Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-30

Hanks is not of the discredited male sex.

Hanks is not of the discredited male sex
The bible says that ga prophet is not
without honor save in his own country" !"
but there is prophet in Java who for the
last fifteen years has been paid s400 year
for not predicting tidal wave which will
sweep clear over the island. Very sub
stantial honor this.
Some men can ''get along" in any bust
ness. "Blind Johnny" professional
mendicant of Philadelphia, is reported
worth $4,000. He is go years old and
puts in his time between Chicago, Wash
ington and Philadelphia, spending three
months at time in each place
There is way to live without quarrel
ing, even though married. Lexington,
Kentucky has couple who qusrreled
twenty-five years ago, but have lived hap
PLY together ever since. Each made a
VOW never to speak to the other again, and
as each kept the VOW quarreling was inn
possible. The method is not patented.
Speaking of literary feats, an intellectual
amusement recently devised in Boston
consists of writing capital D on sheet
of paper while standing at a table, and
trying to make the right foot swing in the
| opposite direction from that which the
pencil is following on the paper. No one
so far as heard from, has been able to per-
| form the feat.
| New Haven and Boston are alike in some
things. A vigorous protest is being made
in Boston by several people of taste and
influence against the acceptance by the
| authorities of q statue of Columbus now
| completed and intended for a conspicuous
| site, Copley square. 1t is replica of a
figure soon to be set up in San Domingo,
and modelled by Belgian artist, Buyens;
but some Bostonisns regard the design
commonplace.
1t now seems probable that the scheme
for a map of the world proposed at the
geographical congress in Berne year
ago will be carried out 1t proposed
map of the whole earth on uniform scale |
of one in one million, or about sixteen |
miles to the inch. Each sheet will be |
twenty inches square, and 936 sheets will /
be required. If only the land is given 100 /
win answer the purpose. The Greenwich
meridian will be used, rivers painted in
blue and hills in brown, and contour lines
will be drawn at elevations of 100, 800,
500 and 200 meters. The areas inclosed
by them will be tinted.
Commissioner Morgan reports that the /
government paid stated wages last year to
nearly 2 2,000 Indians in its employ; that
the total sum so paid, including compensa-
ton for odd jobs, was nearly $400, 600;
that the total sum paid to Indians on all
accounts and for all purposes was over
So, 400, 900; that there are now nearly co.
600 Indian children on the school rolis;
that the work of allotting lands in several
ty will probably be completed in three or
four years more; and that then all the
Indians-one or two unruly tribes except
ed-will be transformed into American
citizens, and it will be time to think of
abolishing the Indian Bureau.
Everything is not entirely pleasing even
of Japan are lamenting the decay of good
manners among newly educated Japanese
girls. They assert that under systems of
education brought from foreign lands the
usages of female life have one by one been
abandoned, and the modern girl, in her at
tempts to initiate foreign manners, has al
most transformed herself into man. They
Il,ok, ,1a ~, fIa oil nlO at II
Toxic of good families live alone in lodg
ing houses, often walk unattended in the
streets after dark, and groups of five or
six of them may be seen playing cards at
tea houses. The Japan Mail, commenting
upon these complaints, says that it is sub
ject for regret that female schools con-
Quoted on western lines should attempt to
enforce a new code of morals among the
natives.
The Health department of Chicago has
at last declared war on the milk dealers |
practice of feeding COWS on the refuse of
distilleries within the city limits. 1t is
estimated that at the time an order to that |
effect was issued, there were 1000 tslop-
fed" COWS in Chicago. Some dealers owned
as many as seventy-six of them, in viola
ton, too, of an ordinance forbidding the
ownership of more than three COWS by one
dealer. These poor beasts are psnned up
in dirty sheds without exercise or fresh
air, and most of their food is the ''slop"
referred to. Thousands of families are
served with the milk given by these COWS.
The lack Of an inspection law has made
this state of things possible, but an indig-
nant public outcry has at last aroused the
authorities to action. The dealers have
been notified that unless they comply with
the law, prosecution will follow.