Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-12

once more been raised in the British House of Commons. It is contsnded by the origina- tor of the scheme that vaccination is an uu. certain preventive of smallpox, while it tends to spread other diseases. This man is be- lated.
 The Iowa State Register announces that the pendulum of public sentiment regarding the railroad question in that State is swing ing back again towards the plane of common sense and common honesty. It believes that the sway of the demagogues is broken, and that the railroads hereafter are to have fair play.
 w. M, F. Round, of New York city, has received . letter from the poet Whittier re- garding the meeting of the Prison association to be held at Steinway Hall on April 15. Says MT. Whittier: My sympathies are with the laboring class in all their just demands, and l would favor every legitimate measure which promises to benefit them But the suppression of labor in the prisons is too small gain for them to be purchased by the transformation of prisons into mad houses. trust further reflection and the knowledge of the dreadful consequences of the slow ter- ture of breeding idleness will ere long induce them to forego what must be a very trifling benefit at the best.
 Mrs. Flora E. Haines has been employed during the past year by the Maine Labor commission to gather statistics concerning women wage~earners. She finds in that State over fifty different employments in which women are engaged, ranging from cot ton and other manufactures to the profess sions. By far the greatest number are em- ployed in manufacturing, there being about 1000 thus employed. The average weekly salary is $S, and one maker of portraits in crayon gets $1 500. One woman is the pro- prietor of a prosperous newspaper; another owns an extensive orchard; there are a dozen regularly endorsed physicians in practice, and three ordained ministers, all Universal ists.
 Rector Abbott of North Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, read to his people the other day opinions from four distinguished gentlemen concerning prohibition. Bishop Nicely wrote that constitutional prohibition had not been - -OeNSs liquor in Maine. Bishop Clark wrote that the prohihitory experiment. had been disas- trous to the cause of temperance in Rhode Island. Bishop Perry wrote that it was far from being success in Iowa, and that there were more open saloons in the city of Dayen- port than ever. On the other hand, Bishop Vail of Kansas wrote that the working of the experiment. in that State had been as suc- cessfui ss it could reasonably be expected to be.
 It is claimed at San Francisco that the war ships last at Samoa were without coal and that their loss could have been prevented had they been cosled. A prominent firm in San Francisco, acquainted with the Samoan coast and the imminent danger to boats un- provided with fuel at this time of the year, made an offer through Paymaster Colds borough to supply Australian coal to the vessels at Samoa at $10 8 ton. The firm could afford to do this, as they had ships plying between San Francisco and Sydney. The offer was refused, and the contract was given to Philadelphia firm. who shipped 1000 tons of coal at special rates It is claimed that if the offer of the Australian coal had been accepted the disaster might have been avoided, as the coal could have been placed on board within 30 days. It is said that the smallest screws in the world are those used in the production of watches. Thus, the fourth jewel screw is the next thing to being invisible, and to the naked eye it looks like dust; with glass, however, it is seen to be small screw, with 26O threads to the inch, and with very fine glass the threads may be seen quite clearly.