Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-12

Washington, could not get q marriage L.
oense few days ago because he forgot the
name of his bride. He knew her first name
was Kittie, but could not remember her
last name.
| An anti-cancer league has been organized
in Paris, its purpose being to seek means
of relieving humanity from ono of its most
dreadful scourges. Financial aid is asked
from the public. and pathologists, olini-
clans, histologists, intercollegiate. veteri-
nary practitioners, and even geographical
explorers are expected to cooperate in the
work of investigation.
Chicago is growing. For several years
prior 10 1889 the number of buildings pro-
jected in Chicago was somewhat under
5000, the cost being estimated at from
$50, ,000, 900 to s25, ,000, 900. But in 1890
permits were obtained for 11,60S new
buildings, to Gust over al, 900. 900, and in
1891 the number was increased to II sos,
and the cost to s54, ,00O. 900. The first six
months of 1892 show still greater gain.
The British naval authorities are saving
money ii novel way in connection with
big gun practice. The Benbow has been
practicing . good deal with her 11e-ton
guns, and, as this gun throws projectile
weighing 1900 pounds, the expense of
each shot runs pretty high. So tubes have
been placed in the bores of the big guns
which ft a musket cartridge, and, while
he fhar al 1aI
aimed, all that is fred is q musket bullet.
Some excellent hits have been made In
this practice.
DIR. Fitzedward Hall, the English
on the correct usage of the mother tongue
brief essay on the use of ''like" as . con-
junction. This odd usage of the word is
most frequent among southerners, and
much reproach has been cast on them
therefor, but DR.. Hall, who has wide and
accurate knowledge of the English Ian
guage, traces 1t back to eminently respect
able sources in the classic wells of Eng
lish unde6led.
What can be done by intelligent and
harmonious cooperation is illustrated In
the case of q community of Swedes who
sixteen, years ago started q furniture fac
tory at Rockford, Illinois, The capital of
the original plant was $1,000, and of the
twenty-five Swedes in the scheme ev, "
one was q worker and every one was a
stockholder. The business has so increas-
ed that there are now twelve factories. in
cluding furniture, piano and knitting, en-
ploying eighteen hundred men, with profit
last year of $150, 900. The community now
numbers thirteen thousand people, main
tanning eight churches of ak denomiua-
tions. The voters are unit for prohibi-
ton and nine-tenths of the men are total
abstainers.
The plague of mice which has been caus-
ing such widespread disaster in Scotland of
late continues and increases, and a special
commission of the department of agricul
ture is now at work taking evidence in the
matter with view to devising some effect
i've remedy. Some interesting points have
been brought ont during the progress of
the commission. Quite number of farm
ers attributed the plague of mice to the
killing of the birds of prey and weasels by
the gentlemen owners shooting over the es
tates and by the keepers who killed the
weasels because the weasels destroyed the
game. One man said the keepers had
killed q hundred weasels on his farm and
the adjoining estate. The mice had in
creased and destroyed the pastures, and he
had lost s., 900 on sneep in consequence.
His family had lived on the farm for three
centuries. Another man said that for the
same reason his crop of lambs numbered
but 333, against an average of 600 or 700.
The situation is very serious, and nothing
the farmers have been able to do so far has
lessened the scourge.