Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-25

on the wicked bears. When the bull uars
get to work sgain and are making power.
full efforts to stick investors with stocks a,
high prices the stoek Exchange will prob.
ably be found disapproving of them.
A cable is soon to be laid from Lisbon
to the Azores. A British company will
lay and own it, and, If the proposals fa-
vorably reported by special committee
are accepted by the Cortes, will have. ex-
elusive power to connect the Azores with
North America and Cuba, and with Eug-
land or other points in Europe. Such
connections would form a highly impor.
tant new route between America and
Europe. All existing cables to Europe are
under the far north Atlantic. starting
from Nova Scotia or Newfoundland.
1t is said that the duplex and quadru-
plex systems of telegraphy begun by Mr.
Edison In 1859 and finished after ak years
of work have saved In America alone the
enormous sum of $15, 900, 900. By the du.
plex system two currents of different de,
grees of strength were sent over the same
wire in the same direction, thus doubling
Its efficiency, while the quadruplex arrange
ment became possible when it was discov-
cred that these two currents could be sent
in opposite directions at the same time
thus enabling one wire to transmit four
simultaneous messages. Not satisfied with
this, Mr.. Edison ia confident of attaining
sextuplex and octuplex systems.
This is said to be the explanation of the
presence of the letter R on physicians pre-
soriptions: During the middle ages, when
astrology was in fashion, character very
much like our letter R was the sign of
Jupiter, the preserver of health. The
physicians then being equally devoted to
the science of medicine and of astrology,
Invariably began their prescriptions with
the following words: "In the name of
Jupiter take the following doses in the or
der set down hereinafter" In the course
of time this formula was abbreviated, un-
til at present only the letter R lemains to
teach us that medical art was once ssscc!-
ated with the science of the stars.
There Is man and woman in Sanders
vile, Georgia, who are unquestionsbly
married. The justice of the peace who
did the job ended it as follows: By the
authority vested in me as an officer of the
State of Georgia, which is sometimes call
ed the Empire State of the South; Blythe
fields of cotton that lie spread out in
snowy whiteness around us; by the howl
of the coon dog. and the gourd vine,
whose clinging tendrils will shade the en-
trance to your humble dwelling place; by
the red and luscious heart of the water
melon, whose sweetness fills the heart
with joy; by the heavens and earth, in the
presence of these witnesses. 1 pronounce
you man and wife.
A Vienna scientist has made series of
experiments with the virus of
such insects as bees and wssps, and comes
to the conclusion that the effectiveness of
the irritating substance depends largely
upon the mood of the insect. A drop of
the fuid taken from the poison bag of
dead hornet, for instance, produces slight
itching, but nothing resembling the in
fammation caused by hornet sting with
a much smaller quantity of the same virus.
This theory is supported by the curious
fact that under the influence of rsRe the
saliva of all sorts of otherwise harmless
animals can become virulent enough to
produce alarming and even fatal symp-
toms. Death by blood poisoning has more
than once resulted from the bite OF
wounded squirrel, a chipmunk or a Gagged