Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-11

toner is examined by physician, who
 prescribss c suitable dinner. ''In extrsms
 cases" says Figaro, ''the medical attend
 ant merely administers drsught of mag
 nesis or couple of liver pills and bids the diner return on the following day." etc.
 ". s. Gilbert describes his method of collaboration with Sullivan. He meets the composer and proposes . subject, which they discuss freely and fully. After the plot is settled Gilbert writes c fairly long soene and that is discussed and altsred several times. Anything that Sullivan thinks unfit for musical treatment Is stricken out. After . number of confer ences Gilbert begins in earnest, and sends his nbrstto to Sullivan, always keeping an act ahead.
 Returns made to parliament of accidents to railroad employees in Great Britain show that the percentage of accidents In pro portion to the number of persons em- ployed steadily decreased. with one slight exception from the year 1873 to 1888, but there was an increase again during 1889, 1890, and 1891, and again e decrease in 1899. During 1899 there were 3s1 .6a6 persons employed on the principal rail- roads of Great Britain, and in the course of the year 584 of these were killed and 2,9l5 injured, . proportion of ono killed in TIA, and one injured in l30. In 1873 the proportion of killed to employed on all the railroads of the United Kingdom was one In 355, in 1877 one in A27. In 1887 one in s71, and in 1891 one in s95.
 Lake Zouay, in Abyssinis, and near the southern frontier of that country, had not been visited for three or four hundred years by the Abyssinian authorities, and the people who live on an island In the midst of the lake had remained without any communication with the exterior world. Emperor Menelik has recently paid visit to that lake, where is situated the island of Debrs, Sins, in the churches of which most valuable Ethiopian manu- scripts had been hidden by the Abyssinian monsrchs at the time of the invasion of their country by the Egyptian and Soudsn Moslema. The islspd Is held ss sacred ground, and Menelik's chaplain vss the only man to proceed there on that occa- sion. He visited the churches, looked at the ancient manuscripts and brought some of them to the emperor, who ordered them to be relisiously returned to the chief of the island.
 Now that wheat Is not very profitable crop 1t Is said that some of the farmers of Ksnsas are turning their attention to raising wolves. In 1889 the legislature of the State passed law authorizing coun- ties to pay bounties for wolf-scslps. Nearly every county in the State tethsreupon offered reward of three or four dollars for such evidence, that c wolf had been killed. Some counties are paying out ss much as s4.000 year in this way, the total in the State amounting to $6o, GOO. Those who raise them make enclosures by wire fences, and the creatures increase with great rspidity. For feed, the cheap eat of meat is sufficient, and as nothing is required but the scalp in order to draw bounty, the carcasses of the killed wolves are used for sustensnoe for those not ready for market. The best sheep that the prairie farmer can raise can scsrcely be sold for more than g. To producs several filters of wolves @ year, each member of which Is worth from s to A exclusive of skin and carcass, is, 1t is seen, very remu- nerstive. These wolf raisers also supple ment their home supply by constant hunt ing on the plains.