Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-14

Probably the longest "bee line" railroad in the world is that from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the Andes. It covers $40 Kilometres, or about 275 miles, and is as straight as an arrow. The highest grade is about three feet to the mile. It crosses no ravine and no stream, and therefore no bridge.
 The offer by the Spanish authorities of prize of s6,000 for the best literary work, written in any of the principal European languages, in celebration of the fourth cen- tenary of the discovery of America, Is 8 stimulus to literary effort such as Is rarely offered for international competition. Some American ought to take this prize.
 Concerning the recent reports about the crippled financial condition of the Johns Hopkins university, the Baltimore News says: Not only is the institution perfectly safe and assured In It's usefulness, but 1t has late John W. Mccoy, and Baltimore has a living philanthropist who may yet supple msnt Johns Hopkins endowment with a mil- lion or two. Behind him are other Baltimore nabobs with souls in thom. Our city has 8 grand roll of public spirited citizens who will not see the Johns Hopkins university suffer even If there was danger of such Q thing. Mir. Valentine, the Vermont commissioner | of agriculture, has started on a carriage trip through Bennington county to inspect the unoccupied farms upon which 1t is proposed to locate colony of Swedes. He is accom- panied by Mir. NordRren, prominent Swede | of Nebraska, who has brought to this coun. | try several colonies of Swedes and located them in the West. He is good judge of the wants of his countrymen, and if he decides that the Vermont farms will afford a fair competence, he will bring colony of fifty families from Sweden to Bennington county, they paying their own passage, and having from three to five yenrs in which to pay for ( their land.
 The ventilatinG machine in the coal mines at Zanckerade, in Saxony, sends down eighty cubic metres of air minute, which in win. ter forms masses of ice near the foot of tho shaft. Until recently this formation was re- moved by the night force with pickaxe Efforts were made to introduce jets of steam but these only increased the deposits of io' already formed. Recently" the Engineer ing and Mining Journal says, "it was decid ed to attempt new system, consisting of number of heated tubes, seventy millimetre in diameter, constructed in such way as t' contain 6 mixture of steam and air. Thi method proved a perfect success, and tn | forpc nf foa oto
 The New York Medical Journal thus ex plains why American women are not a strong as they ought to be: The physical de generaoy ot American women, if it exists is due to causes quite outside the pale o heels, corsets, or even mince pie. The dissf patton of the grandmothers in the matter o household prowess and the general hardship of life in O new country are responsible to
 certain extent for the bodily frailties of ou girls. prolific source of overstrain, witl it's consequent weakness, and possibly dis ease, is the size and weight of all househol, appliances. They are invariably too big fo women to use with ease and comfort. Pots pans, brushes, brooms, coal scuttles, etc. are all too large and heavy for tho ordinar
 woman. Every household article is of tn
 pattern best suited to the strength and incl ! nation of the average man. There is a sur
 reward for the hero who brings about hal
 mony of size, weight and fitness bstwes
 household appliances and the modern VIC
 man.
 Prof. W. J. London of the university
 Toronto and MT. George Sandfeld Macdonal
 of the university of Montreal made an expl,
 ration this summer of Lake. Mistassini, u
 body of water lying between the lower end Hudson Bay and Labrador, and succeed'