The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-11

Wild horses have become so numer- ous in northern Arizona that the attor- ney general has been asked if they may not be legally slaughtered.
 As many as four thousand children have met death in a single year in Aus tria by being crushed while sleeping with their parents. In order to prevent this a law has been enacted forbidding parents to take their children into bed with them.
 The Dingley bill is disappointing some because the deficit of revenues during the month of August was $14,56443 432 That Is, the new tariff law did not pro- duce revenue by that amount sufficient to pay the expenses of government. It is but fair to say, however, that this is doubtless largely due to excessive Importation and stocking up" just be- fore the expiration of the Wilson bill.
 One of the members of the Royal Society of British Artists is Bertram lilies, who lost both his arms by being run over by a street-car when he was eight years old He had previously evinced passion for painting, and af- ter losing his hands he learned to hold the pencil in his mouth In this way he gradually gained such skill that he was able to pass all examinations and win several prizes.
 work in the great wheat growing States of the West studying the meth ods and implements of American agri- culture with a view to introducing them in their own country. The result of this official inquiry will probably be a still larger use of American farm ma chinery in Russia, where it already en- joys high favor, and a consequent bene- fit to manufacturing enterprise in this country.
 Ten well-dressed men, clad in the Partisan regulation summer costumes. blue serge suits, tan shoes and wide straw hats, have been parading the boulevards of late stopping in front of the cafes, where they drew up in line, took off their hats and showed painted on their clean-shaven scalps the adver- tisement in big blue letters of cafe chantant They were arrested for evad- ing the law that requires posters and sandwich men to pay tax of 62 francs. but were discharged with the warning that unless each man affixed the nec- essary stamps to his skull he would be sent to prison.
 The Orange Judd Farmer of Chicago has been making inquiries in parts of the West, among bankers, mortgage companies and other sources of infor- nation, respecting the extent of liqui- dation in agricultural indebtedness. It feels supported in saying: While news paper stories have been somewhat ex- aggerated, it is an absolute fact that the western farmers financial condition is wonderfully improved During the past three years he practiced such econ- pmy that with a slight improvement in wheat prices last fall, and fairer values for cattle, sheep, hogs, the thrifty farm eyro 1u o111, ro1,1ooJ I,iS Ial,+e r good prices this fall, he is indeed pay ing off the mortgage, or, if 1t is contin- ued, it is at lower rate of interest and for the purpose of improving the farm or buying more land. The fall in the interest rate is quite as remarkable as the other features of the rising tide.
 The New York Times hits the mark when 1t says: Papers that believe in the economic theories of MT. Bryan and do what they can to further his political ambition have committed an error, alike of taste and of judgment by exploiting as something marvellous tllC cAClSy, Souio6C, ouu oy Hlpdtuy which he showed in aiding the passen- gers injured near Emporia. To put un- due emphasis on conduct confidently expected of all men in such circum- stances amounts almost to an expres. sion of surprise that in this particula, instance the expectation was not dis appointed, and, therefore, would not be either reasonable or decent, even ir those who opposed MT. Bryan mos bitterly in the recent campaign. 9th CTS than he, doubtless, did their bes to rescue the victims of accident, ant it has not been thought necessary sc much as to mention their names I questioned, MT. Bryan would say tha he and others did their duty as men That does not constitute an event s rare, happily, that it needs the bi type reserved for the phenomenal oc currences of life and nature.
 The increase of the shipbuilding ir