Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-07

children: Children of the age of from 10 to 12 years are only permitted to work during the day in certain specified industries. Chil- dren from 12 to 15 years are to be allowed to
 do night work in spinning and textile
 factories, as we'll as in glass works. Work is formally forbidden to children under 15 years in the following branches of industry,
 among others, in mills where lambs wool,
 felt, hair, feather, and down are worked up:
 In bleaching works; in washing, bleaching,
 and dyeing; in cloth mills, near fulling, tas-
 selling, and shearing machines; in printing
 and dyeing works; in all unhealthy work in
 eolors; in skin and parchment works, except in some safe employments; in vanishing
 leather, in grinding bones, in carbonic and turpentine products; in potteries and china
 works-for the preparation of material, turn
 ing, engraving, polishing, and baking
 (moulding is authorized); in works where lime and alabaster are fred
 Silk manufacturing, under protection, has
 grown wonderfully in this country, the most
 remarkable increase being from 1870 to 1880, when it was 250 per cent This country stands second now in this branch of indus
 try, France ranking first, and promises to
 lead before 11e xalue of the silk aaarz-
 ufacture of 1880 was s41 ,O33, ,O45, New Jer- sey leading with $17, 122, ,230, while New
 York followed with $10, ,170, 40, Connecticut
 $5, ,981 ,000, Massachusetts S3, 764 ,260, and
 Pennsylvania $3,491 $40. A number of
 branches of the industry received special |
 tably gros- grain dress silks and handker-
 chiefs, while silk tapestry and similar goods
 are products of the last six years. With the growth of local manufacture the importation of foreign silks had fuctuated and of late years fallen off, the decline from 1882 to 1883 being S6,314,O69, while the decrease will be still greater this year. Meanwhile the Importation of raw silk has increased, and this country is now considered the best market in the world.
 A Buffalo gentleman who has known Cleveland long and intimately thus speaks of one phase of his character: Another one of his peculiarities is that matter how hard people work for him, or to advance his inter ests, he never feels the slightest gratitude or looks upon himself as under any obligation to them on account of their labor or suffering on his behalf, because he feels and believes that they simply have done their duty, and that they feel so, and that if they did less they would be guilty of doing a great wrong to themselves. Every man who helps him, and works for him, and spends money for him, he considers amply repaid for his trouble because he has had the privilege of doing such an act, and such thing as reward for services rendered he never thinks of bestow- ing except where they will tend to further or strengthen his desires and aid in increas- ing his ''comfort." The disappointment and sufferings of others are of no importance to him except to the extent that they may in- jure his own feelings and diminish his en- joyment, especially if they are so situated that what is happening to them would tend to lessen their usefulness to him.
 The most conspicuous object in the vast structure to be used when the electrical exhi- bition opens in Philadelphia is the fountain which stands in the center of the floor of the main Gothic arch. The brick walls to con tain the water stand about four feet above the floor and enclose & circle twenty feet in diameter. There are about a dozen little brick apartments around this wall to contain Illuminating apparatus. A jet of water will be thrown from each. A lens will be placed at the bottom of the pipe, through which strong electric light will be reflected in the column of water. The pipe will be curved so as to throw the water toward the center, and the light may also be said to flow through the curved pipe, as it is reflected by the water and continues to illuminate the jet until it breaks up and begins to fall. There will be a dozen jets, each illuminated with differ ent colored light. These jets will gush forth as flaming liquid, and will present beauti- full appearance, particularly at night. Rising high in the center of the fountain will be a stone column, which will be crowned with a basket of flowers and plants. There will also be two rows of flower beds around the foun tain