Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-25
leave eeven-eighths of its valuable space
applicable for other PURPOSES.

applicable for other purposes.
Those who drink beer will be pleased to
know that some of the sdulterations found
in beer a:e oecculus indicus, capsicum,
ginger, quassia, wormwo d, calsmus root,
caraway and eorisnder seeds, coppsras. .sul-
phuric acid, cream of tartar, alum, carbon
ate of potash, ground oyster SHELLS, nux
vomica, picrotum and stryohnire.
Recent experiments by Professor Var
chauff of St. Petersburg show that every
irritation of the skin produces an electric
current which can be measured by the gal
vanometer. So does mechanical action and
mental effort. he ssys these currents
must pass off from the body, and, there
fore, new supply of electricity must be
produced. This entails drain on the sys-
tenn and is suggested by the expsrimenter
exertion.
A tran.lation of a Chinese recipe en-
graved on many teapots manufactured in
the celestial kingdom is as follows: "On a
slow fire set tripod. Fill 1t with clear
rainwater. Boil 1t as long as it would be
needed to turn fsh white and lobster red.
Throw this upon the delicate leaves of
choice tea Lst it remain as long as the
vspor rises in oloud. At your ease drink
tbs pure liquor, which will chase away the
five causes of trouble"
Tho 1ov,, foJ 7ck ohorpaI af
the many admirable traits of character for
which he was noted when he attended the
soldiers reunion at Minneapolis In 1888.
Instead of taking with him as an escort his
regular staff of blue and-gilt ornamental
officers he commissioned q number of Grip
pied veterans, some of them his old COM
rades-in- arms, az members of his staff, had
them accompany him on the trip, housed
them at first class hotel and paid all their
expenses.
The Baroness Burdett- -Coutts has en-
dowed not fewer than three Protestant
Episcopal bishoprics. They are those of
Cape Town, South Africa, Adelaide, South
Australia ard British Columbia. In sd
dition to this she has given $3.50, 900 to the
clergy of British Columbia, while $3.50, 900
was expended in the construction of st.
Stephens Church, Westminster, in mem
ory of her father. Three other metropoli-
tan churches were built by har, and yet
this is but small portion of the money
she has given to charity and benevolence.
Eight cars loaded with human hair ar
rived in Paris recently consigned to dealers
in that merchandise. The hair came from
India and China, whence thousands of
pounds are annually sent to England and
France. This traffic, foreign medical
journal saya, is the cause of the introduc-
ton of many diseases to Europe. The
hair Is cut from persons after death in
China, and although 1t Is disinfeeted upon
arrival in France, it often carries the germs
of disease. Asiatic hair, owing in part to
its coarseness, can be purchased ohesply,
1t selling often as low as a franc kilo-
gram. The hair of Europeans, however,
averages about 100 francs for the same
amount.
Herr Otto Ehlsrs, the famous German
traveller, who has spent much of his time
in tbs Dark Continent, recently had long
the Belg,ans regarding the tanning of ele-
plants in Africa. Herr Ehlers proposes
to introduce the Indian method of captur-
ing elephants into East Africa. and for
this purpose will take fifteen trained ele-
plants and 200 Indian elephant-catchers
to that country. The cost of the expert
ment is estimated at 100000 marks, or
about $4,000, which will bs furnished
chiefly by German rulers and cspitalists.
The King of the Bslgians will contribute
part of the sum, it is said, as he is
greatly interested in the plan The Ger
scheme, and hopes that it will prove of
great advantage, indirectly. to Germany.
Although the year 1900 ia still good way
off, and nothing has yet been decided even
about the site of the univeraai exposition
which 1t is proposed to hold then in Paris,
twenty seven plans for buildings have been
submitted and inventors are beginning to
announce to the world some of the marvels
and novelties they are preparing 1t is said
that, should the exhibition be held in the
Champ des Mars a large ironclad will be
placed in the Seine, and work has besn be-
gun upon the enormous telescope, which is
to make the moon appear quite close to the
earth. One inventor promises a fountain
which will play quicksilver instead OF wa
ter, another pledges himself to provide
nsvigsble balloons made of aluminium.
Among other wonders are bronzs bell
weighing 200 tons, "timer of history"
whatever that may be, 300 feet in diameter
and 900 feet high, platform third of a
mile in diameter supported on 10 pillars at
height of 800 feet, and other similar
schemes of more visionary character.