Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-13

drowning has been written by NJ. Laborde.
The method consists In forcibly drawing
out the tongue, in pressing the jaws
apart and in pulling the tongue
forward and backward in an
energetic manner. The value Of this man
oeuvre is due to its marvellous effect on
the reflex respiratory system. M. La
borde cites the history of two subjects who
were apparently dead by drowning whom
he restored to life by this procedure. He
concludes that we should never despair in
cases of drowning, even If death has ap-
parently taken place.
It is announced that an engineer living
in Glasgow has lately finished, after nine
teen years. experimenting, a device for
steam engines by which all steam is re-
turned back to the boiler after doing its
work in the cylinders. In several cases, it
is said, he has installed his engine, and it
is at work with extraordinary results. In
one case, in textile factory, the engine
with his device is doing as much work
with one ton of coal as it formerly did
with ten tons. The problem of how to
make use of the vast amount of steam
blown off into the air after doing certain
work has long occupied engineers, and its
thorough solution would be worth many
millions of dollars in various ways.
It has been said that the emigration of
the French Canadians to New England has
been due largely to religious propaganda,
but the statements made by Mr.. Tetreault,
one of the members of the commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the causes of the
emigration of the farmers to the United
States, show that natural causes are quite
sufficient to account for the action of these
people. He assigns seven reasons why
home. One is their poverty; another is the
size of their families; still another is the
difficulty of establishing homes; and yet
another is the defective cultivation of the
land; while the taste for luxury, the seizure
of household effects and wages for debt,
and the plague of peddlers complete the list
of the checks which the French Canadian
farmers have to submit to.
One-third of all the foreign rags i'm
ported for use in the paper industry of the
United States is consumed in Massachu-
sets, which, with the rest of New England,
uses half these importations. The pres
ence of disease germs in foreign rags has
led to stringent legislation against their
admission into the ports. An act of July
8 prohibited their importation from south
ern Russia and other places of eastern
Europe. On July 30 the government de
clared that no rags from France should be
admitted. Out of the last prohibition a
nice question has arisen for Collector
Beard of the Boston custom house to
answer, and he has called on the depart
ment at Washington for aid. A large ship
ment of rags from Dunkirk, France,
shipped July 8, reached Boston August s..
The decision which Collector Beard is
called on to make is whether the order for
exclusion should be literally interpreted,
or it is matter for quarantine.
The Jews, says foreign correspondent,
are much more numerous and wealthy to-
day than ever before in the history of the
world. In the days Of the greatest pros
perity and power of the Jewish kingdom,
under David and Solomon, they probably
did not number, all told, more than s.
100000 Now they number considerably
more than twice as many. In Asia. their
original home, there are not more than
half million, settled in Syria, Persia,
Arabia, India and China. Perhaps half a
million more are to be found in Africa,
chiefly in Morocco, the descendants of
those Jews who, in the year of Columbus
discovery of America. were expelled from
Spain. A considerable contingent is to be
found in America. But the chief modern
home of the Jews is in eastern and central
Europe, where they settled in the days Of
| the crueades. At one time the kingdom
of Poland contained nine-tenths of all the
Jews in the world. Two years ago there
were in the Russian empire, chiefly in itt
Polish provinces, fully 100000 Jews. II
the Polish provinces of Austria there arr
1900, 900, and in Germany 75O, 900, and il
the United States 100000.