Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-29

A Toledo crook was saved from the peniten- tiary the other day through the ingenuity of his lawyer, who showed the court that, ac- cording to the almanac the theft with which the prisoner was charged was committed just three minutes before sunset and therefore was petit larceny and not burglary.
 A bill before the Michigan legislature pro- vides that in the case of conviction for mur- der every jurymsn must sign a written yer dict recommending the death penalty before it can be imposed and even then the trial judge may exercise his discretion and make the sentence life imprisonment.
 A sensation has been caused in England by the discovery that all the uniforms and ac- ooutrements of the British army are made in French convict prisons and that men have been sent over from England to teach the prisoners how to finish them of in good shape. British manufacturers are naturally much disgusted by this.
 Another illustration of the benefits of high license is furnished by Pittsburg, Pennsylva- l mia. Two years ago, under the old law, there
 
 liquor sellers. Last year. under the new thigh ncense) law, there were 214. This year there are just 93. Pittsburg's next-door neigh ! bor, Alleghany City, used to have over 50C licensed saloons. Last year the number was cut down to 7s. This year fresh cut has reduced it to S9
 MT. Seaver, superintendent of the Boston | public schools. says in his report just pub | lished that the whole number of whippings | in the public schools of Boston last year was 1 IS, ,6ee, of which Il ,530 were administered in | the grammar schools and the remainder in | the primary schools. Mr. Seaver thinks this number very much larger than 1t ought to be. ! There are children whom nothing but 6 | whipping or series of whippings seems to do much good, but the tendency is toward less whipping in the schools.
 l Land seems to be worth something in I Chicago. Between the houses of Millionaire P. D. Armour and Broker Robson at Chi cago is piece of ground about fifteen feet front, for which Ar. Armour has hinted his
 willingness to pay $1 cooper foot on severa
 occasions, but all to no effect. Recently Broker Robson began to build three-story l addition to his house on this land, informa- tion of which was cabled by Ogden Armour to his father, who is in Europe. Word came
 to offer $2, 1000 per foot, and as that was no
 accepted $5, 900 was promised, this being thu
 highest price ever offered for land in Chi
 cago.
 Those who have failed to "strike it rich
 in Oklahoma may have another chance, a
 there is 8 prospect of the early opening of | part of the Sioux reservation in Dakota. Tn
 act under which the Sioux commission ha
 just been appointed is similar in it's genera
 objects to the act passed in the first session
 of the Fiftieth congress, but very mucl
 more liberal to the Indians, who are shrewt l enough to know about what they ought t'
 have. The Flandreau Sioux, who may no
 elect to take alletments on the great Sioul
 reservation, are to be paid $1.25 per acre il
 lieu of sllotments, instead of fifty cents pc
 acre, as previously provided, and the perma
 nent fund is increased from one million t
 three, and at the end of fifty years the funt
 is to be expended for the benefit of the In.
 dians or distributed among them. Othe
 provisions are similarly an improvement
 and the latest reports are that the Sioux will
 accept them. This will open up larg