Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-19

| if it walks nowadays or "nowanights. ' Rome is lighted by electricity generated by the Falls of Tivoli. The falls are eighteen
 miles from the Eternal City, yet no diff | culty was experienced in carrying out the
 work.
 Oh, the terrible robber tariff Since passage of the Mckinley law the
 number of pearl button factories has in- creased from eleven to seventy five or eighty, the number of operatives from 300 | or 400 to 4,000, and the wages from s9 to $12 per week 20 from s15 to s24 per week. The output has increased from $500, ,000 to $7,000. 900 per annum. Lastly the prices
 have greatly declined, in some cases nearly fifty per cent.
 R R. Roth of Philadelphia adds his mite to the Barbara Freitchie controversy. He is descendant of that poetic personage's family, and says that though Barbara lived in Frederickstown, the story that she waved flag in the face of the "rebel horde" is fiction, for she was bed ridden at the time and too feeble even to walk to the window. And besides, Stonewsl Jack son, according to other authorities, did not visit Frederickstown.
 There are honest men. James J. Nc Roberts of St. Louis has recently given proof of his singular honesty by paying off some heavy debts that he has owed for fifteen years. He was @ shoe dealer in Glasgow in his youth and failed disas- trously. He came 10 America penniless, and having acquired 8 fortune in St. Louis he returned to his native town not long ago and paid up every creditor with inter est. Then the lucky creditors feasted him, gave him gold watch and showed ether evidences of their appreciation.
 French chemists have demonstrated that it is possible to produce heat without fire, and the discovery is to be utilized on the railroads and street cars of the country. The device consists simply of 8 block of acetate of soda, which is plunged into hot water. As it solidifes after the immersion it gives forth as much heat ss 8 coal fire for the space of five or six hours. There is no danger of fire from the use of the substance, and as the same fuel can be used a score of times it's cheapness will be great recommendation with many man. agers of corporations.
 Those who think there was good deal of humbug about Stanley's performances in Africa will be interested in the follow ing, from Transvaal paper: It would be easy for President Kruger to name 1 ,OO0 burghers who would have gone as far for half the price as did MT. Stanley. There are indeed many Boers who have done as much as MT. Stanley has done, and more, in the way of African exploration, whose names are unknown, and who themselves think nothing of their different treks. The extraordinary success of MT. Stanley in attaining worldwide renown is an ex- cellent proof of what advertising can do.
 The introduction of cotton spinning and weaving into China is an important event. Cotton yarn is imported into China in i'm mense quantities from Bombay, and it ia said that yarn spinning will soon develop into very large industry in Shanghai. Only one cotton mill has been built in Shanghai, but that has been in exist ence, in full working order, for over year, and has demonstrated satisfactorily that Chinese cotton can be worked into coarse cotton cloth of superior quality. The power of this mill at present is $50 looms and 21 1000 spindles, and the turnout is 130,00O yards per week. All the operatives are Chinese, and the company is also pure ly native.