Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-09
the northeast corner of Cuba, with over q million punches.

An experimenter has discovered tha nasturtums will live and flourish, bu
 bloom sparingly, in c sunny apartment where the temperature at night falls some times to or below the freesing polnt | has been found, however, that thoes neutral tinted nssturtiums, s oompars lively recent triumph in Horticulture, no, only need more water than the ordinary nasturtium. but also are much more sensi tive to cold. One such plant was destroyed in . temperature that had no viaible in. jurious effect upon nssturtiums bearing blossoms of brighter hues.
 A woman's chance to marry at from 1t to 20 years of age is said to be Al per cent. From 20 to 25 the chance is in- creased to 52 per cent; from 25 to 30 fl diminishes to IS; from 30 to 35, to 15i per cent. From 35 to 40 the chances of an un- married woman sink to 3a per cent; from 40 to 45 still further diminution is seen, her chance being but 2}. From 46 to 5C the old maids chance of getting husband Is but three-eighths of 1 per cent, while from 50 to 55 she is supposed to have but one-qusrter of per cent. of chance. II should, however, be added that the table of average does not apply to widows. Accurate statistieans, who would not be caught in mistake for the world, affirm that widow of any age has at least seventy-six spinster drawing power, and some place her figure up to eighty-two. The widows chances at any age are there fore seventy six to eighty-t times better than that of spinster.
 Now we shall have gold enough. A company has been formed in Tacoma, Washington, to extract gold by secret process from the sands of the Pacific ocean. Gold has been found in the sands of the ocean beach at many places along the Pa cihc coast from the Straits of Juan de Fuca to southern California, but only in small and widely separated stretches does 1t exist in sufficient quantities to pay for working it by processes 80 far known. It Is be- lisved the gold SO found does not come from the land, but is washed in from some hidden reef in the ocean bed. Tho com pany has secured exclusive rights to work many stretches of the beach in Washing ton, Oregon and southern California. At one of these places, Besrd's Hollow, there are believed to be two goldbesring strata, one thirteen inches below the surface and nine inches thick and the other thirty inches below and thirteen inches thick Platinum and rhodium have also been found in paying quantities in the ocean sand at this point.
 Mir. Robert Giffen, 0. B., the eminent ststistician, has been giving some interest ing testimony before the English Labor commission. He estimates that, during the years 1890 and 1891, sum of 92, 592,- 900 was lost to the wage-earners of the country by strikes, without reckoning the loss osused by the diversion of trade into new channels. His statements on the sub ject of trade unionism are rather surpris- ing. He says that there are in England some 13 900, 900 workpeople-by which ex- pression he apparently means artisans of one kind or snother-and 1000, 900 adult male laborers. while "the fullest report of trade unions shows membership of S71 ,000 only" According to this not one worker in twenty is a unionist. As for pro6t-sharing, MT. Giffen would not dis courage it," but declines to regard the sys. tenn as the admirable device 1t Is often rep resented to be, because "there is always in every trade portion of capital earning small profit or no profit, and the employ CTS owning that capital must and do give the same remuneration ss other employ ers." Hours of labor, he thinks, have 8 tendency to diminish, and something very nearly approaching to an eight-hours day will come, he believes, of itself, but re- duotion of production will mean "reduo- ton of the wages of those producing. With regard to alien immigration he pointed out that England has an enormous interest in emigration, and anything she did"-with reference to the prohibition oi mmigrsnts-".might be turned against herself"