Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-21

teeth, which opened and shut convulsively.
 Now and then great red tongue of the
 brilliancy of flame ran out ,snd as the head
 rolled from side to side in vain efforts to
 force a way further through the aperture
 great flakes of spume of dense, sickening odor were thrown from it." His next ap-
 pearance will probably be at some seaside
 resort. l.
 M. Paul Deschanel, the commissioner
 who was sent here by the French govern
 ment to study the condition of American
 workingmen, sailed for France on Satur-
 day. after spending several months in a careful and thorough investigation. He
 has travelled, we ars told, the length and
 breadth of the United States, visiting every city of importance in almost every State, and the result of his inquiries and observations is summed up in his state ment, before departing for Europe, that
 "the American lsboring classes are far bet ter paid, better fed, better clothed, better taught, and happier than those of France, and still more so than those of other coun- tries in Europe. 'It is almost discourag ing" he added, Ito have to go back to my country and paint picture in my report which shows such 8 contrast between the condition of things in America and in France"
 What hard time of it, says @ corre- spondent, Brazilian bookkeepers must have with the long line of figures which . represent the ordinary commercial trans actions of a banking or mercantile house. For example, a real, the unit of the none tary system, is written 0s001 and is equal to the value of one-twentieth of the United States cent. There is no such coin in cir culation, the smallest being 10 reis. There is copper coin of 40 reis, and nickel coin of 100 reis, and another of 200 reis. Next comes the paper money in notes of 1000 reis, called milreis. There are two mil reis, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 and 100, to a max imum of 500 milreis, numerically expressed this way: 50OsO0O. Then there is an imaginary denomination named 8 conte, which means thousand milreis, and is expressed 1,000s. The par value of the paper milreis is equal to about 54 cents, American money; but of course it varies with the times.
 Mir. Thornycroft, the famous builder of torpedo boats, has devised an apparatus for steadying ships at sea and has just completed series of experiments which are said to prove that rolling may be dim finished very greatly without extravagant cost and with comparatively small sacrifice of cargo space. Some of the fastest liners on the Atlantic ocean have been known to roll through an angle of forty degrees each way, performance of woful significance to all persons afflicted by seasickness. Mir. | Thornycroft's device, which it would be difficult to describe clearly and briefly in | detail, consists of shifting weight moved | by hydraulic power and controlled by the oscillation of long and short-period pendu- | lums. This gear was fitted to steam | yacht of 230 tons displacement, and roll | of eighteen degrees was at once reduced to | one of nine degrees. The weight employed | was eight tons, or & per cent. of the yachts displacement, but as the vessel happened to be one of peculiar model it is thought that a far smaller weight in pro- portion would be necessary in the case of an ocean racer. MT. Thornycroft has read paper on his invention before the Eng fish Institution of Naval Architects.