Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-03
enumerators, and similar result was ob. tained in St. Louis.

l enum orators, and similar result was ob
 tained in St. Louis.
 ! The bright Hartford correspondent of tn
 Springfield Sunday Republican thinks tha ! eye-sight in Connecticut isn't what it ono
 was, and that no man can be trusted to keel
 his eye on the senatorship who cannot matcl worsted. He also says: "We are now hay
 ing our railroad employees examined for color
 blindness, and they are sorting yarns ant
 worsteds, guessing how many fingers ar
 snapped up in front of them, trying to se
 objects balanced on top of their heads, learn
 ing to peek through key-holes, and otherwis
 going over the various interesting games tha
 make up two dollars worth of amusement
 The result is that some frst-rate engineers
 who have seen danger signals often and often
 who have run trains safely for many years
 and whose only occupation is driving engines
 will be turned off, There must be a goot
 deal of nonsense about the thing or else ther' l would have been trouble before this, sine, I the cause is not new. Possibly before the1 finish our railroad commissioners will aban don the derailing theory of the Tarifvill crash and decide that that was due to fail
 ure to match ribbons or else timbers cer
 tainly to some oversight for which somebody eyes should be examined"
 Three Cabinet Ministers of the Dominion of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sn
 Charles Tupper and Mir. Pope, arrived ir
 London ten days ago to meet syndicate tc
 arrange the terms upon which 8 capital o1
 e20, GOO, 900 can be raised for the purpose o1 | constructing the Canada Pacific railroad The consideration offered to investors in 8 proposed company is fifty million acres ot | land but the value of this land is de- pendent upon the completion of the railroad | it follows that English capitalists are scarce \ ly likely to purchase stock without Govern ment guarantee either from the Imperial or 1 the Dominion Executive. Such a guarantee 1 would necessarily be real, and would involve 1 the payment of interest amounting to at least ] $3, GOO, 900 year. This is not likely to be 1 met by the Imperial exchequer. and it must l therefore devolve upon the Dominion. The ! Echo thinks that with a population of only \ about 4 ,O0O 900 this would be a most serious ! burden. The Canada Pacific railroad has al 1 ready proved 8 disastrous conception to g 1 former Conservative, Government under Sil 1 John A. Macdonald; and it might again i'm, 1 peril his administration, and no less, his rep. 1 utation, if, under the influence of financiers whose interest lies in floating gigantic con- pany, and under an undue desire to render 1 his name illustrious by doing some great 1 thing. he should allow his mind to be divert ! ed from the true welfare and the solid pros I perity of the sparse population whose chief | administrator he has the privilege to be. Professor Riley, the eminent entomologist, | talks very encouragingly to southern planters of their ability to vanquish the destructive cotton worms by means of poison and at a comparatively trifing expense. He advocates \ the use of London purple, refuse material obtained in the manufacture of aniline dyes, and the cost of which is trif1ing in compari- son with Paris green. This material he says ought not to cost the planters more than ten l cents pound, and half pound is sufficient I for acre of cotton plants. The professor | tells the planters, who have been in the habit \ of regarding the worm as a necessary and ] incurable evil, that they have it in their pow l CT at a triding cost to prevent serious de- I struction to the crop. Professor Riley urged | the importance of having the materials in readiness beforehand. Similar conditions 1 cause simultaneous development of the worm 1 over large areas, and a sudden general de- I mand for poisons, which forthwith go up in price and are often unobtainable just when a l delay of two or three days may mean ruin.
 He spoke most hopefully of pyrethrum, as it was dangerless and effectual. He expressed ! the conviction that as 8 result of the commis- sions work, the planter will very soon be himself producing at nominal and trifing cost safe antidote that will take the place 1 of arsenical poisons, and he expects to test l and perfect a simple contrivance that will | throw the antidote on the lower side of the I leaves of ten to fifteen rows at once, killing l the young caterpillars and the young boil 1 worms and lodging the material where it can | not be washed away with every rain
 1 The Court of Appeal of the English Divorce 1 Court lately affirmed the judgment of the 1 court below in 0 very remarkable case. The petitioner was committee of the estate of ! William Baker, 1unatic, and he prayed the | dissolution of Bakers marriage, on the | ground of his wife's adultery. Against the ] prayer of Bakers committee it was urged | that the husband, if he recovered his senses, ! might condone her offense, and the judge l observed anent this that the possibility of a I husband pardoning his wife is not to be re- 1 garded remote, but is, in fact, as the rec \ ords of his court show, fact of every day ! occurrence. But, on the other hand, great | wrong might accrue by denying proceedings against the adu1terous wife of lunatic since she might be left ill possession of property settled on her by her husband which she and her paramour might enjoy, to the exclusion I of the lunatic She might exercise power of appointment in favor of the paramour, or the children of her and his adultery, or a spurious offspring might be foisted upon her husband and his family, by which the devo- lution of estates or titles might be diverted in aid of illegitimate objects. But the con- sideration which pressed most upon the court against giving the relief sought was this If Q person holding Gas Roman Catho- lies dol the dissolution of marriage to be unlawful in the sight of God should have the misfortune to become insane, his committee might, from some question of money, obtain
 a decree absolving his marriage. But this and all other considerations he held to be
 overpowered by the decision of the House of Lords in the Mordaunt case, which amounted to this-that as proceedings for divorce are civil, recourse must be had in such case to the ordinary forms of civil courts, where lu-
 natics are litigants, albeit no provision for the case of lunatics is contained in the act.
 His decision was, therefore, that the insanity
 of a husband or wife is not bar to suit by
 the committee for the dissolution of luna
 tics marriage
 IDLE AND LABORIOUs WORDS.
 A1oTHER-IS-LAw.
 He stood on his head by the wild seashore,
 And danced on his hands jig;
 In all his emotions, as never before,
 A wildly hilarious grig.