Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-12

| fer foreigner to learn the Chinese language, or for Chinaman to teach it to him and l though the Nanking treaty was made in l 1842, when MT. John went to China, twenty 1 five years ago, there were only five places in the vast empire in which foreigner might 1 dwell. The great interior was still closed, as none might go further than could be 1 reached in twelve hours from treaty port. The whole empire is now open. Thirteen out of the eighteen provinces have been actually occupied by missionaries and their
 families, the gospel has been preached in
 nearly all the principal cities and towns, and the Bible and many forms of Christian lite- l rature are circulated everywhere.
 | correspondent of the London Tunes who has been investigating the Hughes induction
 balance at the Electric exhibition, Paris, thinks
 that with proper use it could have made no
 error in locating the bullet in President Gar fields body; and he relates the following in cident as confrmatory of the instruments trustworthiness Mir. Elisha Gray, whose
 name is well known in America in connec-
 ton with the telephone and the har-
 monic telegraph, was 8 disbelieyer in the
 utility of the induction balance surgical
 appliance. He said to Professor Hughes ::
 "Thirty years ago, when working at some
 metal work, a filing of iron entered my finger;
 the more I tried to extract it the deeper it
 went in. I believe it is still there; and if
 your instrument is of any value, you ought
 to be able to tell me in which finger it is. D
 The presence of bone or flesh in the coil of
 the balance would produce no effect; a metal
 or other conductor is necessary. Professor
 Hughes tested Mir. Gray's fingers none of
 them gave any sound until he came to the
 forefnger of the right hand, when the bal
 ance of the coils was quite destroyed and a
 noise was given out. This was the very
 finger in which the filing was buried thirty
 years ago.
 The Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin have issued an address. In it they have something interesting to say con- corning the Prohibition party, as follows: ''The evils of intemperance are no greater now than they have been at any time since the party was organized in 1854, the necessi- tv for prohibition is no more urgent On the contrary, it is believed that, in the last twen ty years, through the efforts in part of the temperance organization employing only moral agencies, and in part thro ugh the gen eral social progress made, there has been marked improvement in the habits of the people in respect to the immoderate use of drinks. Hence there was no reason why the last State convention should ! abandon the policy hitherto pursued on this ! subject, and practically convert the Republ- ! can party of Wisconsin, established for the l promotion of great national interests, into l local prohibitory liquor law organization It | will doubtless be urged that the Republican l convention was not asked expressly to ap l prove prohibition what it was asked to do | was to affirm that it is the duty of the Legis- ! lature to propose a prohibitory amendment. | The difference between direct approval and | the course proposed is merely the difference frank, manly and straightforward l conduct and cowardly attempt to reach the | same end by shuffiing and evasion. No Leg islature would be justified in proposing an | amendment which in it's own opinion would l be iniudlcious and mischievous if adopted 1 When it submits an amendment, by that very act it recommends it's adoption"