The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-10

CT than a year ago. And yet the silver men are not entirely happy.
 "Pinafore' Gilbert writes to the Lon- don World that he considers he has "always been ridiculously over-paid for such work' as he has contributed to the amusement of his generation. We don't know how much he has been paid, but the sum would have to be large to be too much.
 Fifty years ago MT. and Mrs. Jar rett Haynes, who were the pioneers of Paducah, Kentucky, and each of whom is more than uinety years of age, plant ed walnut in the yard, from which sprung 8 tree. It grew to be a large tree, and a year. or two ago was cut down and sawed into timber. The lumber is now at the Haynes home, and is being saved to make the collins of the eccentric people when they die.
 In response to many letters of inquiry from men in all the parties of Penn- sylvania, Dr. Swallow, who boiled so large vote as the Prohibition candi- date for State treasurer, says that, while he wishes that the advocates of the overthrow of bossism might excuse him from further political burdens, he holds himself in readiness to accept any post of duty to which his fellow-citi- zens may assign him.
 An express driver in Chicago, who was locked up over night for driving his horse and delivery wagon in a fun- eral procession against the protesta- tions of the mourners, had an ingen- ious defence. He pleaded in the morn ing that his horse once belonged to an undertaken, and he could not overcome in the brute the influence of old asso- ciation It went with the judge and the man was discharged.
 Oxford university has freshman class of 725 this year. Of these only 300 come from the great public schools, Eton standing at AS, Winchester 30, Rug by, Charterhouse, Harrow and Mar borough over 20 each, and eleven other schools over 10 each. The rest come from small grammar schools, only twenty having been educated by pri- vate tutors There are only twenty students from the British colonies and few from American and German uni- versailles.
 I am not one of those, said Miss Jane Addams of Hull House at a recent woman suffrage meeting in Chicago, "who believes that, broadly speaking, women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads nor corrupted holy things that men have done, but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. I do not believe that great moral reforms would come as result of women getting the ballot as soon as the ardent adherents of suf- .frage believe"
 The Supreme court of Illinois has taken an important step in the way of raising the standard of admission to the legal profession. Candidates for hax ct,JE o,.e, Cnstead of two as heretofore) with a practicing attorney or at law school, school education. A study of legal ethics is also to be required. Among the leading eastern States Illinois has long been regarded as rather lax in it's requirements in this respect.
 The seedsmen are after the secretary of agriculture because of the free dis tribution of seeds. The practice has injured their business, and one firm of long and honorable standing is said to have been ruined by it. It appears that more than 2O,0OO.O00 packets of seeds were distributed by the depart ment last year, through members of congress, who had an average of 42, GOO packets to give away to their farming constituents. A few months ago. it was announced that Secretary Wilson was about to reform the seed business. and that hereafter only rare seeds would be bought by the department for distribution, but the advertisement in- viting bids for furnishing the govern ment with seeds, shows that, as for merly, only the commonest kinds oi vegetables are provided for, and the seedsmen complain,