The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-27

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 Fourteen state legislatures have al- ready pronounced in favor of eleoting United States senators by the people. Among the states thus committed are California, Oregon, Indiana, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Kansas, Idaho, West Virginia, Louisiana and Ohio.
 The Prussian minister of finance has found a very effective way of heading off popular movement for general pensions for the surviving soldiers of recent wars. He proposes that the money for such pensions be raised by increasing the income tax, and esti- mates that the required increase would be about 60 per cent.
 The Dominion Coal company can put coal on board vessels near its mines at a cost of sl per ton, including twelve and a half cents per ton royalty paid to the provincial government. With the tariff removed, Nova Scotia soft coal would take the place of southern coalthrough- out New England and probably in New York city, and some of the presidents friends would feel good.
 The portrait of himself which Henry Clay pronounced the best he had ever seen is to be found, singularly enough, in patchwork quilt which is now the show-piece of a Kentucky county fair. This remarkable quilt is very old and is valued at $1,OOO. The portrait orna- ments the center square, the others con- taining vivid examples of baskets of flowers, birds, animals, landscapes, etc.
 Dr. V. Harley, in the proceedings of the Royal Society of Great Britain, states as the results of experiments upon himself that sugar is proven to be muscle food. Seventeen and half ounces when fasting increased his work ing power from 61 to 7G per cent. On adding seven ounces to a small meal the total work done was increased from to 30 per cent. During eight hours, eight and three-quarter ounces increased his working power from 22 to 36 per cent.
 There are, according to the last cen. gus, considerably over 20, OOO, 900 widows in India; and, of all the sad and sor- rowful conditions of human life, that of nn Indian widow is most pitiable. The last Madras census report stated that every third Brahmin woman is a widow. In England, the proportion of widows to the total number of women is ' 1-2 per cent. But, ill India, it ap- proXimates, as we perceive, to 33 1-3 per cent. And the laws of enforced and penitential celibacy applies strict ly in all these cases.
 The Rev. W. P. Chalfant, who has been for eight years a missionary of the Presbyterian church ill Shang Tung province, North China, is now visiting friends in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He is well informed as to the condition of affairs in that part of the world, and he thinks that war is inevitable. "Rus. sia," he says, "has long desired to gob. ble np the Corean kingdom, so as te have seaports on the east open the year round, those she has now being closed by the ice in the winter. While Chins l. fighting Japan, Russia will jump in after Corea. This will drive Grea Britain into the fray. France will ther be obliged to join forces with Russia te protect her possessions in Tonkln Japan will not have to fight alone, a, Germany stands ready to help her."
 The Chicago Tribune tells a story that illustrates the senselessness of the sympathetic strike: Twenty-Five car. riage painters who had been working for c. P. Kimball & Go. of Chicago, ii says, ''struck in sympathy with the Pullman strikers, but they had not beer out of the factory an hour before twenty-five striking Pullman painterl had applied for their places and ob' tsined them, and are now probably Iympathizing with the union fellows who went out in obedience to the Debs- Bovereign-Howard combination in orde, to express sympathy with the Pullman men. The twenty-five men on the out side are boiling at the unsympathetic conduct of the twenty-five Pullman fellows on the inside and at the result def their clear waste of sympathy, They