Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-06

the big money kings. The street beggsrs of Barcelona have entered into a solemn covenant to withdraw from circulation all the twocentims pieces which they receive from the charitable public, so as to compel their bensfactors to give them the coin next in value, viz, five oentimes.
 Queen Victoria is going to send e num- Der of paintings, 'done with her own bands, i" to the Chicago fair, some of which will come from the walls of the private dining room of Windsor castle. The plot ures will include 6 water color of her Indian secretary, one of her fayorite dog, and some Balmoral sketches. She will also send a saohet which she worked, also "with her own hands," from a piece of orspe. Princess Louise and Princess Beat rice will also send pictures, while Princess Christian will send some specimens of needle-work, in this case "executed with the most consummste skill and ingenuity"
 English society Is raising 6 national la- ment because men no longer dance. Hostesses have for a long time been st their wits end to secure partners for young women at balls and dancing parties. Now the situation is worse than ever and reme- dies are bsing eagerly sought. The sug- gestion is publicly discussed that dancing agency be established similar to such insti- tutions in Paris and Berlin. Hired guests, armed with guarantees of fitness and re- spectsbility, would appear at the proper hour, warranted to dance every number on the card and not give more than three dances to one young woman. Some such plan seems to be the only hope of saving the art of dancing in England.
 The idea has got about that the late Bishop Brooks left large property. The Boston Herald says he didn't, and sdds: If he had cared to make money, as many men do, he might have bsen 8 rich man, but he made money serve the largest purposes, and his distribution of such funds as came to him was so generous and extensive, and so marked by the largest courtesy, that at the time of his death he had hardly a suf- fcient income beyond his salary to support him in the simple and unpretending man ner in which he lived. Professor Agsssiz used to gay that he could not stop to make money, and Bishop Brooks had the same feeling. He was the richest man in this community in the wealth that makes for character, but It is his glory that he leaves slight funds to be distributed under the terms of his last will and testament. Who can gather up riches as he didl
 It appears that the new system In the employment of labor which the London dock directors were forced to adopt some time ago by the public pressure brought to bear upon them has had an effect directly opposite from that intended by the philsnthropists who are chiefly respon- sible for 1t. The point that excited the public sympathy was that numbers of men were always waiting at the dock gates for employment, and that, when forum ate enough to obtain 1t, the employment was frequently for a few hours only. It was pointed out by the dock authorities that such payment, small ss 1t was, was better than nothing and enabled numbers of men, who must otherwise have been driven, with their wives and fsmi- | lies, to seek parish relief, to tide over the winter. Sentiment, however, prevailed, and the companies were forced to abandon the system of tenn porary labor and to engage a large staff of permsr ent hands. For the men engaged the change, of course. has been most sstis, factory; but the effect upon the district in | general has bean disastrous. No longer can the unemployed keep the wolf from
 the door by earning few shillings & week
 by temporary work in the docks. The
 gates are closed to them, and the employ.
 ment, precautions ss it was, Is gone. It is
 calculated that eix thousand men, who
 formerly coutrived to support themselves,
 have been added to the great army of
 paupers.