Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-17

ordinary way go one on the box and the other on the match. To use, break the wood across the middle and rub the ends together.
 France is soon to adopt an interesting innovation in the postal card system. The cards will be issued in the form of cheek books, with stubs. The sender of the pos tai card can make memoranda of its con- sents sn the stub, and can have this stamped at the postofdce before the card is detached so that verified record of the correspond ence can be kept.
 Certain workmsn in the boot shops of Auburn, Maine, are to start co. operative factory as @ means of relieving their dis. satisfaction with the owners of the old shops. They have every encouragement, for they can supply the fund for the con- struction of the factory. and orders have been promised them by boot and shoe buy ere. They may be richer in money by and by, and they will certainly be richer in experience.
 Zola Is 8 lion in London. The detcrip- tion of his personal appearance by G. A. keen and unprejudiced observer, the French novelist Is noticeable little man, with 6 high forehead, rather Thackersysn nose, abundant black hair, black mous- tache and beard just trimmed with silver. He Is marvellous conversationslist, bright, alert, often eloquent, always fasci- hating, occasionally paradoxical"
 The decrease in the population of France was the subject of special discussion be- fore scientific congress in Paris few days ago. Numerous recommendations were made by the savants to correct the evil, but the wisdom of many of them may be doubted. The doctors recom- mended, among other things, the strict execution of the law regarding vaecina- ton, military servics for two years, free dom from taxation for large families, and forty years old who have not adopted children. The congress also proposed a way of founding families without the ne- cessity of civil or religious marriages revolutionary recommendations, which will be drowned upon by the great majority of the French people and the nations of the world.
 The American Humane Education socie ty offers through its agent, George T. Angell of Boston, $1 ,000 as a prizs to the first leading college or university which shall establish in accord with its plans a humane department or professorship. The object Is to gather information and discuss humane plans for the prevention of foreign and civil wars, riots, conflicts between cap ital and labor, crimes of violence, the pro- lection of the poor and unfortunate, the prevention of cruelty to human beings and dumb animals, the distribution of humane literature and the promotion of humane education of all classes, young and old, and to instruct the students by lectures and otherwise in regard to all the above kindred objects, and impress upon them their i'm portance to the future of our country and the world.
 It takes a good deal of water to supply London, but a report which has just been issued by the royal commission appointed to investigate the whole subject of the water supply of London shows that there need be no anxiety about 1t for long time to come. The commissioners say that for forty years at least the watersheds of the Thames and the Lee will provide all that the metropolis will need. They calculate that the wells and springs in the chalk of the Lee valley will yield 40, ,000, 900 gallons day without affecting any material inte- rests''; that the wells in the chalk area south of the Thames, in the district of the Kent Water company, will give daily average of 45,OOO,0 0o0 gallons; that 5s,- 800, 900 gallons may be drawn from the Lee itself, and 300, O,90O,00O from the Thames, still leaving thousand million gallons to go down every day along the tidal part of the river ss 1t runs through London. There can be drawn, therefore, from existing sourcas more than 525, ,0O0, 900 gallons day. This will give thirty five gallons head to 8 population of more than twelve millions. There is, moreover, possibility of obtaining a large supply from the chalk area In the basin of the Medwsy and the district to the east with out any risk of damage to the district 1t. self. The commissioners declare further that the water now supplied to London Is of high standard of excellence, all of oh fa