Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-02

when put in lamp especially made for it, a very satisfactory light.

| when put in lamp especially made for it, a l very satisfactory light.
 It is asserted that Hadji Hassein Khouh Khan, Persian Ambassador at Washington, always sleeps with his 1 hands resting in apsn of cold water. He got into this habit partially because he has been used 10 warm climate and could cool his blood in this way, and also because in Teheran mosquitoes are great pest. Hadji claims that mosquito will not bite man I who has both hands plunged in water. He asserts that it is heated blood which e mos- quito desires, and that person whose veins have been slightly chilled offers no attrac- tions to the pernicious insect.
 Good coffee is a cheering thing. A noted French chef makes coffee by pouring boiling l water on the ground berries; after Altering I the water is again boiled, and again poured on the coffee; and finally third time. He does not boil the coffee and water together, | nor put the coffee in cold water and let il come to boil. To make good tea, he says, you must pour boiling water on it and 1 throw it out immediately. Then pour one l third of the boiling water required, put the 1 pot over stesming apparatus and then add another third, and finally the last third, re- | beating the steaming in order to let it draw without boiling.
 MT. Trenholm. the Controller of the Cur l rency, has little boy five years old who seems to be independent and able to reason. | One day at the dinner table he attempted to peel an orange His sister reproved him fol his awkwardness. "You're not my master,' ,'' | he retorted. "My fathers the only master in this house," and working away at his ! orange he added: "My fathers get master too-Mr. Fairchild's his master" He awk- wardly quartered his orange, and evidently l feeling that the problem was not quite cleal 1 yet, continued in an undertone: 'fAnd MT | Fairohild's got msster-Nr. Cleveland; and 1 Mir. Cleveland's got master-God." Then triumphantly looking around, he exclaimed l s'I'd rather be God than any of them."
 If the threatened strike in the coal mines of England takes place it will be a big affair It has been estimated that 1t would throw cut of work 240, 0,000 men and boys, repre- senting with their families quite 1,O0O,0Ol people The object of the proposed strike ii | to secure an increase of wages of 10 pel cent, this corresponding to the reduction il
 wages that was made three years ago. A the time of the c1tdown the coal trade O
 England was in an exceedingly depressed condition, and it was generally admitted
 even by the miners themselves, that reduc tion in wages was inevitable. But within the last twelve or eighteen months the coa
 business has improved, though the owners o the mines assert that the improvement con
 sists in larger sales, but not in increase'
 prices.
 The Italian general and senator, Clement Corte, in his "reminiscences of the late Mar shal Bazaine, who WIS his devoted friend makes public letter written to him by tn
 marshal from Versailles in May, 1871. It as follows: My dear Corte, have not for
 gotten you, and have been with you in spiri
 during this glorious epoch of the regenera tion of Italian national unity. Your coun try is becoming great, but our France is get ting smaller and smaller-not only with re
 spect to her territory, but from moral as
 pect as well. After forty-two years of se1
 vics and all the campaigns in which hay participated I am now in custody, an
 charges are brought against me because
 was guilty of the crime of remaining faithfr
 to my captive sovereign, and because suc
 cumbed to famine. The nation which wa
 deceived by the 4:h of September has n
 longer the sense of what is right and wrong
 The French character, however chivslrous
 may have been, inclines towards the Frenc
 Commune, and appropriates all the fin,
 qualities which adorn that democracy. T
 this have we come, my dear Corte. Ma other nations profit by our disease, if the
 do not wish to perish, devoured by all th
 bad passions of man.