Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-10

| AAOoAVA kI8V0ty 0uAOuucco baab U ukH U8>
 cured the exclusive collaboration of Will
 liam Shakespeare in the spirit world, ;" and
 the public Is warned that sllegei commun- ications from him appearing iu any other paper arc spurious.
 A queer Incident occurred the other night ct . church in Pomeroy, Ohio, during sprotrsoted meeting. The minis- ter had just finished residing the text of his sermon when, owing to breakdown in the electric plant, the lights went out and plunged the church in darkness. After psusing long enough to request the people to ait quietly in their seats, the reverend gentleman continued his sermon, making sn eloquent appeal to sinners to turn from their evil ways. At tho close of the ser mon, which lasted forty minutes, he drolIy remarked: 'I suppose my congregation is still here, 50 we will sing familiar song and be dismissed" Dr. John Murrsy's proposed expedition to the South Pole is attracting favorable attention in Europe. It is more than fifty years since James Ross.. after discovering Victoria, penetrated to rhe 18th degree south latitude; and since then, with the exception of tho Challenger, hardly ves-- gel has gone that way. The present pro- posal is indirectly due to the reports brought back by couple of Scotch whal- CTS which in 1891 went southward of Cape Horn in their search for fresh hunting grounds. Dr. Murray believes in the ex- istence at tho South Pole of continent ss large ss Australia, in which are to be studied the two great phenomena of glaci- ation and volcanic action. --
 The plan to remove the Southern Utes from their present fertile reservation in Colorado to an inaccessible and largely sterile tract of land in Utah, is being vigorously pushed in Washington by the Colorado lobby. Among the arguments showing that this removal is highly inex- pedient, and that the bill providing for 1t should be defeated, are these: The removal is in violation of the proposed policy of the government, which aims to settle Indians upon lands in severalty. The change will put the government to un- necessary expense in the erection of new agency buildings and possibly some mili- tary supervision. If the Utes can be moved from 6 good to 6 bad reservation under the pressure of demand for their land, the logical result will be similar re- movsl of other Indians, with the conse- quent destruction of the essential part of the work for their civilization. The true solution of this difficulty Is believed to be settlement of the Ute Indians at once upon lands in severalty on their present reservation.
 A report just iesued shows that during the last year fewer cases of suicide were recorded in the Prussian army than in any year since 1878. The report lays stress on the fact that suicides in general are of much more frequent occurrence in coun- tries with Germanio than in those with Siav or Romanie population. In Germany, which stands first on the list, there is e yearly average of 9 71 suicides to every 10000 of the population, wh le in France, Austris, England and Italy the averages are 1.s7, 1.63, .76 and .46 respectively. As regards suicides in the army, Austria comes first with 12 53 to eSsry 10 900 msn, followed by Germany witt 6.33, Italy with 4, France with 33 and England with 2.09. These figures are unfortunately not quite complete or up to date, some of the statis- tics falling for Bsvarls, Saxony and Wur- temberg. Equally incomplete are the re- suits of investigations as to the causes of suicide in the army, 1t having bsen found impraoticable to discover the reasons in one-third of the instances. AS far ss known, the fear of punishment for mis- conduct plays the chief part in driving soldiers to self destruction, and 1t is worthy of notice that twice as many non commis- stoned officers as privates fall by their own hand in the course of the year.