Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-25
NEW HAVEN CONN, MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25. 1890

and the reduction of 1S per cent recently
decreed by the provincial viceroys has
caused wailing and gnashing of teeth
among the pawnbrokers of the empire
If YOU want to do something that will
make your eat-grandchild remember you
put fifty dollars in the bank when you are
twenty-one years old and leave it for him
until he is twenty-one. A New Yorker
learned not long since that his father, who
had been dead several years, had opened
an account in one of the city savings
banks as long ago as 1880, and he ques-
TONED whether the account had ever been
closed Upon investigation he found that
his father had in 1884 drawn out all his
funds except $40, which he had apparently
left as ''nest egg" The claimant
proved his title to the deposit and re-
ceived from the bonk s466, of which S456
was the interest accumulation of fifty-six
years.
The most absurd superstitions are rife
in Russia At Serpookhov, near Moscow,
an official announcement was recently
placarded at the street corners. The COM
mon people are unable to read. They re-
quested man, who looked like a priest, to
decipher for them the contents of the bill.
He unhesitatingly and positively declared
that it contained the warning that the city
of Serpookhov would be swallowed in the
ground. In less than an hour the news
spread throughout the place, and the peo-
pie abandoned their work and began
streaming out into the fields in large
crowds. All the factories were deserted
by the laborers 1t was some time before
the frightened crowds were restored to
reason and to their regular pursuits; but
the originator of the trouble could not be
found.
1t appears that Woman is superior to
Man even in counting the census returns.
Says Superintendent Porter: The average
number counted by the women clerks was
$500 families, or 1880 persons, and by
the men clerks 6,587 families, or 80, 935
persons. Thus it will be seen that the
women averaged nearly one-half more
than the men. 1t is also well worth noting
that of the forty-three who counted more
than ten thousand, thirty-eight were wo-
men and only five men. These facts-and
indeed the record of the entire six weeks
show that women are better adapted for
this particular work than men. They are
more exact in touch, more expeditions in
handling the schedules, more at home in
adjusting the delicate mechanism of the
machine and apparently more ambitious to
make good record.
Census taking in India is more difficult
than in this country. The London Daily
News thus describes some of the hind
RANGES: The great difficulty with the In,
dian population is not so much to prevent
false returns as to prevent false and ridicu
| lous notions about the motives of the gov
| ernment. Millions of people are ignorant
enough to believe that one object of the
census is to procure lists of persons eligi
| BILE for sacrifice There are multitudes OF
people who believe that every great public
work-bridge, barracks, railroad, canal
is started with a propitiatory sacrifice OF
| human life to the gods. Perhaps the most
general impression is that the census is 6
taxing trick. Not the least interesting
portion of the census of 1891 will be thai
which deals with the child-widows and
child wives, of whom there are many mil
| lions in India and who are to be the sub
jects of the next great legislative reform
In England the question of ages will be d
delicate point. In India it will be the
question of names, and the ordinary native
as moral insult inquiries about the femal,
members of his family