Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-18
rgEW MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY Is, 1886.

| for stripping the stalks has been invented,
 and nothing now seenas to prevent the pro- l duction of sorghum sugar on a large scale l and at a very low cost.
 | Like the American Indians the blacks of ] Africa like frewater. The superintendent of Lutheran missions in West Africa writes The vilest liquors imaginable are being pour ed into Africa in shiploads from almost every quarter of the civilized world. On one small vessel, in which myself and wife were the only passengers, there were in the hold over 100, 900 gallons of New England rum, which sold on this coast for $1 a gallon in exchange for palm oil, rubber, camwood and other
 produce common to the country. I have seen landed from steamer at single port 10, ,000 cases of gin, each containing twelve three-pint bottles.
 The wonderful stories told of grain which
 had been made to grow after having lain dor mant for thousands of years in the hands of mummies do not seem to have any founda- tion in fact MT. H. K. Parks states in the Journal of Science that he has investigated all the cases he can find, and shows that there is nos single authenticated instance of corn found in a mummy having been grown. Some of the seeds found in mum mics have germinated, but as they produced plants-oats, for instance-not known to the l Arabs of 5000 years ago, it seems evident that they were systematically put in the hands of the mummies by the avaricious Arabs of modern days.
 Senator Sherman's remarks concerning the labor question in his address to the Ohio legislature are attracting much attention. He said: There is but one other question that I desire to call your attention to, and that is labor The divi- sion of capital and labor is dependent up on the law of supply and demand. You ought to legislate so as to secure to the la borer,s.so far as law can go, the highest wages and the advantages of social life. The laboring men are the foundation upon which all superstructures reared. The great body of the people arc laboring men, there fore the first duty of legislators is to look after the advancement of the laboring classes of our country. Give them an opportunity to make their way in the world, secure to them all the advantages of education, with out distinction of race, creed, color or any
 thing else.' Above all, secure to them sn equal advantage in their contest with capi- tal
 Lieutenant John P. Holditch of the English navy says that fish or colza oil only is of any
 good for use in subduing the sea in storm
 He continues: It does not matter how dirty
 it is as long as it is not thick. Paraffine is
 too thin; paint oil too thick. Running before
 gale naturally expends much more oil than
 laying to- you have so much more water
 to oil. Carefully expended, one quart in
 three hours for running, one pint in four
 hours for laying to, will be sufficient.
 The means. used was canvas bag (No. 6),
 with large holes stabbed with needle.
 have heard of bundle of oakum being sat
 urated with oil, and then put in coarse
 gunny bag, which think would admit of q
 thicker oil being used for the time. The
 place of towing is undoubtedly forward, not
 aft Whether in head-reaching oil could be
 used successfully I cannot say, but doubt
 it. When running dead before the wind,
 tow from each cathead, and the ship is as safe as anything can be at sea-.