Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-16

convenient form. Then the ktesing of tn
 book is . very nasty thing. I have hsart
 of persons catching dissass in thatw
 Roman Catholicism is spreading rapidl.
 in the three Scandinavian kingdoms, whioi
 have been regarded ever since the days o
 King Gustavus of Sweden as the strong hold of Protestantism. So great Is thu number of proselytss that the vatican hsi just placed Denmark, Sweden and Norway
 under the pastoral care of three bishops. It Is sometimes convenient to have q twin brother. Edward Zsnoni, when ar. raigned in a Cincinnati court the othel day for stealing lumber, protested his in nocsnce, but was positively identified by several witnesses. Zanoni still said that he was innocent, and suggested that may be his twin brother was the guilty man. The brother was brought into court, the witnesses owned up that they could moi tell which was which, though it was surely one of them, and the case was thrown out.
 
 Riverside, the great California fruit cen ter. Last year the shipments of oranges from there amounted to over 2,700 car loads, and this year 1t is estimated there will be over 5000 car loads. There are now S,500 acres of bearing orange and lemon orchards in Riverside, with an as- sessed valuation of $s.0O0. 900 and an &C., tual valuation of SIS, ,000, 900. The raisin crop of last year is estimated at 225 car loads. The new county of Riverside ex- tends forty miles from north to south and 1S0 miles from east to west.
 There Is good news about gold from South Africa. The supply is said to be in- exhaus'ible and the opportunities for min ing it are favorable. It is estimated that the total value of the gold extracted from South Africa during the year 1893 was not far from 100000 During the present year 1t is estimated that 1t will be twice as much, and this immense amount of the precious ore added to the stock already ex- istipg will 90 far to destroy the fear that the precious metal will be in the near fu- ture unequal to the demands upon 1t In industries and as money. The gold fields are situated in the territory of the South African republic, and are said to be among the richest mines ever discovered.
 Mrs. Lease of Kan.as has been talking about hsrself. She is the daughter of an Irish patriot who fled to this country with . price on his head. She grew up in Pennsylvania, taught school there . while, went to Kansas in search of better wages, met Druggist Lease and married him. He sold his drug store and went to farming in western Kansas, out on the lonesome prairie. "It was an awful nfe," she says. Then they moved into Wichita, where she studied law, was admitted to the bar, and acquired that facility in public speech which now distinguishes her. The first man she ever downed in public argument outside the court room was Terrence V. Powderly. His discomfture occurred at the 'slabor confersncs' at Kansas City in 1888.
 It is related that when Joseph Jefferson was-playing "Rip Van Wrinkle" at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, few weeks ago, he found among his mail one morning letter from Q furniture man. The epistle, which was written on g letter. head adorned with large cut of folding bed "closed" and "opened," read as fol lowe: "Mr. Jeferson-Sir: I saw you play Rip Van Winkls' last night, and I have proposition to make to you. When the curtain goes up on the third act, and you rise all stiff and sore after your long sleep, you might say few words something like this: 'Oh, how stiff I sml If I had only slept last night on one of Blanks patent folding beds, warranted safe, durable and comfortable, how much better would feel this morningl' I think 1t would bring down the house. Now, am willing to pay you we'll for this, of course. Let me know what you think of it." The owner of Blanks folding-bed has not yet heard from MT. Jefferson.
 Major William Downie, one of the most noted pioneers of '49, died in San Fran cisco hsrbor 6 few days ago under sin gularly pathetic circumstances. One of the features of the Midwinter fair ia '49 mining camp, in which are the identical cabins in which lived some of the most famous miners, now mostly millionaires, of those days, such as Macksy, Flood and O'Brien. Major Downie's cabin is promi- nent in the camp, and he was on his way from Victoria, B. O., on the steamer City of Puebla to occupy 1t during portion of the time that the fair is to be open. A committee went aboard to welcome the old miner, and while they were telling him of the grand old times that awaited him. and he was ecstatio over the pros pect of again meeting his old partners of pio nser times, an attack of heart failure, un. doubtedly brought on by emotion, came on and he fell over on the deck dead. In prize essay which was read before the Royal Statistical society in London the other evening, the author, Dr. Jones, main tained that, contrary to the general belief there Is no connection between the number of deaths of infants from neglect and tn, system of child insurance He admitted that this system is very general among th' industrial classes in urban districts; bu
 he held, and the president of the socisty
 MT. Charles Booth, an eminent authority
 agreed with him, that the causes to whici
 the excessive martality should be attributed