Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-02

cases are now pending.
The manufacturer of q certain brand of
pills in England-we will call them Smiths
pills-has advertised them extensively as
really worth guinea box on account of
their efficacy. Recently chemist received
bill for % shillings from the pillmaker,
which he did not feel like paying. At last
brilliant idea struck him and he sent the
creditor box of his own pills and shill-
ings in cash, with the explanation that the
pills being worth guinea, the debt was
Cancelled. To his surprise he received by
return mail receipt In full. with the
words, "Cash only in future, John Smith. !"
There is to be an election for mayor in
Toronto on Monday in which the leading
issue will be the question whether street
cars shall run on Sunday. A touch of hu-
NOR has been given to the campaign, which
is waxing hot, by the discovery that Mrs.
J. K. Macdonald, the head of the anti
Sunday car movement, has hired and used
a cab on Sundays. The Toronto World,
which is in favor of Sunday cars, refers
witheringly to the coupe-riding, hot-din-
ner- eating clergymen who are trying to
keep the poor mans car from running
Nevertheless, there is not much likelihood
that the Sunday car people will win.
The acquisition made by the pope of the
archives of the Borghese family for 250,-
600 francs is of historic Importance. The
codices of the Vatican archives date from
the time of Sixtus w., or very little ear
lier, for the library of Boniface VIII. was
destroyed by fire, and the collection made
by the popes at Avignon was lost. 1t is
precisely this missing period which is now
filled by 400 codices containing the history
of the papacy during the Avignon period
that has been found in the Borghese ar
chives. 1t will be arranged in the Vatican
library by Father CoEza, who has lately
gained distinction by his publication of
the Vatican Bible of the fourteenth con-
tury. Among the curiosities in the Bor-
ghese archives is a letter in the Chinese
character, inclosed in cover addressed to
Pa1l V.
according to what Joseph Wallace says
in the Popular Science News, our mild
winters are likely to continue. He says
that our climate has certainly been much
modified wi the past 1000 years.
There have been fifteen climatic changes
since the beginning of the glacial age, he
writes, each change lasting 10000 years
and each change reversing the season in
the two hemispheres, the pole which had
enjoyed continuous summer being doomed
to undergo perpetual winter for 10000
years and then passing to its former state
for an equal term. The present epoch of
u more genial temperature at this season
of the year in this northern hemisphere
began about 1 800 years ago, and for 5000
years to come, writes Mr.. Wallace, we may
reasonably expect gradual modification
of our climate.
Theodore Won Mommsen, the famous
German historian, celebrated the thirtieth
anniversary of his professorship in the
University of Berlin few days ago. He
was the recipient of numerous congratu!a-
tions. Won Mommsen was a professor of
law-in-o ordinary in the University of Leip-
zic as long ago as 1S4o, AS was the case
with SO many others, he took an active
part in the revolutionary movements of
1S4S, and in consequence was deprived Of
his place. For while he read lectures in
Zurich. In 1854 the University of Breslau
recalled him to the Fatherland. For the
last three decades he has been professor of
ancient history in Berlin, and draws hun
dreds and hundreds of students to his
lectures. He is now seventy-four years
old, but is still active physically and men
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