Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-14

community best fitted to defend and main
tain the interest of the citizen, and on this
platform she won the day.
A busy Frenchman has discovered that
the human mouth is gradually working
its way around toward the left ear, and
accounts for it by the invincible tendency
of men to eat chiefly with the teeth on the
left side of the mouth. This wears out
the teeth on that side and gives the jaw q
cant toward the left. We shall be strange
looking beings by and by.
The lynx-eyed compositor and the intel
ligent proof reader do not take vacation.
The New York Herald says that the late
Cardinal Newman in the later editions of
his "Apologia," '1eft out some of the bit
terest, and-in the controversialist's sense
the best things he had said about Charles
Kings leg" The "Apologia pro Vita
Sua," was in some sense a reply to an
attack upon DIR. Newman and the Roman
church by Charles Kingsley.
| 1t is hard work to be noted mans
brother. Abraham Gould of st. Louis,
just because he happened to be brother
\ of Jay Gould, at times finds life to be 8
burden. He is modest man, being able
to give points to jay himself in this par
ticular, and he finds it very annoying to
hear people whisper as he goes along the
street, ssThere goes Jay Gould's brother
Abraham Gould is purchasing agent of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, a good business
man, and if he was not handicapped by
being the brother of a man who over
shadows him SO completely, might be I
person of consequence.
The clergy of the Russian church ar
divided into two classes, according to thei
means of sustenance. One class receive
regular salaries, the other has to work il
the fields which the church apportions II
them, and to depend on the gifts and col
lections from their parishioners. The lat
ter are known as the "white" clergy. Nov
the synod is working out plan for put
ting the entire clergy on regular salarie
and abolishing the system of church collec
tions. The sum of SO, ,s41 800 rubles vii
be required annually for the salaries of tn
"white" clergy, which will be graded &C
cording to their respective offices. A spech
tax will be imposed upon the orthodox
to raise that sum.
The Russians are already formidabl
competitors of the wheat growers of thi
country, and now, it appears, they are &c
ing to sell meat in England. A. X. vo
Mekk, of Moscow, and an American cit
zen, S. Schneider, have started compan
for the expectation of meat from Russia
England A great abattoir has been bui
in Libau, whence the meat will be tram
: ported directly to London in refrigerate
} steamers. This opens a new prospect fe
, the produce of the Russian farmer. Mi
/ lions of cattle are annually killed in tn,
empire merely for their hides, while thel
/ | is no market in the country for their mea
: The meat will be carried from the port {
} Libau to London in three days and twel,
hours.
. 1t will not be many years longer befol
slavery will be abolished in all but Il
most darkened places of the earth. II
Sultan of Zanzibar has decreed TINT thel
shall be no more slavery throughout n
dominions. The decree, which has bee
placarded under the Sultan's seal in Arab
and ENGLISH, pYUsides in detail that tn
exchange, sale or purchase of slaves, dc
mestic or otherwise, is absolutely pro
hibited. Houses hitherto kept for thi
purpose are forever closed. All slav
brokers exercising their occupation ar
liable to severe punishment and deports
ton. Any Arab found trafficking in do
mestic slaves will be liable to similar pur
ishment Any houses used in future fc
. such traffic will be forfeited. On th
death of their present owners slaves shal
5 ipso facto, be free, unless the dedtase
leave lawful children, who may inner
. them. Slaves cannot be willed away
sold after the death of their owner. An
Zanzibar subject marrying or married to
person under British jurisdiction is henc
slaves of such persons are now declare
n free. No freed slaves are in any circun
e stances TO possess a slave. Every slave
f to have the absolute right henceforth
: purchase his freedom at a reasonable pric
e The Sultan binds himself to accord speci
d protection to sueh slaves and to all slav
e freed under the decree or otherwis
Every slave is to have the same right
It the Arabs to prosecute complaints al
g claims in courts of justice.