Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-10

keeper fixed up surprise for his firm by making some alterations in his figures 50 as to give suspicious appearance to his books and then took weeks vacation. The firm
 fell into the trap, investigated, thought they found things crooked, and posted the absent
 bookkeeper as an embezzIer. About this
 time the abseut man returned, proved the
 accounts all right, brought suit for damages,
 and, the story goes. got a verdict for 6, 900. The question of whether or not 1t is cruel
 to dishorn COWS is now before the Scotch
 courts, the defence being that 1t is necessary to cut off the horns of Irish and Canadian cattle to keep them from goring each other in the feeding courts used in Scotland during the winter. One witness testified that expe. rience had converted him to favor dishorn- ing, and that he now practises it with all his Guernsey COWS, who seem to suffer little pain from the operation and the quality of whose milk is not affected by 1t. The Eng fish courts have held that the practice was cruel one.
 The education of the colored people in the South Is making rapid progress. A large number of young men and women are pur-
 suing courses of study in tho colored colleges of the South, and those at Nashville, New Orleans, Atlanta, Montgomery and Tuskegee
 are reported as especially propsrous. In Selema, Alabama, there are five educational institutions, one of which, an industrial school for colored young women, has 700
 students. Special effort is now being made
 to establish Young Mems Christian associa-
 tions in all these institutions, and the gen- eral secretary of the Norfolk association has
 lately visited many of them for that purpose. A colored association has just been organized at Atlanta.
 The discovery of lode of uranium at the Union mines, Cornwall, was announced sev- eral months ego. This is believed to be the only known lode of that metal in the world, as 1t had previously been found only in iso-
 lated pockets and patches Since the dis coyery wasisimade steps have been taken to develop the lode and to wo.k the mine. Ex- perimental works for procuring the metal from the ore were fitted up in London, and
 there the ore has been submitted to treat- ment in order to determine the best and
 most economical method of extraction. The market price of the metal is about ten thou sand dollars per ton. It is proposed to sub- stitute it for gold in electro~plating, and it is also expected to prove very useful in electric lighting.
 Cremation is rapidly gaining favor in
 Europe. At the Woking (England) crema- tory the number of cremations is steadily ln- cseasing. In three years, from 1884 to 1887. the annual average was eight. In 1888 there were 26. In 1889 the number increased to 46, the total number at the end of the year having been exactly 100. This year there have been several every week. In France, at the new orematory in Paris, there were 35 ordinary cremations in 1889, but the number of still-born children and the bodies from the hospitals and anatomical schools is so
 large that moderation is continually going on both night and day. The Journal d'Hygiene says that the total number was
 nearly 5000 in the year. At Rome the
 numbers were 119 in 1886, 155 in 1887, and 202 in 1888. At Milan and other Italian towns the numbers are increasing, as also in Germany.