Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-21

S~~~ SSS4SS going on from day to day, from week to
 week, and from year to year.
 Koumiss is now said to bs popular drink among lean women in the West. They put a quart of cows milk into three pint bottles
 dividing the quantity equally. Then they add to each bottle two tsaspoonfuls of white sugar and quarter of . cake of compressed yeast, tic the corks securely, shake thorough ly, and let it ferment. It is it to drink at the end of day, and will keep half week in good condition. It tastes good deal like buttermilk, but has hzz end sparkle. Those who have confidence in the fat-producing qualities of koumiss say that it should be drunk at the rate of pint day. The Cin- cinnati Enquirer mentions the case of girl who IS engaged to be married. The date of the wedding is fixed for Christmas day, with the odd condition, imposed by the prospec- tive bridegroom. that the bride shall at the altar weigh 125 pounds. and she is now dili- gently drinking koumiss.
 George L. Rufin, the colored lawyer nom- mated for judge of the municipal court in Charlestown by Governor Butler, and whose nomination has been confirmed, is the first colored man to hold judicial position in Massachusetts. He has for many years been prominent among colored men in Massachu- setts. He is a native of Virginia, born in Richmond in 1884, of free parents He went to Boston thirty years ago. and was educated in the public schools. He first be- gan business ss barber and afterwards read law in the office of Jewell & Gaston He also studied at Harvard law school and was graduated in 1869. He has ainoe established a successful law practice in Boston. He has been member of the legislature two terms and has served in the Boston Common Coun- cii In politics he has always been Repub hcan, and his nomination was 8 surprise, be- cause he was opposed to General Butler
 The carbons used in electric lights are sx pensive and troublesome. New York in. ventor has obtained patent for an attach ment for electrical arc lamps, which he claims is very valuable. It consists of a glass globe of sufficient size to enclose the cartoons and supports of any arc lamp, which globe, by connecting trunk and asbestos packing, is rendered air-tight. The light, al- most immediately after it is started, burns up the oxygen in the enclosed air, and the car bonio oxide and nitrogen in the globe will not support combustion, so that the effect is the sane as that of vacuum. The inventor asserts that the effect ia to preserve the car bon, go that pair of cartoons which ordi- narily last only half night will burn all night long, for three or four nights. The consumption due to surrounding sir Is pre- vented, and the only consumption is that due sixty of these lamps ars burning in Jersey City, and have given perfect satisfaction for ten months; that the consumption of cartoons is reduced to one-sixth; that the light, being enclosed, is wind and water proof, and may be used for submarine lighting and that the reduction of expense is so great that com pany using this attachment can furnish light as cheap as gas and still make large profit,
 Not only Australia and India will soea be formidabIe competitors of this country ir bs headed in this direction. Our consul at DGSuOb ASEo5 Del1SVeS tOAt Gue Ar&60t1n0 Republic is to be one of the great erain-pro- ducing countries of the world. He esti- mates the wheat crop of this year at 19, 500,- GOO bushels, more than half of which will bs surplus for export, and adds that the surplus corn will amount to 5000, ,00o bushels. The number of acres devoted to agriculture has more than doubled in the last six years yet there are less than 2, 2,OO0 GOO acres under cal tivation in the foreign provinces out of soO,- 900. GOO, the greater part of the remainder being used for grazing cattle or sheep. The republic has a climate that ranges from the sub-trepicsl to that of northern Canada. Experiment. seems to prove that the pampas are remarkably fertile under cultiva- tion and admirably fitted for cereal crops. Exploration in Patagonia has revealed rich meadows and valleys capable of sustaining millions of cattle and sheep. The fertility of these lands will make them hereafter, in the Conspfs opinion, the granary and garden of the republic. Several settlements have re- gently been made on the Atlantic coast of the province, and the inhabitants are raising wheat