Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-02

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rent year and present of $125. This is
in place of legacy. They have sent
$25, 900 to the officers for the poor of Ber-
lin, and contributed great amounts in pri-
vate charity.
| We call attention to the paper on "Mar-
ket Gardening" which Is printed on the
fourth page. Its author, the Hon. The
| ophilus Eaton, of North Haven, speaks
from experience and success. He is not
only good farmer, but he is one Of the
professors in the North Haven school of
politics, whose graduates have shown such
skill and efficiency.
The Philadelphia Record says that the
ice gorge in the Delaware river above
Trenton is the greatest on record, and that
the ice will probably not entirely disappear
until the opening of summer. Eighty
miles of ice ara crowded into eight, and
the accumulated mass extends from the
bottom of the river to thirty or forty feet
into the air. The railroad bridge at Tren-
ton, which usually has clearance of thirty
feet above high water, is now on a level
with the ice, people being able to step from
the BRIDGES roadbed to the gorge without
any trouble. A complete set of photo
graphs of the Ice phenomena has been OBJ
tanned. So important, from soientic
view, is the gorge considered that an illus
published by the University of Pennsyk
van!s.
: In report to the French Institute by II.
Saint-Saens, on the physiological study of
the practice of teaching pupils in music
that certain sounds must start from the
chest and others from the head, etc. 1t Is
found that in an average of the pulmonary
capacity of large number of singers, both
male and female, the greatest number of
cubic inches of air introduced into the
lungs does not correspond to the best voice
and that the pressure of such air is really
minimum in good singers. Then, too, the
motions of the glettis, far from being vol
untary, obey, he Gays, reflex motions
that is, the vocal cords are submitted to
the respiratory motions, just as are the
tongue and uvula, rising of themselves at
an inspiration, with the reverse motion
also at an expiration.
The annual report of the registrar gen.
eral In England and Wales contains much
information on the subject of poisoning.
It appears that the total number of deaths
hu In,
no fewer than 242 more than in 1889. OF
that number 544 were accidental, 327 were
cases of suicide, and five we're cases of
homicide. 1t is chiefly the cases of seoi-
dental and suicidal poisoning that are of
interest. There are no fewer than ia
cases due to narcotic poisoning by "opium,
laudanum, morphine, chlorodyne, sooth
ing syrup, cordial, and paregoric." The
poison that comes next In order of fatality
is chloroform, to which sixty-two deaths
are attributed; then carbolic acid, with
thirty-one cases. The poisonous slksloids
-aconite, bslladonns, cocaine, and strych-
nine-caused nineteen deaths; the mineral
acids seventeen, arsenic eight, chloral
seven, and oxalic acid two. Then there
were 1873 deaths caused by miscellaneous
poisons. In twenty-four cases the nature
of the poison was not sscertsined. The
fact that nearly one fourth of the number
of accidental deaths were caused by some
form of narcotic is cogent evidence of the
mischief done by the use of narcotic prep
arations, and the danger of their sale as
secret remedies. The statistics prove
great decrease in the number of deaths
from those poisons which cannot be sold
legally except by qualified chemists.