Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-08

franc man in Brussels can converse for five minutes with friend or business cor l respondent in Antwerp or Liege. An extra
 ten cents will give him the use of the wire
 for an additional five minutes The offices
 are to be kept open night and day; though
 after 3 in the evening the rates are doubled The important question of the availability
 of electricity for lighthouse illumination has
 been brought good way towards solution
 by the experiments and inquiring of the French scientist A1lard The results, arrived
 at from actual tests, apparently, are that
 while an electric light has not in any state of the atmosphere the penetrating power of an
 oil light of equal candle power, and is pro portionately less valuable as the weather l thiekens, it can in practical use be seen much | farther than oil in any atmosphere. Thus the mineral oil light at Dunkirk, France, which is of 6,250 candle-power, is in clear weather visible 32 miles, while an electric 1 light of 125, ,000 candles can be seen 46 miles. 1 But in partly cloudy weather the electric l light can be seen but two miles and half
 farther than the oil, and in heavy fogs only
 half mile farther
 In consequence of the complaints of vic ! timized tfadesmen, some of the foreign ena- bassies in Paris have determined to keep a register of their compatriots residing in Paris,
 and Q compilation of the different registers
 will be published monthly Nor are the Parisian tradesmen the only persons who will benefit. It will have the effect of excluding from great society adventurers
 who make their way On the strength of the 1 high sounding titles. Last winter, it seems,
 three or four such individuals, whose ante- cedents prove to have been most disreputa- 1 'ble, were constantly to be seen in the most 1 select drawing rooms of the Faubourg St. ] Germain. Two of these fprinces have
 since been "wanted" by the Austrian police,
 and their hostesses of the Faubourg have
 learned, to their great horror, that one of 1 them was for long time a garcon de bain in 1 Pesth, and the other croupier in casino. 1 A Lyons (France) doctor, who gravely pre-
 tends that he can make unhappy homes hap l py by destroying envy, malice, hatred, jeal ] ousy, avarice, obstinacy, and 50 on, relates
 at length in work which he has just
 brought out many marvellous instances |
 of people are improved by intelligent ho-
 meopathic treatment He tells the world l how a morose, violent husband, after syste- matically in-using his wife for a period of
 sixteen years, was rendered as gentle a l lamb and cured of his defect of character, quite unconsciously, merely by few glob- ules of nux vomica dropped by his wife into his soup plate. Again hard hearted, ava rieious father, who was breaking his daugh- l ter's heart by refusing his consent to her
 marriage with the young man of her affec- l tions, on account of the latter's poverty, af- 1 ter being dosed, unknown to himself, with l globules of another kind, not only gave the
 required consent, but, stranger still, hand-
 some dowry into the bargain. By another
 medicine, student who had failed repeated. l ly to pass examination in mathematics
 succeeded where he had previously failed.