Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-16


 advocate in the Senate the extension of sui frage to women and the ownership of the telegraph as postal agency by the United States.
 A number of ladies and gentlemen who are interested in the development of school of American opera have founded a musical conservatory in New York city. Success to the scheme. The people of this country have enriched enough foreign artists to be entitled to few native ones
 Professor Sabeth, s. J., in letter to the Medical Record, declares, upon the authority of the holy office of the Inquisition at Rome, that anyone who performs the operation of craniotomy-by which the unborn child is destroyed to save the life of the mother-in the guilt of homicide. The holy office and Professor Sabeth think it better that sF sved which ii' viii strike most people as very wise and humane.
 A set of rules has been published by the Russian government on the education and qualification of dentists. AS evidence of a sufficient preliminary education they must
 
 of 8 classical or commercial gymnasium Their professional studies may be carried out either in universities or in private institu- tions approved by university authorities. At the end of the period of studentship, the length of which does not appear to be de- fined, practical and theoretical examination must be passed and diploma obtained.
 In the recent scientific experiments on the effect of cold two frogs were frozen solid in a temperature of about 20o Fahrenheit and kept in that condition for half an hour On thawiDg slowly they recovered perfectly, but it was found that longer periods of exposure invariably killed the animals. The expert ment was tried of freezing dramatically sealed meat, so as to kill it's bacterial organisms. and thus render it incapable of put1efying. It was found, however, that so low tenn perature S00 below zero would not destroy the vitality of micro organisms. It was thus made clear that the attempts to preserve meat for long time by the momentary freez- ing of it must be abandoned.
 When one rides through the South in steam cars, says the Atlanta (Georgia) Con- stitution, comparatively little live stock is seen, but nevertheless one-quarter of the live stock of the country is owned and fed in the South. Texas, of course, helps the other if teen southern States out, but all the south ern States are better off in this respect than is generally thought. The South has $6O0,- 100000 invested in milch cows, oxen, other cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and mules. The hi r1 If ha oh en, other cattle and hogs of the country, or fully her proportion according to population. One-quarter of the sheep of the country are kept in the South, when ten years ago the proportion was only one-seventh.
 The American Humane society at it's meet l ing held in St. Louis discussed the question of branding cattle on the western plains. The | practice was voted inhuman and proper | subject of attack by the society. A memo l rial was drawn up to be presented to the Cattlemen's convention which assembled in l the same city shortly afterward, condemning l the use of the branding iron as relic of bar 1 barism. The stockmen, when the resolu ton l of the humanitarian was read to them, total | ly ignored the subject. The Humane society | abandoned the field in disgust. But an un- expected ally to their cause has been found l in the person of Kansas stock-raiser who in l the course of a speech to the cattlemen 1e- ! marked incidentally that the present system ! of branding was injurious to the hide of the ! animal He advised that the eabalistic de- ! vices be made smaller in future.
 l Among other interesting matters discussed | at the recent meeting in Washington of the | Federation of Labor Unions was the practice of ''boycotting." The committee on resolu- tions reported declaration on the subject setting forth the fact that the remedy of the boycott has been so grossly abused as to en- danger it's usefulness, local organizations re- ] sorting to it for trivial causes and in some instances trying to boycott establishments employing union men. In view of this the committee recommended the adoption of 8 | resolution declaring that the Federation dis l countenances such proceedings and deplores them on account of the odium cast upon the | working classes and the injury to their inter ests. Delegate Oyster said he did not know of any instance of abuse in the District of l Columbia, but admitted that the boycott | thing has been done to reach an amicabie un- derstanding Delegate Sharpe, of Philadel- | phia, pointed out that the boycott sometimes acted as boomerang-the assailed estab- lishments retaliating by excluding union men entirely from their employment. Dele