Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-29
MORNING. NOVEMBER 29 l8s4

1 Academy of Sciences, one-quarter to be de
 voted to the expenses of publishing the for 1 tunate work. At this rate the value of tbi,
 grand prize on the day in question will be nc
 less than 1,918, ,960 roubles-say s1 800. GOO According to recent report of the Ger. man-Austrian Alpine club, the trade in Nedelweiss," aside from the inroads of the tourists, threatens the speedy extinction of ] the pretty little flower, whose real home-tbe Ayrol and Sw1tzerland-can no longer fur nlsh enough to supply the annual demand. Traders have already been obliged to replen- ish their stocks from the valley of the Isonzo and the Carinthian Alps One of them is
 said to have shipped last year ,5OO. GOO edel-
 weiss, of value of 2,600 forins; another 400, ,0OO, in pressed state, to the value of
 oOO norlns The plant is already being raised
 in gardens, but, as might be expected. can
 not thrive there in all the splendor imparted to it by its native mountain soil, amid Anime
 snow and ice
 An artificial aurora has been produced by
 MT. Selim Lemstrom on the top of a moun-
 tain in Finish Lapland He stretched a wire
 several miles in length on poles, and carried 1t over the eminence in spiral form. At a
 instance of every foot or two the wire had
 brass points and the poles were supplied with
 sulphur1c acid lnsulators to prevent, as far as
 possible, the escape of electricity. From
 this insulated line of points a wire was
 stretched 800 or 1000 feet to the ground he
 low. The artificial aurora thus produced
 was only visible to the naked eye when the
 northern lights flashed out their coruscations
 In the electric atmosphere, but the spectro-
 scope would reveal the existence of inc stream when the natural phenomena were
 less distinctly apparent.
 Dr. Koch, the German who discovered the
 cholera bacillus, feels obliged to defend his
 claims against the assaults that have been
 made upon them. He declares that there is
 no relation between the cholera nicrobe and
 the comma bacillus ordinarily found in the
 mouth, and that physicians are gravely mis-
 taken when they fail to see that no single at
 tribute, as the peculiar shape, affords suffi
 cient basis for distinguishing the comma
 bacillus from other and possibly harmless
 bacteria. In other words, the bacilli are to be recognized only by noting their properties as whole. In cases of arsenical poisoning and cholera morbus germs closely resembling the comma-bacillus, but really quite differ ent, have been found; while the introduction of the true cholera germ into the intestine of animals has almost invariably resulted in the discovery of the comma-bacilli in the dead animals
 Captain Greene, of the United States en- glneer corps, has recently written a report on the experiments in underground wiring which seems to exhaust present knowledge on the subject The report says that 2S5 miles of wire have been laid underground in Wash ington, and that underground cables of one make "have been in use without fault for telephone, telegraph and fire alarm purposes for nearly year" The telephone wires using another make of cable have been in constant use, Captain Greene says, for about | siA months, and have had no difficulty. The Western Union is the only telegraph compa- ny in Washington which has refused to take steps toward burying it's wires. Captain Greene's report contains this strong sentence: It would seem, therefore, that the time has passed for discussing the feasibility of un- 1erground wires, and the time had come for 1 compelling the removal of all overhead trunk 1 ines within Q reasonable period"
 There has been curious story circulating | :or some time that Fenian or dynamite council has been for 8 good while back in 1 'esslon at a village in the borderland of the | oyrenees. It will be remembered that about l our months ago there was a report that sey- | .ral prominent Fenians had suddenly quilted ! Paris, it was supposed to escape the vigil lnce of the detectives They were tracked I Q Madrid, however, but after a week or ortnight they disappeared in a manner which completely baffied the officers The l heory was that they had made their way 'ver here, but recently the French authori les received information from an English I ourist which led to the discovery that ompany of political conspirators have been or some time quietly ensconced in the dis r1ct Of Pau. It is said the Maire of the I ommune is of Irish descent, and that ! trough his influence and by other means ! he two parish gendarmes whose duty it was I 0 report the presence and movements of trange or suspicious individuals were in- uced to keep silence The group are, or Tere when word of their discovery was sent 9 Paris, together, but as the detectives i'm 1 nediately made for the place, it is likely | helr coming dispersed them. There is 1uch suggestion about the arrangements 1ade and the exploit decided on at the con erence.