Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-02

are double, and for further safety an oil | lamp is always kept in readiness. The light l Is revolving, having two white discs and one 1 red one succeeding each other at intervals l of fifteen seconds and it is visible fifteen l miles away
 Brigandage around Rome has of late as 1 sumed such proportions that all tramps who l fail to give a satisfactory account of them 1 selves are now arrested and lodged in Rome | pending inquiry. What renders brigand | capture the more difficult in many localities | is that the business of brigandism is follow | ed by persons who are not always at it, but l at times pursue rural occupations, and are i apparently the most harmless of beings 1 The authorities continue to fail in their at i tempts to capture the brigand chief Tibuzi, 1 who operates in the neighborhood of Viterbo. ] For long time the farmers and landowners tried to resist his incursions, but now they submit to his terms and pay blackmail to secure quiet life.
 A new form of paving has been in use in Berlin since last year which seems to offer some advantages over wood. Layers of bricks are put down and impregnated with asphalt. After short period they lose any air and water that they may contain, and ab- sorb from 15 to 20 per cent. of the bitumi- nous matter, becoming remarkably elastic, and capable of resisting pressure and damp. The traffic in the Berlin main thoroughfares is of heavy character and it has been found that the new paving lasts much longer than any of the other systems, added to which it offers a sure footho1d to horses. Occasion ally it is found that after three months wear some of the bricks crumble into dust, but this is believed to arise from faulty inn pregnation with asphalt and not from any real defect in the system.
 Mr. Blaine did not exhibit the mercenary spirit he has been accused of when the S'sala- " grab'' was made in 1973 He was speaker of the house. The bill provided that the salary of the speaker should be increased from s8,OOO to $1O,0OO. MT. Blaine objected on the ground that the speakers salary should remain the same as that of vice presi- dent Pending the vote he said: The chair now desires to make statement personal to himself In reading the bill the chair pre- sumes the language of this amendment would make the speakers salary $10,00O for this congress. The salary of the speaker the last time the question of pay was under con sideration was adjusted to that of the vice president and members of the cabi- net The chair thinks that that adjust ment should not be disturbed, and the ques- tion which he now raises does not affect the pay of other members of the house. He asks unanimous consent to put in the word ''here- after to follow the words F'shal1 receive.' This will affect whoever shall be speaker of the house of representatives hereafter, and does not affect the speaker of the house, but leaves him upon the same plane with the vice president and cabinet officers upon the salary as before adjusted.
 In Dr. Crichton- -Browne's report on educa- tional overpressure in London schools occurs the following pathetic passage: Many chil- dren in London who are never actually with out food are still partially starved, for what they get to eat is innutritious, or insufficient in amount. Bread and weak tea form the sole sustenance for prolonged periods 9th CT children are left wholly unprovided for by their parents and have to forage as best they can for themselves. I found one lad i'm 1A0ISeu III geography WnO Aau l1ttu no DIedh- fast and whose dinner had consisted of two ! rotten oranges thrown away from huck- ster's stall. And there is much partial or occasional starvation among children not of the lowest class. To look at these half starved children in London schools is to be ssful of sorrow" Very touching is it to think of the quiet herosm with which, when hunger is gnawing within and the dull misery of want overf1ows them, they sit un- complaining at their little desks, toiling at their allotted tasks, wondering, no doubt, what it all means, but bearing their burdens patiently. These children want blood, and,,we offer them little brain polish; they ask for bread, and receive problem; for milk, and the tonic-so1-fa system is introduced to them. And in all this there is aggravation of their suffering and risks. To educate half starved child at all is to overpress it, and the facts that there are a number of half-starved children ill London schools, and that they are not merely being educated, but prepared for examination-th same examination which has to be passed by their plump, we'll fed companions-is to substantiate the state ment that educational overpressure exists.