The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-18
Notice.

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 Wc cannot accept anonymous or return re- tcetod communications, In all cases the ntiHe If inc writer will be required. not for puDlica- tion but a9 n guarantee of good fnith
 Dr. D'Arsonvillc has made the start ling statement to the French academy of sciences that -lectrocuiion as prac- tccd in New York prisons does not kill, but simply causes usphyzintion and tyncope, from which recovery by artifl- cial respiration is possible.
 An electrical weed killer is used on the Illinois Central ra,d. Tho electricity is discharged from brushes covering the width oc the track. The apparatus is mounted on flat car, which is moved at the rate of five miles an hour, and is said to lslil every weed on the track.
 The p,.fIirS are, it is said, great philosophers. If all OK should die the owner never "ricvcs, but rcmaks: "Now must 20 10 work for master call white men whO trent them well are called masters. and in six months he will give me COW: It will have q calf. If il is bull calf in year ! Il again have pair of oxen, but should it be a heifer calf m all the richer, for the next year I'll have two calves instead of one.'
 Senator Cushman K. Davis of Minne- sota, who has made national reputa- tion by reason of the firm stand he took in the senate against the riotous strikers ill Chicago, is not a corporation at torney, although his practice before his election amounted to S25 ,000 year. In fact. he has seldom appeared even in in- dividual cases for railroad company, and he made his campaign for governor in 1878 upon a platform advocating state control of railroads. In private of literary tastes, having one of the best libraries in the west. Senator Davis is native of New York state, and fifty six years old.
 The latest device for dispensing with operators in making telephone connec- 1ions is on exhibition in Philadelphia. Beside the telephone is small key board on which the person wishing to send message presses knobs corre- spending to the number of the station wanted. When he has done this the connection is made and he has only to ring the bell and go on with his talk. When he is done he presses release button and the connection is cut. It is said that by reason of the saving of central station operators the cost tC subscribers will be less than on the old plan, while this saves time and makes messages entirely private.
 There seems to be no doubt that the Russian government is in possession o1 B shell which has extraordinary power! of penetration. This was proved by the result of some recent trials of Eng fish armor plates at the artillery poly gon at Okhta, near St. Petersburg. Al sthe shells treated by the secret Russian process penetrated the targets entirely and sped some thousand yards to tn, rear, while the other shells, under simi lar conditions, though obtaining greate penetration than has ever yet beer reached by any projectile known il England, were stopped and broken up The secretly improved shells passe' right through wooden screen erecte, a short distance from the backing o tue plates, so that there could bo Il, doubt that they went through the plate undamaGed, although no one was al low cd to see them afterwards.
 A teacher of deaf-mutes says that i beginning to teach them the art Q epeech they are first placed before mirror and taught to form with thei lips the different vowel sounds usod il speaking. But this is not all. Sound are produced not only by the lips, bu by the larynx, the vibration Of which the strongest in the region known as tn "Adam's apple" The pupil places hi Anger on his muster's throat while tha vibration is going OH, and then, touch ing his own, tries to initiate sit. Thcl when he is in possession of these ele ments of speech, he has only to combin them ill order to produce syllables words and phrases. The lips of deaf nutes are always far less supple thu, those of persons normally developed and consequently require systemat exercise. The eyes do not need to b taught koenness, as they are always ol tho watch to supply information usuall, furnished by hearing, but they ar taught to attain great power of fixed pcss, so that the attention may be con pentrated without diversion upon tn lips of any person speaking.