Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-22

boot soles.
 A Russian navy officer has invented an effective method of searching the sea or coast by night, which does not reveal the po- sition of the ship. A mortar fires buoyant
 shell containing compound which ignites on
 reaching the water and lights up the sur
 rounding area.
 At the Paris exposition womans work in
 art makes good showing, especially in the
 Holland exhibit. In the French exhibit out
 of 532 artists in oil only twenty-ssven are
 women. In total of 272 exhibits of sculp-
 ture twelve Of the exhibitors are women. In
 water colors, charcoal sketches, pastels and
 porcelains women stand higher, as among IA
 exhibitors % are women.
 A warm contest is going on in the State of Pennsylvania over the prohibition amend- ment which is to be voted upon on the 18th of June, and it is greatly to be feared that 1t will be an injury to the cause of genuine temperance reform. There Is little doubt that the amendment will be defeated. and as the brewers, distillers and liquor dealers will use their efforts and their money to this end, it will have the appearance of being @ triumph l for them.
 EnglIsh newspapers like to sheer at the | careless writing to be found in A~erican newspapers, but here are few specimens of English as "she is wrote'' in first class Eng lish newspapers: "To investigate the ques- | tion would lead us too deeply into the dry and troubled waters of moral philosophy. J Several chlmneys fell, burying the inmates | in the ruins." "A row of cottages fell but l fortunately the inmates were all out" "At | first sight, the electioneering addresses sound I thoroughly Protectionist."
 American machinists seem to be as good as ! any. The Pennsylvania railroad company
 has been for two or three weeks testing g | locomotive from the shops at Crewe, Eng. land, and finds that it is not a success as compared with American locomotives. It 1 has been in charge of an English engineer | and machinist from Crewe, and with { 1 light train makes good speed, but with heavy trains is easily outdistsnced by the Pennsyl
 vanis locomotives. It loses time in getting
 under way and it's only advantage is in iti contrivance for saving fuel.
 Some Connecticut inventor can make $10,. 900 if he will invent a satisfactory machine l or device to attach to reapers that will bind wheat and oats with straw. The State Grange of Illinois makes the offer, and tn, official notice reads: Said device may worb
 and twist it's straw direct from the reaper, ol ! it may be a separate machine that will twist the straw and wind on large spools, tha l may be rereeled on smaller spools, by tht
 farmer, and set in place in the reaper wher
 wanted. Said money to be paid as soon 8.
 the device Is proved to be a success. Should 1 more than one person claim the above $10, 900 on his invention, the committee reserve
 the right to choose the one that to them eeeml
 most practical. The said patent to be issued l for the use and benefit of the Illinois Stat.
 Grange and legally transferred by the sait patentee.
 Professor Townsend of Boston universit,
 has strange idea, that the press of Bostol
 and Massachusetts is controlled by the Roman
 Catholic priesthood. He announced som
 time ago that every newspaper has repre-
 sentative of the Jesuits on it's staff, who col
 orr the news and the editorial comments t
 suit the interests of the Roman church