Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20

made of the fat around a mans heart. The chief assented and knocked the doctor over with club, and then gave the fat of his heart to the sick lady, and the family dined on the rest of him. But the author ities now hold him for murder
 In the government of Podok, Russia, the peasants have no scruples about selling their children. Instances of a very revolt ing nature are reported in Moscow daily. One peasant sold his daughter, girl of eight years,t to travelling mendicants for the sum of six rubles; another one brought two girls to the town of Grenova, where he sold the older, child of seven years, for five rubles, and the younger, three years old, for three rubles. Such instances have occurred in many other towns of the gov ernment.
 Dr. Norman Kerr of London tells how to avoid cholera. He says: The chief pre- caution is to go about ones ordinary busi- ness without fear. Avoid, as I said, all intoxicating drinks, also unripe or over ripe fruit, and such articles of food as from past experience the individual knows are apt to disagree with him. There should be moderation in eating and drinking with meals as regular as possible, and these eaten slowly. There should also be a strict attention to cleanliness, with fresh air, exercise and observance of all hygienic rules. These are practical precautions. All who are brought in contact with per sons suffering from suspicious symptoms should avoid attending such persons on an empty stomach. I used to find plain biscuit in my pocket answered the purpose.
 The University of Pennsylvania enlarges its educational scope by adding a school of architecture, which will be opened in the autumn. The course of study proposes to provide theoretical, practical and artistical instruction as a basis for professional work. The school will, of course, be essentially technical, but it has not been forgotten l that successful architect must be a man of culture, therefore limited number of studies will be retained to serve as basis | for such training. Besides the ex-officiC l members of the faculty from that of the university, the director of the school i' Theophilus F. Chandler, jr., leading architect of Philadelphia, the professor oi architecture Thomas w. Richards, and tht professor of art Charles E. Dana, a water | colorist of note; and there will be also lee lures by Philadelphia members of the pro | fession.
 | The reverses of fortune are we'll illus | trated among the descendants of the old
 French nobility. According toM. Lescure
 grandson of that same Marquis d'Hau
 teroche who chivalrously requested ths
 English troops at the battle of Fonteno. to ''fire first" ended his days as a common | policeman One of the noble family O
 Babou de la Bourdaisiere is now washer
 woman. Representatives of other nobl
 families equally famous in their time are
 or were, according to the same authority
 occupying the humble places of game
 keeper, carpenters apprentice, hous'
 painter, cab driver, miller's assistant, inn
 keeper, conductor of an omnibus, box
 opener at theatre, gas-man, bathing man
 maker of mouse traps, chorus singer al
 the opera, and wood-man; while one, wh' ] is a great-cousin of the illustrious Cardina
 de Retz, unites in his own person the low 1 ly offices of grave-digger and village fid
 dler.