Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-23
NEW HAVEN, CONN, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1893

oisseos IN hasnl, hlsnnan, Ialmuo- Ther'
is military training for the asylum cadets
The girls are trained In cooking, house
work, and nursing. The older boys ani
girls act as teachers for the younger, and
are found to be excellent disciplinarians
The private jewels of the Empress OF
Austria are said to be worth between 4, 900, }.
900 and 8, ,O00, 900 of gulden. Among them
is q magnificent necklace of pearls, pre-.
sented by the emperor after the birth OF
the Grown Prince Rudolph. The necklace
is valued at 800, 900 gulden. According to
Vienna paper the jewels of the Empress
of Russia alone of the crowned heads of
Europe can be compared in value to those
of the Empress Elizabeth. From time to
time she has given jewels to her daughters
and relations, but the collection Is still
almost unequAlled. These private jewels
the Empress can wear when she likes and
treat as she likes. They are her private
property. This is not the case, however,
with the Hapsburg family jewels. When
ever her majesty wears stones from that
collection, an entry Is made in the books
of the guards to that effect. The jewels
belong to the dynasty.
1t is little surprising to find q French
journal praising the Enslish conduct Of
affairs in Egypt, but the Figaro of Paris
recently printed long article which gives
what 1t calls ''the British tutelkge" credit
for the incontestable and notable progress
which Egypt has made. The people are
better of in every way, order is main
tanned throughout the country, the
finances of the kingdom are in excellent
shape, agriculture is being perfected and
extended, the crops never were 30 large
nor SO easily raised, and prosperity is e1-
tending over the whole land. The article
goes at length into a description of the
management of the departments of war,
finance and public works, and praises 1t
highly. 1t says that ''aots of injustice to
the advantage of Englishmsn are rare,
scandals are non-existent." 1t is further
argued that the French themselves have
largely profted by British occupation,
and that no people would lose SO much by
evacuation, unless 1t be the Egyptians
themselves. The Egyptians are not now
and may never be at for lf-government.
Their only safety is in the continuance Of
European control, and If any European
country is to remain in charge of Egypt
and the Egyptians 1t may as well be Eng
land as another.
1t Is said that the word roorback, which
bobs up toward the end of political CAM
psigns in connection with the mailing of
opposition lies, originated in this way:
Nathan Guilford, once a well known clti-
zen of Cincinnati, was an active whig pol
itician and editor of an energetic whig
paper. On April of certain year he
published circumstantial account of ex-
periments by German chemist named
Roorback. Roorback had been examining
the chemical constituents of eggs of differ
ent birds, supposing it might bs possible
at last to compound a hatohable egg. Ac-
cording TO the story, after putting many of
his manufactured eggs to the animal heat
of different patient mothers, he at last
happily succeeded in Matching one egg and
produced living bird. The story then
goes on to describe very minuteIy the
strange creature, anatomically, physiolog-
ica1ly, and every other way, initiating the
scientific style used in similar cases. The
story read very we'll and was copied into
many other papers, and sfter going the
rounds of the press In all parts of the
United States II was at last (sfter three or
four months) discovered to have been first
published on the let of April. The En-
quirer of that city Immediately fixed upon
Father Guilford the name of Roorback,
which was thereafter held to mean polit-
icsl liar, although the story had nothing to
do with politics. Being well stuck to, the
name became at last pretty well fixed, and
Mr.. G. was for many years well known in
the political field as Old Roorbsck.