Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-31

trsms limit attainable by man, and import
 ant results are expected from the expert
 ments. Emperor William is greatly inter- ested and has contributed largely toward the cost.
 The Massachusetts State board of health
 concludes, from Investigations of artificial
 ice, that artificial processes of freezing con- centrates the impurities of the water in the inner core of the portion last frozen, that the impurities are least if distilled water is used, that the number of bacteria In arti- fcial ice Is insignificant under the prevail ing methods of manufacture, and that the amount of zinc found in Ice Is insutioientto to cause injury from its use.
 The Zoothermic Institute in Rome is a "curs" place where people go to drink fresh blood for the cure of gout, rheuma- tism and the great prostration and ar a mia caused by the malarial fevers of the Ton tine marshes. The blood to be imbibed is first rapidly freed from flbrin by a care fully aseptic method, the animals from which 1t is derived having previously un- dsrgone inspection by veterinary sur
 geon. Some patients baths either part
 or the whole of the body In the warm
 blood, and, the Italian doctors think, with great benefit.
 Anybody who gets paid for voting in Or egon has to earn his money. In the city of Portland the voter will have before him, on his ballot at next weeks election, the names of 21S candidates, arranged in alph
 abetical order, from which to select 43 to fill State and local otices, from governor down. He cannot indicate his choice of candidates by making a cross against the names of his fsvorites, but must scratch or cancel the name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to vote. He must scratch the names of two out of the three names for governor, 29 out of the S8 candidates for the legislature, and 175 out of the 21S names on the ballot. There Is 6 good deal of grumbling at this require ment of the law, and .ths coming legisla- ture will probably be asked to amend 1t 20 that the Oregon voter can make his eross.
 Alludipg to the recent scare in India created by the mysterious smearing of mango trees, correspondent of the St. James' Gazette says that it has long been a tradition among the Brahmans, in another quarter of India, that in this year of the iron age, 1894, the immemorial sanctity of the Ganges would pass away, and that the pris- tine virtue of the holy river would be conveyed through caverns under ground, messureless' to man," to the Nerbudds. "Should there be any chance of Allahabad and Hurdwar on the Ganges no longer taking toll from the immense hordes of pilgrims who for centuries past have foeked thither to cleanse them of their sin, we may well believe that extraordinary efforts would be made just now to publish far and wide, the advantages of other holy places, Janskpore among them. It was at the city of Rsjsh Jsnaka, that the lotus- eyed Rama, the hero of ons of the great Ssnskrit epics, won by feat of arms the Rsjsh's daughter, the incompsrable Sits. There has bsen some dispute as to the sit uation of the ancient city where Rama found bride; but the Brshmans of Jsnak- pore ere, of course, provided with iDnu- merabls stokas in support of their claim. So 1t is more than possible that the mys- terious occurrence reported rom.districts lying between Nepsul and Benares Is en- ttrely the work of their missioners. The desire, indeed, is distinctly creditable to the Oriental intelligence"