Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-04

It is a significant fact that southern orders for "Garrison's Life" are unexpectedly large.
 The New York Board of Trade has again endorsed the Lowell bankrupt bill. Now what is wanted is the endorsement of Con grsss.
 There is a good deal of fraud about Chi eago. For instance, the health commissioner reports that only about one-tenth of the but ter sold in that city is the genuine article.
 The report that the President in his mss- sage will make some recommendation regard ing constitutional amendment giving the right of suffrage to women is ''fshy." Still, nobody can tell what the President will do.
 At recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Medicine French naval surgeon gave an account of the practice of transfusion of blood in cholera cases at Toulon. The ope- rations were performed during the state of collapse and they proved successful in IS cases out of 45. The transfusion of l. 300 to 2,000 grammes Literally effected a resurrec- tion, but unhappily in the majority of cases the patients did not permanently recover"
 The Jordan Valley canal scheme, which has been discussed in desultory sort of way for the past twenty years, is again being forced into public notice. The Italian con su1 at Jerusalem is declaring that it is highly practicable and would be of immense and is not stated "Chinese" Gordon earnestly advocated the scheme because it would fulfill the prophecies of Ezekiel and hasten the bat tie of Armageddon, where Cog, Prince of Rhos. Mashech and Tubal, is to be over thrown.
 The new winter overcoats for the Philadel- phia police have stripes on the sleeves, indi- eating in all cases where such is the fact that the bearer has served in the United States army, and also the length of service on the police force A single strip of narrow red braid encircling the sleeve above the wrist designates the veteran soldier, and light blue braid stripe is conferred for each three years of police service. One member of the reserve corps, who has been 8 patrolman for twenty-seven years, has quite row of stripes. The police of Boston and New York are re- ceiving similar decorations.
 It was foreseen years ago that California would produce ten times as much fruit as would meet the wants of local consumption. That point is now believed to have been reached, yet fruit culture is still in it's infan- cy there. The only limit to production seems | to be the foreign demand and fruit growers | are anxiously casting about to find markets for their crops. They have held several con | ! Jxr,,1I hold another. It is expected that they will be enabled te send two freight trains of fruit \ per week to the eastern markets next year and if the business is pooled it can be made l profitable, otherwise not. The element of cooperation is essential to success.
 1 A Scotch cobbler, described briefly as a notorious offender, has passed his life in a certain village without being converted The other day Forfar magistrate sentenced him to fine of half a crown or twenty-four ] hours imprisonment. If he chose the latter he would be taken to the jail at Perth. The cobbler communed with himself. 'Then I'll go to Perth" he said. q have business in the town, at any rate." An official con-
 veyed him by train to Perth, but when the prisoner reached the jail he said that he would now pay the fine. The Governor found that he would have to take it. "And now," said the cobbler, "I want my fare
 home" The Governor demurred, made in
 quiries, and discovered that there was no al
 ternative; the prisoner must be sent at the
 public expense to the place he had been
 brought from.
 Boycotting has cropped out queerly g
 Queenstown. A while ago an association O
 cattle dealers belonging to the Nationa
 league called upon the City of Cork Stean
 Packet company to refuse transportation ol
 their vessels to cattle brought to them flo
 shipment by dealers not members of tn
 league and acknowledging its authority. Tn
 company took counsels opinion, were ad vised that as common carriers they could nc
 comply with this demand without forfeitin
 their franchise, and replied accordingly Then the league dealers boycotted them an