Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-11
NEW HAVEN CONN, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER IT, 1se
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 The Missouri court of appeals holds, in a
 decision just handed down, that when the purpose of the contracting parties is simply | to speculate on the difference between buy ing and selling prices a contract for the
 delivery of grain at a specified time in the future is Ca wager" violation of the
 statute against gambling, and null and void. It follows, of course, that any debt arising under such contract cannot be collected by process of law.
 A young woman of Minerva, Wisconsin, has sued the proprietor of q hair restorer for $75,O00 for spreading broadcast over the country two pictures of herself, pur- porting to represent her personal appear ance "before" and "after" using his rem edy. The likeness 1t seems WAS not at all fattering and the young woman thinks that the amount for which she sues the
 hair restorer man Is none too large to com
 pensate her for her injured reputation Professor Tyndalrs father was a shoe-
 maker in an Irish village and lived in very humble style, occupying rooms in the rear of his small shop, But like many old-time cobblers he had more than share of learn ing and was witty and sarcastic in argu- ment. His son was sent to the local gram mar school, and one of his old chums there was M. 0. Hennessy, now Rochester shoe manufacturer. He says that young Tyn- dall was an effeminate boy who gave little promise of living to be seventy three years of age.
 A bill to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors, which combines the features of high license and of the present dispensary law, has been introduced in the South Carolina legislature. It provides, among other things, that no license shall be granted for less than $500; that three men shall be appointed in each county to reQu- late the business; that there shall be no bars in prohibition counties; that the sales shall be In public place without screens; that all petitions for licenses must be signed by twelve citizens; that no licenses are to be issued for bars in hotel buildings, and that one-third of the voters of any place can call for an election upon the question of license or no license.
 A French inventor of some reputation has plausible scheme for the prevention of damage by tornadoes. He suggests that the Gulf towns might protect them selves from the fury of the terrible tenn pests they are called upon. occasionally to face by erecting tall towers, say, 120 feet high and 100 yards apart, along their southwestern outskirts, each tower to have 200 pounds of powder continually at the top, ready to be exploded at 8 moments notice. His theory Is that tornado is 1 much like wsterspout in its nature, and, as is we'll known, the latter is frequently
 dissipated by a well-directed cannon shot. In the case of the land storm all that is | necessary, he thinks, Is to explode 8 qusn- tity of powder in the midst of the tempest in order to calm 1t down instantly.
 Governor Lswelling of Kansas has just 1 sent circulars to the boards of police com | missioners of every city in Kansas, in which
 he virtually repudiates all the vagrant laws of the state and, so far as intention goes, ! renders them of no effect. He declares
 that these laws Care in fragrant violation l of constitutional prohibitions" and that | some police justices, in enforcing them,
 ''have usurped a sovereign's power, not permitted the highest functions of the state or of the nation, and victims of in- dustrial conditions have been psremptorily l ordered to leave town" He disapproves of the "rock pile and the bull psn," and exhorts the police authorities to "lst these twin relics of the departed suction-block era cease to disgrace the cities of Ksnsas" {" The governor winds up this circular by ex- pressing his confident expectation "thst
 their own regard for constitutional liberty and their humane impulses will induce police commissioners to carry out the spirit
 as well as the letter of the foregoing sug- gestions."