Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-16

The industry of herding the deer Is ex. pected to become a success In Alaska, and to furnish the natives, who have been de. prived of their seals and fish, with new | supplies of food and means of profitable | employment.
 Robert winthrop of Massachusetts, who has just started on his eighty-sixth year, has had @ personal acquaintance with every president of the United States except Washington and Jefferson. He is the old. est living ex speaker of the national house of representatives, the oldest surviving Massachusetts senator, and 1t Is seventy. three years since he was a schoolboy ai Boston'a celebrated Latin school.
 Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin, the wa, governor of Pennsylvanis. who Is now in his seventy eighth year, looks back upon 6 political career of unusual length. Al long ego as 1888 he had won reputation az | @ public speaker, and in 1s4s he was one of the presidential electors on the Zachary Taylor ticket. His influence in bringing about the nomination of Abraham Lincoln | and his distinguished services during ths war are well known. The ex-governor Ii often seen In Philadelphia, but his health of late has given his friends some concern Woman is taking advantage of some oi | her opportunities. In the class of over | fifty women who graduated at the annual commencement of the Women's Medical college of Pennsylvania, held last week the following States were represented Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Psnnsylvs. mia, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia. Wes, Virginia and Wisconsin. The following foreign countries were represented: China, England, India, New Brunswick Russia and Switzerland.
 The Indian agent in charge of the rem nants of the s,x pations reports that thsre are now left in New York 16s Cayugas, 47s onondsgss, 260 oneidas, 2. 750 ssnecas on the Csttsraugus reservation, 4ol Tusca. roras-in all, 5,141. There has been q BllRHE luCkeaEt HI LnCAt hUUAbckc o0iEbk kaC past twenty years, a psrcepible improve ment in their morals, and a gradual but steady" improvement in their habits ss to industry, etc.. and their general condition. The farms, houses and barns of the Tusca- roras are as good as those of their white neighbors, and the Senscas on the CsttA- raugus reservation sfe hard-working and thrifty. Very few of these New York In- dians manifest any desirs for citizenship.
 The London Iron and Coal Trades Re- view remarks that American tools and machinery are becoming sharp competitors with the English products In neutral markets, and tariff reduction must help the Americans by reducing the cost of manufacturing. But 1t is not alone in neu- trsl markets that our machinery Is displac' ing that of English makers, but h the Brit ish home market itself. Charles Churchill & Co.,, extensive importers of American machinery into England, recently wrote that their sales for 1893 were 20 per cent. better than in 1899 The Frankturter Zsi,uns is quoted by the London journal ss praising American products of this kind ard predicting ths. we shall soon surpass all other nations In the manufacture of tools and machinery.
 The Berlin society for the publication of the German language ia trying to have some action taken on the offer made by Herr Heinrich KroLn, of Paris, !n 1889, in regard to which nothing has thus far been dons Herr Krohu offered to con- | tribute the sun of 100000 marks to found an academy of the German Ian. | gusge "I intend this academy" he said, 'sto reviss and purify ths German Ian, gusgs, and to mske 1t @ universal Ian l guage, in the game way as the Academic Franosiss has done for the French Ian gusgs. The members of the academy ars
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