Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-16

he pleases, prsferring to bs entirely free ot the Presbytery. He has been c member oi | the legislature and Is an earnest and effect
 i've labor agitator.
 Kate Field met George Eliot at Floreno,
 while she Kate) was learning Latin O! Walter Savage Landor, and her descrip. ton of the personal appearance of the nov. elist h interesting. "Her eyes were 6 light blue, mouth sensitive; she had high
 cheek bones and an ever-changing color;
 these, taken with retiring manner. low
 stature and large frame, made her . person
 to be noted in crowded room. Her It. erary work was laborious and painful"
 Southern lovers have . pretty custom. When the petals of the great laurel magno' lia are touched, however lightly, the rssult Is a brown spot which develops in few hours. This fact is taken advantage of by lover, who pulls s magnolia flower and on one of It's pure white petals writes . motto or meRsage with a sharp pointed pencil. Then he sends the flower, the young lady puts 1t ia-a-vsse of water, and iu three or four hours the message written on the leaf becomes visible and remains SO.
 Reports from Germany cay that Prince Bismarck has not been SO we'll for many years as at present. He again receives wis itors with pleasure, and loves to talk with them by the hour. The doctor has raised the prohibition against smoking and drink ing and the Prince enjoys his after. dinner smoke ss In days done by. He also takes long walksin the great forest surrounding his castle, and expects next month to be- gin his horseback rides. Bismarck has missed these horseback rides more than al- most anything else in recent years. It was his chief pleasure when In Berlin, and about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, after the Reichstsg session, he could be found almost invariably In the famous Thiergarten on his brown charger. On horseback he was one of the handsomest men to be seen In the capital, sitting In his saddle as erect as 6 young lieutenant.
 A notice has been posted up in Paris that after July 25 Italian money, pisoes, that Is, of 20 oentimes, 50 centimes, 1 franc and g francs, will cease to be illegal tender" h France. Up to July 24 these coins will be received at the Caisse Central du Tresor, and French money will be given In return for them. This notice Is the first practical result of the ratification of the monetary convention, concluded on No vember 15 lsst in Paris, between France, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Switzerland. The Journal Oficlel publishes the text of this convention. The Italian coins to be withdrawn from circulation in each of the countries named will be handed over to the Italian government In sums of at least 500, ,000 francs, and become . current sc- count productive of interest in favor of the countries which ssnd them. This in- terest will be 2i per cent from the dsy when the Italian government Is informed that the money Is waiting to be returned, and 3i per cent. from the tenth day after the sending of the money up to the date of payment of the coins or the reception of the guarantees furnished by Italy. This money recovered by Italy is not destined to be put again into circulation there, but will be stored and paper money issued in rs. -ed