Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-07

Cabinet Minister Wanamsker, will, it is said, continue as superintendent of his great Sunday school at Philadelphia.
 Bangor, Maine, has just applied civil ser- vice reform principles to the appointment of her policemen. Hereafter applicants for positions upon the force are to be subjected to examination as to their fitness morally
 and physically.
 The report of the Ohio commissioner of labor places the farm mortgage indebtedness of the State at $375, ,000,0 ,000. These figures are thought to be somewhat too large, but unquestionably the farm lands of the State are heavily burdened.
 A bill before the legislature of Illinois to check divorce has been summarily rejected in the senate of that State. One of the sen- ators declared that he wanted divorce to be Gas free as water" They say that it is about as free as that in Illinois now.
 It is not probable that President Harrison will make any such record in the matter of vetoes as Cleveland did. Two hundred and seventy-eight times has Cleveland arrogsted to himself knowledge superior to the united wisdom of both houses of congress, and re- turned it's measures, vetoed. This is 157 more times than all his predecessors taken together have found use for the veto.
 We publish this morning long list of names signed to a petition asking the Hon. N. D. SperrY to become 8 candidate for the office of postmaster in this city. It is re- markable list because it includes most of the prominent citizens of New Haven, without regard to party. Nobody who has ever been postmaster has been paid higher compli- ment than is contained in this list. There will be general rejoicing in this town when Postmaster Sperry again has charge of the office whose affairs he conducted for quar- ter of a century with such notable ability and skill. He has well earned another term.
 The Atlanta Constitution acutely ob
 serves: The southerner has held the throw ing open of his doors and the abundance of his table and the wide range of his welcome to be the best thing. In this he has met his duty to the public and established himself as good citizen. The northern man, on the contrary, lives close and frugal life-open- ing the door of his home cautiously though cordially and entertaining scantily but well and at the end of the year turns up with 6 plump sum for the endowment of some school, college, hospital or library. It if thus that he discharges his duty to society. At one of the meetings of the British asso citation paper was read on plan of raising large stones for the purpose of building huge l masses of masonry, and which was supposed
 to be the means employed in building tn, pyramids, although the precise method adopted by the mighty builders of the Valley of the Nile was admitted to be 8 vexet question. The suppositien is that the lifting power was applied from below. the stone be- | ing raised by tilting process. One end O | the stone would first of all be raised from tn
 ground by means of powerful levers. whiel | might be of considerable length and worket | by a large number of men. After getting the stone to the proper height 8 slab of ston 1 or metal could be inserted and similar pro
 cess adopted with the other end of the stone So, by alternately working at either end,
 certain height might be attained. Then, b
 the use of wedges and rollers, the ston 1 might be got into position. Another metho