Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-17

done faithful Work TOT tWenty"one years. Woman is getting her rights in Maryland. A recent decision of the Court of Appeals husband.
 And now it is related that, those who are working for consolidation are trying to get signatures to a petition in its favor among the aldermen and councilmen. After voting | to have nothing to do with the matter peti- tion from these bodies would seem hardly consistent, even if it could be obtained. A French missionary gives a serious ao- count of the state of slavery in Ecuador. Though it is not legal institution yet the ! law permits an Indian to sell himself as a | slave when he is unable ts pay his debts, ! and once a slave he is rarely able to free I himself. He may be bequeathed by will. The majority of the interior Indians have | been reduced to this condition.
 There is at least one man who has not gone into the service of the government tc ! make money. He is J. Lowrie Bell, the l new superintendent of the railroad mail ser | vice. He was earning as railroad exper | 0f | a fee for his advice and work in one railroad case just before he was asked to take hil present office. His salary as superintendent | of the mail service is $4 900 year. He is personal friend of Postmast CT General Wan J amaker, and sacrificed his financial interes ! to do the Philadelphia statesman favor. I It has been said that there are no wilt buffalo left out of the millions that onc roamed over the western plains. Professo Hornaday, of the Shit hsonian Institution
 says that o. F. Jones of Garden City, Kansas has herd of about one hundred and lift!
 buffaloes in confinement, more or less do
 mesticated, and others have smaller herds
 making altogether total of 243 head in con | finement. Professor Hornaday also has au thentic information of several small herds O
 wild buffalo in Texas, Wyoming, Montana l and the National Yellowstone Park, and il
 Canada, the largest being herd of two hun dred in the National dark. The total mum
 Der of these wild buffaloes is probably no far from five hundred, so that of these ani mals less than seven hundred and fifty nov
 survive.
 The Homiletic Review thinks that thos of us not yet fifty years of age have proba
 ply lived in the most important and intellec
 tual progressive period of human history
 Within this half century, it says, the follow
 ing inventions and discoveries have beel
 made: Ocean steamships, street railways
 elevated railways, telegraph lines, ocean ca
 bles, telephones, photograph, photography
 and score of new methods of picture-mak
 ing, aniline colors, kerosene oil, electri
 light, steam fire engines, chemical fire ex
 tinguishers, an@sthetics and painless sur ] gerry; guncotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite
 giant powder, aluminium, magnetism ant other new metals; electro plating, spectrum analysis and spectroscope; audiphone, pnue
 matic tubes, electric motor, electric bells typewriter; cheap postal system, steam heat ing, steam and hydraulic elevators, vesti
 bule cars, cantilever bridges. All positiv
 knowledge of the physical constitution c planetary and stellar worls has been attaine
 within this period.
 A dry goods man is reported as taikin
 kthus in the New York Sun; Did it ever ot