Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-26

A man has been fined one cent in Rich- mond, Virginia, for sending challenge to a duel. Cheap enough.
 The partition of Turkey is an event which has for some time sesmed to be inevitable It will take place to-day.
 "In the midst of life we are in death." The suddenness of the death of the Vice Pres ident of the United States is startling re- hinder of the fate that awaits us all
 Horse ears in Brazil are called ''bonds," from peculiar circumstance, which illus trates how words can be popularized. When started by some Americans the bonds of the and everyone talked Of them When the horse cars, or mule cars, arrived they appro- priated the name of bonds.
 A slender little vessel which is to be launched from a shipyard at Brooklyn in a few days IS an object of great curiosity to gineers, scientific men, naval officers and others. The builders promise that it will go through the water rocket goes through the air. The strictest secrecy is maintained with regard to her interior, but it is under stood that the continuous explosion of gases will take the place of steam as motive power, and this method is expected to prove a tre- mendous advance upon the old methods of propulsion.
 N. Pasteur thinks that bisulphide of car bon will become the most eficacious of all antisePtics, as it is also the cheapest, costing but a fraction of penny per pound in large quantity. It is likewise the best insecticide 1 known, and for this purpose may, it is thought, be useful for preserving woodwork 1 in tropical countries. Some idea of the use l fl is already put to may be gathered from the ! fact, stated, that more than 5000, ,OOO l pounds of the substance are used annually to check the ravages of phylloxera. Carbon bisulphide, as produced, though an extreme l ly offensive compound in respect to odor, is capable of complete purifcation.
 l The English parliament has passed an act 1 putting it out of the power of landowners on l whose soil any important ancient monument rests to deface or destroy the same. General Pitt Rivers has made tour of Great Britain l and the isles, and in cases not covered by the 1 act has sought to rouse the interest of land owners in preserving such objects. About l half the owners of the monuments mentioned in the act have gladly availed themselves of | it's provisions; others resented the intrusion l of governme as an insult to themselves; g few declined to submit because the monu ments were leased to others, and there was no provision for payment in case the con- | tracts were violated. For some reason the | Tc1a nfM ot ha of the act, and it is proposed that the legis lature of the island should follow the exam pie of England and Ireland.
 The ladies of Japan show not less readiness to adopt western ideas and usagss than tht Japanese of the other sex. The bellies oi Ysdo order dresses iron. Paris, and the prog ress of imitation has gone so far as to make knowledge of the fashionable dances of Eu rope an indispensable feature in the educa tion of every Japanese lady who respects her self A riding school is about to be opened 1 in Yokohama exclusively for the of na tive ladies', and it promises to be largely pa tronized The Japanese government is abou to take step which will have the effect O bringing the more solid branches of wester1 education within reach of the female subjects of the Mikado A number of young wome1 are about to be sent to Europe to receive thorough training in the essential branches of female education as it is understood there with 6 view to their subsequent employmen as teachers in their own country when quail fled.
 It appears from 8 report just furnished t. the Academy of Science by M. Girard, .h
 chief of the Paris municipal laboratory, tha
 the production of genuine brandy has almos
 ceased in France. During the decade 1840-5
 the quantity of alcohol annually distilled il
 the country averaged some 25 5,000,0 ,000 gal
 Ions, seven eighths of which was obtained
 from wine. In 1883, though the quantity o
 spirits manufactured had more than doubled
 not quite half million gallons were the dis titled juice of the grape Most of the alcoho
 now produced is made from grain but eel tain proportion of it is obtained from tn
 distillation of cider and perry, and even beet
 root, molasses and potatoes are made to fu1
 nish spirit, though of very inferior kind
 M. Girard says that the grain spirit would b
 fairly wholesome if it were sufficiently rect
 fed; but this is, it appears, never the case
 As for the other forms of alcohol enumerated
 they are one and all charged with poisonou clements of the most deadly character