Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-18
most 1oathsome word in the English 1an- guage." Has Mir. White been ''investing2''

most loathsome word in the English Ian-
 guage." Has Mir White been ''investing?''
 Dr. Edgar Holden publishes statistics
 which coincide in the main with the investi- 1 gations of the German board of health that
 the danger of dying of consumption after
 the age of twenty one practically increases as age advances Relatively more persons die of consumption between the ages of sixty five and seventy-fve than at any other period after twenty-one.
 In 1846 MT. Disraei told the people of England that in case the policy of protection was abandoned British agriculture would de- cay as 8 sequel to free trade It has decayed He said that England would become entirely dependent on foreign countries for her food supplies. She is thus dependent to-day He pointed out that, not being able to feed her self, she would be at the mercy of any power strong enough to cut off her food supplies from abroad; and that is exactly where she is to-day. Would free trade work any bet ter in this country than it has in Great Britain?
 Those who cannot yet travel fast enough will rejoice because there has lately been completed at the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad company at Wilkesbarre an engine which is expected to move a train at the rate of eighty miles an hour. The inventor has constructed his cylinders with fewer gridiron valves than usual and, by peculiar gear, makes the steam and exhaust pipes independ- ent of each other. The steam brake is also of original design. The weight of the engine and tender is about ITO, 900 pounds, and the engine is expected to show from 400 to l. 800 horse power. The officers of the Lehigh Valley railroad company are soon to test the capacity of the engine to keep up great speed while drawing heavy trains.
 An overproduction of quinine has caused very considerable decline in the price of the article The failure of the largest man ufacturers abroad was expected to cause a rise in prices, but it seems not to have done so much as to check the decline. Since the drug was put on the free list the production has fallen off in this country, and we are de- pendent foreign sources for our supply.
 
 the abolition of the duty has gone to Europe. The increase of production abroad conse- quent upon abolishing the protective duty here has stalled the market. It is said that forty per cent. of the entire product is used in this country
 Cremation would do as much good in Phil adelphia as anywhere in this country, for there the people cling to the outrageous practice of making burials i'll cemeteries that lie within the thickly settled portions of the city. Over three thousand bodies are thus deposited every year among the haunts of the living, and still it is impossible to convince the public that the health of the community must suffer from such violation of the most obvious sanitary law. To make the situa- ton still worse the large cemeteries, which receive the bulk of the bodies, were located with almost ineonceivable stupidity upon hillsides overlooking the Schuykill, from which the city gets its water supply, thus insuring it's contamination.
 MT. tfTim' Sullivan once got contract to furnish certain supplies for the new cap 
 his pay for them and signed written agree ment not to ask for more pay. Then he inn mediately went off and drew up claim. He had received $60,0OO. He wanted $500 more. One legislature passed the bill giving it to him, and Governor Cornell vetoed it. Bnt "Tim" persevered, and last winter the bill, increased to 1900, was again passed and sent to the governor, who happened to be Grover Cleveland. Cleveland approved it, though in the same bill he vetoed an ap to repay the architects for ad- E vances they had made for needed repairs, | ordered by the capitol commissioners. Hur- rah for Cleveland and Reform!
 If Benjamin Franklin were to come to life now he would be very much surprised at the fate which one of his benevolent plans has met He left 91, 900 sterling to Boston in his will to be loaned in small sums to young married mechanics under the age of twenty five who had served apprenticeship in Boston, had a good character, and could give bonds for the repayment of the money i in annual instalments. The changed condi- | tion of our mechanic class, the decay of the apprentice system and other causes have operated to make the bequest of no value to rules Dr. Franklin laid down. The fund now amounts to more than $290, ,000, and is at the rate of more than SIC, ,000 a year h