Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-14

A pastor down south has resigned be- | cause there were too many women in his
 church who tried to run things. Foolish
 man. What did he expeota
 Dr. 0. O. Probst, secretary of the Ohio state board of health, asked the co-opera- ton of the clergy in abolishing the use of
 the same cup in the administration of the Lords supper. He gays that the common
 use of cup furnishes the most certain
 and dangerous methods of transmitting
 disease.
 The managers of the worlds fair don't
 mean that visitors to the show shall be rob
 bed in any but 8 strictly legitimate way.
 They have engaged corps of the shrewd- est detectives of this country and Europe
 to care for the thieves and confidence men
 who are expected to visit Chicago in swarns this summer.
 They are after "fads" in public school instruction in Chicago. The fsds are the teaching of German, drawing, music, phys ical culture, etc., in the primary and gram mar grades, and this is what, 1t is contend ed, the public schools are not established for. Nearly one-half of the time and s1- pense of the schools now go to the fadr, and "the costly humbug" must be stopped, say the Tribune, Post, Herald and News.
 reproduction in salt of the Goddess of Liberty on Bedlov's Island is being sculpt- ured at the cf1ices of the Salt Union in Winsfo,d, England, for exhibition at the Chicago Fair. The statue itself Is 5 feet 6 inches high, and it will stand on base 7 feet in height It will be carved out of solid white salt, and the sub. base will be rocks of the island. The base will be highly ornamented with mouldings, panels and inscriptions.
 Ina New York family three children were afflicted with whooping cough. They coughsd and coughed and coughed, and the family parrot took it into his head to initiate them. When any one of the chill dren coughed he would accompany it with a coughing paroxysm 50 natural that 1t was impossible to tell whether 1t was one of the children or the parrot that was cough ing. The bird seemed to enjoy having the whooping cough, and after a while he clamored for medicine whenever he saw it was being administered to the children.
 It is proposed in England to copy the American patriotic practice of honoring the national flag in the public schools. The Earl of Meath asked the London School board the other week to put pa triotism on the list of subjects, and offered to subscribe es0 for the purchase of union jacks to be hung in the Board schools and honored, say once month, by some formal ceremony. The board will con- sider the proposition. In speaking of the matter the newspapers generally refer to the precedent offered in our practice here.
 It has occurred to the long headed, pub citizens of Pennsylvania that the time has come to devise measures for the preservation of the forests of that state. they have procured the intro duc:ion of bill in the legislature which provides for the appointment of a forestry com mission whose duty it shall bs "to ex- anime and report on the condition of the slopes and summits of the state and the presence or absence of forests thereon, for the purpose of determining the influence on the state of water in the rivers. the amount of timber remaining standing and how the supply can be increased and main tained,"
 In order to show that women are not idle creatures Washington woman gives the following record of her work for year: Number of lunches put up, 1,157; meals ordered, 963; desserts made, 172; lamps clI-l 900. lxza4ad 0 osO. 4ix,ns