Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-14


 open in these days for shelter for the poor are just as well used as when they opened only on Sundays.
 Bank failures in China are not numer- ous. In China when a bank fails, all the clerks and managers have their heads chopped of and thrown in @ heap along with the books of the firm.
 In India certain regiments with 6,510 men were placed under observation. They were divided into free drinkers, moderate drinkers and sbstsiners. It was found that the deaths of the former were A per 900; of the moderate drinkers, 23 per 1000, and of the abstainers only II per 1000.
 The man who put his umbrella to bed and stood himself up in the corner of his room was absent minded. So Is man who lives in Vernon, Texas. One day re- gently he was hurrying with a big package, which he wished to express, and, seeing that he could not get to the depot in time, laid down the package so that he could run faster, and, after hard run, reached the train, but was surprised that he did not have the package.
 Is limited contract of marriage good in lawf Is 8 question likely to be before the courts of California before long. A couple in that state entered into 8 contract some time ago to bear to each other the relation of husband and wife for six months. A week ago the same couple appeared before Q notary and made @ rew contasct "to be married for a period of six months" long CT. They claim to be acting under the advice of competent lawyers, who advise them that ss marriage is @ civil contract, all the legal principles applicable to civil contracts apply to marriage also. Other lawyers advise to the contrary, and the courts are to be appealed to to decide the point.
 The death in England recently of several surgeons and physicians from diphtheris, contracted during the examination of pa- tients. has directed public attention very forcibly to the risks run by medical men in the performance of their professional duty. Discussion of the matter has elioited the sensible suggestion from a re- tired surgeon that doctors ought to adopt the simple precaution of tying handker- chief over their mouths and nostrils. He l says: In this way, without in the least inconveniencing the patient or myself, l entirely escaped infection from diphtheria, and by inducing the medical men with whom consulted to adopt the game plan l often had the satisfaction of seeing them also saved from infection.
 At Easton, says the Philadelphia Record, road runs alongside the Lshigh tracks, and slightly higher. On this road strikers and their friende have been in the habit of | gathering to boot at and deride the men who stuck by the company. As an en- gineer was passing in his cab the other ! morning he was greeted with the usus, ory of "scab," misses, hoots and other little evidences of the feelings of the crowd. Slowing down his engine, he said quietly | to the men and women, who were 90 close that he could almost touch them with his hand: s'That's all right; say whatever you please. buried my wife two weeks ago, and have two little children at home. II am going to work for those little ones That man has passed up and down there frequently since then, but nobody has made | any further efforts to annoy him.
 A case on trial before Judge George R Sage in the United States district court for the southern district of Ohio involved the validity of deed executed seventy Ave years ago. The deed was for l, 500 acres of valuable farming land, and for some req son-perhaps because there were joint owners-required the signatures of five persons. The paper was yellow with age, and all the writing was dim though legible except as to one name. There were four signatures, but no trace of fifth, though there was an apparent blank space where 1t might have stood. None of the micro scopes in common use by experts disclosed 8 line of any signature where 1t should have appeared. Under these oircum- stances the aid of photography was in- voked. The photographic copy was taken with the greatest care by an expert artist. It was then enlarged ten times, when the missing signature became visible. The minute scattering stains of the ink, which had faded so ss to be invisible by ordi- nary methods, were perceptible and as- eumed regular order on the enlarged pho tograph, establishing the validity of the dead