Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-13

alive for exhibition at Chicago seemed at first rather puzzling. It has bean solved by evaporsting salt water and sending the residuum to Chicago where fresh water is added and good reproduction of sea WA ter obtained It has, however, to be pumped over and over to keep 1t in proper condition and metal pumps wuold be cor roded and would eontsmins.s the water
 This difficulty has been met by making special pumps in which all tLs exposed parts are of hard rubber, and entire success is considered assured.
 Famous RusE.n physicians, according ,o St. Petersburg papers, have little trouhle in becoming wealthy. Professor G. A. Sachariin, one of the greatest doctors of the Empire, living in Moscow, wss recently called to visit Mime. Tersschtschenko, wife of rich landed proprietor in the Skwira District. In addition 10 all expenses, he received about s7, 900 for his advice and aid. An assistant, who accompanied his chief, left the country place the richer by Sl,OOO. M. Ter sschtschenko, however, VII not mise the money. He hired snsusai train later to get the medIoin.s ordered bv the professor In KieE.
 A~ay go the old theories 4 German Investigator sads that the most unluoky ! day of the week, so far as accidents to
 human beings sre concerned, is not Friday.
 but Monday; l6 7i per cent of all scci-
 dens occur ou Mondays; .5l per cent.
 on Tuesdays, l6 3l per cent on wednes- days, l5 47 per cent. on Thursdays, l6. ss per cent. on Fridays, the same per cent. on Saturdays, and 2.69 per cent. on Sun days. From these figures it rot only 3D. pears that Friday Is not the uuluckiest day in this r-gsrd, but that one isy is pretty much As another. The 'lucky" character of Sunday is explained by the fact of little or no work being done thst day. of you could stand on the moon, |" says an astronomer, ''the earth would appear to you to be sixty four times larger than the sun appears to the residents of this mundane sphere; this because the earth has eight times the diameter of the moon, therefore she must show the moonites | sixty four times much surface as the | moon shows us- The sun, on the other | hand. would appear DO larger 10 you from your observatory on ths moon than it does | from our globe The esrth's atmosphere being blue it has been decided that the earth must appear ss blue ball to all out side onlookers What 8 glorious sight 1t must be to our lunarian neighbors to look upon bright blue, swift revolving ball | sixty, four times larger than the sunI"
 notable point touching international ethics in times of war is raised by & de | msnd just made on the Italian government | by the municipal council of Venice for the Il restitution of some six thousand pictures, which the council declares were stolen | from Venice during the Nspoleonic wars and scattered over Europe. The national | government is ssked to resort to dIplo. | mstio measures, and to request foreign | powers who now possess the art booty to | disgorge. A demand is slso msde that wig | orous representations b. made to Austria, | calling on that nation to restore the 1S5 pictures which tine Emperor Ferdinand car ried oH to Vienna iu 1888 If the powers get to considering this point seriously and | and conscientiously, it msy result in gen ersl disarmament
 real old English bauqueting hall is | one of the sights which visitors to the | Columbian exhibition will be privileged to | witness The room is a part of Hatfield | House, the historic home of the Cecils. | A clever brain has conceived the idea of | reproducing this noble apartment. in 6 | slightly reduced form. But the besud- | fully carved oak panels aud ceiling, even to the woods rich tone. have been care. fully copied, the black aud white marble floor simulated, the coat-of srms sculpt- ured, fac-simile chairs and other furnish ings of the Eliz.bethan period prepared, ana, in fact, all details of the impressive | interior will be shown in their artistic | entirety. The great mannf-cturer.' build | ing will contain this msgic specimen of | old world history and architecture