The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-13

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 The republic has not been entirely ungratefuL The report just issued by the auditor of the interior department makes the total expended for pensions since 1865 aggregate $2,14S, ,15S,os5.
 Baltimore, Vermont, is not "a boom town" Something over 100 years ago the place had 276 inhabitants and now there are but 59. There is record Of no crime committed within the town linn its; no policeman has ever patrolled beat. and it has been over 20 years since there was wedding, and that event created great excitement.
 The Women's Vegetarian union Of London is consistent. If it is wrong to kill animals for food, the members argue, it Is equally wrong to kill them to provide material from which to make clothes, and so they demand that vege- table boots, vegetable gloves, vegetable gowns, and even vegetable note paper shall be provided, to the end that the kid, the calf and the sheep shall N J az +1,1sr 4x,H apy do 1t.
 Prussia's military chest of 0,000,0 900 marks in gold, kept in the Julius Tower of the Spandau fortress, has just been counted. It is stored in thousand iron boxes, each containing twelve conpart- ments, holding bags with 10000 marks in each. The sum is not as important as it once was, for it would be used up in the first few days of mobilization, and the hoarding of the coin entails a loss of four million marks year in in- terest to the State.
 The Postoffice department has done always what it could for morality. Now the postmaster general has issued an order forbidding minors from using call and lock boxes without the writ ten consent of parents or guardians. The order has been issued because the Postoffice department has learned that young girls and boys have made a habit of using such boxes to carry on correspondence not authorized by their parents and that in some cases harm has come to minors through such corre- spondence.
 A Russian official says that work is soon to be begun in earnest on the great canal to connect the Baltic and the Black Seas, between which there is already an imperfect communication by the head-waters of the Volga. The canal will cost about $55, 900 ,O00 and will be 1,110 miles long and twenty-seven feet deep and will admit of the passage of the largest iron clad. It will also carry steamers laden with wheat to the ocean The government and the dis tricts through which 1t passes will build this great waterway.
 Queen Victoria has just issued a noti- ficAtion in the London Official Gazette to the effect that in future the chill dren of what are known as life peers shall have the right of prefixing the word Honorable" to their Christian name, just as if they were the chil- dren of ordinary peers. There are sev- eral life peers in the house of lords, generally legal luminaries, whose title dies with them and is not inherited by their sons This system of life peer ages was instituted for the purpose of permitting the crown to strengthen the judicial element of the house of lords, which, in addition to its legislative functions, is the supreme court of ap- peal of the empire. These life peers are mostly judges in receipt of large sal
 
 stitute the indispensable endowment of hereditary peerage. Until now the children of these life peers have occu- pied an anomalous position, and have had no place in the official table of precedence. Henceforth they will fol- low immediately after the children of barons, and will precede baronets.
 Boston is so highly civilized that a complaint of too many foxes in sec tions within a few miles of Boston is rather surprising. It is, nevertheless, true that in the Middlesex Fells and the Blue Hills reservations the number of foxes is plaguing the Park commits sioners. A few foxes are not obiection- able, but their rapid increase is fatal to the desired increase in the number of ruff1ed grouse, quail and other ground birds. The foxes have no nat ural enemies, and it is puzzling ques- ton how to lessen their number Hunt