Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-12

recorded on four pairs of geese, one skillet and q pair of candle molds.
 It tis estimated that Chicago's 15o grade crossings cost in delsys and the expense of keeping guards on duty, sl0. 900 day, to say nothing of the number of lives sscri- feed.
 Professor J. A. Gregorowitch, e Russian, Is In Chicago arousing great interest by his success in hypnotizipg people over the tel sPhone. If he is more successful In his hypnotic performances than some of the "hello girls" he must be s wonder.
 Miss Trella Foltz.Tolsnd, a western actrese, makes 1t a practice to uucheck horses that she finds standing in the street, with their heads strained back by the modern halter known as the check rein. For 6 similar work in Esnsns abe received letter of thanks from the presi. dent of the Kansas City Humane Society. She has been arrested once.
 The elites of worsley and s,. Helens, In North Eogland, are sixteen miles apart, yet they are connected by the most wonderful canal Ia the world. A tunnel has been cut through the great vein of coal which un- dsrlies the whole ot LancashiIe, and thIr, filled with water from the drainage trenches of that great system of mines, makes a re- markAble underground canal, in which wa ter Is constantly five feet deep. This canal is provided with a regular system of coal boats, which are constantly moving thou sands of tons of the bituminous fuel be- tween the two cities.
 Gladstone is a grand old man, and &C., oordipg to Pesrson's Society News. be Is still a dancing man. His 'steps' are not quite up to date, of course, but he has no aversion to threading a measure when oc- oasion requires, and he still performs his little oli-fsshioned leaps In the sir before advancing in qusddlle with ths greatest agility and gravity. Many yourg men lack his ball room energy, and at home. at Hswsrden. he and bic little granddaughter, Dorothy Drew, indulge daily In tsrpsi- ohorean feats, whils Mrs. Gladstone plays for them In fashion hardly less remsrka- ble than her husbands dsEo!pg."
 The essential part of the last will and testament of the la!e Mir George ". Childs reads as follows: give, ,deviss and bequeath all my estate, of every kind, whether resl or personal, wherever the same may be sit uated, unto to my dear wif-, Emma Bou visr Childs, to bs hers absolutely, having full confidence that she, knowing my plans and purposes, will, by gif. during her life or by testsmentary writing, msks such dis position thereof for charitsbls or other uses as will be in accordance with my wish es, 1. being my intention hereby not in any wise to letter my said wife in the di.posi ton of my estste, but only to make e1- press:on of my confidence In her action hereunder.
 While expsrimenters the world over have been trying to get rid of the smose nuisance by appliances attached to the smokestsck or the boiler furnsce. a Ger man scientist comes forward with a chemi- cal that actually prevents smoke at the time of fuel combustion. It only costs 12f cents per ton to use this chemical now when its production is limited. IL Is bs- lieved that 1t can be pro6tsbly produced in quantities go that It will only cost two cents per ton for coal 90 trestsd. Tests of coal which has been given 6 bath of this solution prove that Its heating qualities are in no WAY curtailed and that ths fire is clean, bright and vell-main.ained.
 Msjor vou Wissmsnn, the African ex- plorsr and long one of the heads of the Germsn possessions in the Dark Continent, has started on a return jlurney to Europe. He proposes to visit Bombay, Calcutta and Japan, snd 90 themes to San FrsncIsco. He will be in New York, if his plans are carried out, next July. German pspsrs cay that Wissmsnu, owing to his treatment by the government, will decline to return to Africa Ia ths service of the Emperor The unpleasant news from home made bim i'll in Alden. "Yoa can think what my feelings were on arriving at the cosst," he 6oiu bo o VI tuc Dcu'cS1c Afrika Post" "There was neither & greet irg nor 6 recognition from home. bu. there was the news that the Anti Slavery con- mittee refused to advance the means tC pay the expedition when It broke up Even the money to psy the salar!es and CT pensss of the Europsans whom had ea | gsged was refused" The German consul at Alden informed the explorer that he had been instructed to give him no credit. II
 was only with the greatest difficulty tha' he fnally got sl0,000 The treatment oi the major e1cites great indignation ir Germany, where he is extremely popular Hs has done more than slmast any On
 else to kesp the interest of the Germans Ii
 the African possessions alive.