Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15


 The Democrats and the assistant Demo- orats profess to be very much mortified by the changes now going on in the postal ser- vice. But they will feel little better when they find that they get their mail
 Dividends for the first quarter of the year on capital invested in B cotton mills in east srn Massachusetts averaged 2.71 per cent, or an annual rate of 100 per cent. This is by no means an unusual return, for the rate during the corresponding period of last year for 30 of these mills averaged t0.2 per cent.
 A Presbyterian church in Pittsburg has just secured 8 soprano from Chicago by of- fering her 5000 . year, which is $500 8 year more than she has been receiving. It is said that few old fogies in the church wanted to dispense with soprano and give the 6, 600 year to the poor and the needy; but the idea was not entertained for a mo- ment. This is not the largest salary ever paid to a choir singer in this country, but it is said to be the largest salary paid to any singer ct the present time.
 One of the diffculties of cotton spinning is a lack of moisture in the atmosphere; but that has now been overcome in some measure by the invention of "fog machine" which generate what at first glance appears to be steam, but which is really spray of water separated into so fine a mist that it has the appearance of one of natures fogs. By the use of this spray the temperature of spin ming room can be lowered to the right degree, and the humidity, which is the more impor- tant consideration, regulated to 8 nicety.
 The advertising columns of the School master, an English paper, contain the offer of vicar of a Yorkshire parish of "6ve-and-twenty pounds year" for a teacher ot a school under his jurisdiction. The candidate must be tcertifcated," a churchman, able to..play the harmonium and his merits must be attested by four gentle speaking from their personal knowledge. The actual salary is e20, to which is added @, the estimated rent of the schoolmaster'a two roomed cottage, admitted to be Trough, ' and the ehildren's school fees. which alto gether make up the total amount. The va- cant post has been filled by "most excel- lent man" for some years, says the vicar, and he has already received "a good many appli- cations" Such seems to be life among les ser English scholars.
 Remittances by cable transfer from Paris to the local management of the Panama Canal company on the Isthmus are at present purchased by firms there for 55 per cent. premium. A special police force maintained at the canal oompany's cost but under the control of the prefect of Panama, has beer established to care for tine company's proper ty along it's whole line. An article in E Porvenin, Carthsgena journal, on the posi- l tion of the Colombian government in rela tion to the canal, clearly demonstrates th' rights of the Colombian republic in thu 1 matter, and claims that the ownership, and consequently, the direction of the canal, vii revert to Colombia, and that Colombia vii offer the whole to the United States. Thi article has created profound sensation il Central America, and is likely to be the sub ject of much lively comment in France.
 Speaking of his fathers physical recrea tion MT. Herbert Gladstone says: He use l.
 be chiefly fond of rowing, but during tn last twenty or twenty-five years he has ha'