The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-04
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 There are times this summer when this hot weather ceases to be attrac- tive, as for instance. after running two blocks to catch a train and finding the train and picnic party gone.
 The Boston Herald aptly remarks: "General Longstreet seems to think he is entitled to an increase of his Mexi- can war pension, We suppose he is willing to let what has happened in the meantime be bygones.
 The sugar question may yet be set tied. Then the democratic congress may see fit soon to get through and TO home to see what their constituents think about the way they have be- haved. The fall elections are coming.
 The death penalty for Carrots mur- derer has been pronounced after due process of law. Meanwhile the great European nations are bestirring them selves in grappling with the question how to repress these human fiends whose deeds make world shudder.
 A strenuous diplomatic effort is being put forth to keep the British lion and the Russian bear from getting "riled up" over the Corean matter Mean while the Japs have hurried up and delared war and may get their work in so quickly, regarding their big rival as to render futile any attempt at concilation or arbitration.
 The Manchester, N. H., Union thinks China must have a heavy navy: 1t sinks so easily. The Philadelphia Led ger says: Japan is rather late about it, but has at last declared war against China. It is apparently to be war like that between Peixoto and the insur- gents in Brazil. Japan will fight at sea, if possible, and China on land.
 Margaret Long is a young Irish lady who has just received the medal of the Royal Humane society for distinguished bravery. When skating on a lake last winter a barrister broke through into deep water. Miss Long skated to the spot and, lying on the rapidly breaking Ice, threw the end of her mantle to the drowning man, and supported him thus until aid came.
 The Empress Elizabeth of Austria possesses a collection of jewels proba- ply surpassed alone by that of the En- press of Russia. Besides the family gems, which are passed on from one em- press to the next, the empress possesses . collection of jewels which have been presented to her by the emperor and foreign princes, valued at 100000 or t.0OO,0O0 marks.
 Jose-Marie de Heredia, the recently elected member of the French academy, is a Cuban by birth. He is of the bluest blood of the Spanish colonial aristoc- racy, and traces his ancestry direct from one of the first conQuorers of the new world, from one of the compan- ions of Cortez. On his mothers side, however. he is of French origin. His first verses were published in 1862 in the Paris Review.
 Rev. John Gay Copleston, formerly rector of Offwell, near Honiton, Eng land, died recently in the ninety third year of his age. He was one of the last of the "Oriel set," who were so famous In Oxford in the days of Newman, Hawkins, Whately and Pusey He held . high position in his own country, as head of a family of whom the tradition o& the west country people say:
 Cruwys and Croker and Coplestone,
 When the Conqueror came were all at home
 Herr Krupp.the great gun founder, has commissioned a Munich sculptor to model a statue cf tks Chinese vSosroy, Li-Hung Tschang. which he means to present when completed to the Asiatic diplomiss as & token os re- spsct for the pains taken by him to introduce European ordnance into the Chinese army and navy. u perhaps dessnt care now if Japan gets those guns for souvenirs. his royal nibs, the young emperor, having deposed him from office. according to yesterdays teisSraphic reports.
 Many people will be surprised to hear that . great number of professiona, athletes look upon cold bath, without the aid of towels, as their principal aid ta health. Ths method ts ta take . < ;.sI