Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-04

ndOE0 budn -AfC oAAOuooA1NA h0oeAAS from cholera have occurred in Spain, and the plague shows no signs of abating.
 There was good deal of nastiness about the campaign in this country last fall, but the campaign in England bids fair to be very much worse.
 Contributions to the Grant memorial fund come in slowly. There is evidently feeling that the people of New York ought to pay for the monument.
 There is going to be very interesting ex- hibition at Brockton, Massachusetts, where it is announced that 'ta car will leave both ends of the (street railroad) route at the same time.''
 Building railroads in Canada is expensive business. The Grand Trunk system, $500 miles long, cost $500, ,00O, 900, and the Cana dian Pacific, 4,00O miles long, is to be com pleted for s125, ,O09, 900. And there is no prospect that either of these roads will pay.
 In the British House of Commons all the members keep their hats on, and it is even irregular to address the Speaker uncovered The rule gave rise to an amusing scene the dress the chair on a point of order. To do so in accordance with the rules it was neces- sary that he should speak seated and cov- cred, but at the critical moment he was un- able to find his hat, and on addressing the Speaker uncovered was met with laughter and loud cries of s'Order." MT. Courtney then borrowed hat from @ member sitting near and stated his point.
 The San Jose (Califernia) Herald makes public some robust truth when it says: There are a few persons in the United States who seem to have persuaded themselves that a new order of aristocracy can be founded upon the single basis of incapacity to ac- quire property. Whoever is unable to make money shall be deemed entitled to whatever may be made by his neighbor. The fact that a man has nothing, if supplemented by the fact that he never had anything, shall be conclusive proof that he has been robbed, and of his right to take possession of the property of other people. Thus all stealing becomes restoration" :" all murder becomes "vindication of justice' and war on industri- ous, frugal and peaceful citizens becomes a s'recti6cation of wrong.
 MT, R. w. Perkins of Gundagal, New South Wales, arises and prophecies that the world will come to an end somewhere about 1887. First of all, he says, the Pope will be squelched. Then a period of Unparalleled persecution" will occur This will be fol- lowed by the overthrow of Mahometanism and of Greece and Persia, accompanied by the restoration of the Jews; and shortly af- terward Russia will be denuded ot all realm and sway under the avenging hand of Christ himself For scarcely shall the Jews have re-occupied Palestine than combined army under Russian command will in overwhelm- ing numbers assai1 the land of Israel and at tack Jerusalem, and when their triumph sp- pears complete and all hope seems lost to the chosen race, then like the fghtning's flash, swift on the Mount will Christ descend; then will the hills both quake and rend, while overhead the awful thunders roar.
 That excursions to the country are good for poor children who live in cities is strik- ingly shown by some facts collected in Louis vile, Kentucky. A series of excursions was begun there early in July which afforded a day of fresh air and of good food twice g l week to a much larger proportion of all the poor children under five years of age than has, perhaps, ever been reached in similar l way in larger cities. The excursions began on July 9th. Although from the 9th to the 25th the weather continued dangerously warm, there was an extraordinary decrease of infant mortality. For the week ending July 4tA forty-eight children under five years of age died; the next week, thirty-fve; the next, twenty-nine; the next, twenty-thr During the same weeks the number of these deaths caused by cholera infantum was re- spectively twenty-one, twelve, six and seven. The statement is made that no other cause is known for this decrease in the number of deaths than these excursions.
 The total production of wine in France in 1884 was 27, 5000 gallons less than in the previous year and 220,0O0,00o gallons less 1 than the average of the previous ten years Between 1888 and 1884 32 900 acres of vine yards were entirely destroyed by the phyllox- I era in the Gironde district alone. Since the 1 first appearance O the noxious insect the 1 area of vineyards entirely destroyed has beer l about S4 900 acres and that of vineyards l partially damaged as much as 126, ,0OO acres