Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-02


 ing before it adjourns.
 By the new census of St. Petersburg it appears that the population has fallen of S0,- 900 in eight years. The czar finds it very unpleasant place to live in.
 Jeff Davis once said in the senate that without slave labor cotton raising in the South would be an utter failure. Last years cotton crop was the largest ever raised in this country.
 The result of the great strike in New York city has lesson which the strikers will do we'll to profit by. It is impossible to see how labor's wrongs will finally be got rid of, but it is already certain that great and violent strikes will not abolish them
 A London clergyman seriously proposes to establish church for such men as insist upss on smoking at all times, so that they can enjoy their religion and their pipes at the same time. If he carries out his plan he will probably have a large congregation.
 Insurance men in Pennsylvania are much exercised over bill now adorning the legis- lative calendar, which contains the essential points of the New Hampshire "valued policy" law. They propose to make an active crusade against the measure, which would, they say legislate insurance business, com panies and agencies out of the State.
 An electrical shoal water indicator has been devised by two Mexican inventors. It consists of strong cylinder filled With shot, xbakr nh hr-nr hv oahir will remain perfectly upright in the water. Embedded in its center is glass vulca- nite tube half full of mercury, the two ends being closed by metallic plates, which are in communication, by insulated wires carried by the cable, with an electric battery and bell on the deck of the ship. The action of the apparatus is as follows: When the vessel on the ground below, and is consequently no longer upright, but is thrown on it's side. This causes the mercury in the tube to touch both the metallic plates attached to that tube, as above explained; the electrical cir. cuit thus becomes complete, and the warn ing bell on the ship instantly rings. A unique remedy for eczema and other cutaneous diseases, says the London Hospi- tai, 'is Hebra's water bed, or, rather, to de~ fine it accurately, continual bath. The patient lives entirely in his bath, ,eats, drinks and sleeps there till he is we'll. One patient was kept in such a bath for 3S5 days. Think of this More than year of washing day. It is enough to make anyone hate the sight of water forever. There is elight danger of the patient slipping entirely under water in his sleep and drowning; but it is usual to pass a bandage under his arm and fasten it, 50 as to support the upper part of his body on the inclined part of the bath on which | the head rests. The palms and soles become | white and shrivelled like washerwomans g hands, but the skin of the other parts of the 1 body does not suffer, and the treatment is said to be very eficacious in severe burns. 1 When the patient first gets into the bed, the temperature is 86 deg, but as he gets used to
 it it is raised by degrees to 9S deg" l The following account of Emin Paoha ii
 said to be absolutely accurate. His grand father, Joseph Schnitzer, emigrated from
 Krzspice, in Poland, to Oppeln, in Prussiar Silesia, and there married the daughter o1
 Herr Pappenheim, a Jew, known for his learn ing and piety. Emin Pacha's father married
 Fraulein Pauline Schmitzsr, the daughter o a Jewish banker, established at Neiste. Isaac
 alias Edward Schnitzer, who is now EmiI Pacha, went, at the age of three, with hi
 parents to Neisse, where his father died il
 1s45. His mother afterward married l Christian, and herself embraced the ChEistisl