Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-13


 Persia to attend to c son of the ahah. Larger sums than this have been declined by English practitioners. The late Sir Aorell Mackenzie refused $3o. 900 to go on Q professional visit to New York, and An derson Critchett dia not accept $s5, 900 to visit India and treat one of the native princes. Ss. There is no esidence yet that VI. o.sPs Breckinridge 'Sas born to be hanged, but in these dsya he perhaps sometimeS wiih& that he had'A't escaped hangtss vAsn hs was threatened with 1t. Genesnz g. c. Burbridge, who commanded &n mlliksry department of Kentucky in 1ooz, says in one of his reports: "I captuxsd two spies Dr. Robert J. Breckinridgs's son and so<l- in-law, during 1884, who had maps on thstr persons and who undoubtedly would heve been hanged, but the President Uinooln) pardoned chem on account of the extraor- dinary 1ervices done for the country by Dr. Brsckinridge." The general says the colonel would aye..dsngled at the endof rope within half an hour but for the time aEIlfhi Ot 6xocuuV6 ClemeQCy.
 ons hundred years ago next month, says Bostonian in the Washington Post, Ben jsmin Franklin left fund of q, 900 which he directed should be put at interest and left to accumulate for c century. When that time had come round, according to the directions of the splendid old philsn- thropist, half of the money thus sccumu- lated should go to some good public pur- pose for the benefit of the people of Bos- ton. The other half was to bs put ssids, ss In the frat case, for another century, at the end of which time the State and city should be equal partners In the fund. aggregate of something near s700, ,000, half of which the trustees will use to build up and equip an industrial training school, one of the best uses to which the monsy can be put, and one which Franklin would surely approve, if he were living. The board of aldermen and three ministers of the oldest religious societies In Boston are the trustees.
 
 years experience of the Rowton model lodging house in London, the opening of which fifteen months ago attracted a great deal of attention smong municipal bodies and social reformers both in England and this country. The design of the sIperi- ment was the improvement of the condition of single men who have no certain occups- ton and no settled home, 6 class which constitutes large body of London's wage earners, and who have been compelled to live in cheap and common lodging houses.
 Lord Rowton designed the experiment, and furnished the funds for its trial. The house accommodates 40 men, and affords a separate sleeping apartment for every lodger and we'll warmed and lighted din- ing, smoking, and reading rooms, toilet and bath rooms, with a constant supply of hot and cold water, convenisnces for wash ing and drying clothes, and cooking stoves with all utensils and facilities for cooking food. Lodgers can either cook their own food or buy their meals at cost price. The charge for the full use of all the convsn- iencies and comforts of the house for twenty four hours Is sixpence, about equal to twelve cents. In all arrangements of sanitation and cleanliness the house is per feet, and the degzee of comfort afforded is great. The house has been continuously full since the opening day, forty or fifty people being turned away almost nightly, and commercially the concern has proved a oomplets success. It returned . profit of five per cent. for the first year, and fs now paying net profit of six per cent. A com pany has been formed to carry on the
 work, with capital of R75, 5,000, and other lodging houses on the same plan are to be built within various parts of London.