Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-01

long neglected Veto street mt tter It Is oer- tainly time that something was done about it.
 Mir. Isaac F. Gray, the Democratic candi- data for governor of Indiana, was Republi- can up to 1872. As one sarcastic editor puts 1t, Mir. Gray discovered his old party was corrupt immediately after it refused him 8 nomination for the office of lieutenant-eov- ernor.
 The professors of the University of Jena, who have been Investigating the effect of tobacco upon the human system, report that moderate quantities of the weed may be used without injurious effects They say that in the German army soldiers in active service are very properly furnished with smoking tobacco, because smoking enables them to endure severer fatigue upon smaller nutrition and with greater aiacrity and con- fdence than would otherwise be the case.
 great trade in paper bottles is growing up in Germany and Austria. Ten per cent. of rags, forty of straw, and fifty of brown wood pulp are used in making them. Thin paper is coated and impregnated with a solu- tion composed of sixty per cent of defibrinat- ed fresh blood, thirty y-five of lime and five Of sulpkate of ammonia; dry and coat again; put ten or twelve sheets together, and then dry in heated moulds under pressure. They are made in two pieces and joined afterwards, and are said to be perfectly proof against spirits and other liquids.
 The government of India has received the reports of the preliminary examination of the oil-bearing strata which exist in the neighbor- hood of Sibi. The professional reports are so encouraging that the gov ernment has de- termined to procure from England the neces- sary machinery for boring operations These will be begun next winter, and will be con- ducted on an extensive scale. If the results justify the sanguine hopes entertained the discovery will be one of importance in rela- tlon to Indian industrial developments and the solution of the Central Asian question.
 The London Econemist does not believe that MT. Blaine would plunge this country into war" It argues that while he might, as President, show clustering temper, and in dispatches cause a tone to be taken "which
 
 bear, yet he would be restrained by the good sense of the American people from do. ing anything that would make actual trouble. '"The great majority of the American people. ' it says, s'being afraid of DO one, are Wishau, bitterness, and regard war as an inconyen. ience." This is 8 fair statement of the case. The government of this great, glorious and free country has been for long time tryina to sell it's property and riparian riRhts al Harper's Ferry. but without success. A bill to facilitate the sale has passed the senate (having previously passed the houss,) and possibly the property may now get into bands that will improve 1t. The water powei at Harper's Ferry WAS the inducemsnt fo, establishing United States armory there The government built Q dam, which yet re- mains intact. Steam has superseded water power to such an extent that nobody has thought it worth while to buy this magnif cent site, even at & nominal price.
 Ben Butler is rot popular ia the South, according to the Richmond State, which says of him: Were Butler to be chosen as the candidate of the Democratic party, not g few, perhaps all, of the Southern States would be lost to the Democracy. for ex-Gov. ernor Butler, of Massachusetts, is ss much detested in the South as was ever the Ben Butler of New Orleans. In every southern State his name is the synonym of all that ii disreputable in soldier and politician. Neither ties of party nor questions of policy could bind the soathsr1 people to his sup port. Neither the fsrvid oratory of ths stump nor earnest appeals of the press could