Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-17
There are about three hundred women in the United States.

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 There are about three hundred women undertakers in the United States.
 Queer things are happening in New.Jersey The latest is that one of the Protestant churches of Gloucester has dismissed i6s pastor for buying @ second d-hand organ from Catholic church.
 Read this, ladies, and beware. Nash ville's city electrician says 1t would be dangerous for ladies wearing crinolins to cross electric railroads because of the wires concealed in the garment.
 There is nothing slow about the people of Washington. The Tacoma Street Rail- road company is building a boat to be run by storage battery at aspeed of fifteen to twenty miles an hour. It will be put on a Puget sound route in connection with the street railway service. It will have storage cells for twelve hours service which will be charged at night from the trolley wires. The battery and motor will be entirely out of eight, and the whole space of the boat will be devoted to passengers. If 1t proves 6 success Tacoma people will place num- ber of similar craft on Puget sound.
 Edmund Yates figures up the gain to the coffers of the Vatican ss the pecuniary re- suit of the Pope's jubilee at $1 ,250, 900.
 not to mention the jewels, plate and other valuable articles, which are estimated to
 be worth nearly $1, ,0O0, ,00O. The Duke of Norfolk heads the list of donors with an offering of $250, ,00o, and next comes the Emperor Francis Joseph with $40, 900. The archbishop of Prague and primate of Hun gary give $2o, 900 each, as they can afford very we'll to do, considering that each pre- late has revenue of over s2O0. 900 ayear. The Bohemian territorial magnates sent s6O, 900, while the nobility of Rome and the convents and monssteries made up $1oO, 900, and sso,000 came from South America.
 Watches were made in Geneva as early as 150O, and now that watchmaking has
 become @ national industry in SWitzsr-
 land, schools for the perfection of this profession have been established there.
 The principal one of these Is L'Ecole Mu- nicipale d'Horlogeric, in Geneva. A boy enters this school at the age of fourteen | and works ten hours for eleven months.
 Seven hours out of every week, however. are given to various studies. The second class requires stay of five or six months: | the third, six or seven months; the fourth, six months; the ffth-when the work is growing very complicsted-eight months; the sixth, thirteen months, and the seventh and last class about one year. making about five years in all. At the end of five years each boy has made twelve watches,
 which are his own property.
 A very strange case of bigamy is report
 ed from Pittsburg; that of young man
 marrying his mother, or rather the woman
 who had adopted him when boy, then he deserting her and coming to this country
 and marrying a younger woman, and she following him and after years of search
 finding him. Itappears that she, when S5
 years of age, took little boy then 10 years
 old, to raise. She became very fond of
 him, and he of her, and this fondness later
 developed into love. In 1882, when the
 boy was 19 years of sge and she A, they
 were married. They lived happily togethe, for two years, then trouble came and he
 ran away, coming to this country; they
 were living in @ little Russian village on
 the Caspian sea The mother wife followed
 him and her constancy has just been Ill
 rewarded by finding him, as stated, mar
 ried to Q younger woman. She has had
 him arrested and he is now in jail. She
 wants him, she says, not for the sake oi
 money, but wants his affections and love
 restored to her.
 | A curious decision affecting the right
 of theatrical managers and agents 1T
 France has just been given by the court
 in Paris. Nile. Felicia Mallet made an ar
 rangement with a manager, N. Thsuret
 to allow him ten per csnt. of her salar!
 on condition that he secured her an en
 gagement at the Casino de Paris. He diS
 succeed in concluding an engagement fo
 her of nine months at 15,000 francs month. She was 80 grateful that sh signed the contract immediately and gav
 M. Theuret 5000 france; but she after
 wards came to the opinion that her orig
 inal arrangement was excessively unfair t
 bsrself, and began to withhold some o the money. He retorted by suing her fo
 4,500 francs; but the court rejected th plea, and even made him refund 400 francs of what he had already received The decision was to the effect that he success wss by no means entirely due
 Mir. Thsuret's activity on her behalf, ths
 her reputation formed the greatest elemsr
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