Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-28

tne Dig deal! ana even the most sangu1ne
don't expect dividends on the common
stock this year.
1t costs the great powers of Europe a
good deal to be always ready to fight each
other. France has spent eighteen hundred
millions on her army since 1871 and an
enormous sum upon her navy.
The tin plate truth Is fast catching up
with the tin plate lie. A company of
Welsh capitalists has been organized for
the manufacture of tin plate near St.
Paul, Minnesota. A tin plate factory is
also to be erected at once in Camden, New
Jersey.
Woman hasn't yet blossomed out as an
inventor in the way Man has, but give her
time. A woman has patented q machine
for making watch screws that is provided
with thread cutter 30 delicate as to be
almost invisible. 1t will cut perfect threads
on the finest human hair.
The poet Whittier was never known as q
money! maker, but he left a larger estate
than was expected even by his most init
mate friends. 1t is understood that his
copyrights alone bring in now an income of
So, 500 year, while the total value of his
estate is placed at 1922, 900.
Some men are generous. It Is an
nounced that Gordon MacKsy of Boston
not only gives his divorced wife $25, 900 a
year, but has withdrawn the proviso that
she shall receive 1t only so long as she re-
mains unmarried. He can afford to be
generous. His income is $500, 900 year.
You don't have to go west to get rich in
real estate A man In New York thirty
seven and one-hslf years ago bought three
houses for $1,000. They have just been
sold for $Sf 800. Meantime he has re-
ceived in rents s134 400, making his total
receipts above investment $209, 200. He
has paid in repairs and taxes S31 $50, leav-
ing net profit of $1s4, ,450. If he had put
his 81, 900 in the savings bank at 81 per
cent. it would have amounted now to s25,
ia, about one seventh of his actual profits.
Cardinal Howard's death reduced the
number of cardinals now living to fifty
one, all save ten of whom were appointed
by the present pope. Since Leo's success
sion to the papacy eighty-six wearers of
the scarlet have died. Twenty-four of the
surviving cardinals live in Rome, although
three of them are Germans and three are
French, and of the remaining twenty
seven, nine are Italians, six Frenchmen,
three Austrisns, three Spaniards, two Por-
tuguese, with one from each of these four
countries: The United States, Canada,
Belgium and Australia.
The president of Brown university
argues in the North american Review that
Malthus was not an enemy to the human
race, but wise prophet, who made cor.
| and the possibility that there would soor
| be too many of us. He raises the question
but does not discuss it, whether the check
to this increasing population are likely tc
be morally preventive or immorally pre-
| ventive. He says: "a more momentous
tnls-Worlu queshiou couIu nnIoly Do hsheu
Let the masses remain ignorant and
british, and human life will forever con
tinue in threatening disproportion to food
progress and poverty side by side, the
comfort of few Swallowed by wars and
want and sickness on the part of multi
tudes. Only as character shall prevail car
coming generations fill the ideal of ar
earthly society; human beings numerous
enough to work the same cosmic field tc
the best advantage, yet voluntarily few
enough to admit of reasonable and decent
| subsistence for ALL"