Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-23
HAVEN. CONN., WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 28 1891

mixed with bark and pitch, is worth from 6 to IS cents pound, and is purchased by refners, who boil it, skim of the dirt add some other things and produce many varieties of spruce gum.
 Here is striking text for temperance lecture. Every day some small children get lest in London. The bewildered lit tie ones burst into tears, crowd collects, some stare, some question, some pity, few help. The friendly policeman is brought to the rescue, and when all ef- forts to find the little one's home fail, the man in authority inquiries, "Where does your mother get her ginl" Most of the slum children know too well this haunt of the parent, and in not a few cases, it is said, has the policeman in this way been able to trace the home of the lost child.
 The fathers of great men are not always gifted with a great amount of perception. Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. An drews', Scotland, and nephew of the poet Wordsworth, describes in his Annals of My Early Life" how he once congratulated MT. John Gladstone on the success of his son William at Oxford, to which the father of the Grand Old Man of to-day replied: 'fYes, sir, my son has certainly distin- guished himself greatly at the University, and trust that he will continue to de so when he enters public life, for there is no doubt he is man of great ability, but he has no stability"
 There are more ways than one to smoke. The Kimberley Kaffirs smoke cigars with the lighted end in the mouth. Travellers on the Isthmus of Panama and in Central and South America say that the same queer way of smoking is quiet general there. On the Isthmus, however, 1t is confined to women, the native Indians, and half breeds. Nearly all the women smoke in that manner. They do not tuck the tongue in the cheek, as it is said the Kaf- frs do, but press it down in the bottom of the mouth. Many persons who have tried the method say there Is something pecu- liarly pleasant in that kind of @ smoke.
 Among the professors in the University of Basel, in Switzerland, none occupied 8 higher place than Dr. Ignaz Hoppe, who died few days ago, leaving 8 large for tune and 8 will which are destined to play an important part in the history of the town. Among the various bequests made by the dead man was one of s200, ,000 for the investigation of the nature of the soul. The interest of the money is to bs used in paying the salaries and expenses of certain number of scholars who are to live in the house occupied by the pro lessor and study and reflect upon the properties and nature of the soul. From time to time they are to publish the re- suits of their investigations, that the world may be tho judge of their efforts to follow out the provisions of the will. The men who undertake the work, according to the testament, must live frugally and devote all of their time to the problem before them. They must be Christians, but may be either Catholics or Protestants. Their writings must be free from all foreign words and phrases. Subjective" "ob- jective," national" ''transcendental, !" and similar words, are also to find no place in their prospective works. With these exceptions, Professor Hoppe placed no re- strictions upon the duties and privileges of the men who are to carry out his strange ruiohao