Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-31
accounts was waiting to see what would be


the result.
A new submarine boat intended to revoIu-
tionize naval warfare is to be launched at
Toulon September Is. 1t is designed by II.
Ramagote, French government engineer.
It is SO constructed as to be able to dive COM
pletely beneath the keel of the largest iron
clad and by means of special apparatus fasten
explosive cartridges to the sides of an eme-
my's vessel and is enabled to maintain COM
munieation with explosive cartridges fixed by
means of steel wire by which the cartridges
can be exploded by electricity. The entire
crew is one officer, two engineers and sailor.
The motive power consists of an electric ma
chine and other engines provided with COM
pressed air apparatus.
In Dutch India there are young men SO
eager to be married that they write to their
friends in Holland to find them wives. The
friend selects a willing lady, conforming to
the suggestions in the letter. A photograph
of the cJosen one is enclosed in the reply,
and after the lapse of few months a soiled
left hand glove with power of attorney is
received from the farawsy bachelor. The
friend in Holland marries the selected bride
as sort of legal deputy for the astual groom
and the young wife departs in the next In
dia mail steamer to bring happiness to the
lonely man in the far East. The marriage is
as binding as if the bridegroom were present
and it is never repudiated.
At the Congress of the Institute of Inter
national Law at Lausanne, which will open
September g. there will be some very inter
esting and important discussions. They will
be upon the conflict of civil laws and of
commercial laws, and the conflict of the laws
relative to marriage and divorce, joint stock
companies and maritime collisions, extradi-
ton, international penal law, the occupation
of unclaimed territories according to the
provisions of the Berlin conference, the in
ternational laws concerning railroads, tele-
graphs and telephones in time of war, and
the question, 'sIn what manner and within
what limits may governments exercise the
right to expel foreignersi"
A correspondent of the Baltimore Ameri-
can has been making some investigations in
the natural gas region which seem to confirm
GQe D0llo1 OF Luauy sC1cueIAC AAoh bAdL bAo Sds
will sooner or later become exhausted. Tt is
found already, he says, that the pressure is
lessening, the flow of gas becoming weaker.
Wells that two years ago gushed forth with
such tremendous force as almost to defy util-
ization are now under easy and perfect control.
Of course the men who are pecuniarily inter-
| ested in natural gas and the town whose
prosperity is mainly built on it are quick to
deny all reports of a decrease in the flow.
But actions are more authoritative than
words, and many of the owners of these wells
| are known to be preparing for the emergency
| of failure of gas by making elaborate and
costly experiments TO discover some substi-
tute. These experiments are in the direction
of cheapening artificial gas and enough has
already been accomplished to give reason to
| expect that by the superhsated steam process
| it will be possible to furnish an artificial gas
for heating, steam generation, iron and eteel
processes and manufacturing at seven to nine
cents thousand.