Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-25

we puol1sn thlS morning more expressions of the general opinion concerning the JOUR.
 NAL AND CoURIER's disagreement with the Typographical union. Read them. Where is this striking epidemic going to
 end? We hear that the babies are going to
 refuse to take nourishment unless their
 mothers belong to labor organizations.
 M. Pasteur's failure to keep hydrophobia away from Russian peasant who was bitten
 by wolf does not prove that his discovery is worthless, but it will encourage those who think it is.
 A Boston man being somewhat slzeptical in regard to the efficiency of the stem screw process of disinfection had manufactured a dozen accurate maximum temperature ther- mometers and sent them abroad, where they were cunningly hidden in bale of rags and reshipped to the United States. After that bale of rags had been ''disinfected" by the steam- screw process, not one of the thermome- ters showed registered temperature of 212o. :. and most of them indicated heat of 120' or whereabouts, degree of heat in which dis ease germs do most delight.
 The Chicago Knights of Labor are trying to protect the order from the i'll effects of unwise strikes and to avoid the reckless use of the boycott by local assemblies The two district assemblies in the city have consoli- dated, the rules amended so that local assemblies that strike without the indorse- ment of the executive board of the district canRpt call for contributions or support frr,] &1,a A u,;lI oI, as to the time assembly must be organ ized before it can appeal to the order for help.
 In the course of a lecture on Kew gardens, recently delivered in London, J. G. Baker said the total number of characteristically tropical plants known to science might be roughly estimated at from 40, ,OO0 to 50, 900. The plants of the north temperate zone com prise about 20, 900 species "The total flora of the arctic zone does not reach 1 ,000 species, and the plants which are confined to the higher levels of the mountains of the north temperate zone may possibly be twice as numerous, in all 5000 species of what gar deners call alpines, that is, plants specially adapted to a cold, damp climate with short summer" The speaker estimated the total number of plants represented in the British possessions at 46, GOO species.
 The agricultural statistics of Great Britain for 1885, which have recently been issued, show 8 very serious decrease from the yield of 1884 in some of the most important food products. The decrease in wheat is estimat- ed at 2,62S, ,211 bushels, in peas 1 1886, ,559 bushels, in beans 2,61O, ,783 bushels, in pota- toes 544, ,699 tons, in turnips 6,56s, 497 tons, and mangold s7, 669 tons in England. In Ireland, on the other hand, there has been an increase over 1884 amounting to 197, ,016 bushels of wheat, 135, 1886 tons of potatoes, 45, ,859 tons of turnips and 60,253 tons of Both England and Ireland have shown an increase in the production of bar ley, amounting to 5,338, ,519 bushels in the former country and 463, ,99s in the latter. From barley is made malt and from malt | ale, so that, though food may be somewhat | scarcer and consequently dearer, there need l be no dread of lack of drink. Pennsylvania is apparently not very easy | one. In the Philadelphia conference the | other day presiding elder made the an that there are within the bound | aries of that conference fable, enthusiastic | and hard working preachers laboring in | small towns at three hundred dollars year." | He demanded to be informed how 8 man | can support wife and family on three hundred dollars" Another presiding elder 1