Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-22

@OSSAOA VA ture which has just ended was very long one, the longest for ten years except that of 1883, when bold Ben Butler had to be guard ed against. But . good deal was accom- plished during the session.
 The intelligent compositor and the lynx eyed proof-reader recently gave an e1hibi- tion in New Orleans. The paper which they run printed the following: 'FThe Marquis of Salisbury vowed he would not take power unless the liberals gave his goat show" h. stead of goat "gov't" was written in the copy. It does not look now as if the honor able gentlenen's goat was going to have 8 very good show.
 Professor Douglass, after many years of re- search, says China has no such teeming mil lions as usually credited to her. Two hundred and fifty millions he thinks about the right estimate. Many of the hill people of China of the present day are not Chinese at all. The Chinese civilization and culture are not purely of native growth; their ele- ments were brought from Western Asia by the Chinese ere they set out for China.
 AS IcCo0G OleOLudrRdElu0 uoCl61Ou OI buo New York court of appeals has, it is said, played havoc with scheme for making money. Some of the disinterested patriots who were so anxious to protect the people against "bogus butte," have been buying dairy butter in large quantities in Chicago and elsewhere and placing it in ''cold stor- age" with the intention of holding it until HUinfar tho hnt 1naryat and selling their supply in New York at enormous profits. They are now so anxious to sell that the butter market has dropped right down.
 Spencer Baird, of the Smithsonian Institu- ten, comes out strong in favor of boiling drinking water. He says that had this prac- tice prevailed on the first outbreak of the typhoid disease at Plymouth, Pennsylvania, it is very probable that the number of cases of illness and of deaths might have been very greatly diminished. In cholera seasons this treatmsnt is especially important, water is largely the medium of introduction for the injurious influences into the system. During the Centennial Exhibition he was stationed i'll West Philadelphia, near the Cent6nn1a1 buildings, TOT BLK ulOuGRS, ana although cases of diarrhoea were prevalent all around him the of boiled water ap- peared to be an absolute preventive
 The Battery, popular pleasure ground for the people of Charleston, South Carolina, has been SO full of troublesome swallows that various attempts have been made to drive them out Recently the city council instruct ed it's park committee to try another plan. Accordingly steam fire engine was ordered to report at the Battery at eight in the eve- ming. The birds filled the trees and chirped cheerfully while the hose was attached Two hundred and fifty feet of hose and an inch noz- gle were used The moment the stream struck trse collection, the swallows rose with cry of disgust and flew across the bay to James Island This kind of treatment might do for swallows but it wouldn't trouble English sparrows. These little pests would gayly stand the storm and give three cheers for the fremen.
 The people of Georgia are much displeased because their new State bonds are not ad- rnitted.to the New York stock exchange nor are they recognized by the State superinten-