Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-24

there, but they lost their heads before
they lost their hats.

there, but they lost their heads before
they lost their hats.
There is at least one conscience In VIII
mington, Delaware. A man In that place
laid note c,ntaining IS on the doorstep
/ of prosperous citizen. The note ex-
planned that the writer had learned by ac-
cident that his mother had owed to the re-
oipient's grandfather, who died In 1889, s.
| for the rent of house.
They've all got it. A corporation asks
at the hands of the Delaware Legislature
charter empowering the company to net
the little State with electric railroads and
to light the villages along the lines. The
company hopes also to include the Mary
land counties of the peninsula in com
prehensive railroad scheme. The latter
plan would involve good deal of bridg-
| ing, as the whole eastern shore region Is
honeyoombed with navigable tidewater
streams, and villages FIVE miles apart in
air lines are often fifteen miles apart by
| road.
Germany will do big things at the fair.
The money value of the German display
will not be less than ten millions. The
German village to be built win be made
up of buildings showing the different
kinds of architecture of the cities, coun-
try villages and mountain ham1ets of that
country. The German merchants and
manufacturers, who have been thought
to be conservative and slow on this side
of the ocean, are showing great eager
ness to enter into the competition and
show unexpected activity and great liber-
ality.
ionable in France. Parisians have been
hunting for the origin of the custom of
wearing this adornment, and the legend of
most popular acceptance just now ascribes
It to Spain. At period after the Moorish
invasion, when the Christian and Moslem
hard to say which were Moors and which
Spaniards, the pious Spaniards hit upon
the moustaohe as a means of identifca-
ton. They permitted the hair on the
upper lip to grow, and also a tuft on the
under lip. an outline of the cross being
thus formed. Thus, say the Parisians, the
moustsche became q symbol of liberty,
equality and fraternity.
A curious exhibit is being prepared for
the Chicago Fair by the French Depart
ment of Police. Implements that have
been used by all manner of criminals in
their operations, and weapons used in
notorious murders, will form an impor-
tant part. The method of French Grim
inal procedure will be illustrated by q
series of waxwork tableaux, depicting the
"history of a crime" The courts of
justice, prisons, etc., will be thus shown.
The morgue will bs represented in fac
smile. M. Bertillon, chief of the An
thropometric department, will furnish a
set of the accessories by which the iden-
tity of criminals is established. Four de-
tectives and four policemen will have
charge of the exhibit.
A recent government report contains the
results of Investigations that are of no lit
tie interest both to agriculture and to
science. It details somewhat minutely the
results that have been noted when grow
ing plants are exposed to the effeot-of the
electric light. One experiment was oon-
Quoted with two lots of Strawberries in q
condition of equal maturity, with the re-
suit that the lot exposed to sunlight by
day and an electric light by night ripened
off its berries almost wholly whom the
other were just beginning to show q red
tinge upon the green fruit-somethtng
that may be taken advantage of by those
growing hot-house fruits for early market
use. These experiments showed that
plants do not require rest, but will grow
the twenty-four hours round If provided
with the necessary light to produce growth,
Fastening of development that applies to
flowers as we'll as to fruits.
San Francisco has long had a covetous
eye upon an island of 140 acres in the bay,
known as Goat island, which belongs to
the United States government and is valued
by 1t for possible strategical uses. Guilt
vation of the land is not attempted, and
| loSS tuhu al acre OIL IL ID OCcupleu AZ Ouo
end of the island is lighthouse and In a
little cove torpedo station. San Francis
co would like to possess the island for rail-
road terminal and wharf purposes. Re-
Gently the legislature adopted resolution
calling upon the States representatives in
congress to endeavor to secure the passage
of bill ceding the island to, California.
It is proposed to make it a general termi-
nus for present and future railroad lines
and build wharves around it where more
vessels can be accommodated than now find
their way through the Golden Gate. The
water on three sides is deep enough te
foat the largest vessels. Some years ago
when the cession of Goat island was sgi-
tated, opposition to the project took the
form of an apprehension that the Central
Pacific Railroad company would practical
ly own the newly acquired territory. The
legislative resolution of to-day is sc
worded, however, as to make that impos-
sible. .