Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-14

| judge of the direction from which sound
 comes because 1t reaches one of the ears
 before 1t does the other; and, second, that | the other ear enables us to determine the
 direction in which the intensity of the sound perceived is maximum without turn ing the head.
 All kinds of songs cannot at all times be
 safely sung in all asssmbliss. At mis- esllaneous evening function in Chicago
 last week the hostess invited group of
 college students to sins. The old favorite
 'The King of the Cannibal Islands," was selected with the apparent approval of the company. But when the line, ."They dined on clergymen, cold and raw," was jocularly pealed forth one young woman rose and left the room, suffused in tears Her father had been 8 missionary, and was eaten by cannibals.
 Bertillon's method of identifying crimi- nals by means of elaborstemeasureme of their heads, arms and other features of their bodies has now been supplemented by Mr. Francis Cations system of reading the impressions of the finger tips. The merits of this system to consideration may be judged from its inventors assertion that if two finger prints are compared and are found to coincide exactly, it is practi- oally certain that thsy are prints of the same finger of the same person, because the chance of two finger prints being iden- tical is less than one in sixty-fou thousand millions.
 A Chicago court has held an employer responsible for injury inflicted by mis- ehisvous boy in his employ, and Mrs. Anna E Swinarton gets a judQment of $l0. .000 for the logs of an eye through hay ing pin licked at her by boy in store where she had gone to make some pur- chase. The courts decision holds that the defendant having put the boy upon his prem sss, in position to do injury, said defendant Is just as liable for any mischief the boy may do as for trap-door pItfsll or a dilspidated stairway. In fact, that the cause of an injury need not be an insRi. mate object in order to make the employer AuAy AooRoA5AbAo'
 Charles Booth, who has been making a special study of the relation of old age to pauperism in England finds about the same proportion O. paupers to the entire popu- lation over 65 throughout England that he found in London-that ia, about 30 per cent. of all the old people in Eugland are paupers, while 37 per cent. of the old peo- pie of London are. There is 8 larger pro- portion of aged paupers in the country than in the city, which fact is accounted for by two causes, the larger death rate in the city and the immigration of the young and able bodied from country to city, leav- ing the old people at home. In the coun- try there is the most outdoor relief given to the aged poor, and smaller proportion go to the workhouees, because neighbor hood charity prevents. In all Eogland ov CT 40 per cent. of the people over 75 are more or less dependent on public help.
 Colonel Ingersoll told reporter of the Boston Journal how he came to make the speech nominating MT. Blaine in the con- vention of 1S76-the famous spesch in which he used the expression 'Plumed Knight" He had been made delegate to the convention from Illinois without his knowledge or consent, and when MT. Blaine learned of his election he sent Colonel Ipgersoll a letter asking the latter to present his name to the convention. The colonel had previously been on the stump with MT. Blaine in Maine, having first met him in 1865. Colonel Ingersoll's brother, E. 0. Ingersoll, represented one of the Illinois districts in congress for number of years while MT. Blaine was in the house and Mir. Blaine frequently visited him. It was the nominating spesch of 1876 that brought Colonel Ingersoll into national prominence.