The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-10

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 "Duloephone'' is the name of new apparatus patented in England for modc-ating tho ;one of piano. It was needed.
 The assessors of New York city have added s20, ,9O0, ,0Oo to the valuation of personal estates in that city for the cur rent year, and it is not probable that they have overtione inc matter yet.
 Ii is seriously said that molUners at Parisian funerals are furnished with little wads of cotton with which to wipe away their tears. The tears are then preserved, and are supposed 10 contain restorative qualities in case Of fainting.
 A scientist has been experimenting with specimens of various trees for the greatest resistance to lightning. Pieces of both live and dead woods were ex- posed to the action of the HoitZ cleo trical machine. After a revolution or two the electric spark passed through piece of oak, and through poplar and willow aflcr five. BppchwJrd the chest nut. linden and birch, known as the fattv frees. had more rp,is!auce than starch trp"S' like the poplar, maple, elm alG ash. Observations H% to the trees m9sg frequently struck ny light ming a.I;- with the results of these eN- perimrnte. N"Irups$ to water increases the danger, As well aS the isolation of trees. No species k exempt from the possibility oi being Struck provided the electric tension is sufficiently high.
 An interesting race took place the other day out west. A light freight train was running on the Northern Pa cific, in the upper part of Minnesota, when the engineer saw big moose standing directly on the track, and as soon as the animal saw the engine he took to lis heels down the track. There was perfectly straight run for four miles, and the engineer determines to test the speed of the moose, of which he had frequently heard. At first the gait of the moose was sort of trot, and even when the engine gained speed the ani- nal did no; seem to exert itself. Faster Hnd faster sped the engine, but still the moose trottcd ahead and all the power of steam could not prevail over this monarch of the forest At last, after covering four miles and turning curve they came upon a gang of section hands, and the victorious moose leaped the track and was lost to view in the forest.
 It is sometimes hard work to do good without doing harm. It appears that General Booths farm colony near Lon- don is iniuring the ueighboring farmers. They say that General Booth obtained the huge sum of GlO0, 0GO py virtue of a scheme t prominent feature of which was the avoidance of raising one class at the cost of another, and lHining by uhderselling those who already kept their feet with difficulty. It is alleged that the general has absolutely broken faith with the public, and has turned tho farm colony into q vast trading em- porium, selling produce st prices which exclude all possibility of successful competition by others. Attached to the memorials are statements by hawkers growers, laborers and others, whose names and addresses are given; from which it appears that laborers hitherto dependent on garden produce for rent have now no market, and traders o1 long standing find their business either entirely destroyed or greatly damaged by unfair cutting.
 One would hardly think that Chicago could find anything to blow about ir what has been and is going on there but just notice what the Chicago Herald says: Some feeble consolation may bt extracted from the big railroad strike by the reflection that in this as in mos other matters Chicago is in the superla, tive. We have either the biggest or the smallest, the best or the worst. Fol years we had the invincible baseball |, club of the country, now we are repre- sented by the most pitiful aggregation that ever worried an umpire. We had the biggest exposition the world has eyer seen; it has been burned in core. spondingly distressing fashion. We have the greatest city and the wors, water system; the best preachers and the most tbievish aldermen; the finest buildings and the worst smoke nuisance the .handsomest streets and the dirtiest street cars-of any town on earth. Chi. cago is the municipa! little girl who