Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-06

pl6ln 1act IS that there Ia more 1nCoXlcatlng liquor manufactured and sold in Rhode Island, under so-cslled prohibitory law, than at any time under license system, and it's results are much worse.
 A Boston man sued restaurant proprie- tor for $500 damage to his good looks be- cause he broke tooth upon piece of gra- vel while eating lettuce in the restaurant. A cold blooded jury, however, refused to take the question of looks into account and awarded plaintiff just the price of a new set of false teeth.
 A novel application of paper pulp has re- gently been discovered, and consists in the production of organ pipes from that mater. ial. The origin of the industry is somewhat curious. Crespi Rigtuzzo, the curate of little Italian village, was desirous of supply ing his chapel with an organ, but as the com mune was too poor to find the necessary fund, he and an engineer of the name of Col ombon hit upon the idea of making the pipes of paper pulp, which gave such satisfactory results that the patent has been sold in Ger many for @, 300.
 What oyercrowding dwelling houses does is shown in the comparative death rate of the municipalities where wide difference exists in the proportion which the population bears to the number of houses occupied as dwell- ings. Thus in New York city there are six eight, while in Philadelphia, which has the best tenement house system of any city in the country, there are but five. Taking the death rates of these cities, we find that in New York about twenty six persons to each \ thousand inhabitants died last year, in Bos- | ton twenty-four, and in Philadelphia only l about twenty.
 The French spoliation claims are again ! passed by. In the last hours of congress | they were sacrificed once more in order to procure an agreement on the general defi- ciency bill, of which an appropriation for l them formed an item. The Senate oonferees made hard struggle in their behalf, and declared that they had yielded "most reluct- antly,' and with the hope and expectation that these "most just and righteous claims would be paid early in the next congress. 1 And then, perhaps, in the next. There is no more fragrant illustration of what con- gress can do when it sets out than the long
 and fruitless struggle to get simple justice done in this matter.
 It is related that an operatic manager, who
 was about to give grand opera in Rio Janei TO, engaged three different men as first tenol
 in Paris. During the voyage this fact came out and three men indignantly demanded ar
 explanation from the manager. "ientle
 men," he said in suave tones, ''it will be al
 right I am an old manager in the Ri'
 Janeiro business, and either one of ye,
 would be perfectly satisfactory to me, bu
 we shall not be there week before two ar 1 certain to fall victims to the yellow fever
 and the one that is left will be my first reno for the coming season. have tried it man years and never knew 1t to fail, so there
 no use quarrelling about it at this early day.
 A parliamentary paper has been issue
 containing return of the cases of Britis
 subjects treated for hydrophobia or rabies b
 M. Pasteur during the last two years. Tn
 statistics given in the return are translate from & table supplied bv M Pasteur frol