Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-26

discovered that It Is possible for q board
of directors, part of whom live In Phila-
delphia, part in Boston and part In
New York, to hold their directory meet
ing by telephone, and the courts have de-
oided that such meetings are perfectly
legal.
1t is believed, according to Mr.. L. P.
Simmonds, T. L. g., that there are five
times IS many insects as there are species
of all other living things put together.
The oak alone supports 450 species of in
sects, and 200 kinds make their home in
the pine. Forty years ago Humboldt esti-
mated that the number of species pre-
served in collections was between 150, 600
and ITO, 900, but scientific men now say
that there must be more than three-quAr-
ters of q million, without taking into &C.
count the parasite creatures.
An inventive genius has applied for q
patent on machine which he thinks will
inaugurate a new era in methods of in
ficting capital punishment 1t consists of
frame or chair In which the condemned
mans body Is securely fastened. The head
is then set tightly In metal or leather cap
which is connected with machinery 30 ar
ranged that at given signal the criminals
head can be whirled about two or three
times rapidly on his shoulders. The ad-
vantages of this device can be seen at onoe.
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absolutely psinless-after the first whirl.
The western farmers on the forks of the
Mississippi are finding 1t very profitable to
ship grain to the Gulf. The late exports
from New Orleans have approached In
quantity of grain to the amount shipped
from New York. The direct cause of the
drift southwark is the erection of grain
elevators at New Orleans. To load on .
Mississippi steamboat and land wheat at
the Crescent City enable the farmers to
protest against the railroads just where the
latter feel 1t, and they say there Is less
trouble getting grain off from New Orleans
than there is In transhipping 1t by rail and
canal boats to the waiting steamships in
New York hsrbor. 1t is possible that
steamboating on the Mississippi may be re-
vived in q new form Ia the course of q few
years.
L. G. Chung, Denver Chinaman who
has been resident Of Colorado for twenty
one years, puts some questions to the Denver
Times which that paper admits are awk-
ward for Americans to answer. "Dld you
ever" he says, ''see a Chinaman begging
or drunk on the streetsi Did you ever see
q Chinese loaferg' eto. He thinks In all
justice that the Exclusion Act should
operate more against thousands of the
who come from Europe than
against the industrious and temperate
Chinese, and he points out that the
Europeans are not infrequently objects of
public charity, whereas the city or county
is never put to the expense of buying
clothes or -four for Chinaman. Twelve
years ago Chung filed certificate in the
courts, declaring his intention to become
citizen of the United States, and he cannot
the legislation which subss-
quently debarred him from the privileges
of citizenship. He has never cherished
the hope of returning with the wealth he
has acquired to his native country, and 1t
was owing in grest measure to the infiu-
ence of this intelligent Chinsmsn that
more of his countrymen registered under
the Gesry law in Colorado than in any
other State of the Union