Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-27

y there can mako from $5 to $12 week in a shoe factory and only from $5 to $7 teaching school
 A correspondent of the Jewish Messenger suggests that the Jews should buy Jerusalem from the Turks. "There is money enough among us," he says, "and if not enough cash on hand sufficient bonds could be issued to buy It." The Jewish Messenger, commenting on the letter, says: "WhY not, indeed! Be- cause, real estate in New York, Chicago, Mel bourne, etc., is more popular just now, and likely to be for some time to come."
 What is said to be the largest brook trout ever caught on this continent was landed the other day at Spring Creek, New York. The fish weighs six pounds and two ounces, and its proportions are perfect This is one of the species of brown trout, the spawn of which was imported from Germany and re- csived at the New York State hatchery on Feb. IS, 1884, so that it's age cannot be more l than between five and six years. The largest ever caught previously weighed tride over ! five pounds.
 The district judge at Kalutars, Ceylon, had before him recently three persons, in. cluding a village headman. charged with saueing "grisvous hurt" to four others by ! requiring them to plunge their right hands into e cauldron of boiling oil. A woman in the village had some plumbsgo and rice stolen from her; a headman made inquiry ' f.s1I ko hkas o1u ko he {oe nounced that it would be necessary on the third day to hold an ordeal by boiling oil This appears to be @ not uncommon custom
 in remote parts of the cuntry. Any exclama'
 tion of pain on the part of the suspected
 person is construed into an admission o
 guilt. The judge took the fact that 1t was {
 custom into account, but fined the prisoner
 100 rupees each.
 According to the recent computation of {
 German scientist, a snail in one seoont
 moves .0015 metre; @ man walking, 1.2
 metres; man on snowshoes, 295; the swift
 est river, 4; balloon in a calm, 6.4;
 splinter. Fl; fly, 7.8: fast steamboat, s.t
 fresh breeze. 10; torpedo boat. 11.6; yer.
 fast skater, 11.6; running race horse, 12.e
 mountain torrent, 14.3; express train, 16.7
 ocean wave, Is; carrier pigeon, 27; swallow i67; heavy cyclone, 116; sound, ss7; al
 equatorial point, 4sS; cannon ball, 6Oo. i
 a second the moon moves one kilonetre; ex plosion of gun cotton, 5.8 Kilometres; SUI 7.6; Sirius, 15.4; earth, 2o.5; shooting sta
 on the average, 4O Halley's comet near tn
 sun, 393; storm on the sun, 402; cable our
 rent, 4,0oo; telegraphic current, 11,6s0; in duction current, 18, 400; light, S0o,OOo; di' F charge of Lsyden jar on copper wire, l.
 millimetres through, 4s3, 500.
 v The Manufacturers Record tells stol
 which shows what can be done A few yea = ago, it says, a young man just graduate # from a well-known college found himse {. much broken in health, without business ar with only 5000 or 30 from a recent legac ], His only alternative seemed to be to buy e farm. As soon as he was settled on his lar he began, with his other work, the caref rearing of pigs. He kept them in cle
 pens, fed them on selected food, and so' 7 had a fine collection of porkers. Sor
 thirty miles off was large city. By caref
 inquiry he learned of several persons in th af city who were fond of pork yet who we
 afraid of the stuff usually sold in the pub N market. The young farmer promptly stru