Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-17

old. The young of 1891 are now coming ashore dead, having remained too long in the cold northern waters. The waters of North Bay were full of small msckeIel up to January 1, and since then every codfish caught has been full of the little fellows, seven or eight inches long.
 Captain E. s. Jaffrey, an American we'll acquainted with affairs in Chili, is reported as saying: Do you kn ow how much the men who control tho Chilian nitrate de- posits could afford to pay for peacel I can tell you that it is a very large sum. Colonel North, the so-called Nitrate King, has made fortune variously estimated at from $35 ,O00, ,O0O to $50, 900, 900 in the last ten or twelve years. His associates are said to have made all the way from s10O, ,OO0, 900 to $15O. .000, 900 in the same time. There is no figure that can be put on the value of property which will yield such returns to represent its real value. I have heard that it was the persuasiveness of the nitrate people which induced Chih to apologize to the United States, and that the persuasion used was cold cash for the strengthening of the present government. The amount has been stated vsriously at from s5, ,000, ,000 to s15, 1000, 900. know nothing as to the real facts, but am telling you the gossip of London clubs.
 The Kansas wolf-drive is lively affair. Sometimes as many as four thousand men engage in it, and they beat over a tract ten miles square. The affair is conducted with military exactness and discipline. A general is chosen, and he in turn picks out his staff and battalion and company com mandefs. The signal for starting is fu- sillade of shots fired by the leaders of each squad. With 1000 men on each side of the square there are 100 men to the mile. or one at intervals of about fifty feet. The lines are supposed to move one mile each half hour. Every man has | horn or drum, and his instructions are to make ss much noise as he can. Wolves are not to be killed until rounded up in the common centre. They may be clubbed into a run if necessary. At a distance of one mile from the centre the report of cannon an- nounces that the battle is about to begin, and the forces are aligned and put in readi- ness. Only such of the hunters as are des- ignated by the general carry firearms; the others are armed with clubs to prevent the beasts from escaping.
 There is good deal of ingenuity now adays. Dr. H. F. Gary, professor in the eye and ear division of the southern home opathic medical college at Baltimore, Mary land, is conducting series of interesting experiments involving the uses of the pho nograph for the cure of deafness. The principle of the treatment is the massage of those parts of the ear which transmit sound into the brain. The phonograph produces this result by giving continuous and successive vibration at regular inter vals This it does with certain degrees of intensity and frequency accord ing 10 the exigencies of the case under treatment. The noises or thumps so made are given by means of de- pressions made with stylus at regular intervals in the wax surface of the phono- graphic cylinder. Thus they may be varied and they originate in the phono- graph itself, ana are not introduced from | any exterior source. Every depression | causes the little transmitting needle in the instrument to strike the diaphragm con- nected with the photograph and to re- produce the same distressing noises which a deaf person continually hears within his brain. The intensity of the noises is regulated by the way that the Impressions are made in the cylinder and the frequency by the number of revolutions a minute given the latter. Patients in the college who have tried this treatment for deafness claim they are greatly benefited.