Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-14

w. but this is story that great many will
not believe until they are obliged to.
The JOURNAL AND COURIER this morning
dons "a new dress" It will not show all its
beauties and excellencies for few days,
until it gets into good working order, but
our readers will, we believe, find it a decided
improvement.
The agricultural editor of the Hartford
Courant wants to know if anybody has seen
a rosebug this year. There are some in this
vicinity, but they are few in comparison
with the great number which plagued rose
growers last year.
Mr.. Blaine, it appears, was once good in
dependent editor himself, but it was when he
was young. His salutatory in the old Port
land Advertiser on the 29th of July, 1857,
written when he was 81 years old, announced
that he should hold a conservative course,
Gearing less for nominal distinctions of party
names than for the public good"
The Pail Mall Gazette ingenuously tells of a
warning it has received from an American
Democrat and free trader about the danger to
English interests from its articles attacking
Mr.. Blaine ''Such articles he said to the
guileless Pail Mall" by leading English pa
pers will have tendency through the
Irish vote to affect injuriously the Democrat
ic party and incidentally free trade"
An ingenious Australian has devised a
scheme for bringing down rain to order. The
concern is in the form of balloon, with a
6 4 10 ba hal
| loon is to be sent into the clouds and the dy-
Mantle is to be fred by a wire connecting
it with the earth. It is the intention of the
inventor, it is stated, to make trial of the
apparatus on the dry districts of New South
Wales.
The result of the new experiment in the
production of sugar from sorghum which Is
| to be made by the department of agriculture
will be awaited with interest. Forty thou
| sand dollars was appropriated by Congress
| for the erection of what is called a diffusion
machine which is to be constructed at once
| at Washington, Del, and sent to Ottawa,
Kans., and thoroughly tested. The machine
| has been successfully used in France in the
manufacture of beet sugar and great results
are expected from its operation upon sor-
| ghum. If successful the machine will turn
ont over one hundred tons of sugar per day,
and there is practically no limit to the
amount of sugar that can be produced in the
country since sorghum can be grown in all
sections of the North.
The San Francisco Call publishes a letter
from the military Grand Secretary of China
to certain wealthy Cinnamon of that city,
under the date of May 10, announcing the
intention of China to combat the French and
ordering tax on Chinese in America for the
imperial treasury. For this object $500, 900
| were sent to China on July 1, and like
| amount will be forwarded by the next steam
er. Another letter from the China Mer-
chants Steam Navigation company asserts
| that secret treaty was made in December,
| 1888, between Germany and China, whereby
the former will support the latter in war
with France. In return Germany is to re-
| ceive a sovereignty over the Island OF For
| mosa and to construct naval and military
stations at different points for the Chinese
| government.
The Treasury department has just issued
warrants which show that contesting seats IN
the national house of representatives. costs
the taxpayers quite as much as
it ought to. For the first ses-
sion of the present congress these allowances
have been made to members and those seek
ing their places: William E. English, 3d. 600
s. R. Peters, 81 900; Van Il. Manning, 50, ,Oo0
]. II. Wallace, 10000; Joseph E. Campbell,
s., 600; John Paul, $4,000; V. T. Frederick
$4,000; G. II. Craig, $1,s5O'aJ. E. Massey