Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-27

the first.
 A pretty young Polish woman living in New York has smoked so many cigarettes that she is insane.
 One of the most ambitious schemes of mod ern engineering is the project of John King to construct an isthmus from low point in Ireland to Mall in Scotland, distance of Ill miles. The object is to have it act as a kind of breakwater to the Gulf stream and make feasible the reclamation of large area of land which is now partly or completely sub merged. Leading engineers have already given the plan their approval, but there is no likelihood that it will prove a sufficient at- traction to capitalists to make it come to any thing.
 Australian travellers state that the interior of Australia is by no means the desert it has long been supposed to be. Though now un- populated, it is pronounced capable of supporting large population. Gold has
 been found there, nnd the travellers brought
 home stories of the vast pasture lands, abun-
 dant water and finally of deep blue lakes, at
 least one of which is of large and as yet un-
 known extent. great railroad is to extend
 across the continent from north to south.
 though the eastern part of the country once supposed to be desert. It is predicted that the 'desert" will disappear, as that in Amer ica has gone.
 It is hard to "get the best" of some peo. pie. The other day some men dug hole for an electric light pole opposite one of the finest residences on Summer street, Maiden, Mass. The owner of the residence in the meantime secured man and told him to go up into the woods and dig the first tree he could find, and hurry back and plant it where the hole for the electric was. Before the men commenced to raise the electric light pole, the owner of the residence invited them to come into his cellar and take drink l which they all did. There the owner de tained them long enough to allow the mer sent for the tree to come back and plant it The others did not dare to remove the tree so they put the pole into their wagon and drove of.
 John Harkins of Boston ordered $50 suit of clothes to be delivered o. O. D. When the clothes were delivered MT. Harkins gave
 the boy $50 bill in payment. As the boy
 was going Harkins suggested that the bill be put into an envelope for greater safety. The boy handed the bill to him, and he apparent. 1 ly put it into an envelope. When the en. l velope was opened by the tailor it contained 8 $1 bill. Harkins was arrested, charged ! with having substituted the $t for the $5( 1 bill, and was convicted of larceny of the ! clothes. When he was brought up to bt sentenced his counsel moved for new tria l on the ground that the prisoner was no guilty of larceny, as he did not steal the l clothes; it was not larceny of the money, as I he actually paid the money to the tailor'i
 agent, who gave it back to him. Sentence l was suspended.
 l Mir. Grant Allen has laid the foundation for serious and lasting dislike of himself bJ | Woman. In the Forum he says: "The male'
 are the race; tho females are the sex told of to recruit and produce it. All that is dis l tinctiyely human is man; all that is truly
 woman is merely reproductive; the home
 the nursery, the sehool-room." "This yer! necessity for telling of at least considerable number of the women for the arduous dutie
 of human maturnity, prevents the possibilit. of woman as such ever being really in an.