Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-24

that city, which he hopes will rival the
 Eiffel tower and the Ferris wheel. It Is colossal statue of Justice, 150 feet high, supporting an immense pair of scales, the extremities of which are CATS holding nifty
 people each., The beam is a truss 300 feet
 long. osoillating like walkingbsam, thus
 lifting the cars to height of $50 feet.
 It is believed in Washington that Mir. Tsui, the Chinese minister, who has been recalled by his government, will dnd an unpleasant reception awaiting him on bic arrival in the flowery kingdom. There are hints of 'ssomething lingering, with boil ing oil in 1t" being on the program. MT. Tsui was mixed up with Count Mitkiewiez
 in that astute gentleman's scheme to secure all sorts of concessions from the Chinese government, and 1t is said that the very least he can expect is to have his heed chopped off without undergoing prelimin-
 sry torture.
 Some Kentuckians are little sensitive. The record of the lsat Kentucky legisla- ture wss go bad that in many counties no
 candidates for the next legislature have yet presented themselves. Of this state of things the Henderson, Kentucky, Cleaner Dem says: "The office Is below psr-no honor, no glory. The people take no in- terest, nor do they seem to care who Is elected, and until there is decided change in this respect we may expect to have the State represented by representatives of rings and combinations, with no wish or desire to benefit only those In whose inter est they are elected" Just imagine such 8 state of things in Connecticut.
 The old-time superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads toward the north is now believed to be based upon a scientific principle. Some French savsnts have made experiments upon the body of 8 crimnal who had suf- fered death, and these tests go to prove that each human body is in itself an cleo trio battery, one electrode being represent ed by the head and the other by the feet. The body of the subject upon which the queer experiments mentioned above were l made was taken immediately after death | and placed upon a pivotal board, free to move in any direction. After some little ! vaccilstion the head portion turned toward | the north and then remained stationary. | One of the experimenters took hold of the I pivot and turned 1t so that the head pointed | south, but upon being freed 1t almost I'm | mediately resumed the first named posi- | tion-turned until the head pointed north. | To prove that this was neither accident nol | coinoident upon muscular twitchiDg, a: ! some had suggested, the board was repeat | edly turned half around and then freed but always with similar results.
 | Habit will accustom one to almost any, thing, as is illustrated by the story of the
 man who was compelled as 6 punishment | to sleep on bed of Iron spikes for seven years and after that couldn't sleep on any
 other kind of bed. For twenty-five years | past William J. Coleman has lain upon his bed in San Francisco psralyzed in the
 lower extremities, and with no hope of
 ever regaining the power to walk. He has
 watched through the window the growth
 of the oity, and has read as he lay books almost without nuTaSaz. Hc .- cc-tented
 almost happy. and enjoys what he calls hii
 good health, and apparently has as great |
 fear of death as the ruggedest man wh'
 walks the city's streets. But 1t has no
 always been 50. At first, when he began
 to realIzs his hopeless condition, he longet to die. Before came to bed, |" he eaid t,
 a friend the other day, ''I lived an ac.iv'
 life and loved exercise and fresh air, so tn
 thought of illness and helplessness drov
 me nearly mad. Now 1t does not seem s'
 long looking back. The first years dragged
 terribly. The anxiety and restlessness ar
 all gone, and it has become natural to m
 to lie here without any thought of rising.