Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-12

John L. Sullivan had the pride that goes
 before fall. Boston is getting a good dea | of sympathy.
 Dr. Greville Macdonald, celebrated Lon.
 don medical man, says that America has g
 climate favorable for throat diseases, but it i, pre-eminently the home of catarrh. It is. l indeed.
 l This is a curious world. A list of plays
 which people in mourning may becomingly
 witness is published in Paris. They even
 carry out the idea to the fine point of pre-
 pairing half-mourning list.
 The cost of the new capitol at Albany up to date is said to be s17, ,914. 875, but it is an | imperfect structure upon which large sums | of money must still be spent before it is safe I for occupancy. Speaker Cole of the New
 York Assembly is very i'll from the effects of | the noxious gases which arise from the ven tilating and heating shafts. It will require 10000 or $50, 900 to put the building in a condition for healthful occupancy
 In Paris the substitution of glass flooring for boards continues to increase, this being especially the case in those business struc- lures in which the cellars are used as offices. In one of these the whole of the ground in front Is paved with large squares of rough. ened glass imbedded in strong iron frame, and in the cellars beneath there is sufficient hRht without gas for business purposes. Though the first cost of glass is much greater It's almost unlimited durability is greatly in it's favor.
 
 The'New York Evening Post, referring to the need of reform in the Indian service, says the matter has been brought to the notice of the President more than once, and adds: Nevertheless nothing has been done. All the recent accounts of the doings at the agea- rcies go to show that the spells system never fourished more vigorously anywhere than it fourishes there. Nevertheless nowhere is it such disgrace to the nation'' It is a fine thing to have a reform President who be lieyes that public office is public trust.
 Dr. George Washburn, the president of Robert college, Constantinople, knows sope- thing about what is going on in Europe, and he believes that there is going to be war. He says Russia has actually mobilized and massed in Poland and Bessarabia sn army of several hundred thousand men, all ready to invade Austria and Roumania Germany is arming and organizing the whole male population for war. Austria, who is gene rally behind time, is concentrating her army, and even Turkey is spending her last cent on armaments. France and Italy are also ready. It is undoubtedly true that no power desires war, and that all shrink from the frightful consequences of a general European conflict. But can Russia draw back and give up the game after all this dis play, unless she gains her end? do not see how she can gain it without actual war, nor how she can give it up. The prize before her is the Empire of the World, the key of which lies now in the Balkan peninsula. She is determined to have it. Every Russian whom one meets says this frankly, and believes that the time has come to secure Constant nople. As the fate of the Austrian empire de- bends upon keeping Russia out of the Balkan peninsula, she cannot yield to mere threats.