Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-05

A1AOS1S
 1 it is quite possible that MT. Tilden's health
 may have improved great deal, and it is
 equally possible that he may entertain hopes
 of the next Democratic nomination, but he
 is as little likely to get it as he is to develop the muscular force of the eminent "slug' ger,n Mir. Sullivan, of Boston. A similar view is taken by the Vicksburg Herald It
 considers that the re-entry of Mir. Tilden in- to active politics, except in the capacity of
 masterly counsellor and assistant to the most eligible candidate for the Presidential noml 1 nation, whoever he may be, would, to put It
 mildly, be very unfortunate.
 Of the high license system prominent liquor dealer in Lincoln, Nebraska, says l: t'We get along better under the new system
 With population of over 16. 900 the city has
 only eleven saloons. If tho license were re- duced to $10O per year there would be from fifty to seventy-five saloons, perhaps more' With such competition the saloons would necessarily be very shabby, and besides there would be little or no money made by any
 body. As it is now we make money" One of the most striking instances of the change
 wrought by the Lew system is in Joliet, Ill,
 where year ago the rate of saloon license
 was changed from $50 year to $500, and
 where the whole number of licenses was re- duced from 1o7 to 60.
 There is at least one enterprising neWspa- per in Belgium. lawyer named Meyers de livered his maiden speech in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies the other day with | tremendous effect. He sat down amid a tempest of cheers and was congratulating
 himself upon his success when M. Bara, the Minister of Justice and Worship, calmly
 arose and saying that he was happy to be
 able to produce the bottle from which the deputy had drawn his thunder, unfolded 8 copy of that days Journal de Tongres in which was printed in full the speech which l the impassioned orator had just delivered, l together with a description of the effect 1 which his eloquence had produced and the consequent dismay of the government. The deputy had sent an advance copy of his speech to his home paper and the energetic editor had printed it a day too soon.
 You can tell 8 distant friend things by means of a telephone and it is now claimed that an instrument called the electroscope will enable you to see him. This instrument is said to be the invention of Dr. Guidrah of Victoria, by whom it was recently exhib- tied in the presence of some forty scientific and public men in Melbourne According to the account given, 'Sitting in 8 dark room they saw projected on large dish of white furnished metal the race course at Remington, with it's myriad hosts of active beings. Each minute detail stood out with perfect fidelity to the original, and as they looked at the wonderful picture through binoeular glasses it was difficult to imagine that they were not actually on the course itself, and moving among those whose actions they could so completely scan.'' This is a large story, but so was the first account of the telephones performances.
 Electricity plays an important part in the National Museum at Washington. There are twenty six telephones in the building, all con- nected with a telephone exchange in cen tral room, and through this with the tele- phone system of the city. Electricity SUD- plies the light which is used in the photo graphic laboratory. If one of the $50 win dows or one of the 23O doors is opened bell rings and an electric annunciator shows to the attendant in the main office just which window or door has been touched This system is to be extended to each of the mary cases in which specimens are exhibited. There are stations which each night watch man must visit every hour, and he must by slight motion release an electric current which pierces paper dial and records the hour and minute of his visit The time of day is shown by the action ot an electric cur- rent upon the hour and minute hands of six teen clock dials distributed through the building The parts of the museum open to the public are illuminated by electric light. The currents used in the building are cor- veyed by 65. .OOO feet of wires.