Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-07

been organized in London. The mother
of wives only, and not of husbands, ar
eligible for membership.
1t does hafpen. Rev. D. II. Stearns. o.
Grace Reformed church, Scranton, Penn
sylvania, has accepted a call to Chris
church, Germantown, the salary being
| $500 less than he Is now receiving.
| The Japanese want to learn. The jap
anese government has arranged to send tc
this country 1900 Japanese of the middle
class, who are to be here during the
worlds fair and afterward make tour
of the principal cities of the United States.
Instruction and information as to the in
| dustries and customs of the American
people constitute the object desired to be
attained.
Measuring doses of medicine by the price
is not always safe. A Providence man
| salts. His wife had told him to buy five
cents worth of salts and take 1t. But 1t
appears that Providence druggists have
been cutting rates, and five cents buys
four times the usual quantity. This man
was ignorant of this and took killing
dose.
John 81. Starin is man of big ideas and
big heart also. He offers the free use of
his steamboats, and barges for the naval
parade in New York harbor, October 12,
to the families of the police and fire de-
partments, of the custom-house and post
Office employees, and of others, saying that
he would like to entertain from 1S, 900 to
90, 900 of his fellow citizens that day.
The last Irish census shows decline of
population since 1881 of 470,000. The
number of foreigners has increased, chiefly
owing to the large immigration of Russian
Jews. The Methodists have increased
about 1S per cent. The Roman Catholics
have decreased 10 per cent, the Episco-
palisns per cent. and the Presbyterians
5 per cent. But the Roman Catholic clergy
have increased. The Irish language is also
dying out. Ten years ago "a 900 people
spoke Irish only. In 1891 there were 49,
600. In 1881 there were 1886, 900 who could
speak Irish and English, and last year there
were only 642, 900.
Hezekiah Shepherd, an eccentric and
wealthy old farmer who died in brakes
vile, Iowa, the other day, had requested
that he should not be buried in an ordinary
coffin, but in one made in the shape of a
chair. A cabinetmsker constructed the
curious casket, which was kept on exhibi-
ton in his room several weeks before he
died. 1t was built of white oak, with wal
nut trimmings, and glass panel in front
that exposed the face The body was
placed in the chair in a sitting posture, the
wrists were strapped to the arms of the
chair, and the legs fastened to the rungs
Over two hundred and Fifty thousand
pounds of beet sugar have been produced
at the Chino factory, in San Bsrnardino,
California, from this years crop, showing
an enormous growth Of this industry in the
State. Four hundred thousand acres of
beets were planted, against 2, 700 acres last
JedE LILO haNC Aolsco SI-oO a
ton, and one man, who bought twenty
acres of land and raised fifteen tons to
the acre, paid for this land with the first
beet crop. Since bounty was placed on
beet sugar the farmers of California have
been quick to see the profit in this in
dustry.
Boston notions are sometimes valuable.
Boston has a milk laboratory where in
fants' food is prepared according to the
physicians prescription as accurately as
drug prescriptions are flled at pharmacy.
The milk comes from herd of COVE, care
fully selected as to breed and systematically
fed, 80 that the milk will have as nearly as
possible an unvarying percentage. The
milking Is done in vessels of glass, kept
clean, is cooled rapidly and
taken to the laboratory. There the air is
changed and kept pure by large fan that
keeps up Constant outward current of
air." The room is lined with white tiles
and by means of separator an uuvarying
16 par cent. cream can in a short time be
obtained from the milk. A large sterilizer,
into which steam can be introduced, ex-
poacs the milk to high or low tempera-
ture. according to requirement. The ele-
ments used to make up the prescription
are then a pure, clean SKINNED milk cream
of "stable percentage" and sugar OBJ
tanned from milk sugar and distilled water.
The cost of food prepared in this way is
said to be very moderate.