Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-08

l people of the United States. The latest l evidence to this effect Is the report of the savings banks of the country. which shows an increase of deposits over 1891 of nearly twenty four million dollars
 l Since the introduction of electricity on the street railroads in this country the in dustry of raising large horses in Canada Il. said to be disappearing because there is no demand for this kind of horses. The change has reduced the price of horses in Canada one-half and has depressed fnsn- cially many who are engaged in raising horses.
 There's a good deal in a pound of coal. For instance, if it is subjected to dry die tillation and the products and residual treated chemically by the processes for ob taining the we'll known cosl-tsr colors, the one pound thus treated will yield enough of magenta to color 800 yards of flannel, vermillion for 2, ,560 yards, surine for 120 | yards and alizarine sufficient for 155 yards | of red cloth.
 Edward Atkinson makes some interest
 
 the average American paid just s5.27 to- wards the support of the national govern ment,-that fig, assuming all the taxes and tariffs and exoises and everything else in the way of government revenue were raised off the American citizen. That is the first figure of the comparison. He also finds that the cost of the spirita, liquors, beer and wines consumed in this country in 1892 amounted to the sum of $16.2S per capita.
 l Wheat Is cheap enough now, but Will fam R. Grace thinks that the American farmer must find either new wheat lands by irrigation on an elaborate scale or spec isl modes of cultivation, or else the Ameri can people In the next century will be com pelled to import instead of export wheat But even if we should come to that, he looks forward to an immense agricultural development In the south and southwest, and so great demand for our corn abroad owing to the increased use of this nutri- tive food by foreign nations that the de- cline in wheat exports will be more than offset
 The Marquis of Queensbury has created considerable stir In England by his re- cent lectures on the marriage question. Many people have received the impression that he is strongly advocating polygsmy. He writes to the newspapers to say that this is @ mistake. "The question today" he says, 'is not whether we shall give mp monogamy, but how we are to make 1t a reality. What we have at present in this and in many other European countries Is often thinly disguised polygsmy and poly andry, deprived by that disug!se of all the humanizing influence that would Rsther round them if they wers tbs recognized relations of the sexes. It would be almost better to have an svowed polygsmy than this sham aud dishonest monogamy."
 The British steamer Bawnmore, which recently visited an American port, has a novelty aboard in the shape of Q stockless anchor. In fact, she has two of them, and they are hsuled up "chock-s block" to the hswseholes in & way to make sailor feel like kicking himself for all the risks he has run in the way of eating and fishing anchors in years gone by. The new anchor has no stock and no fukes It consists of heavy semi circular mass of metal fast ened directly to the chain and furnished with two attachments very similar to the old time Aukes, but twisted like the asugss of a screw propeller. The anchor can be | | t.r 1la and hoisted in less than half minute. It will take hold of the hardest bottom, and the anchors, stsrbosrd and port, will keep a ship in position in the worst weather.