Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-26

quite certain whether marriage Is or is not a failure.
 A method of painting with petroleum is said to have been invented by M. H. Ludwig, German landscape-painter at Rome, for which it is claimed that it makes the colors more luminous and preserves them better than previous processes. The Prussian min- istry are said to have sent a special artist to Rome to report on the discovery.
 One of the arguments advanced for the pardon of Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw now serving . life sentence at Saltwater, Michigan, for murder, Is that during the 13 years of his incarceration 20 life prisoners have been pardoned, the average term served by the 20 men being only seven years. Isn't it about time that ono should serve out his term?
 People wonder, said the brilliant and ver- satile Chauncey NJ. Dspew the other day, "about what they call the omnisoience I dis play in my after dinner speeches. Why, it's simply by hunting up men and things in encyclopedias and frescoing them in my mind in my own way that have become the know. everything fellow they're making so much fuss about"
 According to the latest educational report only ,466, ,91s of 15,000,0oO children in the Russian empire attended schools. About 90 per cent. therefore, of young Russia receive no instruction at all. In sixty governments there is only one school for secondary in- struction to every 1S,000 boys and 22, 900 girls. Only 6S per cent. of the boys of any age to attend public high school can be ac- commodated. For girls the number of such schools is even more insignificant. The schoolmaster cannot be said to be abroad in Russia yet.
 John G. Whittier writes to the Boston Journal protesting against the attempt to weaken public confidence in the Hampton Institute and 'its brave and sslf-denying principal, General Armstrong;" by cruel interpretations. "The world has too few of such men," says the venerable poet, "who combine human tenderness and Christian sympathy with the wisdom and frmness which the arduous and difficult work he is engaged in requires. In proof of my faith h him and his school have just doubled my annual suDscflpIlon, ana neaEtIy Wlsn could make it fourfold."
 Americas free air stimulates even the mild Chinaman to stand up for his rights. Three truokmen in New York were unloading { piano, when one of them threw a piece ot mating over the head of Tong Kee, ,who hap pened to be passing. Instead of running
 away Tong Kee whirled upon the truekmer
 and ''pasted" one of them in the face with { | doubled fist. Then he started to walk off \ but the more he meditated on the insult th'
 more grievous it seemed, 80 he turned tt ! where the astonished truckmeIl were gazing | at each other and administered "several fero
 cious kicks" on the body of the one wh'
 had thrown the mating over him. Tha
 being done to his satisfaction. he took re
 fuge in his laundry. A 'Melicanman
 couldn't have done the job more promptly O
 thoroughly.
 ! A woman's surpliced choir is one of tn
 latest new things. The pastor in Melbourn
 who introduced this innovation apologies
 for it in this way: ''It cannot be denied that considering the extraordinary capriees o