Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-23

has hundreds of miles of railroad already built
 In Boston dogs are admitted to the horse cars if their owners will hold them in their laps, and it is a common sight there to see women holding poodles in their laps Babies would look better, but the women don't think so.
 Of all the tributes paid to the memory of Roscoe Conkling perhaps that of the Kansas City Times was the most graceful. Said the Times: "The mans whole nature seemed to have had wings especially granted to soar above, the partisan hogs in their styes, the partisan bullocks horning one another off from the troughs of public plunder."
 If Congress really wanted to do good thing 1t might pass a measure for the relief of the United States Supreme court That tribunal is now several years behind with it's business and the number of cases on the docket is steadily increasing. It is @ com mon thing for litigsnts to have to wait three and even four years for an adjudication of their rights. Which is all very vexatious and wrong.
 According to M. BlAvier's theory, the great earthquake disturbances of 1735, 1884 and 1887 are to be associated with the abnormal accumulatiens of ice about the North pole. He supposes such aceumulations to have caused defection of the Gulf Stream away from Europe, producing great climatic changes and 8 slight disturbance of equilib- rum in the sea bottom, followed by possi- ble local fracture along the line of least re- eistance.
 Over 90, 900 signatures are saved by a sug- gestion made by the commission having in charge the simp1ifcation of the business methods of the Treasury department. The commission took in hand all the various kinds of treasury warrants and classified them. Instead of signing every warrant separately one signature will be affixed to all of each class issued in a month, thereby ne- cessitating but twelve signatures in year where in some cases {, GOO or 4.000 have been required. This change will enable the secretary and his subordinate officials to de- vote more time to business exceeding in i'm portance the mere clerical work of signing. The foreign potatoes which have been brought in such large quantities to this country lately have proved to be better than the average of domestic potatoes that have been marketed this year. This has led ssme farmers in New York State to inquire whsth- l CT it would not be good scheme to plant l Scotch potatoes this year in the hope of im- proving our crop. To this member of a large produce firm in New York city, in a
 letter to the Troy Times, replies, that "no ! variety of Irish or Scotch potatoes will grow in this country; that is, they will net pro- l duce potatoes of marketable size. The growth large crop excellent until the time of harvest, when but few tubers will be found. Many people will to their sorrow learn this the
 coming season, especially in the South, where thousands of bushels of foreign seed have | been planted"
 | White men are skillful and proud of their | skill, but they are not more skillful than
 some who have lived before them. Thus the
 Engineering and Building Record says: The
 manufacture of iron and steel appears to
 have been known in India much earlier than
 in Europe. The Kutub pillar near Delhi is g prominent memorial of old Indian black
 smiths art, and it would rather embarrasf our modern European ironmasters, notwith'
 standing all their advanced appliances, il they had to produce such piece of art as
 the wrought iron column of Kutub in the
 way 1t was produced some 1,600 years ago by