Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-30

of bottles bearing the name of any beer,
soda or mineral water bottles for any other
purpose excepting bottling those beverages,
and by anybody but the owners of the bot.
ties. Among those who are In trouble for
violating this law are numerous druggists
who have been found with stamped bottles
on their shelves and containing poisons.
This the bottlers consider the most serious
violation of the law, as the bottles 90 used
may eventually come back to their legit-
mate use and cause trouble.
The new unit of value in Austria Is the
krone, or crown, worth about twenty and
one-fourth cents in American gold. The
gold coins consist of ten and twenty crown
pieces. The old unit of value is the form,
| a silver piece worth about forty eight cents
| measured by the American silver dollar.
The old currency is exchanged for the new
| on the basis of the average value of the
| form in the international money market
for series of years prior to 1892. By this
principle two forms, having face value
of ninety six cents, exchange for four
krones, worth eighty-one cents in gold.
To make this change in Its currency the
Austrian government was authorised to
issue per cent. gold bonds to the amount
of $1s3, 456 900 gold forins. Many of these
bonds were sold at 9Si and come, 1t is said,
still lower.
One of the recent industries added to
the already numerous manufactures carried
on In Cbemnitz, Ss1ony, is the production
of curtains made of India rubber as the
main ingredient. The material employed
for this purpose consists of rs per cent. of
india rubber, 5 per cent. of wool dust, 5
per cent of pulverized fruit stones, 10 per
cent. of bleaohed amber varnish and per
cent. of bleached leather waste, to these
being also added, If deemed necessary, q
quantity of infusorisl earth. The various
substances thus named are together worked
up with bisulphide of carbon in the most
perfect manner into a thick mass, and
from this are rolled out thin leaves, which
are capable of being decorated with the
greatest variety of ornamental patterns,
and several of these leaves are combined
to form a curtain.
NJ. Francisque Sarcey thus describes
the late NJ. Taine: He was interested in
everything, and he occupied himself with
everything, sometimes with passion, but
always with close attention. He aimed at
the aggregation of philosophy, but at the
came time he cultivated mathematics,
drawing, and the modern languages, which
he acquired thoroughly. 1 really didn't
know what he was ignorant of. He was a
living encyclopaedia, and the most re-
markable thing about him was that the
prodigious mass of knowledge which he
continually crsmmed into his ever open
mind was organized in it without difficulty
and bscame ranged in an order so mathe-
matical that at the first call upon his
memory each particle came out of its place
and appeared either upon paper or in his
conversation. We used to be astonished at
his universally. One of the familiar phrases
of About when we needed information
was, "Lst US search the mighty esth-
erer."
An interesting table has been compiled
by the bureau of statistics, which shows
the per capita coet of running the govern
ment for each of the last twenty years, the
result of which will probably be in the nat
ure of a surprise to many who have noted
the increasing yearly aggregate of the ma
tional expenses, forgetting to consider, per
hsps, that this country has been undergo
ing an enormous expansion in numbers
and in material interests, which have made
necessary largely increased expenses. In
1872 the total per capita cost of carrying
on the government was SO. "a, of which 20
cents went for pensions. In 1892 the per
capita cost was but $5.2S, of which $2.05
was for pensions 1t thus appears that al
though the per capita of pensions has in
creased nearly thrse-fold in the twenty
yeare, the total per capita cost of running
the government has been reduced in that
time nearly one dollar and half. If we
leave out of consideration altogether the
matter of pensions it is seen that in 1879
the government VS. run at q per capita
cost Of s. ID, and in 1892 at a cost of
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