Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-20

1 An Eris, Pennsylvania, woman whipped | late at picnic that she herself fell dead from the exertion. It isn't best to whip children too hard.
 1 Colonel Plympton, the chairman of the I Massachusetts Democratic State committse | 1y disgusted at the prospect that the dis Rruntled foes of MT. Blaine will come out i openly for the Democratic nominees. ''Why," :" says Colonel Plympton, 'I left the Republf- cans just to get rid of those people, and if 1 they are coming into ths Democratic party 1 with the purpose of dictating it's nomination, | I shall feel like getting out"
 The London Standard makes the following ! pathetic complaint: The doctors have made life almost not worth living with their pre- ! cautions against it's bsing prematurely cut short The air is laden with germs, the l earth exudes poison, the sixpencss we handle 1 contain the seeds of zYnotie plaques, the ! very cat that we stroke may have passed from typhus patients bedroom to bear on l it's fur the messenger of death next door. And now we are told that we smell GIoire I our buttonhole may in the course of half an hour impart hay fever to 8 carriage full of railway travellers.
 1 The Spanish and French governments, l after long negotiations, have agreed to au- l thorize the construction of two different railroads across the Pyrenees. The first will prolong the Madrid and Saragossa line by l way of Huesca and Canfranc to 8 tunnel four l kilometres long at Sompart, and thence will go to OIoron, in France This will be the i shortest route from Paris to Madrid, and the line will possess great importance for Aragon and the Ebro Valley. The second line will | cross the mountains from Lerida by the val l leys of Noquera and Pallaresa to 8 tunnel 1 three Kilometres long at Solanut, where it 1 will enter Francs in the Department of Ariegs.
 The street known as the s'Victor Emmanu. el Gallery" in Milan, is protected by
 glass roof, which includes large dome at considerable height from the ground. This a
 night is lighted by gas. To overcome the diff
 culties and danger connected with the lighting
 of the numerous jets, the following arrange
 ment has been introduced: tramway ha
 been laid parallel with the gaspipe supply 1 on this runs little electro-motiye engine
 such as may be purchased as models at th' ] shops of philosophical instramsnt dealers . This miniature engine carries spiTit-spong. lamp, with burner standing alright angles tt
 the side Of such length that the lighted wicl
 passes over the upstanding gas jets. On tn
 gas being turned on to the supply tubes th
 engine is started on it's journey around tn
 dome, and as it progresses the escaping ga l is lighted.
 The effect that the disappearance of for
 ests has upon climate receives new illustra tions every day. In Italy the clearing of tn
 Apennines is believed to have seriousl,
 changed the climate of the Pc valley, ant
 now the African sirocco, never known to thu armies of ancient Rome, breathss it's hot
 blghting breath over the right bank of tn
 river in the territory of Parma. The remova f | of the pine forests near Ravenna induced tn
 same desoiating wind; and the same 6estruc ? tion of the old forests of Vosges and of tn
 Csvennes has had like dsteriorating influence
 upon the climate. In Egypt, wkere darin
 the French occupation in 179S not drep c Ealu 10lI IOE sl4bGGu mOnLns, Auu Wp0HO HUI r time immemorial the country has been . rainIess bed of sand, Aohanmed Ali, D planting his millions of fig and orange trees l has seen his country blessed with an annuG
 rainfall of several inches,
 A curious lawsuit :. ..-
 giving the art circl'
 -sels something to talk about. IT = well-known painter Alfred Stevens was F
 gently nominated officer of the Dutch Ordt F of the Lion, but the Foreign office sent tt ," decoration by mistake to the artists nam 4 sake, Agapit Stevens. On discovering i ;. mistake the Foreign office requested the r' b cipient to return the order. NJ. Agapit St, 70 Vens, however, declined te do so, saying ths b. his reputation as an artist was involved 0, the matter, and that his works fully entitle
 him to such distinction as the Order of tt
 Lion. In the meanwhile Alfred Stevens d.
 manded energetically his lost decoration
 and in this dilemma the Foreign office applia It to the Minister of Justice, who informe
 Agapit Stevens that the government had ii