Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-13

Is WI AS1s A hours of rain for the ensuing week. He was arrested and fined $l25, the judge l ruling that the competition was merely a form of lottery.
 Peanuts and prosperity go well together, and 1t is therefore not surprising to read that the merchants of Norfolk say that this season has been tho slowest for the peanut market that they have had for years. Thousands of bushels of stock are stored, with no demand, and it is only few weeks before the new crop will be ready for the market.
 The Welsh in the United States claim that they are in number as many as their countrymen in Wales, and they also claim that one of their ancestors forestalled Co., lumbus in the discovery of America by 27S years. They base their assertions on historical traditions and the manuscripts of old Welsh bsrds on the one hand, and on the prevalence of Welsh in many of the languages of the Indians, both of South and North America on the other. Louise de la Rance, known as "Ouida," !" has told how she gsts her knowledge of the language and habits of men about town, which Is displayed in her novels. She invites young gentlemen of sporting proclivities to dine with her, and when the meal is over she tells them to talk, smoke and drink just as if they were at their clubs. They usually comply with the re- quest, and she thus gathers store of more or less sdifying anecdotes, risky stories and double entendres for her next book.
 Six members of the United States sen- ate have passed the seventieth year of their age. MT. Morrill, of Vermont heads the list with his eighty three years. Next comes Mr. Palmer Illinois, who Is seventy -eix. MT. Harris of Tennessee Is seventy-fve, MT. Pugh of Alabama is seventy three, and MT. Sherman of Ohio and MT. Hunton of Virginia are each seventy years old. There are now several frisky youngsters in the senate, and the average age of the members Is about fifty eight years and six months.
 That monster wine vat the famous "tun of Heidelberg" which we have been taught from childhood to consider the most gigan- tic receptacle for liquid ever made of wood and bound with iron hoops, has at last been exeelled in shape of 6 giant cask built for the Blatner Brewing company of Munich. The Blstner cask, but recently finished, is 105 feet in diameter and 51 feet deep. It was inaugurated with a ball in which 275 couples took part, and at one time, it is said, there were 500 people on the floor of the cask, not counting the walters, musicians, etc. Beside the above no inconsiderable floor space was taken up by the stage erected for the orchestra, the two pianos and fine dining table.
 Sister Marie Augustine, founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, lately died In France. She was born iu 1920, sn Saint Servan, and was known in the world by the name of Marie Janet In early life she manifested great interest in religious
 
 poor. In connection with Virginie Ire damel and Jeanne Jongap, she founded charitabls order in the year 1S40, when she was but twenty years old. The first convent of the order and the first home for old people were established by Marie Au- gustine in her native town, and the next In the city of Rennes, in 1S46. From that time on homes were established all over the world, and they now number O total of 266, and shelter more than 10000 old men and women. It Ia aaid that i20, 900 aged and indigent people have died in the care of the Little Sisters, whoprovided for them the shelter in their declining years which they could not furniss for them selves.
 Deer have become SO numerous in north western Maine that the farmers crops on the edge of the great forests are no longer safe, and the question of the landowners rights, in spite of the game laws, must soon be passed on by the courts. A Plscs- tsquis attorney advised client to shoot any deer found destroying his crops in close time, assuring him that the law would uphold him in thus protecting his proper ty. There Reems to be authority for this opinion, the Supreme court of New Hamp- shire having already decided that the farmer has such right. The case Is AL drich vs. Wright, 53 New Hampshire re- ports. The defendant shot three minks at one discharge of his gun, and justified 1t on the ground that they were chasing his geese. The court held that this being es- tablished, It protected him from penalty. Unless the Maine farmer fortiaes himself with corroborative evidence that he shoots to save his crops the New Hampshire pre- cedent will be dangerous one to follow, as the Maine courts construs the game laws with great strictness.