The Press., 1893-05-11

Hartford Times: The 9th of May has passed, and comparatively none of the great body of Chinamen have registered during the year, notwithstanding the law of congress known as the Geary act. The authorities are brought face to face with the herculean and costly job of taking them all by force and sending them back to China. On the whole, it seems to be deemed best to let the law go, and to make no arrests at least until the matter shall be acted on by the supreme court, which tribunal is to pronounce on the. constitutionality of the law. Awaiting this decision the mandatory arrests will not be made.
 The wholesale deportation of race by expellng them from the country, carry ing them to distant ports in United States vessels, was at best a unique, very costly, and probably practically impossible un- dertaking. Without any precedent, it would have to be wholly original move, such as not even Russia has yet quite un- dertaken. No wonder the authorities, af- ter all the preliminary preparations, hesi- tate, even in view of the sweeping manda- tory law of congress. The fact is, we have some new and peculiar clements in congress lately-western growths, which not only smack of the soil and the time, but may be counted upon to set the world new example in such easily ham, dled matters as the currency, transporta- tion laws, and the way to deal with a few hundred thousand Chinese.
 Meanwhile, John. Chinaman, by simply falling hack upon the primal power of 0is inerti9, the mere dead-weight of mo- movement, is defying the law of congress with seeming success.
 Popular Science Monthly: There is nc question about the importance of so fal as possible preventing the bruising of the fruit. From what has been said in strong terms concerning the barrier of a tough skin which nature has placed upon the apples, it goes without saying that this defense should not be ruthlessly broker
 down. It may be safely assumed thai germs of decay are lurking almost every.
 where, ready to come in contact with any | substances. A bruise or cut in the skin 1 is therefore even worse than rough place
 caused by a scab fungus as lodgmen
 provided by the minute spores of variou.
 sorts If the juice exudes, it at once fur
 nishes tho choicest conditions for mold,
 to grow. An apple bruised is fruit fo
 the decay of which germs are special.
 invited and when such specimen fl I placed in the midst of other fruit it sool
 becomes point of infection for its neigh
 bors on all side.
 Seldom is a fully rotten apple found il bin without several others near by being more or. less. affected. A rotte apple is not it's brothers keeper. The surrounding. conditions favor or re tard the growth of the decay fungi.
 the temperature is near freezing they ar l comparatively inactive, but when the roor ! is moist, the fruit cannot be expected t , keep well. Cold storage naturally check 5 the decay. The ideal apple has no fur | , gous defacenents and no bruises. If
 could be placed in dry, cool room fire from fungous germs it ought. to keep 1T l, definitely until chemical change ruins g as an article of food.
 a 4 5.s .s I A large bald>headed eagle was foun dead at Honck's Hill, N. Y., near Stan
 ford, in Delaware county, after sever
 thunder shower, few days ago. IT k king of birds had evidently been struc by lightning while in mid air. Upon b :? ing examined, the eagle was found to ha, L a streak extending from tip to tip of i 2 wings and across it's breast, where u ], feathers had been burned of and the fiee ' was scorched as with hot iron. Fro 2 the tips of it's outstreched wings the bil measured a trifle over five feet.