Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-08

V left for their old homes In Europe with money enough to there enjoy their otium cum cum dig. Doesn't the Union mean without dig In this easel
 The Scotch seem to be doing quite we'll in England. Premier Rosebsry is Q Scotchman, his home secretary Is Scoteh- man and SO are three other members of the cabinet. The new attorney general and the solicitor general, the chief law oficsrs of the British crown, are Sootohmen, like wise.
 Mfr. Jenkins, thsslmost forgotten author of "Ginx's Baby" has been chosen by the Dundee conservatives to run for the par lismentary representative of their oity. He represented Dundeein In the 1s74-So parlia. ment, and it-wss then that his book, which attracted great deal of attention, sp- peared.
 The brutality that characterized English public school life even ss late ss the days of "Tom Brown at Rugby" has almost wholly disappeared. Dr. Weldon, the heed pAxtsr at HartoB, says that while Eton boys used to run away to escape the ordeal there they are now afraid of being obliged to leave, and at Harrow there has not been an organized fight for years, though in former times fighting was one of the diversions of school life. Tagging Is entirely obsolete.
 The bar at the entrance of the river Mersey, and which has been such source of trouble to the city of Liverpool, has now been so far lowersd that there Is . minimum depth of nineteen feet over . channel 1000 feet wide, and minimum of twenty feet over e width of 500 feet, and the river authorities say that at no distant date the channel to Liverpool will be open to all vessels ct all states of the tide. It Is also stated that vessels drawing 21 feet 6 inches can now successfully nsvi- gate the Manchester ship canal.
 N. Raynal, French minister of the inte. rior, speaking the other day at the annual meeting of the Union du Commerce socie- ty, said that the provident societies reoog nized by the State, which had already re- ceived @ grant of 400, 900 francs as a .etof against the fall in the rate of interest which had affected their investments, would re- ceive In the next budget grant of sl ,500,- GOO francs to enable them to augment by 50 per cent. their superannuation allow ances. This, he said, was a step to the creation of workingmen's representations, which would be so arranged as to make the allowances depend on the age of the recip- lent, the number of years during which he had laid by his savings, and the amount of those savings. Thirty. five thousand per sons will benefit by the grant of ,500, 900 francs. The grant will be slightly increased every year.
 There are good many things In heaven and earth. In public address delivered in Pittsburg @ few days ago, Rev. Dr. Sheldrske, of Kentucky, related these sipgulsr stories: There was member of the Kentucky presbytery, whom l knew very we'll, who frequently went into a sort of @ waking sleep. While in this condition he would preach most eloquent sermons, but when he came out he could not remember word that he had said. On one occasion a copy of the French Tes, tamons was handed to him to conduct family worship ct the house of a we'll known citizen of Frankfort. Although utterly ignorant of the French language, he read 8 chapter and then commented thereon at length In English. On another occasion, while in this condition, he re- marked to his friends that . certain min ister in Nebraska wss in trouble, and that he had just written letter to Kentucky detailing the circumstances. He then proceeded to give the contents ,f the let ter, and his words were taken down by some one present. Two days later the let ter arrived from Nebraska. and it was word for word, with the one the minister had dictated while in the waking sleep. The speaker cited these instances to show the life of the soul independent of the body, and argued thsrefrom the i'm mortality of the former.