Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-14
z MORNING. AUGUST l4. 1880.
to abandon the solid South to the Democratic party, our prospects as nation are gloomy"

Those of our readers who are eagerly wait ing for a month with 'tR'' in 1t will be glad to know why they prefer raw oysters to cooked ones, if they do. Dr. William Rob- erts of London tells why, as follows: ''The fawn-colored mass which constitutes the little less than heap of glycogen. Associa- ted with the glycogen, but withheld from actual contact with it during life, is it's ap- propriate digestive ferment-the hepatic diastase. The mere crushing of the dainty between the teeth brings these two bodies to- gether, and the glycogen is at once digested, without other help, by it's own dias- tase. The oyster in the uncooked state, or merely warmed, is, in fact, provision is wholly lost by cooking; for the heat employed immediately destroys the sociated ferment, and a cooked oyster has to be digested, like any other food, by the eat CTS own digestive powers" We are pleased to be able to add to this the fact that glycogen is isomeric with starch.
 Dr. Cutting, the State geologist of Yer mont, has concluded his unique series of tests of the fre-resisting qualities of build ing stones, and he declares, in substance, that no known natural stone deserves the name fire-proof. Conglomerates and slates have mo capability'' of standing heat; gram ite is injured beyond cheap or easy repair by even so mild heat as that which melts lead j; sand-stones, including the variety commonly called brown-stone are better, and lime stones and marbles are perhaps the best in this respect But even they are injured by continuous heat of 9OO0, and at 1,2O00 are changed into quicklime. Therefore it would seem that no stone buildings are fre-proof, and some of them, Dr. Cutting even says, are as much damaged by fire wooden struc- lures are. Brick, on the contrary, is usually uniniured, and is often rather improved by heat until it is melted. But as most brick buildings are trimmed with iron or stone, the damage is often considerable, even when the walls stand To avoid this, Dr. Cutting recommends soap-stone trimmings, which are open only to the objection of expense. But although brick stands heat so well, it is objectionable because it's power to resist pressure, without crumbling from dampness or frost, is less than that of stone Never theless, as brick is in fact only kind of ar tificial stone, the search for an ideal building material is not hopeless, but it must be pros ecuted rather by the maker than by the quar- Tier of stone.
 Earl Stanhope has been asking the Canter- bury (England) Diocesan Conference whether or not any steps can be taken to meet the tendency in the laboring classes to fall away from public worship. It would be well, he said to consider, first, whether it was due to idleness or to an actual distaste for the Church service that the working classes to great extent absented themselves from church. He feared that both causes were at work. Due allowance must be made for the workingman's inclination to rest on Sunday, and this inclination might be and was greatly abused, until the whole day was often passed in idleness. The working classes, too, were subject to many varied in- fuences now. There were cheap newspapers, popular orators and railway excursions. Re ferring to the danger that amid these many exciting incidents of the workingman's life in the present day, the old familiar words and forms of the service might seem dull and tame to him, the speaker suggested that this should be met, not by altering the services, but by adapting them to @ certain extent, by shortening them if necessary, by appointing convenient hours for them, and particularly by considering the special needs of half educated minds. In conclusion, he advised, among other things, that at the afternoon or evening service all seats should be free, and that we'll organized parish committees should be formed to administer charities so as to avoid any appearance of sectarian favor itism