Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-04

are 300 mills with capital of $S0, ,000, ,000
 engaged In making cottonseed oil. About
 l ,500, 900 tons of seed are ground annual
 ly, and the planters receive about $1s,-
 100000 for what they formerly threw away.
 The descendants of Queen Victoria are either now In posses sion of or will in the natural course of events come to occupy seven thrones-those of the British empire, the German empire, the Russian empire, the kingdom of Greece, the grand duohy of Hesse, the duchy of 5axe-Coburg and Goths and the duohy of Saxe-Msiningen.
 The marriage rate in England and Wales during the last quarter of last year wss lower than in any previous like period. There were 121 SIS marriages, which was in the annual proportion of 16 8 persons per 1000 of population. The mean rate for the corresponding quarter in the pre- ceding ten years was 17.3. It ia also noted that the average of the last ten years Is far below that of any preceding decennium.
 There is said to be an increasing demand in the navy for carpenters. They belong to the warrant oficefs' division, and are well paid, as non-oommissioned oficers' pay goes. The corps has decreased con- siderably In numbers since 1886, but the new ships and the shore stations need car psnters, and the grade is not likely to die out. It Is .he duty of the carpenter aboard the modern iron built man-of-wsr to keep the pumps and the water tight sub divisions in safe condition and to look after whatever repairs may be made with wood. The carpenter at shore stations is in frequent demand for great variety of work.
 A Norwegian writes to the Boston Her aid to say thst the Norwegian liquor sys- tenn is being misrepresented by those who advocate its introduction in this country. He says that the consumption of both liquor and beer has increased under its operation, and if drunkenness has decreas- ed it js not the system that deserves the praise, but the active labors of 200, 900 or gapized temperance workers in 8 population of about 2,O00, 900 and the better education of the people through their efforts. ''It is just as easy to get drunk to day in Norway under the system as before it was intro duced," he says. "If the system does not work well in Norway 1t will never work we'll here, and if the temperance people here were as much opposed to the system az they are in Norway, 1t would never be introduced in America"
 Even the great Manchester ship canal Is not all that could be desired. At recent meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Con- merce one of the members said that he had recently visited the canal and found the trsfic In a most lamentsb!e state. The condition of the bank was very serious in- deed. With a large traffic and heavy wash the banks would go away. Even now they were being eaten away, and must cause enormous expenditure In the near future in the way of dredging. Then the go called water from Lstchford to Man chester was in such a dreadfully mslodor- ous condition that 1t was almost impossi- ble to exist there, and many people be- came sick. Another member sAid tha. the bad smell would not prevent ship owuers from sending their ships to Manchester If they could make money by it; but those who had tried Man chester had lost heavily, and were drop ping of. This testimony, of course, comes from aprejudicede eource, but utnotlong ago a Manchester newspaper spoke of the new docks as ''huge settling tanks for sewage, chemical aud manufacturing waete, and filth of every imaginable de- script!on, poured ia from an industrial area uneq ualled anywhere for extent" A Manchester expert, who has compared the sewage of London and Paris, to the pre- judice of the latter, finds the Manchester dock water worse thsu either. The mud deposited by tue pent-up liquid, he ssys, Is vast decomposing mass, that at no high temperature, and after good deal of rain, sends up gaseous bubbles to every square inch of surfaca.