Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-14

1 well. The metal cylinders might be worn in
 the hat and the sounds be conveyed to the
 ear by wires There would be no more cases
 of blinded eyesight from pouring over miser-
 able books, the old quarrel between physical | and intellectual development would disap- pear, for s'the good genius of humanity in
 his metal box would accompany men to the ! moor and the fields and the ditch. The wea- | " learning of an unphonetic written Ian ! guage could be neglected and precious years I of our lives would be saved from waste l Foreign languages would be learned with 1 far greater ease, for wherever a book was there the spoken language would be.
 Royal visits to Ireland have been more ire ! quent during the present reign than in any previous period in the history of the island | George ". went to Dublin on the 11th of August, 1891, and stayed till the 18th of l September. That was the first royal visit for | 8 couple of generations. The next was made by the Queen herself, who has now been three \ times in Ireland. Her first visit was in Au- gust, 1s49, when the Queen, the Prince Con ! sort and their children made tour and court was held in Dublin castle. The next \ ! dustrial exhibition was being held in Dub lin. The last time the Queen was in the ! Irish capital was in August, 1861, when she and Prince Albert spent the last week of that month in the sister island. The Prince of Wales had been in Ireland at the end of the previous June He was there again to open the Dublin international exhibition in May, 1865. Three years later, in April, 1868, the Prince and Princess of Wales paid visit to Ireland and were received in Dublin on the 18th of April with remarkable out burst of enthusiasm. The last visit of the
 Prince of Wales was at the opening of the royal agricultural exhibition on August 1, 1871.
 Several important changes in the postal laws will take effect on the first day of next July. The limit of weight for single rate letters is raised from half an once to one ounce. This applies to drop letters at all offices as well as to other letters. Any letter weighing not more than one ounce will after the last day of June, require only two cents postage, if it's destination is anywhere in the United States, or, we suppose, Canada. But the change does not apply to foreign letters, whose weight for a single rate of postage is still limited to half an ounce. Newspapers sent from the office of publication or from a news agency to actual subscribers, or to another news agency, will pay at the rate of one cent pound, a reduction of one-half cent 6 pound Any article in a newspaper or other publication may be marked for obser- l vation otherwise than by written or printed l words, without increase of postage Another change of importance introduces 6 new fea- | ture of the postal delivery system. A spec ial stamp sold at ten cents may be issued, l which when attached to any letter entities it | to immediate delivery at any place within the | carrier limit of any free delivery office, or | within mile of any other office designated | IS special delivery office, provided that | such letters shall only be delivered between | o'clock a. m. and midnight. These special | deliveries are not to bs allowed to interfere l in any way with the regular delivery system.
 The Maryland Court of Appeals decides l that pool selling is not gambling within the meaning of the penal laws of that State. The | court admits that pool selling would be a l violation of the law if the buyers of tickets | were playing game of chance, but holds | that such is not the character of the scheme. 1 Gain or loss, says Judge Bryan, is determin- ed not by chance, but by the success of the | chosen horses. And he further reasons thus: The object of purchasing these tickets was to wager money on certain horse races. No ordinary interpretation of language would describe their conduct as the playing of game. When man hazards his money on the rise or fall of prices of stocks, cotton grain or other commodities it cannot, in the | proper use of language, be said that he is playing at game of chance, nor can the place where such ventures are made or regis tered be designated as gaming table, Bets are made and money hazarded on many of the uncertainties and contingencies of life, but in thecommcn use of language these trans actions not called games of chance The contingency on which these appellants wa gered their money was the result of a race. In one event they would win, in another they would lose. It may be said that many clements of uncertainty were involved in the wager by reason of the various combinations which might be made in the pools. But nevertheless the thing which was to deter mine gain or loss was the success of the horses chosen. If by any singular subtlety of discourse horse race could be shown to be game of chance, by the same reason we must hold it was played on the racecourse and that the horses were the players.