The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-30


 in the senate chamber. The complaint appears 10 be reasonable.
 AlCnicago young man has been fined twenty-five dollars for ''sassins" girl on bicycle. And yet they call--Chica- go a hosbcd of anarchy.
 The times are always hard in India, aud yet this year India has 27,000,O ,O00 acres ip rice, ls,000, 900 in wheat, 75,- OOO, 900 in other food grains, 1.GoO, 900 in sugar cane, 25l, 900 in tea, 10, GOO, 0O0 in cotton, l,O0O,0OO in indigo, 300, 900 in tobacco.
 The first experiment. in introducing shad on the Pacific coast was made less than twenty years ago, and ten years ago there were no sh,Id fisheries, on that coast. The work of propagation WAS continued and the fisheries have now become well established. The figures show that in 1892 the shad taken ill Cal fornia numbered 526, ASA, being five times as many as in Connecticut and al most as many as in South Carolina. The take in the Columbia River the same year was 212, $50. It is thought this fishery will still increase.
 A curious temperance society exists in the Siberian village of Ashlyka. Every year ill September the members meet in the church and make a solemn promise to abstain from wine and spirits for a whole year. They also sign nn agreement that any person breaking the pledge shall pay fine of 25 rubles to the church and submit to be spat upon by his more continent fel- lows. The most peculiar feature of the whole business, however, is that the members on the one day of the year when the pledge expires allow them- selves wine and brandy during the few hours which intervene before the pledge for the ensuing year is made.
 In London county, Virginia is one of the largest fruit farms in the country. It contains 6O, vines, 45,OOO peach trees; 5000 quince and pear trees, and several hundred English walnut and Italian chestnut trees. The enterprise began as the experiment. of two brothers ury1o 1,n1y nAa1 hot ginia country was admirably suited to the growing of fruits. They first bought 300 acres of land on Loudoun Heights and the first season planted peach orchard. This was in 1887. Since that time they have increased their holdings steadily, and their fruit farm promises to rival the largest ranch on the Pacific coast.
 Some people ill New Haven could learn something from what has hap- pened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Mayor Bancroft who recently made feeble effort to stop the sale of soda water and the delivery of ice cream on Sunday, has finally dropped the prosecutions. Tho effort to suppress Sunday soda was made at the request of number of olergymen who passed reso. lutions upon the subject. Several prose. outions were undertaken under an old statute, but public sentiment did no, sustain such petty business, and the mayor waS glad to desist. The druggists +hsd a ris.!. keep their stores oper under Il, ,;" nt 1887, and 1t was ditti, cult to prove that they sold anythins but medicine and surgeons appliances No one WAS disposed to play the spy or the soda water fountains. An attemp1 to prosecute a caterer for delivering ict orssm on Sunday fell flat, as the iudg, before whom the case was brought found no law to sustain the arrest.
 The Soctalistic Kingdom pertinently calls for missionaries to the upper classes. IL says: Humanitarian, abound on all sides who are devoted te the problems of the lower classes Missionaries are sent to them, and the continued cry from press and the pull. pit is, What can be done for the poor Why does notsome philanthropist, some John Howard or Florence Nightingale, ssrt movement to help the submerged nillionaires They have been ne- gleoted, the upper classes have been neglected, till they have been well-nigh wronged out of life. If we see horse Ovsr-driven, we are moved to pity. If 3 poor man is crushed in a mill and maimed foraife, we are deeply distressed < about it. But here are our brethren. the rich that are submerged in luxury. slaves of social conventionalities, seri- pusly isolated from the great life of hu,