Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-28

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looked any further he might find the
woman.
Doubtless some of our readers didn't
have merry Christmas, but they can af-
ford to heave Sigh over tae sad Christmas
of William Woolsey, Of st. Paul, Min
nesots, whose false teeth were advertised
to be sold for debt on Christmas eve.
Palestine, said Rabbi Schroeder in a re-
cent sermon, els no longer the center of
Jewish hopes. We are Jews as represent
atives of a religion, not of race or nation.
We are Germans in Germany, Frenchmen
in France, Englishmen In England, and
Americans in this country"
The orange growers at Riverside, Cali
fornia, have made arrangements to defy
the frost this winter. Pipes have been
laid in all the large groves, and crude Pc
troleum Is run between the rows of trees.
By burning the petroleum at equal dis
tances the clear air disturbed by clouds
of vapor and frost prevented.
AS an Indication of the way in which
the civilization of the west is seiEing hold
on Japan and all that is Japanese it is
stated that in q private mission school in
the town of Kioto there are 400 Japanese
women. Ten years ago the fathers of
these girls looked upon them as slaves, or,
at best, as upper servants. Now they
strain every nerve to give them a liberal
education.
The strictness of British court proceed
ings was well illustrated at Northampton
recently, where trial for murder was in
progress. The jury having been permitted
to partske of a lunch in their room, one
of their number profited by the opportu-
nifty to step out of doors and post letter.
The Judge, to whom this act was reported,
promptly gave the offending juror sharp
lecture and fined him $3.50. He dismissed
the jury and new one was impaneled.
J.J. Aubertip, who recently had view
Of the great wall of China. speaks of it as
"a wandering, pitching, clamberlng line,"
which begins with mass of stone at the
seaside and "runs over hill and dale some
500 miles, varying in height all through" !"
Where he saw 1t it was about twenty feet
high and fifteen feet wide at the top. It'll
built of earth with covering of brick and
stone. Not the least interesting thing about
it is that II was built-about 200 B. C.-to
keep out the eastern Tartars, one of whom
now occupies the throne of the empire of
China.
sequoia forests used to cut the trees at q
distance of from a dozen to twenty feet
above the ground in order to avoid the
gnarled and knotted base. But it has
lately been found that these stumps are as
valuable as the straight wood. The gnarls
present most beautiful 6gurings, and the
wood is sawn into thin sheets and used for
interior decorations. Now these stumps
are being dug out, and soon not even q
vestige will remain to show what was the
appearance of some of the most majestic
natural monuments of this wonderful con-
tinent.
The Louisiana Supreme court has de-
cided that the law making 1t compulsory
for railroad companies to provide separate
coaches or compartments for white and
colored passengers is constitutional. But
the United States courts will have to pass
upon the appeal of colored man who, be-
fore the passage of the Louisiana law,
bought irst-class ticket in that State to
| San Antonio, Texas, rode in the ordinary
car across Louisiana, and was forced to
leave the car on reaching the Texas line and
take seat in a compartment marked ''Fol
Negroes Only" The colored man claims
that the act was an interference with the
rights of interstate travellers.