Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-17
real estate deal. He says he has only made

Toads are appreciated in Paris, where gardeners buy them for use as insect de.
 stroyers. There is a regular weekly sale of
 these hideous little animals in the French
 capital. A franc piece will buy from seven to dozen of them.
 Following is the verdict of Pennsyl-
 vania jury of inquest in case of supposed arson: "We, the jury, find that the thing
 was done. Who did it or how 1t was done of course we don't know, but we do, of course, know that it was done."
 Dr. Bonovia is authority for the state ment that the lilies which form the coat of arms of France were originally the emblem of royalty in Assyria. The doctor also maintains that the f1eur- delis is, not real ly flowers, but animals horns, which the Assyrisns used to fix on trees in order to ward off the evil spirits, and similar to those horns which Neapolitans carry in or der to ward off the evil eye.
 Boston Herald has made an estimate of the position of the next house of repre- sentatives on the silver question. He re- ports that free coinage bill will have lit- tie chance in that body. On 8 conserva- tive count not less than 194 members can be relied on to vote on the honest money side, leaving only 162 to go the other way. By these figures there will be at the lowest a clear majority of 32 against free coinage. That is good news. If the next house shows so wide margin on the sound side, there ought to be pretty sure chance of bringing it to vote for the repeal of the noxious provisions of the silver law of 1890, unless, indeed, the present congress anticipates such action during the coming short session.
 She is marching on. Miss Ella L Knowles, of Helena, Montana, has been elected attorney general of that State, after an interesting and wig gorous cam paign, in which she had the party support of the populists and the secret support, 1t appears, of a good many Republicans. Miss Knowles was graduated from Bates college in Lewiston, Maine, not more than six years ago. Deciding to study law, she became student in the office of Man chester, New Hampshire, firm and then went to Montana. She found statute in that advanced commonwealth prohibiting women from practicing at the bar, and so she went to work and had that law re- pealed by the next legislature that met. She appears to be all right now, and We may yet read that she is chief justice of Montana.
 Woman is busy nowadays. A Boston girl had the following programme laid out for this week: Monday I shall spend most of the day at the Home for Aged Couples at Horticultural Hall, and I'll go in the evening to hear Carroll D. Wright speak on the influence of the factory sys. tenn on intellectual development. Tues day the fair for the Working Boys Home opens at the Gettysburg Building. We'd nesday afternoon there's lovely meeting in the interest of fresh water baths at Technology, and in the evening I'm going to Bulfinch Chapel to see and hear pretty girls play in aid of the teachers bazaar. Thursday I shall simply reside at the Home for Aged Couples fair again, and Friday evening I shall go to Fremont Temple to hear those charming Chinamen, Sam Ping Lee and Wong Chin Foo, talk against the Geary exclusion law, and Saturday, ohl Saturday I do want to go to Springfield to the football game, but more want to go to the Chan ming Hall meeting of the Younger Minis ters' association!