The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-17

them was 1000, and they lost q, ,395, 423.
 A Scotch minister made the other fay the following announcement from his pulpit: "Weel, friends, the kirk is urgently in need of silver and as we have failed to get money honestly we will have to see what a bazar can do do for us."
 Methodists throughout Great Britain were surprised to hear that the Central church, Hastings, elected Miss Dawson of Redhill as district representative to the forthcoming Wesleyan conference at Birmingham. Hitherto no lady was allowed to enter the Wesleyan confer ence, and whether this will now be per nitted remains to be seen.
 The most recent important event at Windsor was Queen VictoIia's new hat. Rumors of it's magnifcence had preced- cd her majesty's appearance at the castle. The rumors were correct. The august head of the church and state roofed in new hat, youthful in shape and fashionable in style, and quite cov- cred with ostrich plumes in addition to large white ribbon bow.
 The biggest book in the world will be the catalogue of the British museum. It has been in preparation for thirteen years, but now the gigantic task of com pilation is nearing completion. Some Idea of its size can be guessed from the fact that 400, 900 distinct titles and en- tries have been printed ill all sorts of languages, and presenting no end of difficulties, even to the savants and linguists employed on the work.
 By way of experiment. Liszt's four teenth rhapsody was recently played at the Brussels conservatory by band of seventeen clarinets. The clarinets were of every kind from the highest in E to the new "pedal clarinet.'' which goes as low as the deepest tone of double bass. The effect of the performance is said to have been both strange and fascinating, and it is thought that the tone color ob- tained in some passages will be of great interest to bandmasters.
 t.Snaoia1 arrs for inyo1idS'' is the an, nouncement made on a New York sign. The prices of such eggs reach sixty cents per dozen in winter, and seldom fall below thirty-tive cents. The lan- guage of the trade fails to find verbal formula in which to convey the state of absolute freshness in which such eggs are guaranteed to be, but an assurance, much in the nature of a certificate, goes with each egg, and is to the effect that none of them is over forty-eight hours old. Special eggs for well people are needed.
 They painted with hose ill the decora- tion of the Columbian exposition build ings at Chicago, and now there is invent ed an air pump for sweeping with hose, likewise in Chicago. It is as simple as possible. Compressed air is forced through hose and nozzle identical with those used for water. and although only cars are now cleaned by it, there can be no question that it will speedily be ap- piled to hotels and other large build ings. A great argument, besides the labor saving, is that it cleans the cor ners as no broom will do. Nothing is said about the dust it raises.
 A letter from special correspondent of inc London Times gives very un. favorable account of the economic con. ditior of Argentina. He gives figures inces of which the Argentine republic is made up, there is one, and one only, in position of financial soundness. The rest, he says, are burdened with debts recklessly incurred, and out of all pro- portion to the revenues available fo1 discharging them. One, indeed, of the thirteen defaulters, he believes, could pay what it owes in full. But as this would involve some slight effort, either in the direction of retrenchment of cur. rent expenses or of an increase of taxa tion, the thing is not done, and the, con. tributions to the provincial debt, though still maintained, has been consider ably reduced in amount. The others pay nothing, forthey have no surplus incomes from which payment could be made. The outlook, moreover, which has been dark al the best of times, is now, he declares more than ever obscured. The fall o1 >.,