Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-06

disease and are pleading before the Board
of Health that 1t move slowly in officially
declaring 1t to be such, as recently ssked
by the Philadelphia County Medical 80
ciety. Prof. James Tyson of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania said before the board
that the rule would place the consumptive
under the ban for long period, while the
run their course. and DIR. Thomas q. Mays
said that In a practice of twenty years he
has not seen case of infection by the dis
ease. Other physicians said their ex-
periencs had been similar to DIR. Mays.
Pater Mortara breaches at present In Vi
emma and resides In the Dominican convent
there. It will be recalled that he was once
the subject of general European agitation.
He was born of Hebrew parents in Bologna
In 1866. In 1853 the Catholic nursemsid
of the family announced to the pspsl gov
ernment that, when expecting the death of
the infant by a severe illness. she had ad-
ministered the baptism of necessity. The
government of Plus TX. thereupon claimed
the child and forcibly removed 1t. 1t was
raised In q convent, and the boy, after
proper studies, became Q priest. Both Ns-
poleon III. and Lord Palmerston intervened
in vain with the Pope. AS Italy became
and now p professorship at a seminary
somewhere In Austria is intended for him.
The prince bishop of Brixen is his spiritual
guardian.
What natural wool" Is has been revealed
by lawsuit in Le!csstershire, brought by
the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce
sgainst a respectable hosiery manufacturer
of Atty years standing, who, 1t was charged,
had with intent to defraud, falsely de-
scribed certain items of feminine under
clothing. The goods, which were marked
natural WOOL" turned out to be half cot
ton. A London maker called for the de-
fence testified that high priced articles
were known as call wool" and moderate
priced goods were described as natural
wool" and understood to contain cotton.
1t was said that the Leicester manufacturer
had simply used the terms as employed by
other firms for years. The court decided,
however, that the designation in question
was false trade description under the
Merchandise MARIE act, and the defendant
was fined FIVE pounds with costs.
Time enough has now elapsed since ply
steal training became part of the curri-
culum of the public schools of Boston to
warrant a conclusion about the results.
In 1890 the Eedish educational system of
gymnastics was introduced, and since
then the pupils have been compelled to go
through certain exercises every day. AT
the opening in September of the present
school year comparisons were made be-
tween the bearing and physique of the
three years ago. 1t was the unanimous
opinion of the teachers that their charges
had become much more graceful In car
riage, stronger and more robust. In the
high school there has never before been q
brighter and healthier lot of boys. The
system In vogue is thorough. Each
teacher receives lesson in the exercises
every two weeks, and the scholars de-
vote fifteen minutes q day to ''physical
culture"
The unspeskable Turk is again In evil
dsrce It Is said that foreign smbsssa-
dors to Turkey recently complained to the
sublime porte that the prisons Of Constan-
tinople were overorowded with political
prisoners from Armenia. The government
decided to remove the cause of the com
plant and shipped 800 of the prisoners on
board a man-of-war for transportation to
Africa. The vessel was only gone a very
short time, however, and Ii was mystery
what had become of the prisoners until
Russian merchant weasel in the harbor Of
Constantinopls, while raising her anchor
a few days since, brought up with 1t ft-
teen hair-cloth sacks, such as are ueed by
Turkish merchants for packing goods for
shipment. At first the Russian thought
that he had found traces of smugglers. but
when he came to examine the sacks be
found that they were filed with human
bodies, eighteen or twenty In sack. The
bodies were a,csrtsined to be those Of
Armenians 1t ia said that the grand viz
ier said not long ago that he would settle
the Armenian question by annihilsting the
Armenians, and he is thought to be In
fair way to ful6ll his threat. The matter
has been reported to Russia, as It lie
thought that come of the murdered Arme-
mans were Russian subjects.