Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-23

The Medical Journal says that Ia move- end, if possible, to the present irrational mourning costumes that exact of women great personal inconvenience, physical injury and disastrous expense"
 All the race prejudice isn't in the south. There is an outbreak of it at Anderson, Indi- ana. Some white parents threaten to with- draw their children from the public schools on account of the unusually large number of colored children attending the same schools. Bitter feeling is aroused over the matter, which, it is thought, may result in the city school trustees providing special school for the colored children.
 An interesting anecdote is told of Mir. Joseph Jefferson, incidental to his arranging for the twenty weeks' season on which he is about entering. His son, who is to be his business agent, suggested to his father that there were many applications for the com- pany, beyond this period, and that if it was extended to thirty weeks good deal of ada ed money would be made. My boy" was Jefferson's reply, "I cannot now afford to waste my time in making money"
 Cabbage leaf tobacco has a rival. Imita- tion tobacco made out of rye straw is said to be product of recent invention. The sub- stance Is steeped in strong solution made from tobacco stems, and is then manufae- tured In such manner as to make a fair imitation of the sort of tobacco used for wrapping cigars. The flavor of the tobacco stems is communicated to the rye straw l and there is stamped upon 1t the grain | which is noticeable in the leaf used for wrap ping. It Is said that many of the cheaper ! cigars now on the market have this spurious wrapper.
 1 The farmers of this country haven't much 1 to fear from the competition of India wheat this year. Late reports indicate that India's wheat crop this year will be three-quarterf l of a million tons less than it was last year. Already, in fact, the effects of the shorter crop are seen. For three months ending with June the official figures of India's wheat | export shows a decrease or over three mil lion hundred-weights, as compared with tht corresponding period in 1888; and decrease of nearly five million hundred-weights a compared with 1887.
 The Boston Post is good Democratic organ, but it doesn't take the view of negro emigration that the Southern Democratic or gans do. It says: Where the negroes ar' they should stay, for in point of climate ant of work, any change that they are likely t' make would be a change for the worse. It i yet to be proved that white men can labo hard in the South without physical degener ation. But the negro Is suited to the soi of the South; it is his proper home in thi country, and true friends of his race will b. slow to advise that he should seek his for tune elsewhere.
 Among the interesting things seen at tn
 Paris exposition are the dwarf trees whicl
 the Japanese horticulturists are showing, an'
 which are attracting much attention. Pines
 thujes and csdars, said to be 100 or 150 year
 old, are only eighteen inches high, and wit
 such specimens it would be easy to have
 coniferous forest on balcony. These ar
 boreal deformities are produced by great la
 bor, and If the truth Is told about their ages
 this work of arresting the trees developmen
 and forcing it into contorted forms must b
 persisted in by several generations of forest
 ers. All this painstaktng is hardly paid fo