Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-30

York toward cleaning the streets of wires. Since the first of January 1,682 telegraph poles and 1, ,140 miles of wire have been re- moved from the streets.
 The death of Harmanus NJ. Welch re- moves a man who has been long and highly honored and esteemed by his fellow citizens. His life has been one of usefulness and un- blemished and conspicuous rectitude. It will be hard to fill his place.
 Donahoe's Monthly is joyful over statistics which indicate that New England is rapidly coming into possession of the Irish. It dis- covers that 'the number of the children of the Pilgrim is growing less day by day." but remarks that the mark which the Puritan has made on the country cannot be erased, and if it could, "the children of Gael. born in New England" wouldn't do it.
 Giuseppina Cattani, who has just achieved the extraordinary distinction of having been appointed lecturer on pathology to the Uni yersity of Bologna, the oldest educational institution in the world, and the first in Ita- ly, is described in the Italian papers as an exceptionally handsome woman, with soft, black hair, bright, intellectual eyes, spark ling with a thousand rays, Greek nose, lips of coral red, pearly teeth, and figure that has caused her to be generally hkened to 8 Saracenio Venus.
 In Austria, according to the British Medi- cal Journal, 1t is no uncommon thing to see boys and girls of fifteen intoxicated. The Vienna school board is working for the pro- hibition of the sale of intoxicants to chill dren and will appeal to the government for aid. In the winter poor children are often sent to school after having only glass of the cheapest liquor for breakfast, the par- ents seeming to think that will keep out the cold and allay their hunger at the same time. Mayor Fitler of Philadelphia has not ye: ! recovered from a shock he received few ! days ago. A little messenger boy had brought 6 note to the mayors office and was | waiting reply. MT. Fitler was taking his time about the answer, when the boy ex, claimed: "Hurry up, Mayor; can't wal
 here all day." The mayor jumped. H. looked at the boy in amazement, then angri
 ly, then In deprecating way, and finally
 surrendered completely and rapidl, | finished his note.
 A writer in 8 London journal calls atten
 ton to the unappreciated uses and preserva tive qualities of soapstone, 8 material, h. l says, which possesses what may be regarded
 as extraordinary qualities in withstandinl
 atmospheric influences, those especially whicl have 90 much to do with the corrosion of irol and steel; 1t being we'll nown fact tha the inside of steamer which is not expose,
 to the action of salt water, like the bottom
 oorrodes much more quickly than the out
 side. It has, too, an additional quality il
 this line, one which adapts it in 8 remarkabl
 degree as a protective point for ships, an
 this is the extreme 6neness of it's grain; in
 deed, ground soapstone is one of the fines
 materials producible, and, from experiment
 made, it is found that no other material
 capable of taking hold of the fibre of iron an
 steel so readily and frmlya as this. It Is ale
 lighter than metallic pigments, and on thi
 account, when mixed as paint, is capable c
 covering larger surface than zinc white, re
 lead or oxide of iron. In China, soapston
 has long been largely used for preservin
 structures built of sandstone and other stone
 liable to crumble from the effect of the al
 mosphere; and the covering with powdere soapstone in the form of paint on stone obe
 lisks in that country composed of stone lie
 ble to atmospheric deterioration, has bee
 the means of preserving them intact for hun
 dreds of years.
 Il A man named Easton, an agent of tn