The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-28

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 The Russian ministry of finance has decided upon establishing commercial agents in the states of central Asia and the extreme east where hitherto Rus sia's commercial interests have been represented by consuls
 The Methodist church in an Alabama town has laid a. tax of $10 a year on members who chew tobacco. There has been no difficulty in collecting it, and the revenue, which had been defi- cient, is notably improved.
 The arrest of a woman ill Hagers- band has caused some commotion among those advocating the restoration of the whipping post for wife beaters. They are waiting somewhat anxiously to see what effect 1t will have on the movement
 A New York magistrate has decided that youth who hired bicycle for an hour, kept it more than a week, and then did not return 1t, but was arrested while riding the machine, had not pre- sumptively attempted a larceny of the wheel He was liable only in suit for civil damages.
 The Indiana law requiring that prfs- On-naanufactured goods brought into the State for sale be conspicuously lab eled "convict made" has been declar- that the law interferes with the right of contract, discriminates against the goods of other States, and interferes with Interstate commerce.
 Brussels is this summer the seat of a. series of congresses with questions con- corning the laboring classes They will be held from July to the end of Sep IelHDST. lile lrSt, uelu dt lHc peSil- ming of the month, was on Sunday Rest" It is to be followed by others on Cheap Dwellings," on the "Acci- dents of Labor" and on the interna- tional protection of workers in mines and factories. The sixth international congress against alcoholism will also meet in Brussels at the end of August
 A scheme is on foot to establish a sanitarium at Castle Pinckney, in Charleston (South Carolina) harbor, for the benefit of infirm Union veterans. There is no sectionalism in the enter prise. which originated in Charleston, and is to be, if carried through, mena- orial to Major General Anderson, who, as Major Anderson, commanded Fort Sumter when the first gun of the Civil war was fired upon it. "The whole country, we are sure" says the Charles ton News and Courier, twill sympa- thize with a movement which has so much in it to touch the patriotic heart s At the next session of congress there should be no objection to the leg islation necessary to make it success "a grand triumph of peace.''
 Recently, says Dr. Rogers of the New York Life Insurance company, q had occasion to make some study of what happens among persons engaged in the manufacture of beer My cases included not only the workmen engag- ed in breweries, but also the proprietors of breweries. It is a curious fact that the mortality among the proprietors is about as high as among the workmen, showing that they are all given to copious lfbations. The mortality is strikingly low among brewers in early years. Up to forty or thereabouts brewers seem to be about as good risks as pretty much anybody else. After forty the mortality rises very high, and should say that at fifty-lve or sixty years of age about three brewers may be expected to die where one average person dies"
 Lieutenant Moss of the Twenty fourth infantry has just reached St. Louis with twenty soldiers after a nineteen-hundred- mile ride awheel iron, Fort Missoula, in the West. He says. and, it would seem, very properly: The trip has proved beyond peradventure my contention that the bicycle has a place in modern warfare. In every kind of weather, over all sorts of roads we averaged fifty miles day. At the end of the journey we are all in good physical condition. Seventeen tires and half a dozen frames is the sum of