Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-29

micro-photographic reduction, about eight pages (octavo) of writing, which, by the hydro-oxygengas microscope, are reproduced in natural size
 Japan is made up of chain of volcanic mountains, and the arabic land of the en- pire is officially put at il, ,215,O 900 acres-less than one-half the area of the State of New York-and this is so fertile and thoroughly cultivated that it feeds population of ST. OOO, ,00O-about that of France. Rice is one of the principal crops, and of this some 100000, 900 bushels are raised annually Hand labor is generally used, and two or three crops year are raised on the same land. Artificial irrigation is general, being necessary over one-half of the cultivated land, and frequently the water is taken from streams from twenty to thirty miles distant The total number of horned cattle is 1,115,- 900, and of horses 1,605, ,0O0. Wood of all kinds is cheap and abundant, nearly all of the buildings being of timber, and wood con- stituting the principal fuel; the area of for est land is nearly three times as great as that under cultivation.
 The farmers of Connecticut are seriously troubled with cut-worms this year. An in teresting experiment has been tried with some of these villainous worms by Farmer Whaples, of Newington. MT. Whaples pro cured thirty live eut-worms. These he di- vided into companies of ten. For each ten he set six tobacco plants and covered them in tight box, first covering the plants in one case with powdered hellebore, soaking the roots in an infusion of that article The next lot he treated in the same way, using s'slug-shot" powder instead of .hellebore. The third lot he subjected to similar treat meRt with paris green-soaking the roots of the plants and after setting them showering the leaves with solution of that poison. Result: In the case of the plants treated with hellebore and 'Eslugshot'' every plant was found cut off and killed and the cut-worms as lively as ever. In the box where the paris green had been tried seven out of the ten cut-worms were found dead and the other three suffering with gastritis, while only one out of the six tobacco plants had been in- jared.
 The common council of Philadelphia will decide tonight whether net the Baltimore and Ohio railroad shall have the right of way through the city. Arguments have been heard at great length and by very able ceun- sel before committee, which is to report favorably. One strong point in favor of the permit is the fact that S7, ,0O0, 900 will be ex- pended in the necessary work and this will give employment to large humber of idle Phila lelphia workmen. On the bridge work alone, according to the engineers estimates, 200 carpenters and calkers will work at the caissons in addition to 400 stonecutters and masons, 400 laborers and about.1 ,000.meniwho will be yariously employed about the bridge, making a working force of 5000 men before the structure is finished. At the same time 1000 mere stonecutters and 1,S00 laborers will be placed at work on the road from Gray's Ferry road to Pennsylvania avenue One million four hundred thousand bricks are to be used in the arch of the tunnel. Four-ffths of all the necessary workmen will be taken from the city and permanent en- ployment will be given to 1000 men. The most dangerous argument, so to speak, against the plan is that the Pennsylvania railroad company is opposed to it.