Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-17
RIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1890.

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 The new imperial law for increasing the size of Germany's standing army went into operation on October 1. Under this law the army is to contain 4S8, ,9S3 men, 20, ,2S5 officers, 5000 one-year volunteers, 1850 military surgeons, as well as numerous paymasters, gunsmith's, military officials, saddlers, and veterinary surgeons. Since 1875 the size of the standing army has been increased by S5,324 men. Since April 1, 1887, the increase has been 1S,- 574, of whom Il. 800 have been included in new regiments. The remaining 6,674 have been used to strengthen old forma- tions. Seventy new batteries of field ar tillery are to be formed, as well as four infantry and three train battalions. The Freisinnige Zeitung calculates that the number of recruits on next November 1 will exceed the number of that date last year by 21 800.
 A St. Louis restaurant keeper has made an interesting calculation of the amount of food good feeder would consume dur ing lifetime of sixty years. Suppose he eats pound of beef, mutton or other flesh every day, in . year he will consume 365 pounds and in sixty years 21 300 pounds of meat. He will eat the same weight of vegetables and quite as much bread, so here are 43,SO0 pounds more. He will drink every day two quarts of | coffee, tea, wine, beer or water, making Q total of 1O,900 gallons, or about 175 hogs heads of liquid. This estimate does not include the probability that he will cal forty or fifty lambs with mince sauce, g couple of thousand spring chickens, about | 800 pounds of butter, and 10000 or | 50, ,000 eggs, and four hogsheads of sugar. scales it would weigh over forty-fve tons, and if stored would fill cotton warehouse from floor to ceiling.
 That was a very appropriate passage from the Apocrypha which MT. John H | Ricketson used in his address to the for | eign and American engineers at the inter national session in Pittsburg last week "So every carpenter and work-master, that laboreth night and day the smith also, sitting by the anvil and considering the iron work, the vapor of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fghteth with the heat of the furnace; the noise of the ham | ,,,a a,,J tho anvil ;c ax,ar ;,, bio aarS ana his eyes look still upon the pattern of ths thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polisf it perfectly. So doth the potter, sitting al his work and turning the wheel about witt his feet, who is always carefully set at hii work, and maketh all his work by mum Der; he fashioneth the clay with his arm and boweth down his strength before hi feet; he applieth himself to lead it over and he is diligent to make clean the fur .nace All these trust to their hands, ant I every one is wise in his work. Withou these cannot city be inhabited; and the. shall dot dwell where they will, nor go ul and down. They shall not be sought fo in public council, nor sit high in the con gregation. They shall not sit on tn
 judges seat, nor understand the sentenc
 of the judgment; they cannot declare jus
 tice and judgment, and they shall not b
 found where parables are spoken. Bu
 they will maintain the state of the world
 and all their desire is in the work of thei craft"