Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-15

to Samuel Rogers by Prince Albert, and
 the banker poet in declining 1t, because of
 age, recommended Tennyson for the place,
 The prime minister wrote in reply: "Ws
 are not acquainted with ths works of this
 gentleman, and will you be good enough
 to let me know whether he has ever writ
 ten anything which would make it i'm proper for 8 woman to name him for tbis
 postF MT. Hale says that this story is ss
 true as it Is funny, for he saw the original
 correspondence with his own eyes,
 | Speaking of the campaign which the free
 silver people have already begun to wage
 against the repeal of the Sherman law, the St. Paul Pioneer Press says, Any one who ignores this movement or underestimstes
 the forcs of 1t is singularly shortsightsd.
 It can be defeated of that we have not the slightest doubt. But this can be done only by keeping at active work all the forces
 that have lately been used for the rescue
 of the nation from the woes that the rob, Der silver barons have brought upon 1t I Every representative in congress, eve5 | | feel that the eyes of his oonstitue,es are
 upon him, and that the threats ap bland | ishments of the silver m:s. ay at least
 matched by a vigilance on ie side of
 honest money that will not ofget to bs-
 stow rewards and punishmeSs where they l shall have been earned
 The habit of bicyolis does not find
 much fsvor in the eyetof the authorities of St. Petersburg, andthe wheelmen are restricted to the us of certain streets, most of which ar,so badly paved that it is almost impossi,e for anybody to ride through them. { Is expressly stipulated, moreover, that person under the age of eighteen shallepjoy the privilege of oy- cling, and the no very high machines shall be allowed the streets. Another order provides ttt after dark-that is to say, after the lmps are lghted-no cycles of any scrt hall ba permitted. In all, there ara neary a score Of rules and regulations for tts guidance of votsries of the wheel, ops of the most amusing being numoer eight on the list, which presoribes what they uuSE uO III tu6 6VcuE Ol tuOiI 11lSug- | ening horses. They are told, under such to oa!smount and try to con- oeal thelr maonaAes aad themselves. In spite of all this official e.pity 1t is said that the number of wheslmen and wheel. women Is constantly increasing.
 MT. John Geddes of Sydney, New SourA Wales, has been visiting Berlin, at the ex- pense of the government of the colony, trying to introduce frozen bsef and nut ton from Australia. One of his objects was to induce the Commissariat department of the German army to order supplies for provisioning the army. The French au- torities have already given orders with the view of trying the feasibility of the plan upon a considerable scale, The importa- tion of frozen meat from Australia for the army would, 1t Is argued, greatly re- lieve German taxpayers, ss there would be a saving of about 2d. or 3l. per pound. It is claimed that if Paris and Metz had been provided with refrigerstors in 1s70-71, the latter town could have held out for at least year. Refrigerators and every device for keeping meat are now found in all the chief French fortrssses and cities. It Is understood that the German War depart ment is. willing to entertain any practical proposal laid bsfore it, but, of course, any --i-~---->1 aLi~ Lind --tn Iroita the 1ivaliaat opposition among the German cattle and sheep men. If the Australians carry their point, it will not be long before they will be supplying the Germans with many other things basides meat