Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-05
The total valuation of real estate Ia 81 :,
562, $50, 293, an increase of s57, ,677, 100.

The total valuation of real estate In 81,
5ee, 5s2, ,2s3, an increase of s57, ,677, 100.
The Democrats of Rice county, Kansas,
know what they want. They held q con
vention to consider the terms on which
they would enter into fusion with the
Populists, and they expressed the result of
their deliberations In the following terse
and pregnant resolutions: Resolved, That
we demand of the Populists at the next
election part of the hog which is to be
killed, and we must have of the aforesaid
porker some of the meat located back of
the neck; that we will not be contsnt with
jowls any longer, but must have either the
shoulder or side bacon.
A demand is made In Maine for the re-
enactment of the law permitting the killing
Of crows, as these birds are becoming q
great nuisance again. A Dsmariscotts
farmer says he is obliged 'to sit up most
of the night and watch all day to fight
CROWS" Another asserts that of ], 200 hills
of potatoes which he planted the crows
have spoiled all but 1875. They are also
destroying young chickens and ducks. AS
one sufferer from their raids ssyr: "You
can't make folks believe that crows don't
keep posted on the Maine Revised Statutes" :"
The next legislature will no doubt be asked
to revive the old law, and If the crows
know what is good for them they will read
1t and give the State wide berth.
Foreigners are wont to classify Austria
among the German countries. AS matter
of fact her German speaking population is
but limited, and annually losing ground.
The increase in population among the
German inhabitants of Austria Is but 5.17
per thousand per year; the increase with
the Italians In Austria Is 8. 90, and with the
Siavonic races 793. OF 100 marrisgeabls
women In the German districts of Austria,
forty-one find husbands; among the
Slavonic races the percentage is ifty-two.
One of the reasons for this showing IL that
in the German districts of Austria the
economic management of affairs is almost
prohibitory to marriage among the young
er sons and daughters of the peasants.
The homestead goes to the eldest son,
whose brothers and sisters become his
servants Among the Slsvs the family
property is equally divided among all
children after the death of the father, and
each one is allowed to begin housekeeping
on his own hook.
Paris is talking about the blsckmsiling
of an admiral of the French navy. He
wrote a letter some time ago, in which he
referred to the minister of marine, his
superior officer, as an old fool. THE, as
we'll as two or three other letters of the
same tenor, fell into the hands of black
mailers, who forthwith proceeded to extort
money from the old admiral. The admiral,
who held the position of naval governor
general of the maritime district of L'Ori-
ent, realized that If the letters containing
the uncomplimentary references toward
the minister were published he would lote,
not only his Office. but slso his prospects
of promotion. Nearly 500, 900 did he pay
to the gang. and 1t was not until he found
that he could pay no more that he decided
to ppesl to the police for assistance, and
not before he had made clean breast of
the affair to the minister of marine, who
was one of his old messmates and who took
the matter as great joke, being especi-
ally tickled at the idea that the admiral
had found 1t so expensive to refer to him
as an old fool.