Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-05

sandwich, taken with beer or ale, is said
 to promote sound sleep. Should think 1t

1 J. B. Knnke, Prussisn Commissioner of Railroads, who has been studing American railroad methods for several months, has reached San Francisco on his tour of ob- l servation, for which he is commissioned by his government. He is reported ss say ing that whils Germany surpassss this l country in the construction of tracks, he finds American car equipment superior. He intended, he says, to advise the Prussian government on his return to adopt the Pullman car and several otLsr American improvements.
 rocket bombs has been established In the suburban districts of San Francisco to enable tine remote engine houses quickly to summon assistance from the oity forces In case of great emergency. A bomb, something like 6 rocket, Is thrown three hundred feet straight upward from a mortar, where 1t bursts, making e bril- liant white light and . very loud explo- sion. At the trials of the system 6 weak or 80 ago all San Francisco was excited and alarmed, fearing dynamiters were at work. The system Is arranged SO that the precise locality where aid Is needed Is made known.
 The plebiscits of prohibition is being taken in the province of Ontario in oonneo- ton with the municipal elections. The object of this plebiscite Is to determine whether or not the people of Ontario de- sire their legislature to pass law prohib- iting the sale of intoxicating liquors In the province. Women vote on this question as we'll as men, and In Toronto 1,lS6 wo- men voted, SS0 for prohibition and 256 against, @ majority of 624 for prohibition. The masculine vote in Toronto was 10, ,369 for prohibition and s.700 against. Other cities voted the same way, Hamilton, Lon don and Brantford giving msjorities of about 1000 for prohibition. The Empire newspaper of Toronto gives the majority for prohibition in 229 towns and cities as 29, 900. while the Globe puts the same ma jority at 30, 600, and estimates the major ity in the province at 100000
 The Austrian farmers have met In c granger congress to consider grievances and remedies. The principal points of the resolutions passed were: Legislation to re- lease them from their present subiection to the capitalists and the landlords; relief from mortgages through advances from the State at low interest, also allowances from the State on moderate terms; protec. ton against the competition of Hungary and other States; the fixing by the State of a minimum price for corn, which would insure satisfactory rent for the land. and the requirement by the agricultural asso- cistion of the privilege of furnishing sup plies needed for the army at fixed prices; the erection by the State of markets and storehouses by which produce could pass directly from the farmer to the consumer; the State ownership and management of all factories; old age insurance for agri- culturists, and the abolition of the law re- specting the adulterstion of food. The Austrian Populists do not ask points of anybody.
 A Philadelphia coroner condemns the haste of undertskers in the use of em- balming fuids by injection. He says that this practice operates too often to save sus- pected persons from conviction for mur- der. Cases of the kind have occurred, too, in that city. A short time ago the Phils- delphis coroner found 1t impossible to ascertain the cause of the death of a man who was believed to have been poisoned by arsenic, for the reason that arsenic had been used in the embslming process. Other evidence of murder subsequently, appeared and the inquest was reopened. Two days ago this coroner had similar experience, physician testifying that he detected the presence of poison in the organs of the de- ceased, but an analysis was impossible owing to the use of arsenic by the under taker. The only proper way tc inject subject, the coroner said, Is through the veins, and intestinal injection is of little or no use, although made an invariable practice by some undertskers. The effec. of 1t is to destroy much of the evidence that might be found in the bowels of pois- on, either murderous or suicidal.
 1n0 66V6uteeutu huulfefeAry OI tuc accession of the Sultan of Turkey to the throne has recently been celebrated in Constsntinople. Abdul Hsmid is said to be a man of great muscular strength. and it is asserted that, although small and slight of build, he Is powerful enough to overcome the strongest of his jsnissaries in trial of personal strength. He owes this to his regularity of life, the observ- ancs for the laws of health, and his pas sion for gymnastics. He is devoted to carpentry, and his palace Is furnished with 6 workshop In which there are many artisans, whose work is directed by the Sultan himself. A considerable proportion of the furniture of the royal residence has been made from his designs, and iu many caEes executed by himself. Abdul Hamid has firm conviction that he will reign for forty years, and this belief has banished I all fear of disease and danger from his mind. He, however, dreads the cholera,
 because dervish once prophesied that he
 would die of cholera morbus. This has
 been c sourcs of great beuef. to his sub
 jsots, as every effort Is made t, prevent
 the spread of cholera, owing to the sul-
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