Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-07


 bill will not be passed in Pennsylvania. There are so many Republicans in Pennsyl- vanis as to render the purchase of votes un- necessary.
 Boston idea is to establish stock com- pany for building in some one of the most destitute districts in Ireland factory at which evicted tenants may find employment and a livelihood.
 Won Moltke's objection to intrusting pri- vate soldiers with a rife which can be fired too easily appears justified since two German regiments have held sham fight with an i'm aginary enemy consisting of wooden palisades. The command was three times given to ''tirs at will' and 220,000 rounds were fired. About nine -tenths of the bullets went clean over the palisades.
 California farmers are contented. The value of the fruit crop in the State is esti- mated at $24, 1000. 900, of which fresh and dried fruits amount to $6,50O, 900 each, and raisins and citrus fruits Ss, 500, 900 each. The wheat crop is estimated at 70, O00, ,000 bushels worth $52, ,O0O, ,O00 barley s5,500, 900; vege- 1 tables, $3, ,750, 900: wool, $6,000, ,000 dairy products, $7, ,50O, 900; wine, $4, 100000. The total of ali products, not including nanufac- lures, amounts to $1S5, 900, GOO. which is more money than was ever realized in yea, from her minerals.
 Enterprising business and professions men of Des Moines, Iowa. are preparing to set up "a trades university" having already selected site for it and arranged with an architect for the plans of the buildings. The | idea is novel only in that it proposes to com. bine in one institution the different kinds oi training that are given in the various trade ! schools of a narrower ran ge which are fast springing up all over the country Whether l the idea will prove practicable and service able is, of course, question to be answered by experience.
 It was long thought that blood orange. were produced by grating an orange tree with pomegranate slip, but it is now said that there is not the slightest foundation fol | this belief. The blood orange, which ii | merely a variety of the sweet orange obtained by cultivation, was first raised by the Spanish gardeners in the Philippine islands. Wher | it was first seen in Europe it created sensa- tion among the superstitious, who saw al sorts of disasters foretold by the bloody fruit In the last century blood orange trees brough exceedingly large prices.
 It is now demonstrated that COWS are font | of cotton seed meal and that it imparts cer tain advantages to the butter coming from those eating it. The product of such COWS
 among other things, is less susceptible tt heat, and hence is much better calculated for use in warm weather. This is the frs
 important piece of information which ha
 been issued from the new Cabinet depart
 ment of agriculture and is the result of ex pertinent. The statement also comes iron
 the same source that under the tests mad for the condemnation of adulterated butte
 this genuine cotton-sesd-fed COW produc
 would suffer the same as if the nutrition
 substance had not passed through the COW.
 A hundred employees of the Chicago Heral
 have made an interesting combination fo dealing in land. As real estate men gene rally sub-divida acre property it runs min