Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-27


 time. He is wonderful old man, and seems to have the faith that can move noun tains.
 A man worth ss, O0O, ,OOe has just died in New Orleans. He owned $600,O00 stock in the Louisiana lottery, which paid him an income of $50,000 year. And the fools who contribute to such incomes are not all dead yet
 A recent invention of sheet iron covering for cotton bales is attracting some attention in the South. The covering can be used again and again until it is worn out. If the invention proves to be successful it will be of great value, as much cotton is burned while in transit, and several pounds from each bale is lost in various ways.
 The new system of enlistment tried as an experiment in the British Guards, under which the men have virtually the option of serving for three, seven, twelve, or twenty-one years with the colors, has turned out most successful. All three regiments are considerably above their strength, while large proportion of the men enlisted for three years colors service are extending their term. The recruits obtained are ot excellent phys ique.
 Dr. Stephen Smith read a paper the other evening before the New York County Medi- cal society on the effects of summer heat up- on public health in the city. He urged the planting of trees as a great remedy for the ravages of heat. Vegetation not only ab sorbs carbonic acid gas and malaria from the air, but gives back oxygen and cooling moist ure. An acre of grass throws off 6, 400 quarts of water in twenty-four hours, but trees are even more effective The great Washington elm at Cambridge produces a crop of 7,O00, GOO leaves, equal to five acres of vegetation. The shade of tree not only arrests the di- rect heat of the sun, but actually cools the air beneath it.
 Congressman O'Neil of Missouri, chairman of the House Committee on Labor, has been caryring on correspondence with leading students of industrial subjects with reference to arbitration and has become convinced that compulsory arbitration cannot succeed in this country England's compulsory arbi- tration statute has been dead letter for many years and a similar one in France has
  enforce it, has assumed the despotic attitude which is sometimes assumed there The Wallace act in Pennsylvania and the Ryan act in Ohio have been of very little use, and altogether, as MT. O'Neil expresses it, the saly court that scene to have jurisdiction over such cases in this country is public opinion.
 IL kl. little instrument known as the hyalolypho type, or hot pen, drawings can be made on glass or glassy sub stances with waxy composition, which is solid and somewhat hard at ordinary temper atures. The pen is so contrived that it can be heated either by gas or by an electric cur rent, and the waxy material flows easily from the heated pen, setting so quickly on the glass that matching can be done more rapidly than with ordinary pen and ink, without risk of blocking up the angles; cor rections, too, can be made with the greatest ease by means of a penknife, which leaves the surface sfterward intact. After the drawing has been made, the plate is etched by fuoric acid, and when complete it can be either electrotyped, stereotyped, used direct, or applied to any purpose for which engraved surfaces are required.
 The French official report of suicides in the department of the Seine for the year 1885 is interesting. There were 642 suicides or attempts at suicide from January 1st to De- cember 31st. During the preceding year there were 542. Firearms were the principal means adopted, of which there were 225 eases;- of these there were 160 for Paris alone and 65 for the rest of the department. There were 150 ST icides by drowning, SS by hang ing and 142 by asphyxia the others were eff fected by precipitation from windows, mon- ume ts, etc.; 62 were effected by crushing or by poisoning. The principal causes as- signed are reverse of fortune, failure in busi- ness, dissipated living, particularly when ac- companied with the use of alcohol Several cases of self-destruction ecc urred among youths, principally among collegians, and the causes given display 8 high degree of mental precocity or immoral training.