Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-29

tends the funerals of all prominent per-
sons and takes down verbatim the sd-
dresses of the officiating olergymen. He
| prepares highly ornamented copies of these
and sells them to the friends of the eulo-
| gized dead. He is doing rearing bust
| ness.
A good advertisements has been hit upon
by French tea merchant. A real live
prince has been engaged at a good salary
to attend the counter and dispense pack
sgss of pure tea at high price to people
who worship anyone who has title. The
thrifty tea dealer has built up lucrative
trade by this great stroke of enterprise.
DR.. Cyrus Edison of the New York board
of health has resolved to try the effect of
red light on smallpox. An experiment has
been tried with success in Norway of ad-
mitting all light in q smallpox hospital
through red curtains. The modified light,
is is said, has the effect of drying up the
eruptions on the skin, preventing the
dreaded pitting, and all the cases were
quickly cured.
You have to 60 away from home to get
the news. For instance, the Chicago Her
aid says: Rsttlesuake hunting is q pro-
fession in Connecticut. The snake hunters
60 armed with a staff from six to eight
feet long, into the end of which is eet q
sharp steel blade eight inches long. By 3
dsxterous swish of his lance the hunter
sewers the snakes head and the game is
bis. If a rattler persists in running away
when surprised by a hunter the latter
knows that 1t is not one that carries eggs
and he let's it 60.
A dispute over a Belgian estate among
disgruntled benefciaries has resulted in
curious disaster for the disputsuts. A
year ago a widow died, leaving an estate
worth ever six and half million francs.
The Immediate relatives to whom It was
left disputed over the spoils, and suit was
instituted in tho Brussels courts to settle
their various claims. The case attracted
wide attention, and at the trial it was
proved that more than 8, 500 persons were
related to the teststrix, and relatives even
twelve degrees removed were a5judged er-
titled to some of the fortune.
The intelligent composisor has cropped
out in England. His victim was writer for
the Womsn's Herald, who chose to express
a certain idea by means of an algebr aio for
muls, thus: eff there are only situations,
for them, then what Is to become of the
y men who will b. put out If the young
women are put inf' The Intelligent COM
positor" aforesaid had never heard of such |
a thing as algebra, apparently; at all events |
he went ahead In accordance with his own
judgment, and when the proof reached the |
author IL read as follows: 'If there are on
ly Christlsn situations, and Christian men
together with young women compete for |
them, then what is to become of the young
Ken who will be put out if the young
women are put iur
1t 10 said that a shoemaker, Kavai Kow- /
ates, who, in 1923, lived at Pesth, the capt.
tai of Hungary, smoked the frat meer-
schsum pipe. Besides being q shoemaker,
however, he was one of natures hsndi-
craftsmen, being gifted with an intuitive
genius for carving in wood and other ma
terial. THIS brought him in contact with |
Count Andrsssy, with whom he became q |
great fsvorits. The count, on his return |
from a mission to Turkey, brought with |
him a piece of whitish clay, which had
been presented to him as curiosity on ac-
count of Its extraordinarily light specific |
gravity. 1t struck the shoemaker that.
being porous, 1t must be well adapted for |
pipes, as It would absorb the nicotine. The |
experiment was tried and Ksvol cut pipe |
for the count and one for himself. The |
first meerschaum pipe. made and smoked
by Ksvol Kowases, has been preserved in
the mussum at Pesth.