Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-02

ly be called popular, when the average daily delivery is no more than 1 ,000 letters,
 A New York correspondent in sending batch of society gossip to 8 western paper gives the pedigree of 6 young lady who is to be brought out in society by the Vanderbilts this winter, and adds: '.None of her fam fly is in business" Is it disgrace in this country to be in husinessa
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 Engnsh Journals record the late voyage of a large steamer owned in London, which has been fitted to burn petroleum. Good time was made and general satisfaction is ex- pressed with the experiment. The consump- ton of oil on the voyage was a little over eight gallons per hour costing, about e1 per day, while the cost of coal for that period is calculated to be e7 Besides the saving in coal great saving will be effected in labor, there being no shoveling of coal into the furnace and no accumulation of ashes to remove.
 There is apparently going to be some re- form in Mexico. The telegraph service is to be taken in hand first, and Saturnino Islas, superintendent of telegraph on the Mexican railroad at Vera Cruz, a first-class electrician and practical telegrapher, has been chosen as the man to push the work. Islas only undsr- took the task on condition he should be un hampered by the politicians. His first move has been to get rid of lot of small unpro- ductive lines by arranging their cessiop to the several States, the latter agreeing to keep them in good working order. This cut off lot of political place holders at one stroke when Islas at once began wedding out the crowds of them which infested the offices the trunk lines. The government has been los ing $1 1000, 900 year on the system.
 A most convenient way of mounting microscopes, where it is desired to examine in succession a series of objects, las recent ly been contrived. From a substantial metal base central pillar rises, with an arm at the top carrying the microscope; the pillar also supports a revolving stage, ten inches in diameter, mirror beneath the stage illu- minating transparent objects, and the total height, with a ten-inch microscope, being about eighteen inches. The use of such 8 microscope stand, it is said, allows of the ar- rangement of a number of slides, so that number of objects can be examined without, in the ordinary apparatus, having to stop for the adjustment and focusing of each. The instrument can be taken apart and packed in small space and readily set up again, the screw fittings being also of such pattern that object glasses of any standard maker can be attached to it.
 MT. Morrison declares more boldly than ever that he will bring in @ tariff bill this winter intended to cut off nearly all the sur plus revenue. He is reported as saying in connection with the tariff question that he thought everybody in the party was pledged to reduction of the tariff, and he did not see how the coming Congress could avoid it. The party is pledged by it's platform, and even the protection Democrats, those who voted against his bill last winter, gave as their reason that the party was not in power, and said wait until they got into power, then they would do it. He is not welded to any particular plan. What he wants is to have the tariff reduced as low as it can be and leave enough revenue for the government. He does not care whose plan is adopted so long as the desired end is reached. But he intends to introduce bill this winter, which he will ask to have made the basis of legis- 1ation, and leave the responsibility of reject ing it upon the Senate.
 Dr. Anna Kingsford writes to the London Spectator that the experiments of Pasteur on hydrophobia are not quite so conclusive as has been generally assumed. She points out that the alleged cure of the boy Joseph Meis- ter by inocu1ation is doubtful inasmuch as his wounds had been thoroughly cauterized before the-inoculation. As thorough cauter- ization in large number of cases has given protection against the disease, it is impossi- ble to be sure that Meister had not secured immunity before he was inoculated. Dr. Kingsford further intimates that there is se- Iieus doubt as to the condition of the rab- bits from which the virus is taken by Pasteur, it being contended by many scien- tists that they are not suffering from true rabies. but from an artificial malady pro- duced by N. Pasteur's method of operation; a kind of septic@mia, oI blood poisoning, in fact The third ground of objection consists in doubt whether the dog which bit Joseph Meister was really mad. This could only have been ascertained scientifically by inoc-