Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-28

lower grades should not marry. According
 ly, 8 lieutenant will not be allowed to marry
 at all unless he has private property amount ing to at least thirty thousand dorins, or
 about $15, 900; captain or major is requir- ed to have about half that sum; while colo 1els can marry on their salaries. In order to marry, an Austrian lieutenant is expected to have yearly income, beside his salary, of about $750, captain is expected to have about $275; and a ieutenans-colonel about $500.
 curious prophecy has been found in the writings of Nostradamus, who lived in the early half of the sixteenth century. Nostra- damus says that in the year 1883 France will see die number of men who have exercised an influence on her destiny, and that among them will be the last descendant of dynasty which has ruled the country for several cen turies, who will die about the middle of the year in foreign land. The death of this prince, adds Nostradamus, will be concealed for three days, and shortly after the event one of the last survivors of Corsican family will seek to reign in Paris. He will assemble his partisans and march to the city at their head, and the Parisians will go forth to meet him. A battle and great slaughter will en- sue, but the pretender will be killed before arriving at the gates of Paris. Many of the predictions of this writer are said to have been verified heretofore. In his life time he enjoyed great favor from Catherine de Medicis, and because he predicted the fall of the Roman church his book was interdicted by the Pope.
 The Salvation Army mas done some ridicu loas things in this country, but the perform ances of the detachment fighting Satan at Port Adelaide, Australia, take the lead. The hall occupied is spoken of as glory shop. A monster hosannah meeting" held in this glory shop is addressed by Happy George, Zulu Sim and the Boy with Hair Like Heaven. One of the attrac tions is s'the struggle with pies. tarts, cheesecakes, ham and tongue sandwiches, bread and but ter tea, sugar, milk, etc, of which you can have full supply by paying one shilling each" In the evening ''Merry go round" is held at the glory shop, where ''some hot bombshells will be poured into Satan's terri tories" monster salvation meeting is harangued by 'a host of halIelujah lasses in their Timbuctoo bonnets." The announce ment begins with the startling heading, 'tHalloI Halloi Jack! Whats up? Lcok Here !" and winds up by saying, "Come, See, and Get Gloriously Saved! Amen , The officer. in command, who is responsible for this extraordinary invitation to religious privilege, signs himself "Captain Tom Gibbs the Yorkshire Relish
 The city of Marseilles has been during the present month the scene of two peculiar strikes On the 9th of July about 1,300 Piedmontese employed in the St. Just oil factory left work and tried to prevent their countrymen in the Magdalen factory from working The main cause of discontent on the part of the workmen was not their small 55 to 80 cents per day for twelve hours workout the tyranny of the compa- nies, which keep all doors closed during pelled to buy from the inside canteens what they need for breakfast or lunch. They asked for half an hour for break fast and an hour for lunch, Q practical re. duction of an hour and half in the work ing day. The other strike was that of 2,0OO walters employed iE the hotels, restaurants, cafes, and saloons of the great seaport. It began on the 12th instant, the first demand of the knights of the white apron being the liberty to wear moustache. They refused to submit longer to the custom obliging them to wear only whiskers, and took the ground that, when out of work, they were mistaken for lawyers, which. so they said, deeply wounded their self-love.
 The New York Court of Appeals has just rendered decision of special interest to be- nevolent, religious and charitable societies and institutions. The precise point raised was new one, and involved the construction of provision of the law of 1S48 regarding bequests to such societies and institutions. One section of the law provides that they may take by ''devise or bequest," limiting the amount to be so taken, prohibiting 8 testator who leaves wife, child, or parent from bequeathing more than cne-fourth of his estate to such corporations. and declaring LAhb IO AAhhO 6ASA OCAO06s FoA4O OAo "AAA must have been executed at least two months before the testator's death. It was claimed in behalf of the corporate legatees in the case, the Baptist Missionary Convention. the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and the Ontario Orphan Asylum, that the last named restriction applied only when the testator left wife, child or parent, refer ring the word ''such' to the clause immedi- ately preceding The Court of Appeals does not sustain this view, but holds that any be- quest to religious and benevolent corpora tions, to be void, must be made in will exe- cuted at least two months before the testa. tors death.
 Besides the two six. inch steel rif1ed guns in course of construction at the ordnance ma chine shops at the Washington naval arsenal, there will soon be two ten-inch breech load ing steel rifles Gin the works" The con. struction of these guns will be an important step in the manufacture of ordnance in the American navy. The government has never made steel gun, and is in possession of only one gun of this character Ca six inch riae), which was made at the South Boston 0toCA WOAASJ nAA Ao ACPS as SAo navy 0APSAA- mental station at Annapolis. When finished, the guns about to be manufactured will be 27 feet long and 42 inches in diameter at the breech, and will weigh about 24 tons each. The tubes and the jackets will be imported from England. The jackets, which are heavy cylinders of steel. are shrunk on over the brsech of the guns in order to increase their strength. A reporter was informed at the ordnance office of the navy yard that the ob. ject of importing the tubes and jackets of the guns in the rough WAS not for the workman ship on them, but simply to get the metal, which cannot be obtained in this country. ''tThe reason for this," said an official, ''is because neither the government nor anybody olse ever wanted such heavy steel before It requires tremendously heavy machinery and hammers to manufacture it. If the contrac- tors here were sure of getting large con