The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-06-18
TIMELY TOPICS.

There are several fourishing schools
In China conducted by American teach
ers, and through the translation depart
ment of the empire more than 5000 0
volumes of translated works in science.
art, etc have been sold. In the schools
of this country 100 Chinese youths are
receiving instruction.
The universal Lang guage OF tie future
life has been limited at by Professor
Gabriel Campbell, of the University Of
Minnesota, in an address on Philos-
ophy in America" He thinks it will
be music based upon some such prin-
ciple as that governing the mathemat
ical combination of sound and color.
The thoroughly agricultural charae-
ter of the people of India is apparent
from the figures showing the occupa-
tions of the adult male population ofthe
country. Out of total of 62, ,002, ,46l
persons Of this class not fewer than 37,-
3Y3, ,005 are engaged in the cultivation
of the soil. The lightness of the charges
upon agricultural land is worthy ofnote.
The government of India is practically
the landlord of the whole country, and
the land revenue is rent paid for the
use Of the soil. The average amount of
land revenue and local taxes paid by
the Indian cultivator is only sixty six
cents per acre.
A considerable steel-making indus
try exists in the present day in China,
on the Upper Yantze, whence the steel
is sent to Tien-tsin for shipment and
distribution. 1t fetches much higher
prices than the Swedish steel imported
into the country. The Chinese metal
lurgists recognize three kinds of steel,
namely, that which is produced by
adding unwrought iron while the mass
is subject to the action of fire; pure
iron, and many times subject to fire,
and native steel, which is produced in
the southwest. The different names
for steel are twan kang, or ball steel,
from its rounded form; kwan kang, or
sprinkled steel; wei tee, or false steel.
The Chinese, apparently, have known
how to manufacture steel from the very
earliest ages.
Moths are the dread of every careful
housekeeper. The use of camphor has
become common to prevent their raw
ages, and the experiment has been con-
tinued as effectual under observation.
An exchange, however, insists that
there is simple, cheap and easy plan
of defeating the moths that is effective
and inOffensive. The fly was
never born that could penetrate COM
mon newspaper. A wooden garment
wrapped carefully in a newspaper, SO
that there will be no openings, is as safe
from moths as if it were buried six feet
deep in camphor, tar-paper and petro-
leum. There are some newspapers that
even moth would avoid, and heLce
there may be something in this anti
moth expedient
A subject of real Importance in New
York, says the World of that city. also
has just been sharply brought before
tie public mind in England by the sui
eide in London of poor shop-girl
named Mary Williams, who killed her
self in a fit of nervous prostration an
despair caused by the incessant labor
ir11posed e sziil
| be ventilated in the house of commons
by the Early Closi ng association. As
shop-girls have no votes, there is no
probability that their wrongs or rights
will attract the politicians in this
country. But that only makes it the
more desirable that the disinterested
and public spirited of their own sex
should look into the subject and. see
whether the work exaeted of sbop-girls
in this great metropolis is not at least
as excessive as that exacted of them in
| Great Britain.