Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-28

1000, 900 are employed In industrial labor,
and over 5000. 900 in agriculture. They
are In the majority in the cotton, linen
and jute industries, and in the silk trade
there are 117.OO0 women employed, and
but 17,700 men.
1t is estimated that 1t will cost the
United States see, 500, 900 to elect the
next president, counting all the prelimi-
nary expenses attending national conven-
tions. That sum will be used for legiti-
mate ends alone.
The present English parliament will have
lasted six years when it Is dissolved this
week 1t would have reached its legal limit
of existence one year later, but it has lived
longer than the average of the English
parliaments since 1868. when the second
reform act went into operation. Since
that time there have been Eve parlisments,
one of which lived only about five months,
another lasted little over five years, while
each of the other three lived about six
years. Of these three the present parlia-
ment is not the longest, having been ex-
ceeded in length of term by that which
was elected in January, 1874, and which
was dissolved in six years and five weeks
subsequent to that time.
During the coming year the Treasury
department will probably reGoin the
greater part of Its remaining stock of
abraded, mutilated or otherwise uncur-
rent subsidiary silver coin. In 1885 the
treasury held So, 200. 600 of subsidiary
silver coin; in 1889 the holdings had been
reduced to s25, ,0OO, 900, and now they are
mutilated piecess till going on. Cor
respondingly the subsidiary silver coin in
circulation has increased from S45, ,000, 900
in 1885 to more than $62, 600. 900 at the
present time. Meanwhile the annual
minor coinage has been very large, sverag-
ing more than q million a year for the
past five years. The demand for some
denominations of minor coin has been
often 80 great of late as to surpass the
provisions made by congress for meeting
it.
Some interesting things are revealed by
the vital statistics of France lately pub
lished. In 1890 the deaths exceeded the
births by nearly forty thousand. This lie
extraordinary in view of the fact that the
death rate has not been increased by war
or to any great extent by epidemic. Such
an increase of deaths over births in time
of peace and prosperity is said to be with
out parallel in Europe. The result is
not due to increase of mortality, but fall
ing off in number of births, which was
forty-two thousand less in 1890 than in
1889. The explanation of this is to be
found in the decline in the number of mar
risges, which fell off more than twenty
thousand between 1884 and 1890. Not less
striking is the rise of divorce. The num-
Der granted in 1885 WAS 4,277. In 1888 IL
was 4, 700. In 1890 it rose to {, 5,457.
A Mr.. Ballard, of San Francisco, has
s5 gold coin, coined by the Mormons in
1s49. In that year Brigham Young estab-
lishsd mint, and coined about $1,000
600 in s. gold pieces. These coins, says a
San Francisco paper, soon found their way
to California and passed current. At that
early date they were welcomed as great
convenience in matters of exchange. The
metal in the coins was unalloyed-so soft
and pure, in fact, that 1t wore away very
rapidly. On this account they dissp-
peared from circulation almost as rapidly
as they had appeared. On one side of Mr.
Billiards. relic are two clasped hands, prob
ably symbolic of brotherly love, while
around the margin are the letters &c. S.
L. P. g." standing for Great Salt
Lake California Pure Gold" Below the
clasped hands are the words, five dol
lars" and the date, "1s49" On the other
side, in the centre of the coin. is the all
seeing eye, and below that beehive, while
around the margin are these words, "Holi-
ness to the Lord"