Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-28
MORNING. OCTOBER 2S, 1885.

the privilege of selling liquors, and want it distinctly understood that have no desire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the poor or destitute.
 The weight of drops is shown by M. Boymond's investigations to present some pe- culiar variations. It is, of course, well known that the weight depends upon the exterior diameter of the tube the interior diameter having no influence except upon the velocity of flow. It is the nature of the liquid which determines the weight, whatever may be the proportion of dissolved material that it contains. M. Boymond en- ployed dropper of one-eighth of an inch in diameter, and determined the weights by an extremely sensitive balance. The mean of his results gave for 15 grains of distilled wa ter, 20 drops; alcohol of 90', 61 drops; alco- hol of 600, 52 drops; alcoholic tinctures from 6O' to 9O0, 53 to 61 drops; ethereal tincture, 82 drops; a fatty oil, about AS drops; vola- tile oil, about 50 drops; and aqueous solu- tion, diluted or saturated, 20 drops.
 The presence of large number of unem- ployed people in San Francisco, and the dan gers to which they are exposed by the multi tude of irresponsible employment agencies, has given rise to the formation of 'Civic Association" which proposes to enter the field as the friend of the unemployed. The scheme has some curious features. In order to induce subscriptions it has been deter mined that the religious denomination mak- ing the largest shall hold the opening services [ &1,oI Iols oe &Lo la nomination subscribing to have it's percent age of days of worship according to the amount of it's subscriptions. So also politi- cal parties will have divided among them evenings set apart for political discussions. A bust one and one-half times life-size of the largest subscriber will be placed in the posi- tion of honor, while on either hand will be bust of the second and third largest sub scriber, life-size. At the foot of the hall, in the centre, will be a life-siz bust of the most successful canvasser of subscriptions, with the second and third on the right and left, three-fourths ife-size.
 The history of insanity in the department of the Seine, France, for the last eighty years is we'll told in a report just issued by the pfefect. mere are now SIX times as many lunatics in Paris as there were in 1901, whereas there are scarcely three times as many inhabitants of the capital. During the three years ending with 1883 the average number of persons confined as lunatics was 3,509, against an average of 2,714 in the ten years ending with 1880. A curious fact is that down to the year 1866 the number of female lunatics exceeded that of the male, but since that date the men have predomi- mated in an increasing ratio. and now sup ply nearly 56 per cent. of the total, against about A per cent. of women patients. The numbers of the married and the single are al most exactly equal. The chief of the "physi- cal' causes producing mental disease is ex- cessive drinking, which is responsible for 562 cases out of the 1,G67 admitted in the year. Of the "moral'' causes 'Fdomestic trouble" stands first, with ifty-nine cases, and after it in order come ''money losses," alarm, surprise, domestic afiiction, and re- figious mania, which last appears to be com paratively rare in Paris.