Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-28

of five dollars worth of silver change, two or three coins will generally have been clipped, bored, or otherwise mutilated. The nuisance has grown so great that the Government has instructed its agents not to accept imperfect coin, which is an example that every one will do we'll to follow. In no other way can mu- tiated coin be driven out of circulation, and the operations of the petty swindlers who bore and clip the silver currency be checked.
 The Richmond (Va.) Despatch comes out in favor of the retention of the two-thirds rule in the Democratic National convention. It thinks it renders it next to impossible for a shrewd wire-working aspirant to control the action of the convention through large mi nority of the delegates, and also says: ''If justice were done, such States as Vermont, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and few others that never vote the Democratic ticket, would not be allowed to be represented in the Ma tional convention but inasmuch as there are always so many doubtful States which may or may not cast their votes for the Democratic candidate, it is in practice found necessary to allow all the States to be represented as per chance some favorable turn in the wheel of fortune might give the Democrats a State whose vote they had not counted upon. Al though the Republican States are thus allowed to be represented in the National convention, they cannot nominate candidate so long as. the two-t thirds rule is in operation.
 People who live in cities expect to find a great many things in their milk, but neither city or country consumers of milk will be pre- pared to find that fell disease consumption in 1t. Nevertheless several medical men of prominence, both here and in England, have lately maintained that tuberculosis is often innparted to human subjects by milk from dis eased COWS, and Prof. Otto Bollinger, of the Munich University, one of the highest author ities in Germany, has sustained their position in paper recently read in that city. He said that repeated experiments show that the milk of tuberculous beasts has a very decided con- tagious influence, and reproduces the disease in various anim als, and that it's noxious prop critics cannot be expelled even by boiling. While the tuberculosis of man is not con- pletely identical with that of the COW, it is very similar; hence, there is constant dan ger to any community where milk is freely used. The Professor enjoins upon farmers the necessity of taking the strictest care of their stock, and upon people generally the greatest care es to the quality of milk they use. Rigid measures should be adopted everywhere to exclude distempered cattle from dairies. This has been done in the as- sociated dairy established recently in Munich, and will have, it is believed, excellent hygi- enic effect. All COWS are there kept under the closest medical supervision, and at the slightest symptom of tuberculosis are imme- diately removed. It is estimated that nearly 10 per cent. of the COWS kept in towns more or less diseased. This information, fol- lowing so closely after Professor Johnaon's lecture on food adulterations, is not at ali cheering. Perhaps milk that is not milk is the safest after all.