Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-18

A notable engineering undertaking has just been completed in Russia, in the shape of a long bridge over the Volga, on the Syoran and Orenburg railway, connecting the cities of Syoran, in the Government of Simbirsk with that of Samara. The width of the river is nearly mile, and, as it is liable to the oc- currence of heavy spring floods, the piers of which there are fourteen altogether-had to be built 100 feet above mean water level, the depth of the water being more than fifty feet. The great girders, 364 feet long and twenty feet wide, were all riyeted and put together on the right bank of the river, and then foated to their position. The whole cost of the structure, which is regarded as g model of it's kind, was 1000, GOO silver roubles.
 Some of the Maine Greenbackers, it seems are not yet entirely discouraged A call has been issued for a Greenback State conven- tion, to meet in Lewiston on Wednesday August 8, to choose a State committee and see what can be done to remove ''the unfor- tunate division and confusion" in the ranks of the party. The call is issued by the Pro- t1SlOlIa4 CoL1AlAA1tCC dEJOlA1GCO Oy 1aO State convention which nominated the Wea- yer electoral ticket last year, and it says : s'The existing demoralization and distrust which for more than eight months has re- tarded the growth and we'll nigh destroyed the discipline and spirit of our young and pro- gressive party is the direct result of the in sane attempt to make an open alliance with the Democratic party in the choice of 8 Presidential ticket''
 The Massachusetts School Suffrage Associ- ation has issued series of documents de- signed to increase the interest of women in their rights and duties under the law author izing them to vote for school committees and to make the votes of women as effective as possible in improving the schools They hope to organize in each city and town local associations auxiliary to the State associa- tion, and they give advice as to the plan of these local organizations, with list of four teen questions which may be proftably dis cussed at their meetings. The list is not in- tended to be exhaustive, but to suggest few of the problems that are of present interest. The list of questions is as follows:
 1, The moral condition of the schools in your city or town ; ?, The sanitary condition of the schools; 3, The best course of study to be pursued 4, How should recesses be spent; 5, Ought high school instruction to be free; 6, What can be done to keep the chil- dren of factory or shop workers longer in school9 z, The relation between parents and teachers 8, How much stiffness in the school room should be required of primary children? 3, Should inexperienced teachers be put in the lower grade schools 10, Kin dergarten training: Il, Necessary qual- ihcations for teaching 12, Neces- sary qualifications for school com mittees or school superintendents B, Prop CT use of public money in education-taking up the question of salaries of teachers, ex- penss of school buildings, furnishings, etc, etc.; A, The need of women on school boards.
 The purposes of the association are said to be to awaken interest in the schools, and to