Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-09

The savings banks of New Hampshire now hold by foreclosure western real estate to the amount of q 085, ,73s.
 It Is said that horse can draw on metal rails one and two third times as much as on asphalt pavement, three and one-third times ss much ss on good Belgian blocks. Ave times as much as on good cobblestone, twenty times as much as on good earth road and forty times as much ss on sand.
 There is some profit in being an Indian. Thirty cubic feet of paper currency, the form in which the Cherokee Indians were paid of for their bonds, will shortly be handed over to the members of that tribe. This will give each man, woman and child little over $224 apiece, and reckoning the average family at five persons, such little circles will come into the possession of about $1, ,128 in every case. And the tribe has considerable land in its control still.
 There was scene the other day in the Terre Hsute- court in which jurors and spectators were moved to tears. James God.ey was on trial for forging his fathers name to an order for two hats. He de- clined counsel and spoke for himself. "My father raised me among thieves, gamblers and blacklegs. Before I could see over the top of pool table he put me on a box and taught me how to play. The only man who taught me how to cheat at cards was my father. Now that he goes back on me I stand here without a friend on earth. You may send me to the penitentisry, but I am not wholly responsible for what am"
 Emperor William deserves considerable credit for the reforms which he has inaug- urated In the German army in connection with the uniform and equipment of the men, whose comfort and welfare are now studied to much greater extent than ever before. The weight of the equipment has been reduced by some fifteen or twenty pounds, and the tight, stiff collar around the throat Las been superseded by loose and open one, allowing the man to move his head and neck without difficulty and to
 
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 Professor Huxley's views on Bible read ing, called out through discussion in the Londsy School Board, are these: Greatly to the surprise of my friends, have al- ways advocated the reading of the Bible, and the diffusion of the study of that most remarkable collection of books among the people. Its teachings are so infinitely su- perlor to those of the sects, who are just as busy now as the Pharisees were l 800 years ago in smothering them under "the precepts of men"; it Is so certain, to my mind, that the Bible contains within itself the refutation of nine tenths of the mix ture of sophistlcal metsphys sics and old world superstition which has been piled round it by the so called Christians of later times; it is so clear that the only i'm mediate and ready antidote to the poison which has been mixed with Christianity, to the intoxication and dslusion of man. kind, lies in copious draughts from the un- defiled spring, that exercise the right and duty of free judgment on the part of every man, mainly for the purpose of inducing other laymen to follow my example. If the New Testament is translated into Zulu by Protestant missionaries, it must be assumed that Zulu convert Is compe- tent to draw from its contents all the truths which 1t Is necessary for him to believe. I trust that I may, without i'm modesty, claim to be put on the same foot ing ss Zulu.
 There seem to be good reasons for the application of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture that $165, 900 be appropriated by the legislature for a continuation of the work of exterminating the gypsy moth. In 1889 the infected district in Massschu setts embraced territory two miles in length by two thirds of a mile in width. In two years the rsvages of the insect had extended over 220 square miles, including thirty cities and towns. Last year the in sect was exterminated in nine of the towns on the border of this immense district, the efforts of a special legislative committee being directed to preventing the spread of the moth. In the csntrsl section the in- sects are not believed to be az numerous ss they were three years ego. The beautiful Middlesex Fells, which have been taken for park purposes, are contained in the infect cd area, and there the work of the moths has been SO destructive that the foliage of the trees is likely to bs entirely destroyed l unless active measures are taken at once. | Professor Shaler of Harvard says that he would be willing to have his taxes In. creased 100 per cent. rather than see the work of the committee abandoned. Hs relates that In one section of Germany tho insect was 50 numerous at one time that the fire engines were called into service tt wash them from the trees and then e mas sive roller was used to crush them. I