Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-17

Cremation is fourishing "out West" The
 Missouri Crematory society has four hundred I members, twenty-five of whom are women. A suit brought by Spiritualists against the l town of Randolph (VermonD to obtain a l share of the towns money for the support of | the Gospel has been decided in favor of the I town by the Supreme court.
 The vote of the United States Senate to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the national Capitol is encouraging, though the fact that thirty senators were willing to vote in favor of the sale is surprising. The temperance movement is making itself felt in high places.
 o ahe 5sjHh sys5sh o snlsssv nprlsssrvihg Ing green crops in silos, and has come to the conclusion that the system ought to be en- couraged as a valuable auxiliary to agricul-
 ture Careful farmers in New England tes- tify to the same effect
 The President is quoted as declaring with
 much emphasis that he will sign appro-
 priation bills until he has had ample time to
 examine them and that for this reason he
 strongly opposes the postponement of the
 passage of such bills by congress until the
 end of the session. If the President
 bring about a reform in this very important
 matter he will be entitled to the hearty
 thanks of the people
 The ocean fisheries of France and Algiers,
 according to the last government report, em-
 ploy over S7, 900 persons and 24, 900 vessels,
 while the value of the fish taken is between
 sixteen and seventeen millions of dollars.
 The fresh water fisheries amount to about
 one third as much more. The cholera epi-
 demic interfered with this trade very appre-
 ciably, especially in the items of sardines and
 oysters. As whole, the Mediterranean fisheries were deficient last year, and fisher men suffered greatly in some districts. In Georgia colored people own SIX hun dred thousand acres of land and pay taxes on about $1O, ,00O, ,00O of property. In the whole of the South their taxable property is put down at about s1oo, 100000 In South Carolina 66, 429 of the 122 ,O93 pupils in the public schools are celored. In Georgia taxes paid by the colored race almost as much as the sum devoted to the colored schools of that State. Everywhere in this country the colored race is making commendable prog ress.
 1 Philadelphia is getting to be pretty liberal for Quaker city. Formerly she was noto- riously rigid in exacting Sunday observance, and would not permit the street cars to run on that day even for the convenience of car rying people to church. But lately she has relaxed in this regard more than almost any other city in the Union. Now on Sunday the Academy of Fine Arts is open free to the public, and the attendance is larger than on any other day in the week. The Pennsylva- mia and Pompeian museums are open; so is the Geological garden and most of the public libraries.
 In a recent lecture on caisson disease Dr. A. V. Meigs related that visitor once opened his brandy flask while in the com pressed air chamber, and recording it placed it in his pocket. When he got back to the outer air the flask exploded with considera- ble violence ''No more telling story could be told" said the doctor, ''than that of the brandy flask to show what must occur with every liquid and gas contained within the
 human economy upon coming out of the air
 chamber" While under pressure none of
 the workmen were attacked; but on leaving
 the chamber they were all "chilled to the
 bone'' and their vital energies paralyzed.
 The men are now kept under strict medical
 control while doing this work, and the per
 centage of mortality is stated to have been
 very largely reduced
 Professor John Tyndall is not much of
 politician. He writes to the London Times
 that when he received the circulars of the
 liberal and tory election agents for East Sur
 rey he tossed them into his waste-paper bas-
 ket. Subsequently, however, he attended
 one of the meetings of MT. Brodrick, the to-
 " candidate The liberal roughs also at
 tended the meeting and hooted MT. Brodrlck down. The effect of their "seandalous con- duct' and "idiotic uprear" upon Professor
 Tyndall was to make him want to vote for
 the man who had been denied fair hearing.
 ''It is not" he explains, tout ot sympathy
 with the hide-bound toryism of the past, but
 as protest against the more dangerous and
 tyrannical toryism which threatens our i'm
 mediate future There are working men who
 believe me when I say that, if l saw thelr
 legitimate interests assailed, would at any
 risk to myself stand by them in repell1ng the
 assault But what it behooves us all in this
 crisis to repel is the attempt of interruptions demagogues to override our liberties"