Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-28

dleunguish between malaria and typhoid
fever In the early stages of each by what
La esteemed an absolutely certain diagnosis.
The blood from Q pin prick upon the pa
TENTS body is smeared on glass plate and
placed under microscope. II the oharao-
teristic bacillus of malaria is discovered the
proof is taken as conclusive.
Sparrows can be killed. The great
storm of Thursday killed thousands of
them In New York and Philadelphia. In
Central Park alone the dead spsrrows
picked up filed six bushel baskets. At
Franklin Square In Philadelphia 10 was
noticed that hundreds of cate gathered to
get the eparrows, but unanimously reject
cd the dead ones and fed on those that
were merely crippled. 1t is believed that
some OF the birds were drowned, but more
had the life dashed out Of them.
Wasps have been unoommonly numerous
lin England this summer. They swarm in
houses and bedchambers, they rob Or
chards mora effectively than q whole
school of boys and they destroy the finest
peaches on the wall and the iu!ciest plums
in the garden. ''If You pick up q ripe
pear under your favorite tree" says
London journal, "the chances are that
half dozsn Of these hot-tempered thieves
will sally out of ii, and you may hold your
self lucky If you do not get well stung."
This Ia quite world. DIR. Temple, the
Bishop of London, is Q vociferous sdvo-
cate of total abstinence, and has been q
leading light In the English Temperance
movement. The other night burglars
broke into the Episcopal palace, and dur
ing the investigation which followed 1t
was discovered that his grsce's CELLAR Was
filed with the choicest potables from
champagne down to Irish whisky. Now
the other temperance advocates are look
ing asksncs at the good bishop, who Is en-
desvoring to explain matters by declaring
that the beverages are for the use of his
guests, and that he never uses them him
self
Can q cabinet minister legally supersede
an act of congressi That is the question
that Colonel Charles P. Lincoln, Wash
ington lawyer, proposes to test in the Su-
preme court of the District of Columbia
by applying for a msndamus to enjoin the
secretary of the interior from continuing
his suspension of penslons- His plea will
be that the secretary has no power to in
terfere with the executive action OF pre-
ceding administration except by reopening
individual cases in the manner prescribed
by the existing law, and that Wholesale
suspensions, accompanied by orders to
pensioners TO produce additional evidence,
have no warrant In law.
Arkansas doesn't blow as much SIS some
of the western states do, but she has one
point of superiority which tells in these
times of depression; the mortgage indebt-
edness of the people is less than that of
any State that hiss yet been tabulsted by
the Ceneus Bureau. In Arkansas the aver
sge debt of this kind Is $l3 for every per
con. In Illinois It is 800; Iowa, Sio4;
Kansas, $40; Massachusetts,, S144; Mis-
souri,, $50; Nebraska, $126, and for all the
other States similarly high figures In
cludsd IN the list hesidea those states men
toned are Connecticut, Indiana, Maine,
Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
Wisconsin. Again, In n ratio between the
debt and the estimated true value of all
taxed real estate, Arkansas leads with the
ratio of 7.34 per cent, the lowest of any
State in the Cnion. The increase of mort
gage deb: during the ten yssrs was more
rapid on town lots than on acre tracts.
Only two of the ssyenty-fve counties of the
State have a debt as large as 81 GOO, 900,
and these are Pulaski county, containing
Little Rock. and Sebastian county, contain
ing Forth Smith.