Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-20

streets or country roads, and can be run ai the rate of half . cent mile. The wagon and engine can be made for $500. The speed is as high aE fifteen miles an hour. An Indian botanist has made expert
 ments which induce him to say that some
 plants can see. Whether the inference be
 accepted, or not, these experiments go to
 show that the plants made an effort to
 reach supports placed at little distance,
 and grew towards these supports wher-
 eyer they were placed. The plant was a
 convolvulus, and when long pole was
 placed near 1t, and in such a aposition that
 the tsndrils would have to turn away
 from the light to reach 1t, they invariably
 did 50, and within a few hours twined
 about 1t. e
 It is said that Gabrielle Bompard, the aceomplice of the notorious murderer Fly raud, is receiving daily offers of marriage in the prison where she is undergoing punishment. She receives dozens of let ters weekly, of all kinds and from every part of Europe, some coming from even America. One snowman offers her salary of $300 week and all expenses psidif she will exhibit herself under his management after her release. She sticks to the theory that rhe was hypnotized by Eyraud, and says from the moment she heard of his ex- ecution she has been quite a different woman, a sense of moral relief coming to her the instant she knew he had been gull lotined. She says she always dreaded and detested Eyraud, but was strangely com pelled to obedience in spite of her disgust.
 Rev. W. W. Brim, of Albany, Georgia, does not approve of clerRymen visiting the worlds fair at the expense of anyone else. Last week a firm of dry goods dealers in his town started voting contest to decide who was the most popular minister. Each dollars worth of goods entitled the pur- chaser to one vote, and the psrson receiv- ing the largest number of votes was to re- ceive free trip, with all expenses paid. to the worlds fair. But MT. Brim objected. He took the scheme as the subject for his last Sundays discourse. He went for that dry goods firm rough shod and declared that the voting contest was an insult not only to the preachers but to God, and wound up with an appeal to his congrega- tion to buy their dry goods elsewhere. He succeeded in raising such hullsballoo that the plan was withdrawn, and one Albany clergyman will be deprived of the pleasure af rin fo fha fotr r1p1aoo ha together the necessary money himself.
 The remarkable physiological effects of cave air are we'll known. A traveller who visited the Mammoth cave in Kentucky says that on emerging the sense of smell was intensified to such an extraordinary degree that most common objects. such as trees, plsnts, animals and even people had strong individual odors, mostly unpleas- ant. One tree could be easily distin- guished from another by its characteristic odor. The effect lasted about half an hour and then passed off. The guides say that this is @ usual experience. Other writers have noticed similar effect from the sudden change from the peculiarly o1ygenated air of the cave to that of the outside world. The sense of smell Is greatly intensified in almost every case. This intensiication of olfactury percep- tions is explained by the rarity of olfac- tory stimuli in the cave. On emergence, in accordance with a physiological law, the perceptive powers for these particular off rt hau kaI f-Sa ed that odors too delicate to make an impress sion under ordinary circumstances are powerfully felt.