Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-18
JEsDAY MORNING, APRIL IS, 1888.

want to put out a fire that breaks out under your eyes," added N. Renan, "you don't pour oil on it; no, you try to smother it with wet blanket" Having said this N. Renan burst into loud and prolonged fit of laugh- ter; and the reporter. despairing of getting another word out of him, left the room. In M. zola's opinion, M. Boulanger is simply a pole with cooked hat on the top of it; but his very nullity constitutes his strength-his popularity being wholly due to the fact that he represents an idea.
 They are trying new method of treating consumption in France. It is based upon sulphuric acid in medicated inhalations. Sulphur slightly moistened with alcohol is burned in brazier, little benzoin or pow dered opium being sometimes added to make the fumes less disagreeable. The patient is required to stand twice day in this sulpur- ous chamber and inhale the medicated atnos- phere until his lungs are saturated with suI- phuric acid. The treatment is said to have been remarkably successful in as many as thirty cases, sweats and fever disappearing, the lungs clearing up and the appetite and weight steadily improving. NJ. Dajardin- Beaumetz, who had been faverably in- pressed with the reports made in these cases. tested the method practically and greatly ben- efted, if not cured outright, seven patients. Into his sulphurous chamber fresh air is ad- nitted from time to time, the patients being more mercifully dealt with than in the orig inal experimenting room.
 High license is making itself felt in Phila- delphia in way which is very disagreeable to many people. An organization is forming for the repeal of the most obnoxious features of the law. It is proposed to defeat all legislative candidates of either party who will not pledge themselves to vote for the re- peal. The combination will include the dis tillsrs and brewers, the saloon keepers who have been refused licenses and the bartenders who have been thrown out of employment. There are 430 wholesale liquor houses in Philadelphia, with an aggregate capital of $14, ,000, ,000 There are 130 brewers in the city whose annual product is SIG, ,0oo, 900 worth of beer and oue-third of this will be driven out. The liquor dealers and brewers claim that their business furnishes work for
 
 such as wagon makers, harness makers, blacksmiths, etc., and the high license law takes the bread out of their mouths. Real estate owners who have rented their places for the liquor business will also suffer tre- mendously and are expected to fall in with the liquor interest and demand the return to the old free rum basis.
 France is generally supposed to be a very wicked country, but at @ recent meeting of the English colony in Paris Professor Yeat- man emphatically denied that France was a center of hopeless irreligion or materialism. He regarded it, on the contrary, as field of great promise. As first evidence of Chris tian progress, he dwelt on the fact that the country now enjoyed religious liberty as the undisputed birthright of every citizen. Moreover, among the poor, there was earnest desire to hear the simple message of the Gos- pei. The mission services were being multi piled, the Sunday schools were more power full in moulding the lives of the young, and the devoted missionary was full of faith that the seed sown would yet Fipen into an abund- ant harvest. "Look again,n continued the speaker, "st the progress of the Church in- spired by the power of it's own inner life. M. Recolin, the well-known pastor of the Oratoire, has told us that in 1872 there were only 137 Protestant clergymen in France. The number of church members in Paris at that time was only 10, ,000, and the attendance at the Sabbath services varied from 50 to 300.) The Church, moreover, had no single charitable work of it's own, but was content, simply, to exist-it could do no more, for the law forbade it, and it was as giant in chains. To-day, however, that same church counts 900 devoted pastors, and there are 800 churches in France"