Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-12

| in New Haven. If it 'materializes" it will
election.
The action of the Vermont senate in kill
| ing the bill granting municipal suffrage to
| women who are taxed on property was ex-
pected. Two senators announced that they
| would vote for the bill if the amendment
limiting the suffrage to taxpayers and max
| ing distinction between women and men
could be reconsidered.
There is still room enough In the United
States, though it is believed that by 1895 all
| the agricultural land now available in this
country will be occupied. In his new report
| on the work of the Geological survey Pro-
fessor Powell estimates that there are 100,-
| 900 square miles of coast lands in this coun-
| try made valueless by inundations, which by
| the use of proper means probably be
placed among the richest agricultural lands
in the United States. His department is
now studying the swamp lands and marshes
of the Atlantic coast to ascertain the practic-
| ability of reclaiming them.
Now that the long strike at Augusta (Geor-
gia) is over and the cotton mills are running
again an agent of the Knights of Labor is
| engaged in paying the grocery bills run up
| by the families of the striking operatives
during the three months of idleness and no
| wages These bills, it is estimated, will
| foot up not less than $22, ,00O Nothing is
said yet about settlement with the doctors
and the druggists. The corporations, in
whose tenements the strikers have been liv-
ing, have agreed to remit the three months
rent due and unpaid. The strike was very
Improbable affair for all concerned.
Italy has twenty-one universities
more than Germany. They are divided into
two classes, those which receive State sup
port and those which do not. The first class
includes Turin, Genoa, Pavia, Padua, Pisa,
Bologna, Rome, Naples, Palermo and Messi-
ma. Naples has the largest number of stu
dents $500, while the smallest number (39)
| is found at Ferrara, which was once for Italy
| what Wsimar was to Germany, the seat of the
greatest minds of the age, and which there
| fore desperately clings to the privilege of be-
| ing university town. Turin has 2,100,
Rome 1900, Bologna 1,160 students. All
the others excepting Pavia have fewer than
! 1000. Futile efforts have been repeatedly
made to reduce this uselessly large number
| of high schools. Theology is not taught at
| any italian university, but lectures on church
| history are included sometimes in the philo-
sophie course.
An infallible remedy against cholera has
| at last been discovered by the Allgemeine
Zeitschrift fur Bierbraurei, which says:
While formerly beer was considered harmful
| during cholera epidemics, it is now known
that the greatest danger lies in tho drinking
of water, particularly we'll water, as we'll as
| in the eating of articles of food which have
been exposed to the air and perhaps contami-
| mated by dust, such as fruit. Beer, how
ever, at the time of a cholera epidemic, is
not only not harmful but even beneficial.
Contagion cannot possibly result from it, for
the water which it contains has been boiled
| and any bacillus been killed; more than
| this, the drinking of beer prevents the de-
velopment of bacilli which have entered the
organs of digestion. 1t is striking fact that
in the year 1878, when cholera ragged in and
| around Vienna, not single case occurred in
any of the breweries. Beer is thus very
| valuable anti-cholera remedy.
The experience of turpentine and rosin
| makers has for long time been far from
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