The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-02-27
ONE THING AND ANOTHER

III Tue WOrlQ.
1t is curious fact that the most
disturbed parts of Ireland are those where
the population is most purely Celtic and
most Popish in religion. Glare, with
two per cent of Professionals; Mayo, with
four per cent, and Kerry and Galway
similarly circumstanced have had bad
pre-eminence.
Three street-cars recently shipped
from this country to Buenos AYres are
equipped as hearses and mourning cars
OF three different grades. Inside are
seats tor the mourners, place for the
coffin, an altar, cross, and candelabra.
The cars are to be run on the street-car
tracks to convey funeral parties to the
cemetery.
AN old fellow in Wisconsin town
who has been running private bank for
some years was recently requested TO
publish some sort of a statement SO he
posted the following on the door of his
bank "Notice-This ere bank has cot
$50 600 behind her. She don't owe no.
body red cent. Good paper discounted
as heretofore, and nobody proposes to cut
oGlOho lOI OleAlCO OT IOdudQd. 1Qer6
was no run on that bank.
"A new remedy for skin diseases, saws
the Hospital, is continual bath, the pa
tent eating, drinking, and sleeping there
until cured. One patient has been kept
in such bath for 365 days. He is tied
up always at night to prevent him from
slipping so as to be drowned. The
palms and soles become much shriveled,
but the rest of the skin is unchanged.
The water is kept at go.
The Canadian Government will soon
adopt policy OF hostility toward immi-
grafton. All alien laborers, except
British, will be prohibited from coming
to Canada, and the funds which the Do.
minion Government has hitherto granted
in aid of immigration, Amounting in the
aggregate to quarter OF million ster-
ling, will be Withdrawn.
Arrangements for hosting people to
the top OF Efel's tower, which will be
raised to its thousand feet by March 81,
are to consist of two lifts to carry fifty to
one hundred persons each to the frs;
platform. Two others will ascend from
the ground floor to the second platform,
il2 metres high in a minute. They
will stop at the first platform to take no
or leave passengers. The complete ascent
will take four minutes, and it will be pos
sible to take to the top $50 visitors AL
hour.
Professor LIE Conte, in the Popular
Science Monthly, pronounces flying ma.
chimes a physical impossibility, and aerial
navigation a chimera. He predicates this
opinion on the fact that Nature, during
some millions Of years of experiment and
effort, has never succeeded in producing
of successful flying machine (bird) of above
about fifty pounds weight How ma.
chine can be made to carry itself with a
hundred and fifty pounds of pilot is not
to be found in all the calculations of the
most mathematical physicist. But we
may find coigne for hope in the fact
that Stephenson demonstrated the impos
sibihty OF a steamship across the Allan
tic. There may be kink or break
somewhere in Professor LIE Conte's anal
ogy. Because the elephant only weighs
five tons, a locomotive weighing fifty tons
Is not physical i'm possibility" Be-
cause the whale weighs fifty tons, and
would be failure if heavier, it does not
make steamship Of FIVE thousand tons
impossible. We may be pardoned if we
fly right in the face of such logic.
The condition or Ireland promises
much improvement. A recent official
statement by Mr.. Balfour, secretary OF
state for Ireland, is to the effect that
during the past year there was less
agrarian crime by 200 cases than in
any year since 1879 Boycotting has
decreased 70 per cent. The cases under
the crimes act are less numerous. That
act is now in operation over far less than
halt the area OF Ireland and over about
half the people. From time to time
large areas OF the island are being with.
drawn from the operation of the crimes
act and being placed under the ordinary
law. The security OF property and OF
| person 10 increasing, and with it the
prosperity of the country. Thig is shown
by increased deposits in the savings
banks and in the ordinary banks. Marks
OF improvements abundant, it is stated
in every line Of effort. The relations OF
the tenants to landlords and to the police
are said to share in the general progress
toward a better state Of things. Ball.
Sun.
Mr.. FLAGLERs LAVISH ExPENDr-
TUREs Curious stories come from Ponce
/ de Leon Hotel In St. Augustina M