Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-13

1S48, 138, ,975; persons of the second em- pire. 132, 900; wounded in February, 184S, 198, 900; victims of December 2, 6,553, ,266. Each government has respected the pen sion obligation of its predecessor as to this growing list and has paid every item with scrupulous regularity.
 "Stepniak, the noted Russian Nihilist, is coming to this country soon. Stepniak is one of the chief leaders of the revolu- tionary forces of Russia; he is under con- demnation as a terroist; he was among the secret founders of the Nihilist press, and he carried on the propaganda among the amancipated serfs; but it is not known what part he played in the imperial trag- edy that was enacted a few years ago. Not long since Prince Lavrof published a sketch of Stepniak, including the ''various Episodes of His Odyssey" and the Prince himself was among his co-workers. Step niak has lived for some years as a refugee in London, and he now desires to see the people and the republic of the United | States.
  ous begonias have become very popular in England. An English journal mentions a nursery garden where about 100000 of these plants were growing, all this years seedlings The writer says: ''There are many superb flowers in the open ground, but it is upon the plants in pots that the grand flowers are to be seen. Among the white and yellow varieties the greatest | improvement appears. Plants with 6 dropping habit, eminently suited for hang ing baskets, are here to be seen heavily laden with bloom, whilst the large poi plants exhibit the point which MT. Laine had before him in the improvements of the begonia-namely, erect flowers which can be seen without raising them"
 On the Pacific coast they are telling the following story on ex-Senator Fair, who now regularly attends Grace Episcopal church, San Francisco: On certain Sun day one of his boys went to church, and when he returned the genial ex-senator in quired what the sermon was about "Well," replied the lad, Gone of the thing that struck me was the way in which thu preacher went for us wealthy people. H' said that when the Savior was looking about Him for disciples He went among the poor and lowly and took his follower. from among them. Christ, the preacher said, had no rich men among His twelv' apostles" "Mebbe the rich men wouldn' serve, my son." remarked the ex-senator batting with kindly hand the curly head O the boy. "Mebbe they wouldn't serve be
 cause they were too busy. Even you
 father couldn't spare the time to be al apostle, with stocks bobbin' up and dow
 as they are now, and some of the bes
 mines on the coast not pannin' out wort . cent"
 The need of bill clerk, and an accurat one too, has been illustrated in Maryland
 where the last legislature passed bi !. which provides that no man can vote if h
 has been absent from the State day duI ing the six months immediately prior , CTS of the statute had no such resultas thi | in mind when they prepared it for adoI tion, but the unfortunate predicament il - | to which many residents of the State al t | now plunged is not helped by any legisli tive innocence of intention. If man ha ) made even brief trip out of the State : either for business or for pleasure, dul : ing the past few months, he will be UT able to vote this fall, unless some schem
 is devised to remedy the situation. It I | proposed to have the law declared uncor
 stitutional, but as nothing definite in thi
 direction has as yet been effected, it look
 as though many voters might be justly d. prived of their suffrage in November, an simply because of careless expression wording law.