Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-05

days ago this letter from the mother of one
of his pupils: "Your ugly temper toward
my little girl yesterday was actuated by the
rain in your decayed bones, brought on by
your defective brain. position as cart
driver would suit you better than the teacher
of little children"
The English commissioners of forests are
planting extensively on the crown property
in the Isle of Man. About four millions of
trees have been planted on mountain land
during the last three years and the work has
proved so successful that it has been de-
cided to extend the number of trees annual
ly. The planting is done almost entirely by
native labor, under the superintendent of a
competent forester from Carlisle.
If the account Of torpedo experiment
made the other day at Portsmouth, England,
is correct, the torpedo may not be as effec
tive a weapon as it has been expected to be.
A Whitehead torpedo, containing ninety
three pounds of gun cotton, was lashed
alongside of the British ironclad Resistance,
on the unarmored part of the ship, eight
feet below the water line, and exploded in
that position. To the utter establishment of
number of naval officials present, the
torpedo inflicted no material injury on the
ironclad, and in actual warfare the Resist
ance, after the explosion, would have been
able to continue fighting or to seek shelter at
the pleasure of her commander.
M. Ruektchell, Russian engineer, has in
vented a new explosive which he calls
biob 70 how
been recently carrid ont at the camp of
Krasnoie Selo, near St. Petersburg. As COM
pared with ordinary gunpowder the penetra-
tive power of the new explosive, when used
= for cartridges, is stated to be ten times
greater. The compound of which the
explosive consists is still the secret of the iu-
ventor The explosive emits no smoke or
heat, and the discharge is unaccompanied by
any report Since these experiments the
Russian war and naval authorities have had
the new explosive examined and tested by
experts, who are stated to have reported fa-
yorably upon it. 1t is further stated that
motive force may be generated with the e1-
plosive by means of an engine constructed by
the inventor, for which he claims superiori-
ty over steam and gas engines. The inven-
tor has patented both the explosive and the
engine in several countries.
The First National bank of North Bend,
Nebraska, made the point in argu ment that
the stopping of interest on bonds deposited
by the bank as security for its circulation re-
sulting from the call of the Secretary of the
Treasury did not authorize the Comptroller
of the Currency to require the bank to SUBJ
stitute interest bearing bonds for those on
deposit. But the Attorney General gives
his opinion that "unless the First National
bank of North Bend substitute interest
bearing bonds for the existing deposit of
bonds called for redemption, the proceeds of
the latter must be applied to retiring the
circulation secured by it." The co Intention
with the statute requiring the deposit of in
terest- bearing bonds, the government could
not of its own motion both stop the interest
on the bonds deposited and require new
deposit on interest bearing bonds. But the
claim was not considered by the Attorney
General to be Valid and his opinion is likely
to hold as law.
The London Lancet cannot understand
how it has come to be thought that the fact
of an actor or actress repeating the same
part night after night for heightened period
can be productive of madness. "No one
doubts that the repetition must be weari-
some, and if there were no counterbalancing
advantages, it might be SO irritating as to be
mentally injurious, but players, like the rest
of the world, are at heart matter-of-fact
people, and, as Mr.. w. S. Gilbert points
out, the fact of long engagement has the
not inconsiderable merit of relieving anxiety.
Moreover, the brain is spared the toll of
frequent study for new parts. The day is
| left free; and if there be an irritating same
! ness about the evenings work, it cannot be a