Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-11

sometimes swallows four gallons day, and
 never noticed that he was at all out of the
 way.
 The Washington correspondent of the New
 York Tribune says concerning Conkling and
 the squabble at Washington: ''He is beaten
 and he knows it, despite all the buster of his
 followers. If he had the confidence in his
 ability to defeat Robertson which he pro-
 fesses, he would be eager to have the nomi-
 nation brought to vote. His effort, on the
 contrary, is to secure further delay. He is
 afraid of the test of the yeas and nays. We'll
 he may be. His sanguine friends only count
 on twenty-four votes, including his own, to
 reject Robertson. Others who look at the
 contest from the administration side say to-
 day that he can rely positively on only five
 Republicans and six Democrats. When the
 fight is over, as it will be by the end of the
 week, people will wonder that so small fac
 up such dust"
 The latest telephonic wonder is reported
 from France. remarkably Interesting ex-
 pertinent has just been made at Calais and
 Dover, between which places conversation
 has been kept up by means of a new kind of telephone, which has been patented under
 the name of the electrophone. Not only
 were the words whispered into the apparatus
 at Calais distinctly heard at Dover, and, of course, Cice eersG, but the listener at one end
 was perfectly well able to distinguish by the
 mere tones of the voice the person who was
 %ba Tba iGo
 specialists present were astonished at the
 difficulty successfully overcome in the enor-
 nous condensation produced by the metallic
 covering which protects the cable and in the
 induction caused by the simultaneous passage
 of telegraphic dispatches along other wires
 of the cable. 1t should be observed that.
 while the human voice was being transmitted
 through one of the wires, the other wires
 were being employed for the transmission of
 ordinary telegraphic messages.
 The new English Copyright bill, just intro
 duced, gives a copyright to newspapers in re-
 spect of Compositions of literary charac-
 ter," and in general to any creative work of
 the chisel, the brush or the pen. In the case
 of written works, the author or publisher
 shall deliver copy to the registration office,
 to be hereafter established, fill up the neces- sary particulars and make due attestation, pay shilling fee, and obtain his certificate. There is to be no copyright on sermons or lectures, which seems hard, seeing that some of the ablest works now employed in univer- sity education were originally delivered as class lectures to students The copyright, after registration, is to endure for fifty years in the case of all productions of the pen, and in the case of other works for the life of the author and thirty years after. Moderate quotations with an acknowledgement of the source, shall not be an infringement Breach es of the act are to be remedied by an action for damages and by summary power to enter and search for and seize and coniscate to the owner of the copyright all reproductions of his work, and to obtain fine of G5. For eigners may obtain the same rights as British l subjects. \
 It is not generally believed that the Guild ings erected by the United States government have cost less than any others of like dimen- sions and character erected for private pur- poses, and yet it appears from comparisons carefully made by an experienced architect and surveyor that such is the case. The I comparison was made by computing the cu- I bical contents of the buildings from the ! of their outside dimensions, ! and, of course, there are great variations, | to the character and amount of I the inside work The cheapest. of all the l buildings compared was the new National Il Museum building in Washington which cost only six and half cents cubic foot. This | has few partitions large halls and little deco ration or ornament. The most costly of the ! government buildings is the new branch mint | at San Francisco, which cost $1, 800, ,OOO, or 89. 24 cents per cubic foot. But the Masonic Temple in New York, on which $1, 300, GOO were expended, cost .55 cents per cubic foot, and next to it the Western Union Tele- graphs Company's building, which cost $1,- 400, 900, or 1O5. .22 cents per cubic foot. The postoffice and sub-treasury in Boston has cost $2, ,OS0, 507, or per cubic foot 77.8S cents, This is considerably above the average cost of buildings erected by the national govern nent, but far below that of the largest cor ! ooration buildings. The structures built by ' of construction, nor in elabor- ste embelIishment, internal or external. All his is decidedly encouraging, if it is true.
 An interesting scheme of mutual life insur- lnce has been devised by the Hoboken Land Ind Improvement Company for their work nen. It will go into effect and become com oulsory after the 1st day of July and re- usal on the part of any workman for the company to become member of the pro- posed association will be regarded as 6 resig- l nation. The plan, which has been summa- details of which will hereafter be arranged y counsel, provides that the company shall ( ,e the custodian and guarantor of the fund 1 o be raised, and shall charge no fees or commissions for it's services or expenses. | Every member of the association will be re- ! Luired to contribute two per cent. of his wages to the fund, and the company will in ! ddition, pay in sum equal to double the mount received frog the employees. When- yer any man voluntarily quits the employ ( nent of the company or is discharged for I all the money that he has given interest. In case he is dismissed owing to 8 ( eduction in the force or for any other eason not resulting from his own fault, he 7iH be paid the total amount of his contribu S ions, together with five per cent. interest on ' he same compounded every two years The $
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