Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-15
have been found in the polar regions O


 bread-winning women and girls working outside of their own homes. There wen .110 lawyers, 165 ministers, 320 authors 5ss journalists, 2,0e1 artists, 2;1S6 arohi tects, chemists, pharmacists; 2, ,106 stoel raisers and ranohers, 5,135 government
 clerks, 2, ,43s physicians and surgeons, IS, 1S2 professional musioisns, $500 farmsrl
 and planters, 21, ,071 clerks and bookkeep ere, IA, ,485 heads of commercial houses ant 155, 900 public school teachers.
 Michigan is about to try an interesting experiment.. A new law provides that any one convicted of drunkenness may take hil choice between @ term of imprisonment and course of treatment ct some cure. | the prisoner elects to be cured of the appe tite for strong drink, the county shal spend at least $70 for that purpose. The scheme will be watched with interest. Il is an acknowledgement that drunkenness is curable disease, and an admission that penal practices should take into account the welfare of offenders as we'll as the pro. lection of society.
 Professor Wiggins has been heard from again. This time he believes that telegraph wires cause drouth, that the atmosphere cannot absorb moisture unless 1t Is charged with electricity. and upon an oblate sphsroid like the earth the electricity will inevitably collect at the equator. 'Tf, however," he says, "there be elevated spots on 6 sphere, electricity will collect on them. Should thess spots or continents be connected by wires 1t might accumulate on each alternately. This has happened this year, and America has all the electric energy and Europe has lost 1t; SO that our continent is flooded and Europe is burned up with drouth." His conclusion from all this Is that electric wires should be buried.
 An interesting collection of caoti has been made in Arizona for the Worlds fair. The specimens have all been gathered within twenty five miles of Tucson, and their sizs and bristling ugliness will aston ish those who are familiar only with the lawn and potted plant. The exhibit will include twenty-one different varieties and will weigh more than forty tons. The most remarkable of the specimens is the sahuaro, which Is of gigantic proportions. Then there Is the bisnags, covered with curved thorns, like fish hooks, from two to three inches long. Another specimen is the octillo, or vine cactus, which, when dried and emptied of its pith, Is used for walking-stioks. The opuntis, another variety, is low plant with broadly obovate, fan-shaped joints, branching from the bass without spines, but densely covered with short, yellowish bristles. Its large purple flowers completely cover the plant in Its season of bloom. Other caot in the list are the prickly pear, the rattail, and the rainbow. The collection, which is varied by agave and yucca plants, will be ranged in front of tho Territorial building.
 The Sanitary Institute of Great Britain has test examinations for sanitary inspect ors. Ono of the candidates, when asked what . death-rate was, replied that 1t was rate levied on the living to support the cemeteries. There is 8 wIerd sarcasm in this answer, and also in the reply to the question about the wilful exposure of 8 person suffering from an infectious dis ease. "He must not" said the e1aminee, "ride in any conveyance except hearse without first informing the driver" An other reply to the same question laid it down as imperative that "a person dying of an infectious disease must give notice to the local authority within twenty-four hours" A candidate who evidently thought drastic remedies should be employed in cases of infectious disease remarked that "membsrs of fam fly where small pox has broken out must be sent to a hospital and we'll boiled," and another that ''during oonvalescenoe the patient should have a daily bath of corro, sive sublimate." A candidate of very diff. ferent views mildly remarked that "amons the precautions against smsll-pox vaccina- ton might be looked for" In answer to some physiological questions, one examinee asserted that nitrogenous foods built up the "waist" of the body, and that "milk Is the best food for children because fl does not require any chewing" Anothe, candidate gave the following elaborate and curious reply to some questions with re gard to olothing-"In hot countries ths precipitation which is in the skin Is evap
 orated into steam, which goes up to form clouds and comes down in the form O rain" Sometimes the answers are mos
 illogically "nixed," as in the case of on which stated that 'ft would be necessar! to get an order from the sheriff to seiz
 and destroy the medical officer of health, and in another which affirmed that man, 1 articles of food have to be adulterated t. keep them pure!