Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-27


 his lawyer proved that the money was na and the thief was acquitted in the United States District Court. It was a small hole, but big enough to crawl out of.
 The question is frequently asked nova days, What is the Star mail service? The Washington Republican, one of whose own CTS is MT. Brady, whose name figures so un- pleasantly in the newspapers in connection with the ttStar'' contracts defines them as follows: Star service took it's name from the practice in the Postofics department of designating the three words, certainty, celer- ity and security, by three stars, as thus, < * It refers to that kind of mail service performed by other means than railway or steamboat, such as on horseback, by stage coach, horse and buggy, on foot, or in any other way permitted by regulation"
 The American Meteorological Society pro poses to divide the sixty degrees of space be- tween Newfoundland and Oregon into four equal parts and establish separate standard time for each. As the sixty degrees equal four hours, the difference in time between each division and the adjoining one would be exactly an hour. The continent would be laid out in four parallel strips, running north and south, each fifteen degrees wide, in each of which the standard time would be based on it's own meridian. The idea is to obviate the present inconvenience of having about seventy standard times used by railroads scattered through the country. Railroad experts, however, say that such system would prove great inconvenience on the trunk lines, since trains could not be run, as now, continuously by time taken at one end or the other of the line.
 In the recent watch competition at Mel bourne American watches made an excellent showing. The particulars of the trial show that Swiss watches excel in point of accura- cy, the American in point of finish and gen. eral appearance. Thus, out of possible 800 points for good going, the Locle time keeper that gained the first prize won 800; for finish, &c., it got 4O3 while the Ameri- can, which came in second, was assigned 4sO marks for good going and 445 for finish. In the matter of accuracy, 6 watch by MT. Kirkpatrick, of London, came next after the Locle watch, with 495 marks, and considera- bly, before it's best American competitor, which had only 43O; but as touching finish it was the last but one in list of eight, gain ing no more than BIO marks out of a possible 500. It would therefore seem that in the matter of good tine-kseping English horolo- Lor- 4ol laor I>,A, a,,Se are behind both their American and Swiss competitors.
 They have a rather unique temperance movement at Berwick, Pa, where the presi- dent of the Jackson & Woodin manufactur- ing company, which employs l, 100 men in its car shops and rolling mills, has met the hotel and saloon keepers, and agreed to pay them the amount they would derive as on condition that they will not apply for licenses, and will abstain from the sale of liquor. The agreement was confirmed, and the Berwick hotels and saloons will be run on temperance prin- ciples for year. The cost of this temper ance movement to the manufacturing com- pany is about $G,OOO, but it is believed that they will save more than that in the steadi- ness of their men and the law-abiding char acter of the town. The company has orders ahead for year and expects to do 8 business of $4, ,O00. .0OO, and the $6,O0O paid for ex- emption from drunkenness is regarded as very cheap insurance against the interruption of their work.
 The heroines of Nihilism, according to the Figaro are mostly daughters of poor army officers, or petty civil officers, or even of who, feeling the influence of modern times, are anxious to rise above the level of their parents, coarse, ignorant people in the main. Either by their own talents or by the aid of influential patrons, the girls gain scholarships and enter some high school where their brains are crammed with hete- mass of knowledge. At nineteen they leave, and in their turn become teach ers Finding their parents uncompaniona- ble, they abandon home for some wretched lodging. where they eks out miserable e1- stence by giving poorly paid lessons. Food is scarce, the feminine pleasures of dress are impossible, the restraining power of family affection is absent, they grow hopeless and 1iscontented, when some day they form so- ,ialist acquaintances, rapidly adopt their deas, and having found an object for their fife, with feminine reshness devote them ,elves to the cause, even to the very death.