Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-19

than that of any of the hfty-six persons
not of royal blood who have been advanced
to that rank since its establishment In
England in 1885, with two exceptions
John, Duke of Argyle, who, with the Earl
of Orkney, formed the frst creation, and
the Duke of wellington, who received the
baton for Victoria at the age of A.
Queen Victoria IL the senior prebendary
of the Church of England, having been
appointed prebendary of st. David's eathe-
dral in 1887. She has never drawn the
stipend attached to the office, possibly be-
cause she has failed to comply with the
requirements that each prebendary should
oficiate certain number Of times at d.
vine service in the course Of the year.
She is the only woman in England vested
with ecclesiastical Office In the Estab-
lished Church.
One of the queer clubs of New York
city Is the Tory society, of which little 10
known save that 1t is avery exclusive or
ganizatlen ar -'sins q vast amount Of
ssss ...ng It's affairs. 1t has .
Ia
saleetfng- place on an uptown avenue that
The sine qua non of membership is de-
scent from a New Yorker vino was loyal to
Great Britain at the time of the Revolu-
tionary war. A large msjority of the
members buy their clothes In London.
On the Fourth of July, ninety years ago,
when the Lewis and Clarke expedition was
pushing westward to the Pacific, its mem
bers had reached that part of the country
which is now the State of Kansas, and they
celebrated American Independence at q
camp near which now stands the city of
Atchison. After firing guns, singing pa
triotic songs, and cheering the spread-eagls
speeches, they sat down to the biggest feast
of buffalo and prairie chicken that white
men have ever enjoyed west of the Mis-
souri,. At that same camp the glorious
Fourth ia to be celebrated this year with
special reference to the celebration there
by Lewis and Clarke in 1904. The speak
ers will tell of the wondrous changes
brought about upon the plains since the
time of the early explorers; but thers can
be no buffalo meat at the banquet Of 1894.
A small part of the commerce of the
world Is still carried on by the use of shells
as a medium of exchange. The Portuguese
found this sort of money in use by the ma
tives of the eastern coast of Africa when
they opened up trade in that region and
have found 1t to their advantage to con-
tinue the practice. Fortunes are said to
have been made by collecting the shells on
one part of the African coast and putting
them In circulation at point only few
hundred miles away. These shells are
sold by weight. The price varies accord
ing as the supply compares with the de-
msnd. Prices have been known to double
and even treble within few months. The
prices also vary greatly within short dis
tsnces. What has cost the merchant from
so cents to 81 in the market will often
bring him 81 or s. worth of goods In anoth-
er market.
A national road conference is to be held
at Asbury Park July and 6, under the
auspices of the national department of ag-
riculture and the New Jersey State Road
Improvement association. Invitations
have been sent to eonamsroial bodies, agrt-
cultural societies, road associations and L.
A. W. organizations, and are extended to
all associations and individuals interested.
The conference will be free to all partici-
pants, no other credentials being required
or desired than practical interest in the
subject. The purpose of the conference is
to increase the number of organizations
for road improvement, to strengthen those
already existing and to further the gather
ing and diffusion of general information
on this subject. The time has been se-
lected both bscause 1t will be the week of
the national holiday and also because the
national editorial convention will meet at
that time and many of its members are
warmly interested in road Improvement.