Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-03
books and distributing them free TO

books and distributing them free tc
schools.
A drummer, who Il also an sx-watch
tinker, has given away q trade seorsi
to the New York Sun. He says the watch
owner may save many dollar. In case the
time-piece has mysteriously stopped, BY
simply opening the watch to the works,
invsrting 1t and tapping 1t smartly with
the finger nail Q few times. In . majority
of cases the trouble is only few speoks Of
dust which this treatment Win remove and
the watch run on asgood ~ ever.
Queen Victoria eats to live. At Balmo-
raj she begins her day ct . O'Clock with
tea, chocolate or coffee and dry toast. At
$50 she has breakfast, small trout freshly
caught from the river Dee being An invari-
able dish. At 1880, after her morning
outing, she has q little refreshment-an
egg beaten up In milk, some soup and Q
little fruit. She lunches ct 2. Later In
the afternoon there is the invariable after
noon tea, and between and 0 dinner Is
served. Thus on six meals day does her
majesty manage to sustain nature.
A keen Frenchman has said that there IL
something not wholly displeasing to rs
even in the misfortunes of our bsst
friends. The Montreal Star thus dis
courses concerning the misfortunes of this
country: The refining and purifying infiu-
ence of pain or poverty may have the effect
of reducing our neighbours slf-esteem, and
by evaporation, condense ofioious spread
eaglsism to the quiet brooding care for Its
own that marks the domestic fowl. Thus
adversity may bring about that self-centred,
well-balsnced cast Of mind which shall best
befit America to cop. with her present DIFF
foulties.
The setting up of the Louisiana lottery
at Puerto Cortez. In Honduras, IL to be the
occsaion of great jubilstion in that city,
according to all accounts. The officers of
the lottery company left New Orleans, tax
ing along with them all the drawing para
phsrnalia, as we'll as . great amount of
wines and other material for . grand bar
beoue, with which they viii celebrate the
frst drawing there. Ninety-six b.sksts of
champagne were forwarded, with several
hundreds of caees of other dAinties. 4
skilled pyrotechnist was sent for the pur-
pose of managing the fireworks. Gov
ernor vasquez will be the guest of honor,
while his ministers and the supreme court
will partake of the iottery's cheer, and al
together the banquet will be the biggest
thing of the kind Honduras has ever seen.
Pietro sbarbsro, once member of par
lament, and one of the most remark
able men in Italy, died . few days
ago In the top story of Q Roman tenement
house. The king paid his funeral ex-
penses. Sbarbaro WAS . prodigy. When
fourteen years old he carried on Q CORE
spondence with Cavour. The great states
man was much sstonished later whsn he
learned that 1t was q college freshman
With whom he had discussed with 80 mnoh
pleasure the most obstruse sociological aud
political problems of the day. That was
In 1852. When seventeen years old Sbsr-
bhIo ocuNcEcu lcCtuEcb ou oeato aAa pun
lished his fret work, "The Beautiful Arts."
A year later he aided In founding the Ital-
ian National Association. Before he was
twenty years old he was famous As an au-
thority on political and economical sub.
jeots. In 1859 he fought for the freedom
of Lombsrdy. In 1870 be became Profess
ser of Political Sciencs and the Philosophy
of Law at Modens. His star began to de-
scend soon stterwsrd on account of the
grave and uncsllsd for attacks which he
made on pubic men. He got the Idea that
1t was his duty to tell the world every
thing unworthy which he could learn of
men in public life. he spent many years
in prison on this scc ,unt, lost the places
which he had filed with honor, and died
s'the 'best-hated man in Italy"