Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-11

placeS. Hing Mai1etOA or samoa Is not
 paid his salary ($25 wesk) with regularity 1 enough to keep him in easy financial con- dition, so he has been having his wives do
 washing for well-to do white residents of
 Apia.
 A work on which Count Tolstoi is now engaged is called "War and Government" He contends that "war between nations is
 ridiculous and illogical" Asked what he
 would have soldiers do when ordered to
 fight, he answered.: "They should refuse
 to obey."~-
 Tho amenities of French political life
 were recently illustrated in the Chamber
 of Deputies on a proposition that the
 funeral of the late Deputy Madier de Mont
 jau should be at the public expense, when
 Deputy Cassagnac expresseda desire to have
 all of his Republican colleagues disposed
 of the same way and Deputy Doumer de-
 clared that they were anxious to vote a
 public funeral for Deputy Cassagnac.
 About forty years ago, on the night fol- lowing the nomination of General Scott for the presidency, Daniel Webster, who had been defeated for the nomination, was serenaded in Washington, and in response to call for few remarks he simply ob- served that he should rise in the morning with the lark, and, though the lark was better songster than he, yet he would greet the purple east as jocunt., as gratiied and as satisfied as that bird.
 Discussing the influence that the atti- tude of the body during work has upon persons health, French savant points out that "the sitting position congests the digestive organs, the bent position Qike that of boot-makers) leads to cardiac sffec- tions and the standing position imposed on shop girls and women is productive of much suffering and disease" IL is com- paratively safe to lie down unless you have heart disease, asthma or something.
 What is said to be the biggest signal box or switch tower in the world, that is, from which the largest number of switch and signal levers and electric signals are oper- ated, was opened in London two weeks ago. It is at the Waterloo station, where twenty-two tracks run to as many plat forms and sidings. The switching and block signalling arrangements are to be controlled in the new box. On the day of the universities' boat race S19 trains pass ed the old box between daybreak and mid night, an average of forty-five trains an Tha z %I,oA AGo ed IS, GOO distinct lever motions and %, ,O0O electrical signals. In four hours 173 l switching operations were performed from the box. The old box was too small for l the work required.
 There is now in London what is de- | clared to be the finest Persian carpet in I the world. This is the Holy Carpet of | the Mosque of Ardebi in Persia-a carpet | which for size, beauty, condition, and authenticated age is said to be unrivalled | by any known example Its dimensions I are 34 feet inches by IT feet 6 inches. 1 The ground of the body of the fabric is of rich blue, covered with a floral tracery of exquisite delicacy. A center medallion ot pale yellow terminates on lts outer edge in sixteen minaret- shaped points, from which spring sixteen car touches, four green, four red, and eight | cream ;and from two of these are suspended, in the direction of the respective ends of | the carpet, two of the sacred lamps of the | But the most interesting detail | is the pale cream cartouche placed within the border at the upper end of the carpet, bearing an inwoven inscription, which is thus translated: 'I have no refuge in the | world other than thy threshold. My head has no protection other than thy porch way. The work of the slave of this Holy | Place, Maksoud of Kashan, in the year 942." The year 942 of the Hegira is 1535 | of our era.