Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-19

taken on 6 somewhat golden hue, by the addition of Indian meal to the rye -four.
 Public officers out in Kansas are not putting on any frills just now. The invi- tation to the public to attend the inaugu- ration of the governor-elect next month reads: The people of Kansas, irrespective of age, color, or previous condition of political servitude, are hereby cordially invited to be present at the inaugural cere- monies on Monday, January 2, 1893, at high noon, and at the reception by the governor and State officers in the evening of the same day.
 Attention, ''Old Sanitarian." Dr. Rich ardson. an English sanitarian, Is inclined to believe that sewers and sewer gas have been too much of 8 bugbear. He cites the fact that 800 menzsre constantly employed in the Paris sewers, where they ought, by sanitary notions, to be exposed to all sorts of contagious diseases, and yet as a class they are healthy and active, and conta- Rious diseases are not prevalent among
 
 itary science Dr. Dfbble is.
 In answer to question whether, in view of the fact that he had eoms connection with the Boston Cremation society, he in- tended to have his own body cremated, President Eliot of Harvard recently said: "No, I shall not be cremated. I sub aorihed for O eho ra Tn fba oorporafion hut it does not follow from that that shall be incinerated. I have purchased lot in @ certain burying ground and shall be inter red in the usual manner. Still, believe that cremation Is good thing, especially in time of an epidemic, and encourage the movement"
 The "air wheel" is the latest and 1t is expected to outdo the pneumatic tire. It is an English contrivance which looks like an inflated rubber bag, and is, indeed, little more than that. The entire wheel will thus be chamber of compressed air, with out rim or spokes, bulging out at the cir conference and held in narrow limits at the center by metal plates. Just what we are to expect from this arrangement is a little indefinite, but it it realizes the hopss of its owners we shall see the bicycle and sulky records cut down good deal in the near future.
 The latest solution proposed for the London fog and smoke problem is the use of gas for all cooking, heating and laundry purposes. The author of the scheme would make its use compulsory. He esti- mates that it would cost only $l20, ,0O0, ,00O to buy up the gas companies, and the cost of the new plant to enable the whole of the 5000, 900 tons of coal now burned in London to be consumed as gas would be be cheapened, smoke would disappear, $20, ,000, ,00O would be saved outright each year, and London life would be lived in sunlight by day and the lovely glow of electricity by night.
 During the last eleven years about $15, ,OOO, 900 have been willed for charitable objects in Italy. Fully one-half of this was left in 1884, and principally in Lom- bardy, Sardinia and Venice. For the next eleven years good beginning has been made. Moses Loris, Hebrew merchant of Milan, has left g, s,5Oo, 900 for founding e home for workmen out of work. The Milan municipal authorities are undecided whether to accept. In case of their re- fusal the money is to go to Turin. Loria made his money in Italy. And this chari, table bsnefsctor of his reee has left noth. ing whatever to his poor relatives, of whom there are quite e number.