Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-18

mentioned, is dowry insurance, which
has been introduced by an insurance com.
pany, also in Sweden. By this scheme q
father can, by paying a reasonable pre-
MUM, secure for his daughter a dowry on
her marriage at any time between twenty
and forty years of age, or a sum of money
for her in case she is unmarried when she
completes her fortieth year. The premium
is reckoned from the year of birth, and
the whole plan is somewhat on the lines of
life insurance.
The Acknowledgement of the negroes by
the new constitution of Mississippi is prac-
tically accomplished. Out of colored
population of $4,000 only S,615 voters
have registered, which is very small per-
centsge of the colored male citizens of vot-
ing age. The white registration is below
the average, amounting to about 5000,
but this is sufficient for all practical pur-
poses, as it gives a white majority of
about $4,000 in the State. Before this
constitution was adopted the majority WAS
In favor of the blacks. AS it is now, the
negroes cannot elect single county officer
without the consent and cooperation of
the whites.
A unique collection of cats is possessed
by DR.. Susan Janeway Coltman, of German
town, Pennsylvania, a much respected
practiced since she inherited her fathers
fortune in 1888. The cats number twenty
two in all, and include yellow Persian,
Manx, white Maltese, English tiger,
''feather-tsiled" Turkish, Skye, Zanzibar
and other felines of unique beauty or of
illustrious pedigree. Miss Coltman values
her pets at 81, 1000. When, by the accident
of too prolific birth, her cat family grows
larger than she wishes it to be, she sells
the superfuous kittens and devotes the
proceeds to charity.
No wonder there hasn't been enough
good money in this country. Mr.. W. Il.
Allen of Brooklyn makes an estimate that
200, 900 aliens annually return from this
country to their native lands carrying 5000
each, or $40, 900, 900. Many of these are
Chinese, who are estimated to have car
ried out of America $500, 100000 in the
last forty-two years. The annual drain of
$40, 900, 900 by all the returning aliens,
and of s10O, ZOO, 900 by European travel of
the well to do, helps Mr.. Allen to under
stand why it is that, Notwithstanding
several years of unexampled prosperity
and an unusual growth of export trade,
we are rapidly drifting toward suspen-
sion of specie payments"
She continues to march on. The British
Medical association passed a resolution at
it's meeting last week admitting women
doctors to membership. The vote was on
a motion to expunge an article in the con-
stitution providing that emo female shall
be eligible for election as a member of the
association" The mover of the resolution,
DR.. Galton, said times had changed in the
past twenty years, and where in 1878, when
the article was adopted, there were only
eight women doctors in Great Britain,
there are now 1876. He said the battle
against women in the medical profession
was over, and they should extend the hand
of fellowship to the women. The resolu-
tion was carried by large majority. The
seconder of the resolution wanted it amend
ed to read in favor of the admission of more
women into the profession. There are 130
women students in the London school this
year. There are also two schools in Edin-
burgh, two in Glasgow, and one in Dub
lin.