Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-16

1 $lso0O year or $SZ0 per boy.
 Doctor Ayres, colonial surgeon, has mad an official report on the subject of opium | smoking which has caused no little stir a l Hong Kong. He asserts his belief that, con l trary to preconceiyed ideas, the habit O 1 opium smoking has no effect whatever upor | the human body in @ medical sense. Ht
 himself has smoked twelve pipes at time
 and has carefully watched Europeans wht have indulged in the habit to the same de | gree. There is, he says, no alteration in thu 1 pulse temperature or cerebral faculties. H. l believes that the noxious properties of tht drug are destroyed in the process of eombus tion, and that beyond the habit being very l mischievous one for those who cannot afford as being harmless.
 The municipality of Buenos Ayres has re
 ceiyed singular proposition from two Ger man mechanical engineers named ". Burn
 hofer and John Fluckigen. They offer tc cover the city with huge umbrella, the bast
 of which is to be 670 feet in diameter, ths
 height l, ,5O0 feet; ribs of cast iron, 31 inches
 in circumference and feet apart, and lining
 of wrought iron 1 1-2 inches thick. The
 great thing will hoist upward upon the sys
 tenn of Harsihentinsburg, and when raised
 will be one mile and half wide. Around il
 will be 8 canal communicating with the Platte
 river to carry away the water that might
 overflow the city. The work is estimated at
 the modest sum of $5, 75O, 900. If Duenos
 Ayres buys such an umbrella as this she may
 be sure that nobody will ''hook' it.
 An interesting proposal with reference to
 alcoholic and non-alcoholic treatment of the
 sick was brought under notice at the meeting
 of the board of management of the Manches' ter (England) Royal Infrmary recently. A
 ''benevolent gentleman deeply interested in hospital practice"s has offered, ,it was stated, to place. .eI ,oOO in the hands of:trustees, to be given to any hospital having at least 100 beds, on condition that the man. agers of the institution shall give to the treatment of diseased surgical cases without alcohol either in diet or medicine as full 8 trial as is now given to. the use of alcoholic compounds in such cases. The benevolent gentleman is ''only anxious that perfectly just and scientific comparison should be in stituted between the two systems, in the same hospital, for not less than g year, and in two adjoining yards.'
 Governor Begols, of Michigan, who las posed as a reformer, has besa exposed as 8 demagogus. He was a Greenbacker and was nominated by that party for governor. The Democratic convention, held tho same day, ratified the nomination, baving first resolved that it would support no candidate who would not pledge himself, if elected, to re- fuse railroad passes. Mir. Begole in a speech said that he had never in his life carried pass. and that it ought ro be crime to offer one to an official. He was elected in Novem- Der, and on the first day of ths next month he wrote to the agent Of ono of the railroads in the Stste asking him to bs so kind as to send 'tons of your little red books" as he had large amount of travelling on hand just then. He said further: q have also 8 re- quest to make, that you do not issue any free passes to the present members. elect of either house of representatives. I make this re quest, because the people have demanded It. I shall recommend this measure in my m5s- sage. shall make the same request of other roads in our State" The little red books are of tickets for five hundred miles' travel On the fourth of the same month the governor-elsct wrote to the agent &C., the receipt of a "5o0 mile cook" Six months later, on the second of une last, the governor wrote again to the ,ame agent, asking, as ''a great favor" ," ''ono ,f your 800 miIe pass books, also one for Hrs. Bsgoie," saying that he had fused up' he one given him before. Exit ''good old Governor Begole."