Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-18

u September2
 In the course of lecture recently deliv- cred at the Hygienic exhibition in Paris M. Bertillon stated that during the year 1885 there were 922, ,361 births and s36, ,697 deaths in the whole of France, the excess of births over deaths for the year being only S5, ,464. This does not indicate very healthy growth of the population in France.
 The people of Charleston have learned something about building lately. The Charleston News and Courier says that it was ''painful surprise" to the householders to discover that much of the damage done by the quake would not have been done if the houses had been properly built. The chief points of weakness in most of these houses were the unsteadiness of structures caused by the silly fashion of building the front walls higher than the other walls of buildings and the use of bad mortar.
 The Wisconsin Democrats made the fol- lowing declaration: "We denounce the &C., tion of the late Republican convention in et- tempting to conduct this campaign on the
 
 reason of it's self-evident falsity and absurd ity, is libel upon the fair fame of Wiscon- sin and an insult to the great body of her laboring classes" This is ridiculous. The Republican convention simply approved the action of Governor Rusk in dealing promptly and firmly with the Milwaukee rioters.
 The colored people of Washington are get ting ready an exhibition of the achievements of their race since the war. The colored pu- pills in the public schools will exhibit their attainments; skill in needlework, painting and cookery, in carpentry, plumbing, brick making and shoemaking and other artisan ship and so on. will be shown. cannon made by colored man in Boston and a working model of locomotive made by a colored man in the Baldwin works will be shown and 8 colored band will perform music by local colored composers.
 It is now believed that the project of con meeting the White Sea and Lake Omega by means of canal will be realized much soon CT than was expected. The ZemstVo of Olonetz petitioned last year in favor of the immediate appropriation of the necessary
 
 lands and voted an advance of 15,0OO rubles for that purpose, and the Ministry of Lines of Communication has now contributed 13,- 500 rubles to the same object. The tetal cost of the work is estimated at 1000, 900 rubles. The length of the canal will be tif- ty-six versts, the terminal points being the village of Soumy, in the Bay of Omega, and Povenatz, near Lake Omega. The waters of various lakes and streams in the adjoining regions are to be utilized. The new water way is especially indispensable for supply ing northern Russia with corn and promoting commerce between the inhabitants and the Norwegians Hitherto communication has been closed with St. Petersburg for five months in the year, 8 condition of isolation that the canal is intended in large measure to remedy. The country to be traversed contains such large and dense forests that a million of trees may be cut down annually without infringing the rules of scientific for estry.
 | The Norwalk Gazette has this to say of the Republican candidate for gov ernor: The career of Hon. Phineas c. Lounsbury is significant com l mentary on the broad scope of possibili- ties that is ever open to the youth in all sta ! tions, from the highest to the humblest, in