Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-29
il at the hospital badly wounded and jssl-
ousy will have to pay damages.

An aluminium violin, invented and pa,
ented BY Cincinnati musician, Is hishl
spoken of, both by players and critics. !
Is made In the same shape as the ordinsr
violin, but looks, Of course, Nike silver
and is exceedingly light. Many advanta
Res over wooden violins are claimed for ii
One was used in q concert In Indisnspoli
lately, and q newspaper critic comment
that. while 1t seemed tolsok 10 vibrator,
power, It had peculiar qualities, whict
added greatly to the brillianoy of tone.
The queen of Portugal having bee,
asksd to write few lines for nations
album to bs published at the Forthcoming
fstes In celebration of the 500th anniver
sary of the birth of Prince Henry, tn,
navigator. has sent the following contri
button: GAS a mother and as q queen
my greatest ambition would be to endou
my Countrywide Portuguese nation-witt
group Of children like those of Philips
OF Lancaster, and that among them there
should be one who should do great deeds
for Portugal and for the world, like Prince
Henry"
The seemingly interminable boundary
cult between Pennsylvanis and Delaware,
supposed to have been settled forever By
tho recent decision of the joint commits.
eion headed for the two States respectively
by Ambassador Macveagh and Ambas.
ssdor Bayard, Is likely to be reopened by
an appel to the courts. John T. John.
son, the Delawarean who at first threat.
ened to resist by force the planting of the
boundary stone that makes his land
Pennsylvania territory, now declares that
he will not pay taxes to Chester county,
Pa, and that he will bring the commits
sion's decision to test In the courts of
that Common wealth.
Maryland Is in need of the services of q
forestry commissioner, and the State
Academy of Sciences, with q view to the
creation Of tho Office, Is collecting speci-
mems of the 1877 kinds of indigenous trees
to be found in Maryland, and inviting the
people to examine them. The interest ex-
cited has already repaid the academy for
Its labors, and the appointment of a COM
missioner is now only question of time.
Wasteful cutting OF trees in Maryland will
denude 1t of forest tracts in q compare
lively few years unless a halt is called.
The Louisiana tupelo, or large-leaved tupe-
10, for instance, fourishss in the country
back of the Pooomoke river, and during
the last ten years several rquare miles of
these trees have bsen fslled to furnish
ma 'erial for factories whicn make bowie,
bread trays, peach and berry boxes and
baskets. The tupelo reaches q height of
100 feet and sttsins q diameter of four
feet, and IL Is q tree that merits prsservs-
tion, being picturesque to look at and in
to the watersheds.
A clergyman visiting Honolulu writes
thus to the Wstchmsp, Of Boston: The
greatest surprise that awaits the uninform-
ed visitor is the rare type of New England
which meets him in this city
Of the royal palm. There .sre few houses
making architectural pretsnces; generally
spacious homes of one story. Everywhere
great comfort, no display, NO liveries, the
omnipresent Chinese or Japanese servant,
and tasteful decorations, with all the mag
sAnes and newspapers that we read in the
States. These men and women, who have
lately passed coursgeously through the
most trying ordeal (of which the Corwin
Incident was the worst festure), are such
10 We fnd in Boston and vicinity-culti-
vsted, enterprisiDg, hospitsble to fault,
and alive to every religious duty. The
church where I am officiating for q few
months is as elegant an architectural struc-
turs as the bsst of our own city churches.
The audience is composed of men like
President Dole, Chief Justice Judd, and
others of the Provisional government, who
would grace any position Of honor In the
United Ststss, and the women are full of
coed works and missionary zeal.