Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-15

several friends, he started the Improved
 Industrial Dwellings company, of which
 he is chairman. That company has spent l over a1, ,000, 900 in the erection of dwell- ings on forty Ave estates in London. The dividend paid ,is Q per cent. and the aver age rent of each room Is 50 cents.
 The population of New York is figured at 1, 500. 900, and the population of Brook lyn at s57, ,o0O, and yet Brooklyn pays s. S82, ,000 annually to support her public schools, while the metropolis expends only | &, ,4s0, 900. Brooklyn has an assessed val uatlon of $500, ,000, 900, while New York has q, 900, ,O00. .000. on her grand list. Brook lyn's debt is also comparatively small, being $47, ,000. 900 against New York's $100, GOO, : GOO. In departments 1t costs New York q, ,309 900 year to run her police system and q. 223, 900 to keep her fire department running, while Brooklyn spends only s. 027, ,000 on the former and q, ,260 900 on the latter. In area New York has forty one square miles and Brooklyn twenty six.
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 Although the Court of Austria is com monly known ss the most aristocratic in Europe, no monarch Is easier to reach than the Emperor Francis Joseph. He has cer- tain audience days, when any of his sub jects, high ss well as low, are permitted to call to discuss with him any affairs which they chooss. At the last reception of this kind an old peasant, who wished to secure the intervention of his majesty In 6 law suit, appeared at the HofbuIg with little pig one month old in his arms. As she entered the palace, the master of ceremonies told her she must leave the pig behind. She insisted upon carrying 1t, however, saying that 1t was a present for her ''good emperor" It was with great difficulty that the equealing animal was taken from her arms. The woman had her interview, but was obliged, much to Der sorrow, to carry the pig back to her home. She could not understand why his majesty would not ac- cept presents of that kind from his sub. jscts,
 The general nervousness caused in Eu- rope by the recent bomb outrsges to Illus. trated by the proceedings of the house committee of the Austrian Reichsrath, who have been in consultation ss to the best means of defending themfelvss and their fellow-legislators from the militant anarchists. Among other devices which they examined was an electric apparatus, invented by Vienna engineer, to give an alarm the instant the shock produced by bomb is felt in any corner of the house. The object is to enable the servants to close all the exits of the building without loss of time, SO as to prevent the escape of the culprit. Another project that was considered was the proposal to cover the walls of several courts inside the building with large netting of strong wire, like torpedo nets, to break the force of an explosion of bombs thrown into the courts. For e moment, however, the sole measures adopted are the closing of number of entrance doors and stsircsses, and the issuing of special passes for tie members, officers and servants of the two houses and the representatives of the press, and finally the transformation Of the la-Gs rsception-room of ths members. which Is considered too near to the two houses, into 6 members dining-room, and the conysrsion of e small room close to the postofice in the house into reeep- ton room.