Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-11
HAVEN, CONN, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY II, 1894

l appeared. In some cases examined the
 baoilH were found i've weeks after the :
 tisnt's recovery, but in most cases they
 disappeared within few days. Dr. Briggs
 recommends that all diphtheria patients in
 tensments, boarding houses and hotels
 should be kept isolated until bacteriologi-
 cal examination shows no traces of the dis ease germs.
 l The Easkwar of Baroda has proposed .
 new law for the purpose of stopping early
 marriages. Any five members of group of families possessing the rights of inter-
 marriage may call general meeting of
 the clan, three-fourths of them being
 necessary to form . quorum. Nins.six-
 tsenths of those present can say whether
 early marriage should be prevented or not,
 and penalties are prescribed for those who disobey the rule. Whoever deaires to live outside the law of his elan, however, can notify the Wahiwatdar to that effect, and
 receive lioense to do ss he pleases. Early
 marriages are made to include not only
 the marriages Of boys to girls, but slso of ebride of twenty-nine with . bride groom of fifty"
 It is Russis for the Russians. The use of any language but Russian in public. worship has been forbidden in the Cars dominiona. As an official expressed 1t:
 ''If you want to talk to God you must talk to Him in Russian" This is hard on Polieh Catholics, many of whom cannot speak Russian, and whose service calls for Latin in . number of places. Commands have been issued to break up all gatherings at which anything but Russian Is used, and an army of Csssacks has been detailed to enforce the law. At several places the Cossacks have violently entered Roman Catholic churches, broken up the services and driven out the priests and worship- pers under the lash or at the point of the bsyonss. At one place they killed the priest ct the altar and dozen of the peo. pie. At another, four priests and sixty five people were killed, and 50 were nearly score of the Cossacks, for general fight prevailed.
 One of the most peculiar wills ever filed for probate in Belgium is that of Mime. Meens. whose frst husband bore the name of Verhsegen. Mime. Meens died in Ant werp, where she lived in handsome pal ace in the Avenue des Arts few months ago. She left her estate to all the rslati yes up to the twelfth kinship, on both the fathers and mothers sides of her first husband. The only condition was that they should make their claims within Eix months. The news of the contents of the will created great interest in Belgium, where the name Verhaegen Is 8 common one. As the widow was reputsd to be | worth hundreds of millions, the ambitious relatives hsstened to file their claims. As a result the court is obliged to pass upon the alleged right of 14,554 heirs. The work of the court is enormous. The fami- | ly tree of one heir alone covers c spaes of | sixteen meters square. The poor people are doomed to disappointment, as the es- tate turned out to be worth only about l three millions. So many lawyers have been engage that their fees alone will swal- low up this amount. At . recent hearing of the case, one of the advocates grimly re- marked upon looking at the great number of his brethren: ''It seems as if Mime. Meens had left her property to all the ad- vooates of Belgium"
 There was lively debate in the German imperial diet the other day on the subject | of the old age insurance law of 1888, which | does not seem to be working 50 smoothly as was hoped. A number of members maintained that radical revision if not an absolute repeal of the law had been rem dered necessary by the cumbersome ma chinery and excessive cost of sdministra- tion, the stamp-sticking nuisance, the practical difficulty of storage room for such a vast accumulation of documents, the facilities for litigation, the "workmsn's black lists," for which the employed sus- pect the employers of using the employ ment cards, and the unfair distribution of l financial burdens. A Conservative mem- Der laid special stress upon the hardships 1t inflicted upon landowners. Dr. Sigl, the Bavarian Ultrsmonrans free lanes, de- nouneed 1t as an absolute and irremsdisble failure which in south Germany ct least had more than any other legislative blun- der brought grist to the Social Democratic mill. More moderate critics advocated the substitution of the voluntary principle for compulsion and of individual assessment for the present fixed scale of payments. Herr von Botticher, the secretary. of state for the imperial home office, admitted that the law was not fsultlsss. but claimed that, considering its experimental character, 1t had given widespread sstisfsction. The government, he said, was quite prepared to remove whatever blsmishes might be re.
 vsa,sd by the light of wider experience. but could never allow the principle of com pulsory insurance to be tempered with.