Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-05

Democratic harmony is again conspicuous 1 in these parts.
 The newly elected mayor and members of I the common council of Oskaloess, Kansas, l being all women, they have s great chance to show how much better things would be under feminine rule.
 Herr Lang, the Vienna journalist who died l recently leaving fortune of $4, COG, ,000, had theory that every line in a newspaper l ought to be paid for, and predicted that Queen Victoria would eventually have to pay for the publication of her speeches to Parlia- ment. MT. Lang would have had pleasant career in New Haven, where almost every thing is printed for nothing and where many people think it strange that newspapers don't issue supplements for their benefit. A new kind of glass has been invented in Sweden. It contains no fewer than fourteen
 substances, whereas the common kind of glass
 contains only six Phosphorus and boraK
 are included, and they not to be found in any other. glass. The result is, according to
 those who believe in the new invention, that,
 whereas the highest power of an old fashion
 ed microscopic lens reveals only the 1~400,-
 OO0th part of an inch, this new glass will en-
 able us to distinguish 1904, 700, ,o00.h part of
 an inch.
 Judge Collins of Chicago is thoughtful
 man and gives good reasons why he will not
 have any more divorce trials on Saturdays.
 He says that on Saturdays there is 6 class
 of undesirable spectators who have nothing
 to do but come and listen to the nasty details
 of divorce suits. Then another reason is that
 the Sunday newspapers, which are larger than
 during tho week, make great spread of the
 cases heard on Saturday, and carry the dis
 graceful stories of domestic infelicity into
 Sabbath homes to mar the sacred character
 of the day.
 The license business seems to be very fair
 ly done in Philadelphia. Among the appli-
 cants who get "Ne" for an answer are the
 keeper of Philadelphias nearest Thigh art"
 imitation of New Yprk's Hoffman House bar
 roona-a favorits loahng place of the Quaker
 citys office holders and politicians-and the Philadelphia Academy of Music. In denying this last application the court remarked: "It ought not to be necessary to say that the same legal test is to be applied in this case as would be applied to humber and less reputable places than the Academy of Music.
 The law is the same for both classes. It ought
 to be se."
 The present raid on the treasury has some notable features. For instance, Congressman Carlton of Georgia has introduced q bill call- ing upoa the government to pay Mrs. John H. Christy of Athens, Georgia, the sum of | $16, ,o60. Mrs. Christy's husband, now dead, | claimed to have been elected to Congress
 from the Athens district just after the war. Congress never admitted his claim, however, | and Christy did not press it. Ths salary of
 Congressman in those days was $S,0o0 6 year. Congressman Carlton pretsnds to
 think that the government should pay Mrs. Christy for two years services which her husband did not perform.
 | The Medical Record discusses 8 question of | much interest both to physicians and the pubIic-the number of visits which physi- elan can or should make in day. A New l England doctor is credited with thirty-fve visits in the twenty-four hours, including three births; and one in Sacramento claims to have made enc hundred in the same time and attended four births. Much would de-