Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-15
that have dowry of millions. The con-
 trscting parties were to pay him oom- misaion -.

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 came up from Toledo. Ohio. where post office clerks were asked by letter received
 in the postollcs building to hand over part
 of their pay to the party managers.
 The Empersr of China is bound to be re-
 speotsd even if he has to chop somebody's head of to make himself respected. He
 has recently issued this order: After bring
 ing our saori6os recently to the highest
 being, ws heard upon our return to the palace, near the gate leading to the Inn perial quarters, 6 rather loud noise caused by talking. This shows that the people
 have not the proper regard for the majesty of the ruler, and also that the officers of
 the body-guard have failed to do their duty properly. The officers who were on post
 at the particular gate must be punished, therefore. by the Minister of War. In the future, however, all officers. high or low, must see that noise % improper shall not occur in our presence.
 Australia is decidedly perturbed over the emigration movement to Paraguay.
 The government of Paraguay has given nearly 600, 900 acres of good land for set-
 clement to Australian oolonists, or others of suitable standing in means and oharac- ter who join them, and there Is an expeo- tation that 10, 900 persons may settle on tho lands. All who go from old to new Australia are teetotalers and have a oon- siderable amount saved, and the loss of @ few thousand men of that stamp is 8 serious matter. South Australia has, therefore, passed village settlement sct, under which those who want to cultivate land are very favorsbly dealt with. Then comes the question whether the Australian land is as good as that in Paraguay, and it is not. But there are disadvantages there as we'll.
 The Boston School committee is discuss ing the advissbility of dIscarding sloping writing in the public schools in favor of vertical writing. The Boston Transcript says: If the children naturally learn to sit erect when using the vertical writing, and naturally get into very bad positions, straining the eyes and twisting the spine, when they use the sloping system, it goes without saying that the question of rels- tive merit is very easily decided. We un- derstand that Cambridge has discarded the doping system and advocates the use of the upright. To obtain 6 position in many of our public record offices, indeed We might say, in all of them, 1t is . prerequi- site that vertical writing be acquired. Let any person apply at the Registry of Deeds for g position as eopyist and show as 8 sample of hand writing the most beautiful sloping copper-plate hand, and he or she will bs immediately met with the remark, eve cannot use that style of handwriting on the books. You must write the up- right record hand" Why, then, do we not teach in our public schools something that can bs usedi
 It has often been suggested that the now familiar phonogrsph would make an sd- mirable adjunct to the telephone by enab- ling anyone to record message on It's re- ceipt, thus overcoming one of the few se- rious objections to the use of the telephone in important transactions. It would ap- pear that no practical effort has been made to carry out this idea, but in San Francieco the Telephone Exchange has hit upon an ingenious variation of 1t that yields excel lent reeults. Those who are accustomed to the use of the telephone know that some of their intsrlocutors will often worry the operator at ''central" by persistently call ing for a number that has been reported "busy." To relieve his foIcs from annoy anee of this nature, the manager at San Trancisco hss intercalsted some pLono- graphs into the switchboard arrangements in such way that after the first notifcs- lion of "busy," the man who insists on calling up simply gives himsslf the pleas ure of hearing photograph repeat the in timation over and over again until the number he wants Is actually free. It Is said that the plan is under consideration for other cities, with tho object of expedit- ing the work of the exchanges.
 The Anti-S Semitic influence in Austria is as powerful as 1t is unjust. A Hebrew non-commissioned officer, who had served eighteen years in the army, was refused one of the small posts reserved by law for soldiers of his rank who have served twelve years or longer. He solicited an audience of the emperor, and, having preved to him that his Jswish faith was the only thing against him, succeeded In obtaining the imperial signature to his petition. The doc- umsnt had to go to the War office, whence it came back with the answer, "The War department has no influence with other ministries, on which the mans employ ment depends" The applicant is still in the army, as he has no other means of live lihood, and the emperor's signature was not enough to override the official preju. dice. The constitution of 1867 declares that all subjects have equal rights. In Vienna the Jews form 10 per cent. of the population, and contribute to the taxes in at Least the game proportion, but there is not e single Hebrew in the service of the town. The petition of Q medical man to bs appointed assistant veterinary surgeon in the municipal service, post with q salary of about $250 year, was rejected by Dr. Prix, the late bursomaster, be- cause the applicant refused to abiure the Hebrew faith.