Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-20


 this State, We can look with great deal of l calmnsss upon what congress is doing or pro- poses to do on financial matters. We held to our gold during the paper craze, though an attempt had been made to impeaeh our loyalty by those who wanted to. make a | profit out of its surrender. But still we recognize tho fact that by unwise legislation congress may put up gold to figures that mightprove very inconvenient. What the Pa- ci6c Coast wants is bi-metalism, and not an experiment. in finance. The sursst and safest road to reach it is the one that should be pursued. An increase in silver coinage equal to the contraction in national bank circula. tion, and an international agreement, in the course of time would restore the old relations of the metals. But the result that is 50 ar dently desired cannot be brought about in a day; nor can the United States, powerful and wealthy though it be, accomplish it un- aided.
 One cannot run away from fate. Some three years ago man from Clinton, Ken lucky, named Graham moved with his fam l fly to Kingman county, Kansas. He did not | not dwell in Kansas satisfactorily because of an inordinate dread of cyclones on his wife's part and her dislike for the state because of it's reputation in that way. His eldest ! daughter, besides, during his residence in the State, was in continual apprehension of being scalped by Indians, for which she had special dread. Mother and daughter | by their dissatisfaction finally prevailed up- on Graham to return to his old homo in Ken
 lucky. This was about a year ago. Six
 months ago the town of Clinton was struck
 by cyclone, the Graham house was com pletely demolished, and Mrs. Graham met
 her death in the very way she had left Kan.
 sas to avoid, and the still stranger part waf
 that flying timber struck the daughter and
 severed her scalp. The daughter recovered
 but is disfgured. Graham himself was hur
 and is still prostrate.
 | Perhaps electricity will yet help the farm
 CTS. o. N. Spencer in Applied Eleetricit,
 tells how an electric current has been uset
 to hasten the germination of seeds and in
 crease the yield of crops. Two sets of ex periments are described. In the first, plate of zinc and copper were buried in the soi and connected by wires. The repor
 says: "The influence of the current wa ] manifested by larger crop and by tn s growth or Vegetables of enormous dimen ! sions." In the other, atmospheric eleetrieit was collected by means of numerous insula ting rods, connected by wires, so that cleo tricity in large quantities was collected abov the seeds. The experiments were continue for five years and showed an advantage fo y the electrified tracts in quantity of yield an . time of maturing. The percentage of gai : ia the electrified tracts over others was frol
 Il to more than 100 per cent. How tn compared with the cost of the electrical al a paratus does not appear. This cost is sai to have been considerable, but on the oth
 hand the apparatus, once set up, will la
 several years.
 Many foreign nations seem to be much l. need of money just now. The Spanish mi 'e isters are engaged on schemes for borrowin The Portuguese government has recently su tained a most ignominious failure in its To tempt to float small loan upon the Pal '' market. A Greek loan is on the eve of bei T. issued at Berlin. Switzerland has within t y last few months borrowed money from t n public for the purpose of constructing nt le forts to defend her neut trality. Eeyptduri at the last week has appeared upon the I4ond pr and Parisian markets for the purpose es effecting the conversion sef- hsr anormo re debt, and Turkey has now the same object III view. The Czar has recently been obtaini .s money at high rates of interest in Paris 6 'n Amsterdam for the sake of his army; 8 ''' similar considerations have impelled be LID the German and Austrian monarchs to a-begging among the fnanciers of their spective empires. We have also had B l garian loan issued at Vienna; Mexico is SA treaty with German banking houses for .o loan in connection with it's railway subsidi i' Uruguay is about to appeal to the Engl market in order to fund it's floating debt, a the Argentine government Is trying to rs some ready money in England by the sale one of its railroads.