Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-07
EnauilkaaLn NOTES.

Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon in the Homi-
letic Review says that at the idlest summer
resorts "there is no profession so multitude
nously represented as that of the men who
are supposed to be officially burning with
zeal for the rescue of a dying world; and
there is no smaller talk talked, and no lazier
dawdling done by any than is done by
them" This is plain talk.
The explanation made last evening by our
esteemed contemporary the Union was able,
elaborate and courteous. We must beg
leave, however, to decline to enter into an
explanation of what we think was meant by
certain reports of the doings and sayings of
some of the members of the Republican State
Central committee. It is enough for US to
know what the Union thinks was meant.
Boston is disturbed by the Elm tree bee
tie and the ordinary tree caterpillar, these
pests attacking the trees on the common
with great avidity and threatening to destroy
their beauty. There are millions of eggs de-
posted upon the leaves of the trees and the
chrysalides are almost numerous in the
erevices of the bark. So thick are the latter
that at dark they give the tree trunk whit
ish appearance.
According to Professor Helm, of Zurich,
the total number of glaciers in the Alps is
1,155, of which 249 have length of more
than $500 metres. OF this number the
French Alps contain IA, those of Italy ~,
of Switzerland All and of Austria 462. The
total superficial area of these glaciers is be-
l 0 b
| The greatest length isreached by the Aletsoh
glacier, which is "a kilometres long. AS to
| thick ness, Agassiz, when measuring a Gre
vase in. the Aar glacier, did not reach the
bottom at 260 metres, and he calculated the
| depth of the bed of ice at certain point of
| this glacier at 460 metres.
The wealth of the Catholic church in the
| Providence of Quebec can only be guessed at,
| for no data can be obtained for its eomputa-
ton. 1t owns a third of the area of the city
| of Quebec, and it is the largest property
holder in Montreal The estates of several
of the religious orders as the Gray Nuns and
the Ursulines, yield princely reven ues. The
| churchs possessions of real estate form the
| least portion of It's wealth. OF the grain
raised by it's people it receives every twenty
sixth bushel, and it imposes and collects, by
authority of the courts, special taxes to build
| and keep in repair its churches and parson-
ages, and the income from the rendering of
Offices by its priests is, considering the pow
erty of those who pay it, fabulous.
The climate of the counties which border
along the Mississippi river in Arkansas is
| such that most white laborers cannot endure
| it, and the result is that the negro popula-
ton is about three times as large as that of
the whites. The condition of these blacks is
lower, perhaps, than anywhere else in the
State, though there are few notable s1cep-
tions in which large property has been &C
eumulated. 1t is observed that those ne
groes who were the slaves of considerate
| masters are in most cases in easy circumstan-
ces, notwithstanding the disadvantages un-
der which they have labored since their
emancipation, while those who were under
cruel and hard treatment in slavery have not
had their position improved over that which
they occupied in the bonds of serfdom.
The condition of the teeth often has more
to do with the eyesight than is generally
supposed. DR.. Widmark, Swedish sur
geon, having as patient young girl in
whom he was unable to detect the slightest
pathological changes in the right eye, but
who was yet completely blind on that side,
4 ~ IaEa he knA%h