Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-04

Klemm, and not to require the Bell or Edi
 son instruments.
 Everything has it's uses, and a Maryland farmer is said to be making money out of DO tato bugs Being opposed to the use oi Paris green he rigged up large washboilel in his field, and hiring six men collected the bugs and immersed them in boiling water. About two gallons were collected, and by ac- cident an old piece of sheep-skin leather, used for lining shoes, went into the mess.
 After the cooking had been going on for half an hour he was astonished to find that the
 leather had changed it's color to the richest
 dark crimson. This arousing his curiosity,
 he inserted other materials, and ascertained
 another peculiarity of the liquid. The mate
 rial placed in it changed first to adark brown,
 then greenish hue, then pure yellow, then light blue, changing to dark blue; then light
 red, terminating in the brilliant scarlet
 which was the permanent color. Conse-
 quence formation of 8 stock company to make dyeing mixtures from potato bugs
 Well-informed persons continue to assert that there can be no harmony between the regular Democrats and the Readjusters of
 Virginia A Washington correspondent of the New York Times writes Union seems as far away as ever The leaders of the two parties are said cordially to hate each other, and it is not believed that they can be brought together. The Readjusters fear that they would never again be able to maintain their o1 1ganization with it's present strength if they should now forget their distinct prin- cip1es and coalesce with their bitter enemies
 The straightouts think that close association with those who are so financially unclean as the Readjusters would endanger the health of their organization. These, being the weaker in numbers, are the more obstinate in their refusal to yield to the more powerful followers of Malone, who are conscious of their great numerical strength and cannot be expected to surrender to their comparatively insignificant opponents"
 Mir. Casilear, superis endent of engraving in the bureau of engraving and printing, and one of the most accomplished experts in the detection of counterfeit bank notes in the world, thinks that new design for national bank notes ought to be adopted. The old designs have been in use many years, and every denomination except the ones and one thousands has been counterfeited. And the fact that the design for any denomination of national bank notes is the same for all banks, with the exception of the name of the bank, renders the task of the counterfeiter compar- atively easy. After having made his plate he can throw out his notes as long as he finds advertised as counterfeit he can change the name of his bank and go on with his printing from the old plate. By device adopted at the bureau of engraving and. printing, new plates may be made with the charter num- bers of the respective national banks forming so conspicuous portion of the general de- sign that it would be easier to make new plate than to change the old one. AS eyi- dence of the perfection which the counter feiters sometimes attain, it may be said that an official of the Revere bank in Boston, upon receiving back from the Treasury de- pertinent a e-hundred dollar counterfeit of it's own notes wrote sharp letter criticising the Treasury practices, declaring that the bank was ready to receive all such notes, and that it's officers recognized the signatures upon the returned note as their own. Only two denominations of the greenbacks printed at the bureau of engraving and printing have ever been counterfeited, while all denomina- tions of those printed from plates made by private companies have been counterfeited.