Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-23
NEW HAVEN, CONN. MORNING. DECEMBER

France. 1t will contain their names and
portraits. and copies will be sent to police
agents in various parts of France and other
countries.
The brilliant triumph of Miss Dorothea
Klumpke of San Francisco, in passing sue
cessfully the examination of the Paris
Academy of Sciences for the degree of doc
tor of mathematics deals another blow to
the notion that the feminine brain is un-
able to cope with obstruse scientific prob
lens. Miss Klumpke enjoys the distinc.
ton Of being the first woman who ever
won this honor in France.
Boston recently Georgs W. Childs said
that there wss never any jealousy between
Grant and Sherman, though there have
been reports that such jealousy did
exist, and related Grants criticism of
Kaufmann's painting, the "March to the
Sea-" which hangs in the hall of the edi-
tors house at Long Branch. In the pio-
ture Sherman is represented seated before
his tent devoid of coat and vest, but clad
in fine white shirt. Grants first remark
when he saw the painting was: "It's ex-
cellent and looks just like Sherman, but
never saw him with boiled shirt on"
Word has been semitic the courts of
Europe that the Shah of Persia intends to
visit Berlin, st. Petersburg, Paris and Vi
emma next spring. He will start on his
journey in May or June, and will remain
in Europe several months. The rulers
whom he ia to honor are in an unhappy
state of mind already on account of the
proposed visit. No living sovereign, in all
probability, 10 q more unwelcome guest
than the Shah, but his cousins in Europe
are obliged to receive him with all the
honors due to bis rank. Entertaining him
is more expensive than entertaining any
other monarch. His retinue is almost q
legion.
NJ. Gsult, writing In the Revue Scientif-
cupstion of the district embraced by the
valleys of the Syr Daria and the Zarafshsn,
have given a very great development to
the cultivation of cotton, and have ~in-
troduced several American varieties of the
plant, notably the upland. At first the
natives were 80 prejudiced against the new
plants that the experiments failed, but the
Russians perseverea, and, whereas nine
years ago Turksstan produced only $500
pools of cotton worth 1896 rublss. the
quantity exported in 1890 was about g.
OOO, 900 pools, of an estimated value of 49,
000, 600 rubles.
About thirty years ago, during the
troublous war times, Mrs. J. K. Henry of
Greenville, Alabama, buried all her jewel
~ in box in tbs garden of her house at
that place. After the war was over she
tried to recover hsr treasure, but had for
gotten the exact place where she had hid
den it, and though every foot of the gar
den was carefully dug over the box could
not be found She concluded thieves had
stolen it. The property changed hands,
and in time Mrs. Henry ceased to think of
were laying new walks 10 the old garden
and unearthed the box of jewels. Mrs
Henry was notified, and after she proved
that it was her property by furnishing an
exact list of the contents of the box, the
treasure was turned over to her intact.
An Odessa correspondent says that the
Russian orthodox missionaries have SO
failed in their proselytizing efforts among
the Khirgese that the missions will prob
ably be shortly withdrawn. Nearly the
whole of the Steppe tribes, generally de-
scribed as 'heathens," are now adopting,
almost en- mssse, the Mohammedan faith,
which is spread among them chiefly by
Tartar teachers. The Mohammedan Tar
tars have always enjoyed the right of free
prosely tism among the natives of the Kir
ghese Sseppes. According to a report
just issued by the All-Russian Orthodox
Missions Society, during the last twenty
FIVE years It's missionaries have made s5,-
900 converts among the heathens of
Aeiatic and Europssn Russia and Japan.
The cost of these missions during the
quarter of century amount to 3,l46, ,763
rublss.
The idea of appropriating public money
for the support of schools in which Juda-
ism shall be taught is repudiated by the
Jewish Messenger of New York. 1t says:
"Our public school system is good enough
for all sects-infnitely better than If re-
ligion were made the test of trustees and
teachers, and especially If sectarian schools
are to be eostered at the public coet." The
same paper says further: "The Jew, who
probably has more just reason for COM
plant than his non jewish neighbor, pre-
fers the system as 1t is to the introduction
of any religious features. He does not
loudly object to having his child listen to
the Lords prayer, and New Testament
readings, and church hymns. But he
would bs the last to have a rabbi cross the
school threshold or bs active In bringing
the tains of sectsrisnism within the sphere
of public education"