Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-06

Honor is having hard time of it in that English trial. A more disgusting exhibi- ton has not been seen lately.
 This is big country. Montana is larger than the empire of Turkey, Texas is larger than the whole Austrian empire by 30,0O0 square miles, and New Mexico is larger than Great Britain and Ireland together.
 A manufacturer of ancient Egyptian mummies has been severely sentenced by the courts of Alexandria. He made his articles with carefully prepared asses skins, and had a good trade. Everything went we'll so long as he made kings only, but when he tried the production of high priests he committed archaeological errors that led to his detection.
 A new method of ventilating railroad carriages and preventing dust from enter ing with the air has appeared in France. The more quickly the train moves the more rapidly the apparatus works. The air is made to traverse receptacle con- taining water, which cools it and relieves
 
 | another Altering before entering the car riage.
 Some people are thoughtful for others even under trying circumstances. MT. J. Stearns of Corinth, New York, for in stance. He quietly took spade, went to a retired spot and dug hole large enough to accommodate him comfortably. Then he got in and laid down, took knife from his pocket and cut the veins of his arms and waited death. There was nothing Jeff for his friends to do but to shovel in the earth on top of him, and he would doubt less have performed even that last sad office for himself had it been possible. Mir Stearns has set brilliant example.
 Education is making great strides ir Egypt, and the natives are beginning te show appreciation of the advantages o1 the reorganized government schools. IT 1887 there were only twelve schools under the minister of public instruction, with ar attendance 1919 pupils, of whom only 5( per cent paid fees, and the total receipts were e9,000. Last year the number O. these schools throughout the country, a far south as Assuan, open to all races ant creeds, was forty-seven, the attendance was 1907, of whom 62 per cent were pay ing pupils, and the receipts reached nearl. e20, ,0O0. The increase is significant, a education is not compulsory. It is rule however, that all pupils must learn eithe English or French, and it is signiican that, whereas in 1889 only IA per cent o them selected English, in 1890 the propor tion rose to 23 per cent.
 This story of the late Dr. Edward Cha pin, the Universalist minister, is told in New York letter to the Philadelphia Press Dr. Chapin was smitten with a mortal dis ease and it was publicly announced in th newspapers He had some heart troubl which did not prevent friends from seein him, but it was known it would end hi life in brief time. He had been sick fo ' some five weeks whom one day the Rev Dr. Armitage called He was shown int Chapin's room and found the distinguish ed clergyman lying upon sofa. Whe he saw Armitage he burst into tears an Dr. Armitage was surprised. Chapi said, "Doctor, can't help these tears, br they express gladness rather than sorrow a Do you know that you are the first clerg, man of all of those who have professe friendship for me who has called to SC me or even sent message of sympathy { me in my illness. Not single clergyms has been so considsrate, and tell you
 has been a bitter sorrow to me at tn time" Two days later this great orat, was dead.
 A remarkable murder trial is in progre at Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The pri oner, Jacob Staub, who is now an old mi