The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-02

of dog-days.
 The telephone Is invading the field of the telegraph in railroad service. In France it is used on many of the main lines, and on the Vincennes road the telegraph wires are connected with the telephone when verbal communication is desired.
 Some people are not as sensitive as some other people. In Franklin county, Maine, there is divorced wife who for two years has been housekeeper for her ex-husband. Things go on smoothly in spite of the fact that the housekeeper is visited twice week by an attentive beau.
 More new States are in sight. It it probable that New Mexico, Arizona and Utah will be added to the United States before the expiration of the present congress. That will raise the number to forty-seven, and leaves only the ter 4itory of Oklahoma the Indian territory and Alaska outside the Union, and the first of these is likely to be admitted be- Iore long.
 How soon we are forgotten. Sam Houston's grave in the little cemetery at Huntsville, Texas, is in so shabby a condition of neglect as to excite re- vret on the part of many Texans. There have been propositions before the legis- lature to remove the patriots remains to Austin, the State capital, but nothing definite has ever been done.
 The latest thing in paper is tele- graph pole. These poles are made of paper pulp, in which borax, tallow, etc., are mixed ill small quantities. The post is cast in mold, with core in the center, forming hollow rod of the desired length, the cross pieces be- ing held by key-shaped wooden pieces driven in on either side of the pole. The paper poles are said to be lighter and stronger than those of wood and to be unaffected by sun, rain, dampness or any of the other causes which shorten the life of q wooden pole.
 There is government fund in Italy for providing marriage portions for poor young girls. Without dover it would be almost impossible for & girl to be married, and this form of charity is said to be highly appreciated. The annual sum available for this purpose and dis tributed every year among the mar riageable young girls is s2,OOO,OOO. To be recipient, it is necessary for the applicant to prove her good reput ation and character by cloud of witnesses; to show that she has no means avail able, and that the young man who wishes to marry her has trade.
 A communication to the London Pho- tographic association sets forth the fact that aluminium has much higher kind ling point than magnesium, and, conse- auently, when aluminium filings are blown or dusted through an ordinary flame, they do not ignite, as they are not in the flame sufficiently long to be- come heated through again, if heat ed in crucib1e to white heat, alumin- um scarcely oxidizes, as the metal does not boil at this temperature, and very thin film of oxide protects the surface. Magnesium would boil and blaze in Q white hot crucible, as the vapor would burn; if, however, the fine powder of aluminium be taken and blown or dust ed through flame, it becomes heated to the igniting point, and, weight for weight, yields more powerful light than magnesium. The commercial alu- minimum bronze powders coutain, how ever, a trace of greasy material, which prevents the grains readily separating and if blown through flame, or used In g ordinary flash light, such powder tends to blow through in clots, and a large proportion escapes combustion; but this grease may be driven off or de- stroyed by heating the bronze powder to the melting point of zinc.
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 In a recent communication to the Dnited States Fish commission MT. James c. Swan of Port Townsend, Wash ahgton, draws attention to the food ssalue of the anchovy of the waters of he northwest, which, he predicts, will teplace the ,sardine of the Mediter- Sanean as small fish canned in oil. In aaYor and richness he holds it to be far tuperior. Russian fishermen on Puget sound have already tried the experi-