Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-18

liar big shows have cost. The Paris ex-
 position of 1855 cost 5000, 900, the Lon
 don exposition of 1862 S, 300, 900, the VI
 enna exposition of 1873 $7, 1850, 900 and the
 Paris exposition of 1889 g, 500, ,000.
 If money will make university go the
 Chicago university will go. It has just
 been given a quarter of million by Mar
 shall Field and Sidney Kent on condition
 that the full million be made up by other
 friends of the institution within ninety
 days. The trustees expect to secure the
 required sum within that time.
 The London Lancet, in making explana-
 tions of the state of health of the family of the Prince of Wales, says Prince George is
 weak and sufferer from insomnia. If Prince George should fall into bad health, the people of England would be extremely agitated. There is an immense anxiety that he should marry and continue the royal line. Otherwise, the oldest daughter of the Prince of Wales will, upon the death of the queen, be princess royal, and if the queen and Wales and Prince George should die, without George furnishing heirs, the princess royal becomes queen, with her husband, the Duke of Fife, prince consort. This tc the British is awful.
 One of the numerous valuable relics de- stroyed by fire at the State University of Missouri was the marble tablet which was once a part of the original granite monu- ment over Jefferson's grave at Monticello, and which bore the inscription that Jeffer- son had himself directed to be carved there. This inscription ran: "Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Free dom, and Father of the University of Vir- ginia" When, in 1882, Congress replaced the granite monument with hsndsomer one, the original shaft was set up on the campus of the Missouri University, where it still stands, but the tablet, though kept indoors to preserve it from mutilation, was spoiled by the flames.
 A decision just made in Leeds, England, contains useful hint to some people in this country. The keeper of a skating rink had advertised "a great fancy cos tune carnival" and by way of stimulating the invention of his patrons he promised that the wearer of the most original cos tune should be rewarded with 8 watch of the value of S60. The man who won the watch took it to jeweller, who said the timepieoe was worth only S20. The win ner, therefore, applied to the courts for redress. The skating rink proprietor de- fended himself with the plea that the giv- ing of the prize was purely voluntary act, and the recipient should not take the giver's estimate too literally. The judge, however, took a different view, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for S90.
 The Vermont maple-sugar makers do not find the two-cent bounty what they thought it would be. It costs them more trouble to get out the necessary govern ment license and more time to get their product approved and the bounty from the treasury than it is worth to them gen orally. Then with the duty removed inc producer is coming into the American market, they say, in increasing numbers. The Vermont production is about 15,O00,0OO pounds annually, while Canada produces 20,00O,O ,OO0, with room for indefinite expansion of protection, and according to Congressman Powers of Yer mont there have been ten carloads of ma ple-sugar imported from Canada since the bounty law took effect where there WAS one carload before. For these reasons he has brought bill into congress for the of the maple-sugar bounty and the reimposition of the duty of two cents r,n11nd