Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-27


 nity of passers-by would seem to indicate that the population of Chicago is rather sparse
 Apprenticeship in it's old form being a thing of the past Providence 1nan-Mr Charles Fletcher of the Providence wersted mills-has been experimenting on new sys- tenn, which he has adopted after two years trial, and his plan may be of interest else where. He engages boy for three years The GTat year he pays him $3 week, and at the end of year, though careful to come un- der no obligation to do so, gives the boy, if he has been faithful and useful, a purse of $50 It is an incentive to the boy to do his best. The second year the boy is paid $5 8 week, with the same prize to work for. The third year he gets $6 and has the same chance for another $50. After that he is put on a regular job if deserving, given another years trial, or allowed to go elsewhere. One thing Mr. Fletcher hopes to gain is American over seers, who are more progressive and better adapted to dealing with the help, with whom they have fewer difficulties than foreign overseers do. And he also thinks the prac- tice of young Americans in focking into mills for anything they can earn, regardless of the future, and as unable as unwilling to learn all the details of 8 business and fit themselves for promotion, is suicidal to American interests.
 The United States now ranks third in the list of beer-producing countries of the world Although its breweries are few in number compared with those of other countries, she yet makes two-thirds as much beer as Eng land, whose breweries are almost ten times as many. Eugland is at the head of all beer producing countries, with 27,000 breweries and product of 990, ,000, GOO gallons annual ly, while Germany, with 25,0O0 breweries, makes 900,000,000 gallons yearly The United States, with only 5000 brew cries, makes about 600, 900, 900 gallons per annum. Then comes France, with 5000 breweries and production of 157, 800, 900 gall Ions, and Austria and Hungary, with 2, 2,O93 breweries, but production of 280, GOO, ,O00 Belgium has 1 1850 breweries, which produced last year 210,25o,0 ,00O gallons; Holland, ,520 breweries, producing 34 ,000, ,000 gallons; Rus sia, 480 breweries, producing 5000, 900 gal Ions; Switzerland, 423 breweries, producing 13, ,500, 900 gallons Denmark, 250 breweries, producing 2s,OO0,OOO gallons; Sweden, 220 breweries, producing 21, 1,000,000 gallons, and Italy, 150 breweries, producing only 4,000,- GOO gallons. Nearly 90,0O0 persons are en- gagged in brewing lager beer in the United States.
 The most prominent trace which the cholera epidemic of 1884 will leave behind it will probably be found in the ranks of the medical profession. It has rendered agree ment among doctors more hopeless than ever. Since the outbreak at Toulon almost every medical man in France has become either an ardent microbist or an equally ardent anti micrubist. Prior to this visitation the mi- erobists or bacillists were carrying all before them; but their theories sustained such rude shocks at Toulon, Marseilles, and quite re- gently in Paris, that the balance has clearly turned against them, and it is the anti-mi- crobists, the opponents of Dr. Koch, who are now shaping public opinion. The micrebists' theory of cholera propaga- tion rests mainly on the hypothesis that water is the agent that spreads the dis ease. Now, Paris is supplied with water from four different sources, and the cholera broke out almost simultaneously in Quarters the furthest removed from each other. and furnished with totally distinct water sup- plies. It was predicted that those who drank the Seine water would be the chief sufferers, owing to the extent to which it is oontani- mated. The prediction has not been verified The most yirulant outbreak was in the chsri- table institution kept by the SCOUTS hospital ieres, where over sixty inmates died in a few days. This home is supplied with the water of the Vanne-beyond all comparison the purest that is brought into Paris.