Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-26

The Congregationalist is ont against pro- hibition. Now, we suppose, it will be charged with having sold out to the rum power.
 The United States pays $9oO.0o a year for it's weather service, Great Britain pays $sO, 900, Germany $56, 900, Russia $e5. 900, Austria s10, ,00o, Switzerland $6,0o0, France $60, ,000. The United States evidently pays too much for what 1t gete.
 High license means something in Boston. Inn-keepsrs there must, after May l, pay $1, 500 instead of $1 1000; inn licenses of the second class, which now cost $500, are raised to $1 200; the increase in the case of common victualIers is from $4o0 to $1,oo0; and for licenses to sell beer, ale and wines there is an advance from $200 to $500.
 An examination of a great number of half- sovereign gold pieces has led the British au- thorities to the conclusion that a heavy loss, estimated at 1,e0o, 900, has resulted from the wear and tear of those coins. A proposi- tion to replace them by an issue of one-pound bills or half lf-sovereign tokens has raised 6 small riot among the old fogy fnanciers about Threadneedle street.
 The Andover Review makes the following pleasing statement concerning the salaries of ministers: The salaries of ministers in the large parishes equal, where they do not ex- ceed, the salaries of justices of the Supreme courts of the States and of the United States. The salaries of ministers in that very field of secondary parishes equal, if they do not exceed, the salaries of professors in the larger colleges. The salary of the average country minister i've do not refer new to the home missionary of the East or West) equals the income of the average country doctor. At hearing before the committee of edu- cation of the Michigan legislature on the subject of the effect of tobacco on youths, 1t was stated that in reply to circulars two hun dred doctors had each cited one or more cases of boys being dwarfed, made insane, killed or rendered incapable of speech. The professors of Michigan university testified that otherwise bright students were made dull and stupid by the use of the cigarette, and that in many cases the power of hearing had been seriously affected. They also said l that in nine cases out of ten the regular use of cigarettes by boys would result in the loss of will power.
 A California paper gives some facts con- corning the growing of grapes. It says: The total expense of cultivating an acre oi | grapes is $15; the curing and packing of an acre of grapes, making 100 boxes of raisias, $55. The average price of raisins for the last four years has been about $1. so per box.
 Putting the price at $1.50 per box for the four grades, we have total net profit of $9s 1 per acre. Many vineyards do better than the above. Vineyards have frequently been known to produce grapes enough the first year to pay expenses of cultivation. The second year brings from $30 to $50 per acre
 gross; third year, $60 to $75.
 A woman poisoner is under sentence od
 death in Philadelphia. She was convicted l of murdering her daughter, age nine years | and her husband and an infant son had pre- viously been removed in the same way
 These crimes were committed for the sake O
 insurance amounting to a few hundred dol
 lars. Strong efforts are, however, being
 made to save her life, and petition signed
 by number of Philadelphia women prayini
 for communication of the sentence has beel
 presented to the board of pardons. This pc tition alleges that "the imposition of tn