Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-04

only $2ss. .sss in the same period year ago. This points to remarkable increase in gold production in Colorado.

Oh hsavensi Dr. Charles Forbes of the Rochester Pathological society examined the dregs of communion cup and found enough microbes to communicate twenty different kinds of disease Upon this show ing two thousand small glass cups have been purchased for individual use in Dr. Forbes church.
 The Jones county calf case In Iowa bids fair to have a parallel in Missouri. John Carroll and Thomas Hancock, of Mercer county in that state, are at law over one Berkshire hog, valued at $7. The case has already been through thres courts ct an ex- pence of $500, but the litisants are only getting their second wind. They are now girdipg up their Ioins for the final struggle in the supreme court.
 The largest balloon in the world has just been constructed at Holloway, near Lon- don, England, It ifs 6 sphere of 57.24 feet diameter, has capacity of over 100. 900 and will lift an additional weight of a ton. Itis to be ussd for the purpose of obtain ing continuous meteorological observations for period of six days without descend ing. It has been successfully tested.
 Philsdelphis will spend the big sum of $l4, ,00e. .000 this season on work of per msnent character. This includes $8. .000,- 900 for a subway on Pennsylvania avenue for the Reading railroad, and the remain der will be put into miles of newly paved streets, the abolition of twenty dangerous grade crossings in the heart of the city, more complete sewerage system and other advantages that she does not now possess. It will also furnish work for several thou sand of the unemployed.
 The green ooloratIon in oysters has been shown to be both chemical and biological question by Investigations made by N. Berthelot. The result ahows that the green color of oysters has no relation with the chlorophyl of plants or with other known ooloring matters, animal or vegeta- ble. He also shows that oysters contain iron, and that the mud of the oyster beds contains iron sulphide, to which It's black coloring is owing. Both the coloring mat ter and the iron are especially accumulated in the gills of the oyster, while the rect of the body is nearly colorless. The compo- sition of the green pigment has not been determined.
 One easy way to better our roads ia to have broad tires and axles of different length. Col. Albert A. Pope thus sum marizes some of the regulations In force in foreign countries: Austria requires two- horse wagon to have Urea At inches wide. France demands tires from to 10 inches wide for frsighting and market wagons, the usual width being from four to six inches, and the rear axles are IA inches longer than the forward axles; thus two feet of road is rolled wherever the vehicle ia used. The law of Germany gays that wagons drawing heavy loads must have tires 4t inches wide, though generally they are five inches, and in Switzerland heavily loaded wagons. to comply with the law, use tires six inches wide.
 While some of our older American col leges can boast of many distinguished sl- umni, such pretensions seem slight indeed in comparison with the record of Oxford and Cambridge. A recent writer has been making cut a list of literary men who came from these two universities and finds that neither has any great advantage over the other. Nearly all of the great English poets have been university men, though neither of the great intellectual csnters can claim Shakespeare. On the other hand, many of the most eminent novelists are not university msn, and among those who are, Cambridgs shows 6 very decided superiority, with round half dozsn great writers, among them Stsrne and Thack- cray, to set off against oxford's two, Charles Reade and the gifted author of Lorna Doone."