Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-14

says the London Exchange. When taken in a dry state, the atmosphere in country places and rural districts contains from 20. 96 to .S8 per cent. of oxygen, and only GOA per cent. of carbonic acid; and in town districts from POST to 20.90 per cent. of oxygen, and 004 per cent. of carbonic acid. The propor- ton of the latter is therefore very small, and indeed is only parts in 10000, or in g. 300 parts. But when the air is breathed out again it contains only about 1850 per cent. of oxygen. and 400 per cent. of carbonic acid, so that while the oxygen has diminished by about per cent, the carbonic acid has increased to 100 times the original quantity. Such air must be very different in quality from the ordinary atmosphere, and indeed when it is collected in a jar and lighted candle is introduced the candle is extin- guished, and when an animal is placed in it the animal quickly dies.
 A German paper, in an article on the present methods of rope manufacture from hemp, and the determination of the different qualities and probable strength simply from appearance, lays down the following rules: good hemp rope is hard but pliant, yellow ish or greenish gray or color, with certain silvery or pesrly lustre. A dark or blackish color indicates that the hemp has suffered from fermentation in the process of curing, and brown spots show that the rope was spun while the flores were damp, and is con- sequently weak and soft in those places. Again, sometimes rope is made with in- ferior hemp on the inside, covered with yarns of good materisl-a fraud, however, which may be detected by dissecting a por- tion of the rope, or, in practised hands, by it's behavior in use; other inferior ropes are made with short flores, or with strands of unequal strength or unevenly spun-the rope in the first case appearing woolly on ac- count of the number of ends of flores pro- jecting, and in the latter case the irregulari- ty of manufacture is evident on inspection by any good judge.
 All the capitalists who conspire do not es- cape. In the trial before Judge Hawes of a suit for damages against the Chicago City railway one of the jurors was approached by an agent of the company with a retainer, ' as he called it, proposing to employ the juror for handsome compensation to act in the interest of the company in the decision of the case. The juror rejected the bribe and informed the court, who, after the guilt of the agent was established by further in. quiry, sentenced him to six months impris' onment. This was for contempt of court only, in tampering with the juror. But Judge Hawes called the attention of the grand jury to the matter and recommended that c. B. Holmes, the president of the com pany, and c. M. Hardy, it's attorney, should
 be mado tho subjects Of Investigation, say ing that enough had been shown to establish a reasonable ground for belief that they ha6 general knowledge of their agents condue and encouraged him in it by passive acqui essence or directly countenancing it. If il should so appear, the judge instructed th' jury that these persons are guilty of con- spiracy under the law as laid down in th, anarchist cases, and should be indicted and held for trial.