Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-02

| AAo aatA-SeSult dRltatlon In Canada Is making much stir. There is even talk of blood.
 Michigan's legislature has just adjourned after sitting six months. This is more than the Connecticut affair.
 A San Francisco man has entered s3OO- coo. 900 claim in the courts there against the city. He knows what he wants.
 The following advertisement recently ap- peared in western paper: "A middle aged l woman who is capable, honest and industrious, but as homely as 8 stone-fence wants work. :" This woman deserves good place. l And now the prize fight which is to come off | on the 9th IS receiving great deal of atten- ton. The general opinion seems to be that if both the contestants will knock each other so far out that they cannot come back again it will be we'll
 Tobacco may be "kina" yet, as cotton was. The acreage in this country Is in- creasing every year, and in Cuba the planters are abandoning sugar and turning their at- tention to tobacco, finding the latter far more ! PASAeoOAo III b4c Ih5G 1uuleb, CulS luOuSLTy has lately been making immense strides, and the stock of the corporations who control the l great tobacco plantations in Sumatra and Batavia has advanced nearly 100 points in the last three months.
 An unbreakable substitute for glass, a French invention, consists in immersing l wire In heated state in thin paste formed of soluble glass, gelatine and glycerine CT glucose, in proportions varying according to J the use for which the material Is designed. When nearly dry, the sheets are dipped in a concentrated solution of chrome alum or bichromate of potash. Any desired ooloring matter may be incorporated with the gela- tine, and copal or other protective varnish applied to the surface.
 A short time ago complaints were made to the management of the French exposition that most of the exhibits of Tunis, Aleiers and Morocco were not African products at all, but the manufacturers of Rue du Temple in Paris. An investigation proved that the complaints were true. The Parisian firm re- ceived twenty-four hours notice in which to remove the bogus exhibits, and herewith vanished the major part of the department of the Barbary States. The north African man. ufacturers, who complained of the Parisian firm, also told the managers that they were being driven out of their native markets by French competition. The weapons, rugs, carpets and leather articles which several years ago were supplied to the Barbary States almost entirely by domestic labor came now from France, they said, at prices far below the cost of the native products. In Paris it is an open trade secret that almost all north African curios on sale are made in the city.
 The publication of the records of the re- bellion is hereafter to bs carried on under the supervision of a board composed of an army officer and two civilian experts. The status of the work of publication at the time the board assumes charge is as follows:- Twenty-three volumes of thirty-four sepa- rate books have been published and issued, besides six volumes of fourteen books stereo- typed. Five of these have been prepared and will be sent to press now that new funds Lave become available. In addition to these 4 forty-eight books in type there are nine vol umes of twenty-three books fully completed ready for stereotyping, making total of seventy-one books published and prepared for publication, or about two.thirds of the work. The work as projected aggregatee 1O9 books, therefore leaving thirty-eight books