Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-18

by the fact that the Salvation Army in
 London is giving 10000 fsrthing break
 lasts week to poor children.
 The coal combine has overreached itself A syndicate headed by Henry NJ. Whitney
 of Boston has bought extensive coal-mine
 properties in Nova Scotia for the purpose
 of shipping fuel to New England.
 There was a great deal of sickness in
 Biddeford, Maine, last year. The liquor
 agent there, appointed by the State, re-
 ports that be sold s22, 72O worth of liquors
 "for medicinal and mechanical purposes. !"
 Mrs. Virtua Pommier of Memphis Is sue-
 ing the Illinois Central railroad company
 bscauee, while on her wedding tour, occu-
 pying a berth in sleeper, ''male em- ploye" of the road seizsd and squeezed her
 bare foot, exposed to view by the acei- dental displacement of the curtains. She | estimates the mental worriment to be worth
 1000.
 A New York clergyman last Sunday told his congregation that all those who put $5 in the contribution box would get
 $50 back in their business within year,
 and that if they failed to realize that prom
 ise they could draw on him personally for
 the amount. The box was promptly filled
 with crisp $5 notes and the clergyman has
 begun to think.
 Different places, different ideas. A peti
 tion has just been presented to the mayor of Seattle, Washington, signed by many leading mercantile houses in the city and a large number of citizens, asking that pub lie gambling places be opened there under the direct surveillance of the Police depart ment. The petition 1ecites that many "sure-thing games, bunco games" etc., are running wide open in Seattle, and the pc titioners, believing that games are bound to exist in some form or other, "esrnestly request" that number of clubs bs opened, under polics rules and survey, "believing it would be to the business interests of the city" The mayor, it is reported, has the matter under consideration.
 The moustache is becoming very fashion able in France. Parisians have been hunt l ing for the origin of the custom of wear ing this adornment. and the legend of | most popular acceptance just now ascribes l it to Spain. At 8 period after the Moorish | invasion, when the Christian and Moslem | population became 80 mixed that 1t was hard to say which were Moors and which | Spaniards, the pious Spsniards hit upon xla, aha nF Sna- ton. They permitted the hair on the | upper lip to grow, and also a tuft on the | under lip, an outline of the cross being | thus formed. Thus, say the Parisians, the moustache became the symbol of liberty, | equality, and fraternity.
 They are getting ready for some fine | legislation at Albany. For instance, bill has been introduced by Senator Plum kilt, providing that ''any person who has qualified and served as a member of the legislature of the state for at least seven years shall be, on motion made to the | general term, admitted and licensed to practise as an attorney and counsellor in the courts of the state without exsmina- tion and without complying with any other requirement." The object of thts measure is said to be to admit "Tim" Sul- livan," "Eddie" Hagsn, and other similar statesmen, including Plunkitt himself, to the bar and allow them to call themselves | lawyers, rather than liquor dealers or men | without other occupation than politics.
 It is said that the average cost of all the | houses built in Philadelphia last year was | but little over three thousand dollars. the | average cost of those erected in Boston | over six and a half thousand, and the aver age cost in New York over seventeen and | a half thousand. This record for these | twelve months in the cities named is good | illustration Of the life of these cities-the | rich living in houses Of their own and the 1 poor huddled together in tenement houses | in the last two, while in Philadelphia not only the rich but ths poorer citizens as well, are to be found living in homes of their own. During the past five years it is said that over 24 000 more buildings were erected in Philadelphia than in New York, and over 5000 more than in the combined cities of New York, Baltimore and Boston.