Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-13

| Another murder mystery added to Con
neeticut's list. Murder doesn't "eut" much
in this State.
Some reformer has introduced bill in the
| New Jersey legislature which would make
wages due daily and would allow the collec-
| ton of interest at five per cent. week upon
| all wages unpaid for more than twenty-one
| days. 1t is not expected that this bill will
get through
"A Rhode Island man proposes to found a
| society whose sole object shall be the advoca-
cy of change of the ugly names so fire.
quently borne by villages. He believes that
| there is something actually immoral in such
names as "Bugtown," "Skunk Hollow and
''Woodchuckville." And he is more than
| half right.
A directory of nurses, such ~ has proved
successful in Boston and Philadelphia, is to
be organized in New York on the first of
March. Nurses are required to register
their names, age and experience, what par
tieular branch of nursing is performed,
| whether willing to undertake cases Of conta-
gious diseases, insanity, childbirth, the price
per day OF week and the references of family
physicians. The applications are tosbe ex-
amined by competent commission and a
| register of engagements will be kept, SO that
anyone seeking nurse can always find one,
or know just when a certain one can be Sc
cured. This is good idea for both the
nurses and the nursed
In the city of Memphis there are twice as
many white people as colored people, yet the
weekly record of mortality almost invariably
shows moro deaths of colored than of white
persons. The Memphis Appeal says that the
cause of this excessive mortality can be
traced chiefly to quackery. The negroes are
naturally supsrstitious and believe there is
more virtue IN con- juration than in medicine
and they cling to their superstitions and
seem to learn nothing by the fearful mortal
ity among their race. The negro quacks reap
a rich harvest on this credulity They have
a specific for every ailment, and, knowing
nothing about the disease, the cause and eff
feet, their remedy aggravates instead of cur
ing
Next to agriculture shipbuilding is declared
to be the most depressed interest in England
vastly overdone Offers to build are made it
is said, at the lowest prices ever known at
least forty per cent. lower than two years
ago, and even this great reduction secures
few orders. From 1880 to 1888 there were
added 3,010,76 steam tons, and as each
steam ton equals three sail tons in transport
ing effectiveness it will be some time before
even the existing feet can find occupation. /
Iron shares in the depression, since of late |
years almost all shipbuilding is of iron Dur
ing the last year there were added 2s, $50
tons in thirty eight wooden vessels and l.
OBS, ,272 tons in 769 iron vessels. Exports of !
all kinds of iron have been small and de-
crsasing in value Almost every country ex-
cept Russia has lessened its requirements.
and the United States, which in 1888 de-
creased its imports of English iron, has made
still further large reduction in 1884 In
1889 there were made 3,0o8, ,176 tons. yalue
e13, ,647, ,937; in 1888 e,s23, ,4S4 tons. value
912, 1876, ,Ss7; in 1884 1926, ,2ss TOMS. value
e9, OBJ ,7O1. This shows falling off in value
since 1882 of es, ,596, 1856, or more than one
fourth
Civilization has led to the invention of the
telescope and other means of assisting eye
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