Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-01

Chicago bank and used by the compsny's officers in buying the farmers' crops at 8 good price when the market price is very low. The price to be paid is to be fixed after the harvest by a convention of the farmers of the three states.
 Probably nothing better illustrates the great progress which Japan has made in the last quarter of 8 century than the 475 news- papers which are now published in the em- pire. Sixteen of these are issued daily in Tokio. Each officer of the government is obliged to be subscriber to the government organ "Kwanpo." Iu 1886 the 403 news- papers consisted of S2 political, 2 military, 116 scientific. sS trade, as governmental, 21 court, 90 religious, 26 medical and literary journals. The most important are those bearing names equivalent to daily news and progress. The Tokio Independent. which was published in several different languages, sus- pended publication two years ago.
 Germany has 1s,4s7 postofices, England 17,5a7, France only 7,a46. Last year e5,- 900, 900 postofice orders. with value of A. 600, ,000, 900 francs, were forwarded in Ger many, and 21,0O0.0 900 orders, the value of e5e, 100000 francs, forwarded in France. The bad showing of France fin postal statis- tics is in no small degree due to the fact that the postal authorities may found yearly only twenty-five new postofices, although almost 2,00O applications for new postofioes are made annually. In Paris . pneumatic postal card reaches it's destination between an hour and an hour and half after mailing. A similar card in Berlin is delivered within thirty-five or forty minutes after mailing. Since the inauguration, of new system of postal wagons for emptying the mail boxes in Berlin. an ordinary city letter reaches it's destination in an hour after leaving the hands of the sender.
 MT. Edgar L. wakeman, whose letters ap- pear weekly on this page, knows great deal about the Gipsies and furnishes from time to time many interesting facts in regard to their progress in this country. He states that in Chicago there is clergyman who was born . Gipsy. A member of the Pennsylvania legis- 1ature has the same origin. Iu Canada there are fifty eminent professional people who are of the Bohemian race. A prominent oivil engineer on a southern railway isa Gipsy. Mr. Wakeman says that in New York city are half hundred Gipsies, several of whom are worth upward of $100,000 apiece. A Boston lawyer in good practice is Gipsy. A San Francisco cafe Is owned and conduct ed by Gipsy who is very rich. In Indian apolis Is a physician in large practice who passes as an Englishman. He was born in a Yetholm Gipsy camp. One of the wealthiest residents of Washington is Gipsy. Certain business men of Richmond and Baltimore have the same origin. Henry Stanley of St. Paal owns property worth over $40, 0,000. The Cooper family of East Somerville, Boston, are worth $25O, 1000. Uriah Wharton owns $2OO, O,OO0 of real estate in New York. In Canada the amount of property held by Gip- sies is vsry large. Half million dollars worth of property in and near Dayton, Ohio, is owned by Gipsies. In Milwaukee Elias Brewer owns $50, 900 worth of property. "In short" says MT. Wakeman, "I make 1t as a statement of fact that I could fill columns with names and addresses and property esti- mates of nearly thousand Gipsies in this country whose combined wealth would ex- ceed $40, ,00O, ,0OO."