Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-20


 knows that this is about the right propor- tion.
 The prohibitionists got 'crusher" In Pennsylvania. It has been made evident this year that prohibition which does not prohibit is not respected.
 The Russian government is going to push the production of cotton In all parts of the empire where cotton will grow, and partio- ularly in Central Asia. J. 8. Scott, South Carolina cotton planter, has been engaged to superintend large government plantation in one of the southern provinces. Cotton will never be king in Russia.
 Referring to the St. Louis Republics ad- vocacy of negro education, the Memphis Avalanche says: s'This is big job to cut out at one sitting. Its accomplishment, at the lowest possible estimate, will require some- thing like eleven hundred thousand years. The cost has been triae over $38, 1000, 900, so far. without the smallest beneficial result" This is avalanchian foelishness, so to speak.
 It is related that the other day St. Louis physician was questioning Chinaman who was thought to be insane. "Do you ever have any illusionsa" he asked. "What are theysn asked the Chinaman through the in terpreter. "Why," explained the physician, edo you ever hear voicesP ooh, Jes," re- piled the Chinaman. "Whens' "Whenever someone talks to me-" was the entirely sane reply.
 A recent number of the South Australian Register describes a number of experiments successfully made at the Glen Osmond quarry with roburite. The first two charges fired were in holes bored in the face of the high. level quarry, each containing eight ounces of roburite. A large quantity of rock was thrown down, and the standing rock cracked and SO much shaken that the quarrymen could work down considerably more. One boulder, measuring three feet six inches by two feet six inches, was subjected to another test Nine ounces of roburite was placed on 1t, covered with a few handfuls of gravel and discharged. It was found to have split the rock completely through.
 Some statements made in the report of Dr. Tracy, registrar of vital statistics in New York, are interesting. The estimated popu- lation of the city is now more than ], ,500, ,00o. Of these people 1t is found that nearly HOO, 900 live in tenement houses; and first class apartment houses and Hats are not in- cluded in the list. It Is decided novelty to learn that the death rate in tenement houses is less than the general death rate of the city, and less in large houses of this class than in the smaller ones. A partial explana- ton of the latter fact, however, is afforded by the greater care in inspection, etc., which the health authorities are able to give the big tenement houses.
 The German nation may be thankful to l the German army for other reasons than sim ply the defence of the fatherlsnd, according l to General Lord Wolseley. He writes very l recently: take the German army as the highest existing type of the military system and organization which the changes effected | in armies by the French Revolution have led l up to; and much as admire that army as 6 soldier I admire it still more as citizen Great as it is for war, 1t is infinitely greater
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