Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-14

tax, frankly remarks that "most of the people with large incomes are at the North, while we of the South are poor, and the proportion of our people who would pay taxes on incomes is small.
 G. W. G. Ferris, who designed the Fer ris wheel at the Worlds fair, has other schemes in view, one of which is simply to make Chicago a seaport. He says calmly that 1t will be done in a few years, but re- fuses particulars, while intimating that 1t is to be through revolution in the making of canal locks. apparently by the use of compressed air to raise and lower vessels passing through.
 Keep your eye open for 1t. The rarest are believed to be not more than ten in existence. As much as $1 ,500 has been offered and refused for an 1894 dollar. Many explanations have been given of the scarcity of this coinage. One Is that in the year 1905 a China bound vessel was lost containing almost the entire mintage of 1894 As a curio the dollar of 1904 stands first among United States coins,
 One of the most notable of the newly elected French deputies is N. Chsuvin, who represents the St. Denis district. He was at one time the wigmsker of the Comedie Franchise, and even now, 1t Is said, some of the actors and actresses of that theater will not permit themselves to be "made up" by any one else. Chsuvin Is about thirty years old and is the founder of an international training school for hair dressers. He will attend to his customers in the morning and to his legislative duties in the afternoon.
 Cycling Is said to be growing rapidly in popularity with the French women of all classes. They were much slower in taking to 1t than their English eisters, who have long ago adopted the tricycle. as 8 ladies machine. The French women, however, have gone beyond them. They scorn the tricycle. and take to the bicycle at once. Moreover, they usually wear some sort of a suitable gymnastic costume for riding, sn innovation which the English and American women have not ventured to adopt to any great extent
 MT. Edwsrd Atkinson of Boston says person can live for ten cents a day. He claims on careful calculation that there is spent annually in She U nited States for fuel and food eix billions of dollars, and of this vast sum he claims twenty five per cent. Is wasted. In behalf of the poor and unemployed of Boston he tells them through the Herald how they can con struct stove at an expense not exceeding two dollars which will by the aid of an ordinary kerosene lamp, consuming not over pint of oil a day, cook food. and live at an expense of seventy cents 6 week the stove, and says that at an expense of thirty cents he prepared a dinner with this contrivsnoe ample for seven persons, cook ing ordinary sbin beef so that 1t was as tender ss tenderloin. Mr. Atkinson says 1t seems to be harder 10 make people be lieve tbst such 8 feat in cookery can be performed, than it is to invent the imple- ments to do 1t with; but he hopes that some people will try the experiment and reap the benefit of the saving to be made.
 AIdeputation from the British Indian association recently waited upon the lieu tenant-goverpor of Calcutta to present & memorial in relation to the opium traffic The memorial asserts that the use of mar |
 motest times and that the effects of opium are quite harmless ss compared with those of alcohol. In many parts of the country, 1t deciares, the use of opium Is 8 positive necessity. Its prohibition would be more serious measure, 1t says, than tho prohibit tion of tobacco in England, would certainly lead to an increase in the consumption of alcohol, and would be considered an ex- treme and unjusti6able hardship. The memorialists then proceed to argue that these views are supported by the opin- ions of many scientific men and that the suppression of the opium trade would be really a measure of protec- tion for the Chinese opium growers, and would ruin the present cultivators in In dis; that the opium-growing districts In Behar are the only parts of that province where the ryots are we'll to do; and, lastly, that India cannot afford the loss of opium revenue, while no other source can be found to supply its place. The lieutenant governor expressed himself as being in general sympathy with the petitioners, es- pscially as to the practical impossib!lity of finding fresh source of income If the opium revenue should be abandoned.