Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-19

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 Electric lighting is making considerable progress in Europe. In Amsterdem the tele- graph offices are now lighted by five Sismena difsrantisl arc lamps, of about 36 carcela each, replacing 45 gas burners. At Stock
 holm some of the principal streets are illumi-
 mated by twelve Pilsen lamps, fed from 8 sohncksrt twelve light dynamo machine, drfy- en by ten horse power nominal portable
 gas engine of Swedish make. The lceal news
 papers are better pleased with the Pilsen than
 with the Brush, Siemens, Jurgunsen and
 Jablochkoff lights. The new Italian ironclad
 Italia is to be lighted with five electric search
 lights of 1,6O0 carcel power, and two of 200
 carcsl power for boat use. Electric light ft-
 tings have been supplied to new theatres at
 Edinburgh and Amsterdam, and an extended
 Mss of the Ightis to be mad ein the galleries of
 the Dandee fine art exhibition. At Hull a
 large dock Is being excAyated by 2.800 men,
 with the aid of the light, and the contractors
 for the new Blaokfriars railway bridge. Lon
 don, are resorting to the same means to ia
 ciIitate their operations eftsr dark. new factory in Cork Is lit up by 150 Swan lamps,
 and Messrs Harland Wolff, :hs shipbuild-
 CTS of Belfast, have adopted electrical illami-
 nation by putting in 2S Crompton arc lights
 and upwards of 200 Swan lights.
 If the war that Is expected to break out in Europe before long does come, 1t will prob ably be the most stupendous conflict that has yet been seen. The European nations are getting ready for anything that may happen. The force Russia could bring into the field according to her present peace footing, is an army consisting of s97 battalions of infantry, 4O6 squsdrons of cavalry, 373 field batteries, 210 companies of garri son artillery and 96 companies of engineers. France, according to the same peace footing, has ready 641 battalions of infantry, 326 of what are called depot companies of infantry, 326 squadrons of cavalry, 437 batteries, 57 companies of garrison artillery and 1l2 companies of engi- neers, with many territorial troops. Ger many has 483 battalions of infantry, 20 bat talions of sharp shooters, 465 sq uadrons of cavalry, $40 field batteries, 31 battalions of garrison artillery, IS battalions of engineers
 liz battalions of railroad engineers and
 19se1AAOA4c oOkA44A44c6EAAI&b port. A whole mobilized German army, ready to enter into a campaign, would be made up of 74o.o00 men. with 20. 900 off oers, 23 ,0O0 physicians and officials, 235. .00e horses, with 5000 vehicles. But then comes the immediate reserve to this force, ready to
 fill up the ranks, which would present 8 total of some 165, 900 more, with 5, 200 officers, 1000 surgeons and 40, 900 horses. The strength of Germany does not end here, for when the whole machinery of war is started, and all have to serve, with the landwehr thrown in. United Germany would have at least, on paper, not less than 2. s3O, ,O00.
 If you want to get very rich you can do so, according to correspondent of the New York Sun, by owning tenement house in New York city. He describes building in Forsyth street. It is on lot 25 feet wide by 100 deep. An alley way feet runs down one side, and on this the tenements face The whole house, consequently. is 20 feet wide and 100 desp. It is ster1es high, and ls divided into sections, or houses, ,aaeh 20 feet square. The apartments for fanni- ly consists of living room, 13 feet square, a dark 5x10 bedroom in the rear, and two clos cts barely large enough to contain two cots for children. There is only one window, ,and is looks out upon the marrow, filthy alley, SO that light and ventilation are both scant There Is no water in the houses, the tenants lowering buckets from the windows by ropes, and filling them at hydrant which is surrounded by fonl pools A drain is choked with rotten vegetables and other refuse. But the unclsanliness is not essential to the suc- cess of the writer's proposed enterprise. What he wishes to call particular attention to is the smallness of the homes and the rel ative largensss of the rentals The prices range from $s month on the s.ground floor to $5 on the top, or an average of $7 from each of the twenty four families. There is a gro5gery in the tenement opening on the street, and this raises the gross income to $10, 800 year. By covering block with these compact and cheaply constructed houses, about fifteen per cent clear could be realized on the investment. But that is not all q would reserve the exclusive priv lese of selling supplies to the tenants" says the schooner; ''no other groceries or saloous thsn mine should be opened in the territory covered by the houses. went into a For syth street store and saw women buying coal at eleven cents 8 bucketful, or about $1O a ton. Flour WAS retailing at rate equal 10 $14 barrel. For all of their eatables these poor devils pay on the whole fifty per cent. more thnn can bo got from rich folks Count ing in drinkables, don't you see what for tune could be made out of an acre or two of full of wretohsdness?"