Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-01

Vote against the proposed charter amend ment It should not be adopted.
 The New England Medical Monthly is re- sponsible for the statement that certificate of death was presented in Chicago not long ago on which the attending physician had written his name, perhaps inadvertently, in the space left for ''cause of death."
 The prohibitionists of Georgia have good cause to feel encouraged by their notable
 victory in Atlanta. They had already cap tured more than one hundred of the one hundred and thirty-eight counties of the State, and Atlanta was almost the last stronghold of the so-calIed rum power.
 One of the most interesting schools in this country is that at Mt. Clare, near Baltimore, for the training of apprentices in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company Of the 800 apprentices on the line forty are now in the school. These pupils are taught
 the common English branches, algebra, ge- ! ometry, physics, drawing, the chemistry of | oils, mechanics, all of which is needed to 1 discipline their minds for intelligent work when they shall take their places on the road. The lads are trained as machinists, l brass finishers, steam and gas pipe filters, ] moulders, upholsterers, draughtsmen, paint CTS, bridge builders and engineers.
 Switzerland is just now much agitated by | the temperance question, and there is appar- ently great need of such agitation. In that country the average annual consumption per person, (adults and children), is over 150 ! pints of beer and sixteen pints of brandy. | The drunkenness is naturally very great, and rum is responsible for very large part | of all the crime and suicides. Every work ' ingman in Switzerland spends, on an aver age, $50 year for drink. Education alone l has proved inadequate to check the evil, for the Swiss are we'll educated people. An attempt is now in progress to restrict the | evil by means of "Gocal option," together with heavy duty on the sale, manufacture and importation of distilled spirits. The | bill which it is hoped will accomplish this object was recently voted by very large 1 majority.
 One of the most remark kable of clocks has 1 just been constructed in London for bank | ing establishment. It is on the twenty-four l hour principle, and is notable as possessing probably the simplest method which has yet | been resorted to for indicating time accord | ing to the new enumeration. The clock | in question has only one hand, the long min | ute hand, and the figures around are placed as heretofore. Instead, however, of indicat- I ing the hours, they indicate the minutes on- | ly, which are marked from 5 to 60. The l hours are shown on sunk dial revolving
 under the upper dial, a space being left in
 the upper dial in which the next hour fig ure comes forward instantansously upon
 the minute hand, completing it's circuit ot | sixty minutes-that is, in 8 word, the soli- 1 tary hand marks the minutes, and the sunk
 space shows the hour.
 A notable legal decision in regard to poo
 selling is that given in the Supreme court al
 Brooklyn in the test case brought by tho
 Coney Island jockey club to determine ths | validity of the scheme of allowing the spec
 tators to contribute to the entrance fee ot
 race horses who should run at the clubt
 meetings. The thing aimed at was of course
 an evasion of the laws in regard to pool sell
 ing by making it appear that the man whe
 contributed" te the backing of one horse
 shared with the owner the sums lost to hin
 in the entrance fees of other horses and thu
 Contributions from their friends. Judg'
 Pratt said: To say that is anything except {
 bet is to split hairs. It is nothing more nol
 less than bet and pool of money only nominally offered as prize, only aominally