Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-10

false light. The bishop declines to change his own view, but gives the dean leave to ex- culpate himself by publishing the core spondence.
 The Swedenborgians have built in the university quarter of Paris, beside the Lycee Henry ", small temple known as the New Jerusalem. Adjoining it is library re- str1cted to the works of Swedenborg and the commentaries thereupon of his chief disci- ples. A lady attired in black receives vis- itors and keeps watch over the books The number of fSwedenborgians in France is very small and has shown a dimfnution for many years. At one time all the officers of the Twenty-third regiment of the line became converts to Swedenborgianism
 The use of telephones in France is fast in- creasing In that country there are 5,535 subscribers, while Germany has only 4,OO0 The cost of subscription in France is 200
 francs per annum, but this is reduced to ITO francs in places where there are over 300 subscribers. The manufacturing towns of Lille, Roubaix and Turcoing are now con- nected by telephones and the average num- Der of messages per day between the two latter places is 657 The largest num- Der of subscribers to the telephone system in proportion to the size of the town is in Rheims, which is connected by wire with Troyes and St. Quentin. While Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux have only 14 subscribers to each 10000 inhabitants, Rheims has 23, Calais % and Havre IS. Berlin has but g. and Brussels II, in the same proportion. A telephone system has been .inaugurated at Mons, in Belgium, by which the inhabitants of the coal districts of the Borinage can com- municate with Brussels, Antwerp, Charleroi, Liege and Verviers.
 The Hartford Courant wants it under stood that Hartford has not, after all, much interest in the defeat of the biennial sessions amendment. It says: Free passes over rail roads take the members home daily as a gen eral thing, and the hotels and boarding houses see very little of them. It may be true that ''seven (fve) years of agitation" of the measure since the defeat of the amend ment in 1879 has made EFthe manifest econo- my' of the change clear, though as there has been no agitation whatever, and the whole 
 of the State hardly knew there was an amendment pending till it passed the last legislature, there may be possible doubt about it. However, let the experiment be tried If it works well so much the better Hartford it ought to be understood, has had no selfish interest in the matter during any part of the discussion; and if all the blessings promised to taxpayingi interests come Hart ford will have far more occasion-from the wealth of it's grand list and the great capital of it's corporations-to rejoice than any other section of thrice it's population in the State.
 Florence has been stirred up by trial for murder resulting from duel between Pro- lessor Parrini, law editor of the Gazetta d'Italia, and M. Dewitt, wealthy banker at Livorne. The former had written to his pa- per report of the trial of one Vittoria Ven turini, an adventures, who had defrauded a number of persons of about 100000 francs. Among the names of her alleged victims was NJ. De Witt, who at once went to Florence and challenged the professor to duel with sabres, in which Farrini was killed. The banker took refuge in France and afterward fled to Venice under an assumed name. On being arrested and brought to trial he said that he had tried to avoid killing his adver- sary, that his doctor and witnesses examined every wound and that he himself had ban daged the professors arm. One of the doc tors testified that though each wound was trIfling the number no doubt caused death, but there did not seem to be danger enough to warrant stopping the duel. His testimony being confirmed by the dead mans physician the jury acquitted the accused