Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-22
HAVEN, CONN WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 22

of politicians, great and small, but all hun gry, rushing for seventy or eighty thousand placess baekedsand pressed by every Demo cratic congressman and every Democratic committee in the land" Carl Scharz very well knows that the same thing is as true this year as it was in 1880, and yet he is doing all he can to help the hungry Demo crats to power.
 The burdens of the system of espionage and repression adopted by the present Car are felt heavily in St. Petersburg, and the municipal council has declined to sanction the annual extra payment of 157, ,25O roubles for this extra police work. It is complained that the capital receives no adequate benefit for the outlay necessitated by it's being the residence of the sovereign, and that the pc lice are not only required to do additional service at home, but are often sent to such places at Nijni-Novgorod and Warsaw A sixth of the revenue of the St. Petersburg city government is expended on police and gendarmerie.
 Charleston, South Carolina, has just estab- ished conservatory of music under the au- spices of leading citizens. The German ele- ment is prominent in this movement, all the members of the administrative council of the new organization belonging to this national ity. The secretary of the conservatory, Her mann Muller, is member of the Royal Con servatory of Music at Berlin and musical critic of the Lepziger Signa1e. Any person contributing the sum of $10O is constituted
 
 is entitled to place one scholar in the institu- tion for years instruction.
 During the siege of Paris hippophagy was a matter of necessity. Since 1871 the con increasing In 1874 the number of horses slaughtered for food was 4,682. Ten years later the consumption had more than doubled. In 1883 Paris ate g, ,485 horses, BOT asses and 40 mules, or not far short of five million pounds weight of horse, ass and mule meat. The explanation of this increase is the high price of beef and mutton in the French capi- tai. While the artisan can purchase horse steak at less than 12 cents a pound he has to pay three times as much for a cut of beef or mutton. Among the hippophagists of Paris the flesh of the ass and the mule is esteemed even more highly than that of the horse, those delicacies fetching a price fifteen to twenty per cent higher than simple horse hesh
 Huxley gives the following table ofwhat full l-grown man should weigh, and how this weight should be divided: Weight, 154 pounds. Made up thus: Muscles and their appurtenances, 68 pounds; skeleton, 24 pounds; skin, 1015 pounds; fat, 2S pounds; brain, 3 pounds; thoracic viscera, 315 pounds; abdominal viscera, Il pounds; blood which would drain from body, pounds. This man ought to consume per diem: Lean beef steak, 5000 grains; bread, 6,000 grains; milk, 1000 grains; potatoes, 5000 grains; butter, 500 grains; and water, 22,900 grains. His heart should beat 75 times minute, and he should breathe 15 times a minute. In A hours he would vitiate 1,750 cubic feet of pure air to the extent of 1 per cent; a man, therefore, of the weight mentioned ought to have 800 cubic feet of well-ventilated space He would throw off by the skin IS ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter and 400 grains of carbonic acid every 24 hours, and his total loss during the 24 hours wonld be 6 pounds of water and a little above 2 pounds of other matter. .e.--------...