Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-09

to over eighteen hours on week days and from seven to nine on Sundays, with one Sunday of in each month. The barmaid's hours are longer than thoss of the laun- dress, but the hard work of the lattsr makes the strain greater.
 The Boston Journal feels moved to say: "sins come home to roost. But when one reads that Harvard University, with an an- nual income of about million dollars, is compelled from passed dividends and d. unfinished financial resources to dismiss six of It's professors, and remembers President Eliot going to Democratic meeting to ex- hort young men to join the Democratic party one is tempted to exclaim: Great Is political wisdom and President Elliot is its high priest and spostle.'"
 The recent French experiment upon fifty persons of both sexes, in which . machine for compression as test of strength was used, demonstrated that the strongest man was able to produce with hia right hand e pressure equivalent to s5 kilograms, the weakest 40, the average being 56. One curious conclusion arrived at ss result of the experiment. was this: The short men were all very nearly ss strong as the tall ones, the average difference between groups of the two sizss being only three kilo- grams. The force of the strongest woman of the fifty amounted to only forty-four kilograms and that of the weakest to only 16, while the average was only 33 kilo- grams.
 Congressman Davis, a Kansas populist, is trying to please his constituents by ad- vocsting the passage of g bill he has pre- pared, which provides that upon all es- tstes in excess of market value of e, ,0O0,- GOO tax of per cent. be levied, and that upon estates between g. .O00, 900 and $3,- GOO, ,O00 in value the tax be 8 per cent. Estates ranging from $5,OOO. 900 to $1e,- GOO, 900 are to subjected to tax of per cent, and those above $10, ,000. 900 must pay IS per cent. The proceeds of the tax are to be distributed among the States. and are to be used in paying soldiers the diff ference bet ween the greenbscks they were paid in and gold, with interest, from 1866; in building canals and in improving coun- ty roads and in maintaining a national guard.
 According to the Goths Almanac, which has just bs sa Issued for 1894, the Queen of England has reigned longer than any other ruler In the world, having ascended the throne in 1887. Next to her in point of time are Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, and Frederick, the Grand Duke of Baden. The monarchs who have reigned the shortest time are Prince Friedrich of Waldeck, and Duke Alfred of Saxe- Coburg- Gotha. The oldest monarch, according to the almanac, is the Pope, who Is more than eighty-three years of age. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the King of Denmark, respectively seventy-siI and seventy five years old, stand next to him in this regard. The Grand Duke Karl Alexander, who lives in Weimar, is fourth in point of age, and Queen Victoria, with her seventy four years, is the fifth oldest monarch. The youngest crowned heads are the little Queen of the Netherlands, who is thirteen, and the King of Spain, who is seven and one-hslf years old.
 It Is five years since the Hungarian gov ernment decided to apply the "zons" sys- tenn to its railroads. Taking Budapest as the central point, e circle of fifteen miles radius was drawn about it; beyond that another circle was described with twenty four miles radius, and 90 on up to eleven circles. The twelfth and thirteenth circles each include "zone" of fifteen miles, and all the rest of the country made the four teenth "zone" At the same time, fares were reduced, on an average, 50 per cent. A person wishing to go anywhere within the first zone, fifteen miles from Budspes, or less, pays twenty cents frst-olass, six teen cents second, and ten cents third This rate Is doubled for the second zone anywhere within twenty four miles, tripleo for the third, and go on to the end. The result is now published. It shows an in
 crease ot passengers, upon the whole, to the amount of 2l6 per cent, and of recsipt'
 to the amount of 40 per cent. These re
 turns exceed the most ssnguins sxpeots tlons. Now that the experiment has turn ed out so proftsbly the directors of pri vate railway corporations in other ooun
 tries may feel disposed 10 initiate 1t. Il this instance, at least, 1t seems clear ths
 both the public and the state treasury hay
 been benefited greatly.