The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-11

lHeTf IS u Eoou uehl ot hi'ihShui hhih In the market already, but Cincinnati chemist has invented new kind, com posed of water, solids and fat. This artificial milk will raise q cream from which first-class butter 0an he churned. It Eul, also, turn sour and is capable of teing made into cheese.
 It Is hard to tell where safety is in his world. Young Jessie Dowlin of Downington Pennsylvania. was dis sbnrged from mill where he was work .Rg the ether day, ns it was thought that the position was too dangerous. He Immediately went home and within few hours had fallen from cherry tree and broke his shoulder.
 The passport of the traveller in China is something almost impossible of couu- terfsiting. With al fine oii-paint they take an impression of the palm of the hand upon q thin paper and this, officially signed, is passport, AS the lines of no two human hands are exactly alike, any more than two human faces, the chances of deception in the matter of a passport are reduced to a minimum.
 Eugene T. Chamberlain, commissioner of the navigation bureau of the treas llry department, points out in an inter view on American shipping that the capital invested in building iron and steel ships increased from S7,5OO, 900 in 1889 to s34 OOO,0 in 1890. A large part of this increase is due to the build ing of the new navy, but there are now 75,00O tons of vessels under construc- iOn, apart from those ordered by the government, while the rate up to 1890 aad not exceeded 10000 tons year. Hr. Chamberlain suggests that, though ludicious legislation might help, ship building is picking mp a good deal with put assistance.
 The University of Chicago is fine specimen of what cai1 Be done in this country. Six years ago the idea of the university was not born; four years ago the land had been given, the trustees chosen and fund of million dollars raised; three. years ago the president was elected and the Ogden School of Science founded; two years ago, anoth- CT fund of million dollars for build ings and equipments had been sub- seribed. and the work of the college be- gun. This summer. at the close of the second collage year, there is all attend ance of 85l, the entrance examinations have been taken by 356, the faculty numbers l54, and another fund of million dollars has been completed.
 The announcement is made in the Nationai Builder that what was at first eonaidered doubtful experiment., viz, the u@e of coal tar as a means of render ing masonry impervious to water, espsc- ially in positions exposed to direct con- tact with the latter, has proved prac- Mcally valuable resort. Used as 6 ooat- ing for masonry built mp of very porous stone, tar renders it quite impsrvious, even at a depth of fifty feet of water aBd according {" the experience of those who have llud much to do with it, the article should be utilized in all pub lie buildings particularly those designed for the preservation of works of art the dissolving action of water, even upon mortar of superior quality, being well kllown, also the unfavorable effect of the exndation of water charged with tMme saitS from the mortar. Two meth eds of using the tar are named, viz, in 2 boiling stute ia one or several layers, this haing suitable for surfaces exposed to the air, or 1t may be made to flame up before using, this being appropriate to surfaces which have to bs covered up.
 CaBeernipg the possible successors to Leo XIII. correspondent of the Pitts burg Dispatch says Cardinal Rampolla is now locked upon as the almost cer- tain successor of Lee XIII. He has not eaHe to the front at rush, as some- timss happens. He has grown slowly but steadily, Fortuitous circumstances have aided him, too, by removing from his pafb powerful rivals. Three years { aga Cardinal Parooohi was looked upon ss the coming man. The trend of events has put him in sepss out of the quas- tisn.. Then Cardinal La Salbetta was meationed and thep. Cardinals Simeopi and San EsllQe, and then the name of s6srdiEsi Lsyigeris, 4the apostle of RQme against the African slave trade and Hippo Tib, pushed all the others ts the rear. But .Leyigsrie is, dead, -ii1 ,.4. ' a-r'--'- as~-1.s, VI s I.