Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-21

specie payments in 1879, see such a renewal of confidence and awakening in construc- tive enterprise that congress, when it reas- sembles, would not dare to legislate for the continuance of that dishonest coin.
 A writer in the St. James Gazette says that the leaders of the English bar make very large incomes. But, he adds, I doubt if at this moment there is any man who is really making more than e2O,0 It is within my knowledge that the late MT. Ben jamin considered it very good. average year men at present, without mentioning names, who certainly make more than did MT. Ben- jamin, who was not greedy over fees, and who would not take cases to wLich he could not attend. Other men are not so scrupul- ous; and dare say there may be five and twenty counsels who are clearing from e10, 900 to e20, 900 year. There are at least twice as many who will be making from @, 900 to $10,00O If incomes of this kind were not to be made, few men of talent would go to the bar at all. But little mod crate calculation will show these seventy five prosperous gentlemen earn nearly e7O0,- 900 year, to be deducted from the averages of their struggling brethren.
 A native surgeon, M. Nursimu1a, has writ ten letter to the editor of the Times of h. dia, from which it would appear that he has treated successfully case having all the symptoms of hydrophobia. The treatment adopted was the subcutaneous injection of 8 sixteenth of grain of atropia. The breath ing became infrequent d2 per minute), and the pulse showed to the rate of 50 per min ute. A quarter of grain of morphia was injected hypodermically antidote to the atropia and this was repeated several times. The symptoms disappeared the third day af ter the onset of the malady. The patient was soldier, aged twenty four, who had been bitten by dog the week before the symptoms resembling hydrophobia appeared. The Lancet comments thus on this case: ''If the case were one of hydrophobia, it must be allowed that the period of incubation was very short; the dog is not stated to have been mad, and it must not be forgotten that the presence of symptoms closely resembling if not identical with hydrophobia, do not prove that the case was one of genuine rabies"
 The board of fire underwriters of the city of Boston has under consideration 8 plan for ' abating, as far as possible, the fire losses of Boston. The mill mutual insurance com panies-that is, those mutual insurance com panies that write policies cotton and woolen mills, paper factories and the like have succeeded in reducing the fire losses tc 8 very low percentage, so low, indeed, that q cotton mill, ordinarily looked upon risk quite likely to be destroyed by fire, has be come less liable in this way than ordinary city warehouse. Now, this end has been largely obtained as the result of careful periodical inspection of risks, and the en' forcement upon their owners o necessary re- straints to guard against the outbreak of fires, A proposition is now under consideration to have all of the mercantile and manufactur- ing risks in Boston examined quarterly in this same manner, compelling the owners of property who maintain 1t in dangerously J defective condition to correct the defects the compulsion taking the form either oi large advances in their rates of premium or of the cancellation of policies by those who are insuring them.