Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-09

There are political parties in Japan, and
one of them is called the Jijito.
Somebody suggests thar the new elixer of
life will, If successful, be used by our army
of pensioners. Fortunately there is no dan
ger that it will work.
Women are not as anxious to vote as some
women say they are. The Salem (Massachu-
setts) Gazette says that only ten women in
that city gave their name to the assessors as
wishing to acquire the right to vote. They
inquired at each house in making their an
nual rounds, with this result
The Gardeners Chronicle says that the
trees for planting in smoky cities, thriving in
the most impure atmospheres, and having as
yet been attacked by no insect or fungus dis
ease. There are some specimens of this tree
on Boston Common which were set out quite
a number of years ago and excited much
curiosity by their rarity. They are of fine
shape and dark color. The jinkgo is quite
extensively used in Washington.
Irrigation is carried out on an extensive
scale in Wyoming territory. Something like
2, ,0Oo, 900 acres of land have recently been
reclaimed and rendered fit for cultivation by
means of ordinary bitches, and official re-
ports estimate that not less than 4, ,0O0, 900
acres more can be reclaimed in the same way.
1t is also shown that not less that 5000, 900
acres in addition can be redeemed by extra
ordinary means-that is. by a system of
storage. This would give Wyoming about
12 ,O00, 900 acres that might be devoted to
agriculture, aside from the much larger body
of grazing land. There are also supposed to
be Is, 600, 900 acres of coal lands Congress
at its last session appropriated $3.50, 0,000 to
defray the cost of surveys for storage reser.
voirs.
Deserts, says DR.. Felix L. Oswald, "can be
redeemed only BY tree culture. Prevention,
however, Is better than cure-so much co.
indeed, that 1t is even easier to arrest the
progress of q far gone disease than to retrieve
the complete loss of health. In Americs
| strictly enforced laws for the protection o.
all highland woods might yet make the en-
deavors of the forestry association more thar
a hopeless pull against the stream and helI
us tide over the transition-period to Car
Vogts era of nature. worship when the phys
ical laws of God will be so thoroughly under
stood that men will think it a disgrace to b.
sick and nations will be ashamed of q drought.
The worst of all earthly evils might thus b
prevented by direct removal of the cause
and then it could be truly said that the los
paradise of the eastern continent has beel
regained in the new world of the west"
A notable exhibition will be that of the in
ternational maritime exhibition association
in Boston during the fall and winter months
The entire floor space of Mechanics buildin
will be used to exhibit American and foreig
machinery, m odels of merchant and war vel
sells and apparatus designed to show the ski
and appliances at the command Of America
ship-yards. The governments will doubles
assist the enterprise by loaning models {
war-ships a,ad various results of naval Col
struction. In addition to the expositie
proper, the managers propose to populari
the affair by building full rigged ship
the hall on the deck of which concerts AZ
nautical operas win be given, and sailors a,
marines will perform tho tricks of their cal
ing. Other projects include q grand nav
!. spectacle in the harber and a series of speci
! days for various inter rests connected wi
: ship-building, the mer reliant marine and Z
navy.
/ Two Of the best wstches In the world