Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-06

Wueat IS tnlu auo poor, III sOrao plaoeS not even half crop being expected and severe loss will be added to the already sorely tried agricultural community. This condition of things is promising of good market for much of the surplus in the production of this country.
 The act recently passed by the Louisiana Legislature for tho settlement of tho funded debt of Now Orleans leaves tho premium bonds intact, extends all other bonds forty years (the city reserving the right to redeem them at par after 1895 giving three ! months notice), and the extended bonds to | bear six per cent. interest, payable ssmi-an- | nually. The past due interest on these bonds l is to be funded in certificates bearing six per { cent interest to be redeemed out of the \ arising under the premium bond act is to be ! distributed proportionalIy among the various | species of outstanding bonds.
 There are nore lawyers in Athens than in | New Haven. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette estimates the Athenian bar to number over thousand members, with total popu- \ lation in the city of only fifty thousand. l Naturally, nine-tenths of these advocates or l even more, have no clients, and they are to be found earning a subsistence in many other callings, often, indeed, in very humble ones. | The Gdzette's correspondent says that he found walters in the hotels who were gradu- | ated doctors of law This astonishing over stocking of the legal calling he explains as being due to the peculiar mercurial qualities I of the modern Greeks, who are ardent poli- | ticians and great admirers of orstory and 1 rhetoric, whether in the political arena or in the courts.
 The new law of New York against unsafe Illuminating oil goes into effect August G. It provides that Illuminating oils which give of an explosive vapor that will flash at temper ature below 1902 Fahrenheit shall not be used
 for lighting purposes; and that oils which ignite and burn at temperature less than 3OO' Fahrenheit 4nall not be used upon rail
 road passenger cars nor upon vessels moved
 by steam. The only exceptions made to the
 use of oils that below the standard are
 those cases where they are controlled by
 mechanism that securely vaporizes them Oils that are suspected to be below tho stand
 ard are to be examined by the four analysts
 of the State board of health If this law Ii
 properly enforced there will be fewer ''acci dents'' from the use of unsafe oil
 MT. A. A. Subers of Macon Georgia, ha
 for several years been experimenting to by
 bridize the cotton plant that grows wild i,
 Florida with the common okra and it is an
 nounced that his efforts have been remark
 ably successful. The new plant retains tn
 okra stalk and the foliage of the cotton. It
 flower and fruit however, strikingly un
 like either cotton okra The plant has a,
 average height of two feet, and each plant ha only one bloom. This is a magnificent flower
 very much like the great magnolia in fragranc 1 and equally as large. Like the cotton bloom ] the flower is white for several days after ! opens, after which it is first pale pink, an
 gradually assumes darker shades of tn
 color until it becomes red, when it drop
 disclosing wonderful boil. For about te s days this boil resembles the cotton boll an then it's growth suddenly increases if t magic until it finally reaches the size of b
 cocoasnut. Not until it reaches this size do | the lint appear. Then it's snowy threads b