Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-24

The Alkado ef Japan has contributed five hundred dollars to the Grant fund.
 Read what the people have to say about the JOURNAL AND COURIER and the Typo graphical union.
 The Albany Argus calls Sam Jones and Sam Small ''the bowling dervishes of mani acal evangelization."
 It was dangerous to be dog in Newark 8 few months ago and now 6 dog show is going on there. Such is life.
 The Knights of Industry is the name of 8 new secret order of workinglnen. This is a taking name, but the Knights of Labor is better
 E1-Senator Windom, president of the Tehuantspec ship railroad company, has left Washington with apparently little hope for the approval of Captain Eads' scheme. He says that there has been no lobby.
 The new pension act will soon become 6 law, the Presidents signature only being needed to make it so. It affects 72 ,130 pen sioners and B, ,603 claimants among those
 holding by merit of service in the civil war,
 
 soldiers of the war of 1872 The total of those affected will be about 124 ,000, and the addition to the annual amount of the pension roll will be some S6,000, ,000. The effect of the law is to increase the pensions of widows, minor children and dependent relatives from | $9 to $12 per month.
 The uncertainty of the law has received g striking illustration in a case just ended in l Boston. In February, 1881, boy about 1 nine years of age, while riding on the run ner of sleigh in Brookline, suddenly jump l ed off into the road without looking behind him, and was run over by sleigh and hurt. He sued for damages and got verdict for | $1 800. A new trial was granted on the ! ground of the insanity of one of the jurors. and the second verdict for the plaintiff was | $3,500. On final appeal this has been set | aside and the boy gets nothing. 'I believe" says Carroll D. Wright in the
 Unitarian. Review, ''that in the adoption of the philosophy of the religion of Christ as prac- tical creed for the conduct of business lies | the surest and speediest solution of these in- | dustrial difficulties which are exciting the | minds of men to-day, and leading men to 1 think that that the crisis of government is at l hand. As read history, governments have I always been on the brink of ruin. Our own governmental experiment was to a great ex- | tent founded if understand it, ,on the princi- l pie of Christian religion. Let those princi- l ples become more vital and more potent in | the regulation of affairs, and there will be no l off
 from the European school"
 The following are the requirements for g
 good pure water, as prescribed by a scienti-
 fic commission in Belgium a short time ago: (1) It must be clear and transparent; @ it
 must be of agreeable taste, and not more than 15' O.; (3) it must contain some air and l some carbonic acid; (4) it should not con-
 tain more that twenty milligrams of organic
 matter per itre; (5) it should not contain more than O. milligram ammonia per litre; | (6) it should not contain alg@ infusoria or | bacteria; CD upon addition of some cane sugar no bacteria must be developed; (8D the water should not contain nitrites nor sulphu-
 retted nitrogen, and not give precipitate { with sulphide of ammonium; (9) it should | not contain more per Etre than 05 grain | mineral salts. This is not the water they
 have in Philadelphia.
 Grand Master T. V. Powderly, the head of | the Knights of Labor, is 8 wise man. He | says: "If many of the men who are striking l would display little more common sense | and patience they would get all they are striking for and save their time and money l in the bargain. ana sure that nine out of