Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-29
Y MORNING. OCTOBER %, 1884.

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 Bismarck of tendency to obesity in thi
 way. Fat people have now their choice be l tween four systems: 1. The original Bant 1 ing, which consists of eating nothing con l taining starch, sugar or fat. 3. The German l Banting, which allows fat, but forbids suga or starch. 3. A Munich system, which con sists of being clothed in wool and sleeping il
 flannel blankets instead of sheets. 4. No ! eating and drinking at the same time.
 MT. St. John, who is now doing all he car 1 to hurt the Republican party, once though ] very well of that party. In acknowledg
 ment of his renominaton for governor o1
 Kansas in 1882 he said: The Republican party is party of the whole people. It extends 6
 helping hand to suffering humanity every where. It believes in morality and sobriety, paper currency worth one hundred cents on
 the dollar in every State, a tariff not for rev
 enue only but one that gives protection to
 American industry, such tariff as shall af-
 ford fair compensation to the laborer for
 his service faithfully rendered. Ut claims
 protection for all against monopoies or cor
 porations; that every man shall have right
 at the polls in shaping the laws. It means
 in Kansas that our State shall be kept in the
 front rank of the highest civilization
 Cottonseed has become very valuable ar
 ticle. There are three and 8 half pounds of
 the seed to every pound of fibre. More than 4,000, 900 tons are produced annually, but
 notwithstanding the rapid increase in the number of mills, only ten per cent of the seed is crushed, the rest being largely thrown away. ton of seed yields 35 gallons Of oil, 22 pounds of cotton and 75O pounds of cake, used for fattening cattle The value of these products is $19. The oil is largely used for making fine soaps, and when refined properly, can hardly be distinguished from olive oil, which it is superseding for many purposes. The hull of the seed constitutes about one-half it's bulk, and it is found that the hulls supply fuel sufficient to operate the mills. Not pound of coal is needed. After the burning, the ashes are highly valued as fertilizer. The oil is also easily convertible into glycerine, as has been demonstrated by actual manufacture, though it has not been followed up to any great extent. Taken all in all, there are few raw materials which work up more closely and proftably than cettonseed. Its manufactured products now reach $8,000,000 annually, being about double what they were four years ago.
 The Harvard college students who are to participate in the Republican demonstration in Boston on Thursday have invented some very striking costumes. The seniors will promenade in long black gowns, with cri1n- son belts. The juniors will show a blue and white swa1low-tailed coat with "'86' on the back in large letters, and trousers of the same material. The sophomores will wear a long black ulster trimmed with an orange; while the freshmen will appear in 8 species of State prison garb, comprising Q short jacket, half red and half white, and panta- looms, one leg of each of the aforesaid coIors All classes will wear the regulation plug hat, marked with the year of their class. Other attractions will mark the detachment First to deserve mention is the police squad, numbering thirty six men, one row of the smallest men that can be had, one of medium sized, and one of tall men. These keepers of the peace will wear red polieemen's hats, blue t'Prince Albert'' coats and white panta- 1oons The drum corps, numbering some fifty, and composed of talented artists on the drum, clappers, bones and fife, will appear in full Turkish costume under the lead of their drum major, MT. T. E. Winslow, 'S5. Last, but not least, come the Harvard brass band, who have been practicing with com mendable diligence this fall, and have suc- ceeded in largely increasing their repertoire I'M. Il. m ish trousers and blue stockings. The cos tune of the Law school contingent will be black judges gowns and wigs.
 Mr W. Oldham Chambers, secretary of the National Fish Culture association, re- gently conducted an interesting experiment. in the presence,of several gentlemen at South Kensington, London. Taking two Prussian carp from the tanks of the aquarium, he de- posted them in separate dry cans, adorning one with blue ribbon to distinguish it from the other, which was selected for the ad- ministration of spirituous liquors After a lapse of four hours the fish were placed in water, evident signs of expiration being ap- parent in both cases. A small quantity of brandy and water was then given to the carp selected TOT the lLuDlD1JlOl 1QCOX1Cat1ng liquors through the medium of a feather, and no sooner was the fish replaced in water than it was quickly restored to vigor and strength. The carp enlisted under the ban, ner of the FfBlue Ribbon League' to all ap- pearances died half an hour after it's more fortunate associate, and was taken out of the water and thrown on the ground. About four hours later, however, the fish was picked up by NIT. Chambers, who observed it by ap- pearance to be in rigor mortis. He at once operated on the seemingly inanimate fish by opening it's mouth and pouring dose of brandy and water down it's throat and again putting it in the water, when, to his aston ishment, he noticed slight signs of anima- ton. For five minutes the unfortunate ob- ject of the experiment hoated helplessly on it's side, when presently, to the still greater amazement of Mir. Chambers and those who watched the experiment, it gradually assert ed itself in the water, and, with considerable effort, made use of its fins, feebly at first, but afterward energetieally. Both the re- suscitated fishes, who show no signs of their late prostration, are now in the tanks as usual.