Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-18

These are great days for societies of ali
kinds. 1t is interesting to read that Mr.
e D. Watt of Omaha, Nebraska, has beer
elected Supreme Oracle of the Royal Neigh
bors Of America.
The aluminium yacht lately landed n
Saint Denis, built for the Comts Cha
bonne de In Palice. has q displacemsnt OF
ten tons. She il forty feet long and weighs
only about /, 600 pounds, while her mast.
and tackle will weigh another 800 pounds.
She Is sailing yacht, built for racing.
Exact experiments conducted ia the Lake
of Geneva to ascertain by means of photo.
graphic plates the depth to which the suns
rays penetrated. showed that they did NOT
reach beyond $50 feet, at which depth the
intensity of the light is equal 10 that which
Is ordinarily observed on clear but moon
less night.
Postoffice Inspector Stuart recommends
that postage stamps be numbered like bank
bills. His argument is that 60 many are
stolen every year that II would be cheaper
to humber them than suffer this loss, and
that thefts will neass when IL has been
made possible 10 trace the stamps. At
present stamps are the safest stolen proper
ty to dispose of.
Chicago did some business last year be-
sides plucking its millions of visitors. The
annual report of the board of trade of that
city Just Issued sets forth that during the
year just closed there were shipped from
that city 100. .000. 900 bushels of grain, 4,
100, 900 barrels of -four, 956. .000, 900
pounds of pork product and !. .257 ,000, 900
pounds of beef and beef product, sgsre-
eating a value of not less than $25o, ,oO0,-
OO0.
Colonel Albert A. Pope, Of Boston, will
soon Issue a volume containing all the err
ors in school-books to which attention has
been called through the publicity invited
by him. They number thousands, and IL
Is said that some of the publishers who are
hardest hit are fighting hard to prevent
any further publication of the facts. The
list of errors which have been transmitted
to one school book Publishing house aggre-
gates over LOO.
Those who have spent sleepless nights in
guessing about whslo's teeth may gain rest
from the statement of an experienced
uhsler that the Greenland whale never has
more than one set Of teeth. These teeth
are milk teeth and when the young whale
is wsansd they do not fall out like baby's
milk teeth, but disappear by absorption in
the jaw, and instead of being replaced by
permanent teeth plates of baleen or whale
bone are substituted for them.
DIR. Eichler, in the "AeIzt, Prakt," ad-
vocstes Peru balssm a. Q dressing which
causes laceratsd wounds to heal quickly,
Its points of adaptation being that 1t ad
heres we'll and covers the entire surface of
the wounds; It has drying effect, but
stimulates gcsnulstions, snd following sp-
plication a scsb is formed under which
its use is especially indicated in the treat
ment of wounds having q tendency to
marked suppuration or partial gangrene,
and in injuries of the hands and fingers
the results are excellent. In practice, after
coapitior of the margins of the wound,
the Peru balssm is poured over the entire
surface, which is then covered with thin
layers Of gauzs moistened with bslsam and
an ordinary dressing; the latter may be
left in plscs for several days, though 1t lie
an advantage to remove the outer dressing
daily and moisten the gauzs With the bal
sam without removing It from the wound.
The whipping post and the pillory in
Delaware are practically one piece of ma
chinery. The post bears at rather more
than the height of tall man q small plat
form and above that two arms, each pro-
vided with three holes, one for the neck
aud the other two for the arms of the cul-
pitt. The man to be whipped stands at
the foot of the post with his hands secured
to 1t above his head. Sentences for some
crimes in Delaware name, besides imprieon-
ment, the penalty of receiving 80 many
lashes on the bare back, "well laid" on,
and the requirement to stand thereafter
so many hours in the pillory. The SEN
tenoe of the pillory is no longer specially
effective as a terror to evildoers, in the
northern county at least, because the oul-
prit is Invisible behind high wall, where
no gaping crowds can deny him the boon
of solitude 1t is not very many years
since small crowds attended the whippings
at New Castle, and one sheriff was en-
barrsssed by young woman, who persist-
emily requested the privilege of seeing the
sight from a window in his house adj oin-
ing the all.