Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-27

More gold is going to Europe, to-day. |
This country cannot well spare much |
more.
"Keep off the grass'' really means some |
thing. A man has been arrested and fined |
in Boston for not believing in it.
It is related that a farmer bought $453
worth of farm machinery in various
places while his wife was selecting a
spring bonnet in one.
Something mildly compulsory in the
way of voting is to have q trial in Illinois.
law recently enacted requires the cleo
ton clerks in every precinct of Chicago to
make list of voters who failed to regis
ter. This list is to be used first in draw
ing jurors, and until it is exhausted the
list made from the poll books of those who
register and vote is not to be touched.
Under this law those who neglect to vote
in order to shirk jury duty will be in far
greater danger of being drawn as jurors
than those who go to the polls.
The Alliance legislature in Nebraska
passed law declaring all grain elevators
public warehouses, and that law goes into
effect this month. In anticipation of the
operation of the law the Alliance organiEa-
tions in the state have purchased some ele-
vators and have built others and so control
quite number. When the present crops
are harvested, and they promise to be very
bountiful, these crafty husbandmen will
not put them on the market, but will store
them in the elevators and hold them there
till prices have materially advanced. We
suppose 1t is all right for the farmer to be
a cornerer and a monopolist
Irrigation is going to be thoroughly test
ed in western Kansas. Companies have
been organized in every county, and the
prospect is that irrigation will be thoroug-
ly tested. The Burlington and Missouri
railroad company will invest $1O0, in
Cheyenne county and already has an army
of men at work constructing 120 miles OF
bitches and several reservoirs to retain 6
surplus of water for an unusually dry sea
son. Another company has eight miles Of
bitches completed and the water is already
flowing ready to turn upon the corn lands
this season. In another county a system
of thirty miles of bitches is planned.
The disadvantage of the decimal sale il
that the number of ten can be only one
divided without leaving fraction, say
Temple Bar. A duodecimal scale of nu
: meration would have been much better
and, in fact, is much more in accordanc
with our present system of weight, meas
+ ure and coinage. Had the Cha1deans o
Arabs, who instituted the decimal scale Q
( numbers from their ten digits, only take
it from the giants among them, who, Hk
the giants of Gath, had twelve digits a
! we'll as toes, the result would have bee
much more satisfactory to all calculatin
individuals among succeeding generations
IL The breaks among the justices of tt
Supreme bench in Massachusetts make
necessary that the Andover case shall (
reargued before the whole bench, before
is wise to take any action in rendering
decision, and this delay will, it is est
mated, put off the decision for yea
Meantime. as the Boston Herald remark
the public will have forgotten all abo,
:. the question at issue, and the Andov
Seminary has grown in the appreciation
tho Congregational body SO much that
graduates are-everywhere acceptable to Il
parishes No taint of heresy attaches
the institution, and, so far as the decisit
of the ceur' is concerned, the case is
ready practically settled at Andover by t
continuous occupation Of the Office
Dr.. Smyth should be compelled to reti