Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-22

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sixty national banks which suspended
bur iness during the pAI,io or the year up
to date have resumed operations, and many
of the others are Just getting upon their
feet.
How's this for businessi A great Lon
don merchant Ia said to use the phono-
graph every day to save the time In which
he drives to his Office. The instrument is
pat into his carriage, and on the way to
the city he talks instructions into 1t. At
his Office the phonogrsph Is handed over
to the head clerk, who makes It repeat
what It has just learned.
A report of the national bureau of .du-
cation shows that there are now S,S04 pub
lie libraries in the United States, each con-
tanning at least 1000 volumes, and that
there are fifty books to every 100 of the
population. New York has the largest
number Of libraries, 511, but Massachusetts,
follows very closely with sos, and for pop
ulation has the most libraries and books of
any State In the Union.
Sir Edward wilkin, the great English
railroad msgnate, is actively engaged in an
effort to promote the cutting of q canal
across Ireland, from Dublin TO Galway
bay. He thinks that q canal which would
carry the largest ships could be cut for
about SAC. .000, 600, and Gays, as the princi-
pal argument in Its favor, that ID would
materially shorten the route from Eng
land 70 the United States. This scheme
was originally proposed by the late Mar
quis of Anglesey.
The Charleston News and Courier has q
habit of freeing Its mind when no election
is psnding. 1t now says: What fraud
the "nsw South" Is, after ALL It is hang
ing around Washington these days begging
crumbs from Uncle Sans table. It wants
protection for special industries 1t is so
weak and dependent that 1t must have
crutches to walk with. 1t Ia not honest
because it only seeks Its own advantage at
the expense Of all the rest of the country.
1t is altogether poor, miserable, undone
creature, which was built on a boom and
promises to fall to pieces when the wind is
let out of it.
Somebody has made the calculation that,
taking the quantities roughly and In round
numbers, the atmosphere weighs about
ton to every square foot of the esrth's sur
face. 25, 600, 900 tons per square mile, or
5000, 600 600, 900, 600 tons to a total of
200, ,000, 900 square miles; and Its energy is
that due to the motion of this inoonceiva-
BILE mass, at velocities varying all the way
from the slightest zephyr to the hurricane
and the cyclone rushing over the prairie
or along the surface of the sea at more
than 100 miles an hour. Again, accord
ing to this authority, q cubic mile of air,
weighing about 10, ,OOe, 900, 900 pounds, de-
velops, at the rate of motion of the Cyclone,
some 4. 600, 600, 900, 600 "foot tons" of en-
ergy, and If all were employed at such rate
for the performance of work, useful or
destructive, this number of "foot pounds"
would be equivalent to more than 2,000,-
0OO, 600, ,0OO, ,OOe horse power.
An episode at the recent congress of the
Social democratic party In Berlin indicates
that there is small cordiality between them
and the trades unionists. Herr Legien,
the secretary general of the Associated
German Trade Unions, complained that
the Social Democratic party only gave
them lukewarm support, and moved
resolution that every member of the party
should be compelled to join the union
representing his own branch of trade or
industry. The debate showed that, while
the leading trade unionists consider 1t the
primary duty of the Social Democracy to
uss Its political power for obtaining an i'm
mediate improvement in the position of
the working classes, the leaders of the lat
ter party look upon the discomfort of the
working classes as an invaluable weapon
of revolutionary agitation which they do
not wish to see prematurely blunted by
too liberal concessions at the hands of the
state. The same motive apparently In
fiuences their attitude towards state social
ism and such measures as state insurance,
old age pensions, etc
IltCAcE tahC W " AtAf
twenty years ago. Stephen w. Dorsey,
then United States senator from AIksn-
sas, purchased the Uno De Cato grant in
New Mexico, to which, few years later,
he went to live, he was very wealthy
man. This tract, lying in Colfax county,
twenty-five miles east of the railroad town
of Springer, comprises about $4,000 acres
of valuable grazing land, and upon 1t he
expended more than $500, 600 in improve
ments. His residence, q pslatial one,
mente, contained a fue art gallery,
adorned with rare pictures collected in
many trips TO Europs. and his gardens and
greenhouses were filled with rare exotics
and native flowers. Gas, the telephone,
and all the trades and appliances of a com
plete urban community were part of the
equipment of the head quarters of this
powerful cattle king. The hospitality of
the owner was unbounded. He kept open
house, and among his guests were notable
men and women from every part of the
world. But the expense of the Star Route
| trials, his lavish generosity, and the de-
preston in the cattle industry impaired
his resources, aud he abdioated his reign
as cattle king in the recent sale of his
great New Mexico estate, with all its be-
loDgiDgs. His numerous irrigation,
| mining, and land Investments in Colorado
have proved disastrous, aud 1t is now re-
ported that he is a poor man.
FASHION NOTES.
Rich and Bright Hued Fabrics.