about 1t are described in the Journal of the Archaeological Institute 1888. '--->>
 The fact now seems clearly demonstrated that at various spots across the great African continent, within few degrees north and south of the equator, extending from the Atlantic coast to near the shores of the Al- bert Nyanza (thirty degrees east longitude), and perhaps even further to the east, are scattered communities of these small ne. groes, all much resembling each other in size, appearance and habits, and dwelling mostly apart from their larger neighbors, by whom they are everywhere surrounded. Our information about them is still very scanty, and to obtain more would be 8 worthy object of ambition for the scientific traveller. In many parts, especially at the west, they are igiorsly holding their own with difficulty, if not actually disappearing, and there is much about their condition of civilization and the situation in which they are found to induce us to look upon them, like thetBush- utive Negritos of the Indo Malayan region, as the remains of population which ocou- pied the land before the incoming of the present dominant races. If the account of the Nasamoniens be accepted as historical, the river they came to, flowing from west to east, must have been the. Niger, and the northward range of the dwar6sh people far more extensive twenty-three centuries ago than it is at the present time. -
 Your obedient servant,
 w. H. FLOWER.
 Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, s. w., November 18th.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
JUROR CULVER.

If Juror Culver is an honest man according to his light he may not be very miserable. If he isn't he must feel that life is not worth living. Ever since the end of the great trial he has been assailed by the press in a most savage manner. He has received anonymous letters telling him that he hasn't much longer to live. Threatening letters have been sent to his wife. His old friend State Attorney Longenecker refused to shake hands with him and told hira that he was either q fool or a knave. And this is the conclusion that has been reached by most calm persons who read the testimony. The most charitable view of him is that he was unreasonable and unsound in what reasoning he did do. In the letter which he has published he says: "That there was foul conspiracy to murder Dr. Cronin and that he was foully murdered was the un- hesitating verdict of every juror" If the men tried were not members of the conspir- acy they were entitled to acquittal. But Culver, after standing out two days and three nights for acquittal, consented in the casa of three of them to verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree as charged, on condition that the penalty be limited to im- prisonment for life, that another of the accnsed be let of with three years in prison, and the fifth be acquitted. There is no way of reconciling his action with honesty and common sense, and there never will be.
 This affair will revive the discussion of the jury system. Twelve honest and right mean ing men can sometimes make bad work with a case, and one dishonest or "orsnky" man always can.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
Tuesday, December 24, 1ss9.
A SURPRISING SHOWING.

Dr. Rowland T. Falkner, of the University of Pennsylvania, has collected some interest ing facts concerning the inhabitants of the prisons of this country in 1888. It is not surprising to learn that, on the basis of population, there are about twice as many colored convicts in the prisons of the south- ern States as white conyicts. But it is rather surprising to learn the condition of things in this respect in the Northern States. In Connecticut the proportion of colored to total population is 1.9 per cent, but the percentage of colored convicts is 864 per cent. The proportion of colored population in New York State is 1.3 per cent, but the proportion of colored convicts Is about per cent. The percentage of eolored population of Pennsylvania is 9 per cent, the percent- age of oolored convicts more than 10 per cent. The percentage of colored population in New Jersey Is 3.4 per cent, the percent age of colored convicts nearly 90 per cent. In Ohio, percentage of colored population 2.5 per cent, percentage of colored convicts more than 1e per cent. Kansas, percentage of colored population 4.3 per cent, of colored convicts more than 16 per cent. Nebraska, percentage of coIored population one half of l per cent, percentage of colored convicts more than per cent.
 These are not cheerfal figures. Do they show that the black man is more often crim- inal than the white man, or that he is not as successful in escaping the punishment of crime as the white man1
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
Germany and Japan.


 It looks as if the new German policy un- der which the Imperial government strives to develop the trade of the Fatherland, with all the ingenuity and eagerness of a pushing commercial house, were going to bring about some not altogether pleasant results in the far East. Up till now the various Christian races, whether of the old or the new world have agreed to insist that the laws of non, European and non-C Christian countries must not be applied to persons of European blood. Wherever the white man goes among Mohammedans, Chinese or Japanese his own law, it has been always held hither- to, must follow him, and all disputes be- tween him and the natives must be adjadged by judges of his own race and according to his own principles of jurisprudence. Only under such an arrangement as this has 1t been considered that justice could be se- cured. Now, however, the Germans, as far at least as Japan is concerned, have broken through the tacit agreement between the nations to act together, and have negotiated a treaty under which they agree that German subjects resident in the interior shall at once become fully subject to Japanese law, and that after the lapse of five years their exclu- give settlements at the treaty ports shall cease to be under consular control, and shall be merged in the ordinary "communes" in which they are situated. In other words, mitted to establish themselves in the interi- or, agree to treat the Japanese as if they were Russians or Italians, and to accept as binding the laws of those among whom they settle and with whom they enter ints busi. ness relations. The object of such action is not far to seek. At present the trade of Ja- pan is practically divided between the Eng AL kl~1 Germans gain the right of admission to the interior, while their rivals are excluded, they will, they reckon. be able to establish trad- ing posts, and set up mercantile establish ments which will ultimately give them the complete command of commerce in the do minions of the Mikado. The opportunity for improving their position thus presented temptation to be resisted by the Germans, and they have accordingly taken the first steps towards breaking mp the combination which has hitherto forced the barbarous and semi-barbarous powers to submit to the ex~ isting system of capitulations.
 How momentous may be the consequences of Germany's action upon the position of all Europeans in the East is easily seen. As regards Japan, it can hardly be doubted that the other powers must soon follow Germany's example. If they do not, they are certain to see the trade fall into the hands of the spe- cially favored nation. Doubtless in Japan this general submission to the law of the land will not greatly matter. Elsewhere, however, it may be source of very serious mischief and Inconvenience. Suppose Ger many, in exchange for special and exclusive privileges granted by the Sultan, were to give up the capitulations at Constantinople, and were to agree that the commercial tran-. sactions of her subjects should be adjudica- ted on by Mussulman cadis. In the end the other powers would be obliged to follow suit.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
SHORT.

Short and to the point-A taek.-Lowell Citizen.
 Order is Heavens first law; it's the last one obeyed at hotel table.-Puck.
 The squeaking door never fails to find out when a man is most nervous.-Atchison Globe.
 The dressmaker is seldom sure of any, thing. With her it only "seams sew."- Dansville Breeze.
 Jaggs-I,ve got good one.
 Baggs-Keep it, my boy, keep it. Don't spoil it by telling it in your inimitab1e way.
 The moon borrows her light from tho sun, which may account for the fact that Luna is frequently reduced to her last quarter.-Bos- ton Transcript.
 7 The champion modest woman has been heard from. She always retires to her boudoir when she desires to change her mind.-Albany Express.
 Policeman (grufiy)-Say, young feller, do you own that lamp-post?
 Lounger (smilingly)-No, but I've got a lean on it.-Morning Journal.
 First newsboy- goes gent. Chase him. Second newsboy-No use. Just saw him come out of barber shop. He's heard all the news there is.-New York Weekly.
 Mother-sDo you know, Bobby, who
  been reading you?" Bobby-"No; but it sounds good deal like pa."-Texas Sift- ings.
 Already Here. - Chicagoan (visiting a friend in New York)-"Seems to me, old fel- low, that you have an uncommonly large number of pretty girls in New York. " Gothamite-"Why, certainly; New York already has the Worlds Fair. r."-Time.
 A single charge of powder for the twelve- inch guns used in the English navy cost 28 10s. If things go on in this way, it will cost so much to kill a man that the pension will have to be paid to the government in- stead of to the heirs of the deceassd.-Bo ton Transcript.
 Effect of politics-"My dearest Laura, what is the rnattera Here you are bathed in tears, and only four weeks after your wed l ding" 1iOh, Clara, my husband is eandi- date for mayor and have just found out by this morning's paper that he is paragon of all the vices. ."-Fliegende Blatter. They had been silent for the space of half 8 minute, each dreaming of love unuttsrable. Suddenly he siezed the dainty hand that lay bewitchingly near, and pressing it to bis bosom with ecstatic ardor, and falling upon his knees, he exclaimed in passionate tones
 "Tell me, Angy, tell me, dearest, whom do you love above all othersi Who is it that is in your thoughts all day long, and whose 1 name is it that mingles in your nightly dreamsa"
 And Angy, dropping her head in maiden modesty, her eyes half hid behind their long silken lashes, while tremor of emotion shook her lissome frame, murmured softly, "McGinty."-Boston Transcript.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
Pussy Charmed by a Snake.


 Mir. W. H. Metz, while passing along Four- teentn street, in front of his eooperage works, yesterday afternoon, noticed large cat crouched near the edge of the sidewalk, looking the picture of distress As he ap- preached the animal paid no attention to him, but kept it's eye steadily fixed on some object. When MT. Metx put out his foot he finally startled the cat, causing it to with- draw, giving cry that indicated pain rather that fright. The cat still kept it's eyes turned toward the spot they had been fixed upon when Mir. Metz appeared. The cat moved off but a few paces, when it again stopped and attempted to return, but Mr. Metz drove it away and proceeded to find out, if possible. what it was that had created so much interest for the feline.
 He was greatly surprised when he discov- cred a large black snake coiled up if ready to spring, it's eyes glaring and it's body under going peculiar movement. The snake would turn its body from one side to the other, keeping ths head in one position and darting it's tongue in and out with lightning rapidity. After watching the movements for few moments Mr. Metz secured stick and despatched the reptile, which measured fully four feet in length and five inches around the largest part of the body.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24

ttSay, that horse ought to be bled" ex- claimed fourth man as he came up.
 "Bledl He's got the toothache." put in e 'I should say" mildly observed the sixth man, "that he had caught heavy cold and needed warm bath.n
 When the crowd had increased to 20, and every one had expressed an opinion, hostler appeared from the back end of the barn.
 "What are you doing for hima" asked one. "Giving him six quarts of oats and all the hay he can eat, was the reply.
 stBut isn't he sick?'
 "Neyer sick minute in his life. Please move on before some one rings an alarm of fire.n
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
ALI BECAUSE OF 4 CIPHER
A Mans Life Ruined by MomeI
 FOrgetfulness

Mans Lffe Ruined Dy MOmont OI
 FOrgetfulness.
 From the San Francisco Examiner.l
 ssThere goes man whose life was ruined by forgetting the simple character O." said 8 prominent railroad man yesterday, pointing to ragged, besotted man shambling along the street, unmindful of the rain.
 "He was train despatcher on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad once, having work ed up to that position from messehger boy in the telegraph office. One Sunday he had on- ly two trains on his division an express train westward bound and fast stock train run- ming east. The day was warn and sultry, and Bill, for that was his name, had hard work to keep awake He knew that as soon as he made the meeting point for the two trains he could doze, and he impatiently awaited the time. When the trains were close enough together for him to figure meeting point he sent an order to the passenger train to meet and pass the stock train at a little station called Willow Valley, fixing the time at 12:50. To the stock train he sent an ord CT that it could have until 1:25 to make Will low Valley for the passenger. See the mis- takea He forgot the 0, and hence gave the stock train thirty-fve minutes more time than he should. Bill saw his mistake ten minutes after he had made it, but there being no telegraph station between the points where the trains were given the orders or at the meeting point he could do nothing to rectify 1t. He sent for the superintendent and ordered the wrecking crew, then sat at the key pale as death, the cold precipitation runs ming down his face in streams awaiting news of the collision.
 s'It came. The passenger train reached Will low Valley on time, waited the required thir- ty minutes under the time card rules for the freight train, and then pulled out. Three minutes later the two trains met on curve, both running at high rate of speed. Four teen lives were lost in the collision, besides $1O0,000 worth of property destroyed. Bill resigned at once, and the next day disap- peared. For long time it was thought he had committed suicide, but met him on the street here one day just as you see nina total wreck
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
The Dwarfs of oen,ra, Africa.

The London Times publishes the follow- ing letter:
 Sir: With reference to Mr. Whitcombe's letter in the Times of to-day, some of your readers may be interested to know that the question which he raises as to the identity of the diminutive people of Central Africa, so often encountered by Stanley and other req cent travellers, with the ''pigmies" of the ancient writers, including the "dwarish menn discovered by the Nasamonians, as re- lated by Herodotus, has been fully discussed by the eminent professor of anthrcpology ct
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
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Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24


 and the sentence of the guilty parties to three months imprisonment.
 Thirty-three women arc studying in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. No- body has said they might enter, but they just went in and nobody knows of any way of keeping them out or of any good reason for excluding them.
 Some postal businessis done in New York. The number of letters, postcards, etc., re~ ceived and dispatched during the present year shows an increase of almost fifty mil- lions over that of 1888. These figures bear an eloquent and incontrovertible testimony to the fact that the trade, wealth and pros perity of the city are now greater than they have ever been before.
 Some people are cruelty pious. In an English town the other day drunken farm~ CT lost his life by tumbling into quarry. He was Churchman, but his wife was a Methodist, so before the funeral the vicar called upon her and informed her that he in- tended to omit certain portions of the burial service, including that referring to the 'sure and certain hope" At the funeral the vicar hsrangued her on the wickedness of schism, informing her that it was a worse sin than drunkenness.
 There is such a thing as good mining stock, although those who have put much money in mining holes may be very skeptie. al. The Mt. Morgan mine in Queensland, Australia, will this year pay to it's owners not less than $6,000. .00O, with the promise of a great increase when more completely de- veloped. The gold obtained from it assays 9o.3 pure, test which is believed to be without parallel. The original owner of this property bought it for g shilling an per acre, or in all for about $3,000. It is valued, judging by the price of the com. pany's shares, at $50, ,000, ,000.
 King Alfonso, of Spain, has had a great many dignities since his birth. The latest one was his elevation to the-in the Church's eyes-serions function of godfatherhood. He promised and vowed (by proxy, of course) in the name of youthful son of the Comte and Comtesse de Morella, to renounce those pomps and vanities which are the best reasons for the existence of thrones. The christening took place at St. Petersburg, and the Ambassador of His Most Catholic Majesty was Alfonso's proxy. Cabrera, the Carlist chief, who gave 50 much trouble to Sir De Laoy Evans, when the latter fought in Spain for the innocent Isabella, was grand- father on the paternal side of the neophyte. The new lighthouse at Houstholm is the
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
Ihe Cas Killed the Eagle in Nzida1,


 One day the cat was trotting out toward the barn, carrying in her teeth piece of meat for her young. A bald eagle which had been in the habit of lowering over the place, suddenly descended upon pussy, and whirled her upward in 8 rapid vertical flight. The path of ascent, to the eye of a spectator watching the scene, was.clearly in- dicated by loose feathers violently tossed from the point of combat.
 In time the struggling pair attained gid dy eminence, and came to standstill in the sky. The eagle's wings had dropped now and then, and he had given plain evidence of pain and terror, yet not once had his Rw. full grip appeared to relax.
 At length descent was begun, with 8 rapidity which every moment increased, and the two animals struck the ground at the very point where they had first encountered each other; but the eagle was dead, and pus- sy, as soon as she felt terra frma beneath her feet, shot away for the barn, still carry- ing her bit of meat.
 Investigation proved that the cat had cut the eagles throat, and so lacerated her breast that his body was literally laid open. After his death in midair, however, she had been too clever to relax her hold and thus fall to the ground, but had let her enemy serve as parachute to ease the descent. At last accounts pussy was none the worse for her aerial flight and battle.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
Difference in DlaKnosis.

A horse stood tied to post in barn on Farmer street, when pedestrian halted for a moment and looked in. A man came across the street and joined him, and 10 seconds la ter third came aronnd the corner and stop ped.
 .'Case of colica' queried one.
 "Looks like bots to me" replied second.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24

REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS AS TO PURITY
 AND wHoLEsoMKNEss OF DR. PRICES
 CREAM BAKING POWDER.
 Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder does not con. tain Alum, Ammonia or Lime, or any adulterant- R. s. G. PATTON, Ph. D., Chemist for the United States Government.
 Baking Powder is the strongest and free from all lime and other impurities. The best Baking Pow der made.-Prof. PETER CoLLIER, Chief Chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. c.
 I have several times examined baking powders in the market to determine their purity, raising pow CT and influence on the health of those using them. I have uniformly feund Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder the best in all respects. In raising power it stands at the head. It is pure, clean. elegant and healthful preparation. have used Prices" in my family for years-Prof. R. O. KEDzIE, late President Michigan State Board of Health *An Alum Baking Powders, matter how high their strength, are to be avoided as dangerous Phosphate and tartaric acid powders liberate their gas too freely, under climatic changes suffer de- teriorat:on, dl3
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24

ta5sasi' [St. James, GaZette.l
 In an age which has seen Forth Bridge an accomplished fact and bridge from England to France discussed and designed, there is nothing very novel or extraordinary in the project which is receiving serious at- tention in Russia of bridging over the Be- ring straits. The narrowest part of the gulf which separates Siberia from Alaska is only ninety-six kilometres Qittle more than sixty miles), and it so happens that there are is- lands in straight line which would serve as points of division in the bridge and re- duce each portion to 8 length considerably less than that of the proposed channel bridge. The compensating advantage to be gained by work of such huge expense is not very obvious, though there needs must be something attractive in 8 theme which, if carried out, would seem to bring nearer the day when it may be possible to make the circuit of the globe on foot. But if, as we are told, the supremacy of the world in years hereafter is to be divided between Russia and America, it might be better for gen- eral peace if the sea remains unbridged.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24

Thirty three women arc studying in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. No- body has said they might enter, but they just went in and nobody knows of any way of keeping them out or of any good reason for excluding them.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Not a very blue Monday.

Boycotting has received severe blow in English courts by the assertion of it's illegality in case of this kind at Liverpool, and the sentence of the guilty parties to three months imprisonment.