Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-19

An official census of China has recently been taken, and the population of the empire was found to be 280, ,OO0,O This isn't 400, COG, 900 or 500, COG, GOO, which used to be the figures for the population of China, but it is a large number.
 The growth of the city of Minneapolis is one of the wonders of the country and the times According to the report of the asses sors, just issued, the present value of her property is $94, ,963, ,520, which is gain of S29. .353, ,496 in real estate and $34, 714, ,669 personal property within the past two years. And she is but an infant municipality yet
 The president of the National Plumbers association at Chicago is out in card sug- gesting that the members of the association in every city tender their services an aux iliary sanitary board, under the direction of the local boards of health, to aid in warding off a cholera epidemic. This is good idea, but we are afraid it will not be well received by the ''funny men" of the press.
 Petroleum has a great many uses, and now it is said to be good for cholera. In Galicia there are many petroleum wells, and here 1t has been observed that the work-people have always enjoyed perfect immunity from chol- era even when it has broken out with great virulence in the district around them. This fact the peasants themselves attribute to the emanations from the petroleum laden soil, which, they say, kill the pestilential germ and all kinds of insects.
 The English city of Worcester has been ex- perimenting with Sunday opening" and finds the effects good. The town council 8 few weeks ago resolved to open the Hastings museum for three hours every Sunday after noon. It is found that, the institution is visited by more persons during these three hours than during the whole of the other days of the week. and that the visitors are nearly all of class who could not attend on a week day, while their behavior is,all that could be wished. &
 Noouet, the champion of divorce legisla- tion in France, is a Jew, whose ancestors came to France from Algeria. His wife is a Roman Catholic, and their children are brought up in that faith. In politics he has been ehanEeling. He began by publishing formulas foasssshe use of the 'FReds" who wanted to overthrow the Second Empire with pun-coAon. Afterward he belonged to the Scientific committee at Tours, and was responsible for the purchase of worn-out ar tillery from the United States. At Versailles he was eloss comrade of Louis Blanc, and he stuck like a leech to Gambetta in the days of that orators power. He is hunchbacked and gray -haired.
 The restoration of another of the famous Burgundian tapestries at Berne, part of the spoil taken by the Swiss at Grandson and Murten, has just been completed. The work was commenced some years ago by Fraulein Katharins Buhler, the sister of the heraldic artist Experts say that no one else could have executed the task so skillfully and rev erently Without some sort of attention the tapestry must have soon fallen to pieces; One of the companions, the tent-carpet of Charles the Bold, was restored about five years ago. These works afe judged to have been in part wrought at Arras, on the frontier of the in dustrial Flanders, and in part at Bruges. They are in wool, interwoyen with gold and