Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-02

charity organizations-the proportion of
adult able-bodisd paupers in London, in
door and out, exclusive of vagrants, was
6.7 per 1000; in 1888 it was 3.2.
Jay Gould is, after all, or at least has
been, like other folks. He recalls the fact
that, when he first arrived in New York,
he was told very confidentially that there
was gold mine for sale up in New Hamp-
shire. He invested $3.50 in it, and he has
never since been able to find either the
county or the town where the mine was
supposed to be located. But he has kept
the certificate.
There are some bad boys in Minnesota.
A careful inquiry in the Minnesota State
Reform School some time ago revealed the
fact that q majority of the boys commit
ted for crime had attended Sunday school
until near the time of their commitment.
Forty per cent. of them came direct from
homes; 4S per cent. more had lived at
heme until within one year of their com
mitment, and only 10 per cent. were en-
tirely homeless.
The latest account of new enterprises in
the South shows that that section isn't
panic-stricken. From Virginia to Florida,
from South Carolina to Texas, they are an
nounced. Companies to develop coal
lands, to build steel cars, to make plumb
ers' supplies, to manufacture engines, cot
ton goods, to establish stock yards and
packing houses, to quarry stones, to build
,000-horse-power canal, and to cut and
saw lumber are included in the list, and
the nominal capital involved is over
SIC, 900 for the enterprises reported in
one week.
At meeting of the Illinois State board
of health in Chicago the other day DR..
Rauch presented some depressing figures
and facts touching the possibility of
cholera next spring. He has recently re-
turned from Europe, where he devoted
most of his time to studying sanitary
questions especially in relation to epi-
denies In five months ten thousand
people had died of cholera in Spain,
Japan and Syria. Of the pilgrims to
Mecca it is estimated that 10000 sue
cumbed to the plague. Many of these
were from northern Africa, Tunis, Tripoli
and Algeria, and the paths by which
through the survivors the plague might be
| communicated to Europe and sent west
ward are those through which it has sue
cessfully entered in the past. Cold
weather had ended its ravages for the
| winter but it may reasonably be feared
that danger will reappear in spring.
The imperial German census will be
taken on the night of November 30-De,
cember 1. In Germany census cards are
left by government officials at every house
before census night, and on these cards
the householder records on the succeeding
morning all the required information con
cerning all persons, transient or perma
nent, during the night. Thus all dupica
ton and omission are avoided. The ques
tions on the census card concern the rela
tionship of each person to the householder
occupation, religion, military service an'
rank, and mother tongue, besides tn
usual inquiries as to age, etc. In Prussia
typical German State, it is expected that
despite the heavy emigration, this year
census will show an increase in roun
numbers from 81, 900, 900 in 1880, to 80
900, 900 in 1890, -appros<inaatsly- Ii Pc
| cent. Little Prussia of the days of N,
| poleon l. will then have more than Sc,
tupled her population in the last eight
. / uanrs