The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-17

GAhhEII A. aOBANI, or New Jersey.
 The horseless carriage is no longer novelty in Paris, where there are about five hundred of them in use.
 William J. Bryan is the regular paid assistant attorney for the State of Ne braska of the Missouri Pacific railroad of which George J. Gould is president. Practice vs. theory.
 Tn 1874 the peso of Costa Rica was worth 9615 cents. Overproduction of silver depreciated its value until it is now worth but A cents Costa Rica finds depreciated currency damaging and proposes to go on a gold basis.
 The plans of the late Baron Hirsch to colonize Jews in Argentina will be carried out by his trustees, his widow having donated $2O,0OO, 900 for that pur- pose. It was his purpose to have them engage in agriculture and in the com mon mechanical trades, so that they might eventually thrive as do the French peasantry, but eventually all be land owners and independent
 The Indiana State board of health having set out,to put a stop to promis- cuous splitting in public places railroad cars and other conveyances, thus an- ticipates the effect of the publication of its official circular: "When the rule is first published in each county, and when posted in public places this board will, of course, be loudly abused as fool ish, impracticable and idiotic. Atten- tion then being gained we will publish in every county reasons for the ac- ton" The circular, by the way, after setting forth the dangers of contagion due to the spreading of disease germs by reckless expectoration, characterizes the habit as both nasty and unneces- sary, adding that women do not''
 A decision by the Supreme court of Minnesota develops the important opin- < ion as to seed-wheat notes that "sucil a note conveys no title to the wheat either qualified or absolute, in default of the notes payment, and the title of the maker of the note to the grain can < be decided only by proper legal pro- ceedings.' In the case in hand the plaintiff claimed that because he held the note the wheat was his, and for that reason only. His claim was up- held in the judgment appealed from. Tn the opinion of the Supreme court he should have asserted that he had lien on the wheat and brought proofs to that effect, without assuming that his ownership would be taken for granted because the seed-wheat note was in his favor.
 An Iowa man is thus quoted in the Washington Times: The grain crop ill Iowa is so large this year that the farmers are puzzled to know what to 7 do. The granaries and cribs of the State are filled with last years crop Those farmers who do not have to sell, and who want to wait until prices go up, don't know what to do to provide storage room for the crop they are now about to harvest. With oats sell ing at only or 10 cents a bushel at the present time, it is natural that they are averse to letting things go. I can re- member forty years ago, when the farmers built cribs of poles and lined them with straw. That is cheaper method than to let grain stand in the stack: but I doubt whether or not there are many farmers nowadays who are familiar with the construction of such pens.
 Hereditary drunkenness has been made a subject of special study by Pro lessor Pellmann, of Bonn University, his plan being to select individual drunkards of some generations ago, and trace out the careers of all their de- scendants to the present time. His latest subject of investigation has been Frau Ada Jurke. She was born in 1740, and was a drunkard, a thief and a tramp for forty years, dying in 1900. Local records have supplied the his tories of 7o9 of her S4S descendants. Ont of those traced, 106 were of illegiti- mate birth, 142 were beggars, GA others lived on charity, and 1S1 were women of disreputable living. The family has supplied 76 convicts, of whom were sentenced for murder. It is estimated that in seventy-five years this family has cost Germany at least s1,25O,0O0 in aInshouses. trial courts, prisons and