The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-01

several wives.
 It is said that Senator Roger Q. Mills oil wells on his Texas farm are now bringing him a profit of about $100 a day. He is evidently on the high road to wealth, for the oil fields there are developing constantly and increas- ing their product.
 In his "Collections and Recollections'' MT. Russell gives two Irish bulls which are prize specimens of their class. This by T. Healy: "As long as the voice of Irish suffering is dumb, the ear of Eng fish compassion is deaf to it.'' And this from the Irish Times: "The key of the Irish difficulty is not to be found in the empty pocket of the landlord"
 Russia's women criminals are for the most part peasants who have murdered their husbands. The prevalence of the crime is believed to be due to the cus- tom of marrying off girls long before the age of puberty. To this is also as- cribed the excessive number of deaths among very young children, the mortal ity under one year of age in Russia be- ing 27 per cent, whereas the European average is IS per cent.
 n 1nrn yxroy n A young Missourian writes home this bitter complaint: Many times have the seen captains, lieutenants sergeants, and corporals step up to men to whose back gates they have driven the gro- cery wagon and for whom they have done every kind of service, from selling dry goods down to the most meniaI la bor, and in a very naughty and insult ing manner say: rPrivte Smith or Jones (as the case may be) I detail you to clean up my quarters or dig me a sink Or brush my clothes,' Or wash my clothes 2
 Switzerland is noted for it's high schools, which are much frequented by foreigners, especially the English. But in regard to common schools there is a great difference between the Cantons. In Basel, Zurich and Geneva teachers receive salary of $500 to $500 a year, whereas in Wallis, Frieburg, and Tes- sin there are not a few who get only $tno and whose services are hardly worth more. The Canton of Aargau has just passed a law making the pay the equal for men and women teachers, the minimum being $2sO, with an addi- ton of $40 a year, up to $6O.
 Some of our English cousins are he- roes too. In the course of the Afridi campaign lieutenant named Ford was dangerously wounded in the shoulder and was bleeding to death, the bullet having cut the main artery, when Sur- geont Lieutenant Hugo came to his l'NAt t@hA lights to be used to examine the wound and there was no cover; nevertheless, the surgeon struck a match and exam ined the wound. The match went out amid a splutter of bullets, which knock ed LID the dust all round, but by it's uncertain light he saw the nature of the injury, and seized the bleeding artery, and, as no ligature was available, he remained for three hours under fire holding the vessel between his finger and thumb. When at length it seemed that the enemy had broken into camp, he picked up the officer, who was un- conscious from loss of blood, and bore him into a place of safety without re- laxing his hold of the artery. For this magnificent act of heroism the surgeon has received the decoration of the Distinguished Service Order.
 An interesting Illustration of how ma ture accommodates herself to circum' stances is related by a resident of ths arid section in the western part of Tex as. It was in connection with an ex- pertinent in coaxing plum-trees to grow In a portion of this arid region near Al nine a stream of water runs from thirty to forty feet below the surface, too fal for the roots of trees to reach it, ant