Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-27

Mir. Schade rsoos on to say, t'are now perfect
 ly at liberty to refuse to make out a uateria
 account stat ement in the new monthly state
 ment if they choose to do it. Indeed, the,
 need not, in their monthly returns, say any thing about their materials the quantit, and quality which they have used. They car do just as they please, answer or not an swer."
 The Lowell holders of telephone stocks ap. pear to know what they want. Says the Lowell Citizen There is decidedly positive feeling among the stockholders of the various companies in Lowell that the business and bank accounts of the same should be re- tained in our city. There is also 8 fear that. if consolidation is effected. the stocks will take another downward turn: while, on the other hand, it is thought an almost certain upward tendency may be looked for should the companies remain outside of the consoli. dation. The whole matter, however, ia meeting the careful attention of the exscu- tive committee, and when the matter comes up for final disposition there is no deubt the best thing will be done for all
 Jackson, Michigan, lady is doing what she can to solve the sparrow problem. She eats the little rascals. From 8 rear base Hent window of her house the lower sash has been removed, and, instead, wire con- trivance has been placed there, which is in the form of half cylinder. It is so delicately bal anced that as soon as sparrow aliehts on a projecting bar it's weight carries the contriy- h0I SA suddenly by striking projecting knob. That startles the bird, which finds itself carried by it's own weight and the slow revolution of the wheel into large cage inside the room. The sparrow finds score of it's kind in the cage, which are kept there for decoys to draw thither other sparrows in the neighbor- hood. A supply of grain is kept scattered near the outside of the trap, and a we'll fill ed cup of grain rests directly beneath the bar on which the birds hop for the purpose of procuring meal. It takes about thirty sparrows to make pie, and it is a most palatable dish. They are as plump and fat as any bird known, and their flavor is deli. cate and flesh delicious. The lady says. CT learned to make use of them on the table bv seeing my mother do it in England, where these cages and reels are quite common
 MT. Robert Rawlinson, whom Victoria has made baronet, well deserves the honor. He is now seventy-three years old. The son of working builder, he became stone mason at the age of sixteen, and then, by sheer force Of ability and industry. worked his way up to the foremost rank of British civil and sani. tary engineers He was appointed an engi- neerlng inspector under the first public health act of 1S4s. He held the first inquiry and wrote the first report. In 1863 he was sent by the nome secretary to Lancashire as engineer commissioner, to devise s.work for wages'' in the distressed cotton district during the cot ton famine. and with Mir. Arthur Arnold ad- Vlsed and saw executed in the ninety-four towns and places in Lancashire and Cheshire works of road-making, public parks making waterworks construction, street and road forming, main sewering and land draining. The sum of money expended under the sigma tura of Mr. Rawlinson was e1, $50, GOO, up- ward of 400 miles of roads and streets were formed, drained, severed, channelled and paved, the manual labor being done for the most part by cotton operatives. The admin lstratlon did not cost the government 3s. Cd. per cent. The money was advanced for a term of thirty years at 3 1-2 per cent The entire sum advanced has, up to this date, been regularly repaid. At present MT. Raw linson is member of the council of civil engineers, vice president of the Society of Arts and chief engineering inspector for the local government board.