The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-27

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 other Hudson river towns, and as Tn Washington a few years ago, people are leaving their homes to escape rom the millions of these vigorous little tor mentors,
 A factory inspector who was looking through the foreign tenements in Brooklyn, New York, where sweat shop work was being done, found two cases of scarlet fever in a room with six workers, and containing one hun dred and sixty three garments ready for delivery. The children had been Ill in this room, their home, for two weeks.
 Even Germany, with all its military equipment, hasn't what little Siam has. In one respect the Siamese army is su- perior to every other, and that is in it's elephant corps. Eight hundred of these animals, which are stronger, though smaller, than those of India. are organ ized into special corps, commanded by retired Anglo-Indian officer, and their heads, trunks and other vulnera- ble parts are protected against bullets by India rubber arnlor.
 To what extent fogging is still tol- erated by the English law is shown by certain prison returns just presented to parliament, from which 1t would ap- pear that no less than sixteen hundred floggings per annum take place in the local and convict prisons of the United Kingdom. Besides these, there are six hundred and seventy foggings a year in the military prisons, which means that the f1oggings of soldiers belonging to the British army average nearly two a day
 Benjamin Bingham, photographer in Memphis, Tennessee, made his own will shortly before his death the other day. He bequeathed everything to his wife. made her executrix without bond, and said: T think more of and put more confidence in my wife than I do any man, and I think her perfectly com petent to attend to her own business, and if she cannot take care of her own property she will be the only one to suffer. And as am no lawyer" the will concludes, ''and always was op- posed to whereases and the aforesaids, and so and sos, this will be readily recognized as my plain way of doing business and allowed to stand as my last will and testament" The estate is valuable.
 The postal service of the United States costs $9,Oo0,00o a year above re- ceipts, while that of Great Britain yields profit of over $14,Oo0O00, that of France nearly s10,0O0,000 that of Germany ss,ooO,ooO, that of Russia ss,- 100000, and that of even India and Japan $1, 5o0,OO0 About the only other nations whose postal service does not pay expenses are Canada, Norway Siam, Chilli Peru, Bulgaria and Be- 1ivia. This deficit in the United States is largely caused by an interpretation of the law that carries in the mails an enormous amount of printed matter at a sum greatly below the cost of so do- ing. Repeated efforts have been made to repeal it. but a powerful lobby has prevented their success.
 Large quantities of certain sub- stance, called "Manjak," were recently found in the Island of Barbadoes, West Indies. According to the London En- gfneer, it bids fair to outrival in point of utility all similar substances occur ring in various parts of the gibbs. Man jak is of black color, not unlike pitch, and possesses high lustre. In Barba- does it is found very near, and some times upon, the surface of the ground in seams varying from one foot to two feet in thickness, running usually in close proximity to rocks It is sup posed to have been formed by the dry ing up and consolidation of petroleum. Among the various uses to which Man. jak has been successfully applied may be mentioned insulation for electric wires, varnishes of the best quality, bituminous concrete in asphalt roads and pavements, patent fuel, mixed with peat or other organic matter, intensifier of the Illuminating power of coal gas. It is expected by some experts that if will soon supplant rubber in all water proof work.
 We are asked, says the Northwest ern Christian Advocate (Methodist) of Chicago if bicycling does not increase Sabbath-breaking, and if the wheel does not, therfore, deserve discourage ment. '"There is no room for doubt that the wheel encourages Sabbath breaking-upon the wheel. Good roads -1za Ca