The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-06-29
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 There nie ten thousand more women than men in the District of Columbia. Some of the surplus old women seem to nave sents :n congress.
 It seems like old times to rca6 that the New Bedford whaling vessel Mar whal, now in Arctic waters, has report ed catch of sixty-four whales, rec ord that has not been surpassed.
 One of the latest things in electricity Is u little light invented for the benefit of newspaper reporters. It is fastened 70 inc end of pencil so that the re- porter may carry his own light with him and be able to make his notes even in the darkness.
 It Is the opinion of Professor James Taft Hatfield that that region of Massa- chusetts ill which Northampton is situ- ated has contributed to this country a larger share of intellectual ability than any other of it's size. He regards the late Dr. William D. Whitney as the most distinguished native of that region.
 It takes the London newspapers to speak of matters in this country accu- rately. Commenting upon the atrocious crime which has deprived France of an admirable president the London Chroni- cle says: 'Lincoln died in theater at the hand of lunatic enraged at the confederacy which the President de- cided to let down so gently"
 Dr. Lewis Swift, who is credited with nine distinct comet discoveries thinks that "cOmets are composed of little par ticles as small as kernels of wheat, each with its own atmosphere surrounding it," but this is about the extent of his knowledge on the subject, land as to why the tail is sometimes one way and sometimes the other,n he says, q do not think that anyone knows.n
 Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Vir- ginia, the most noted of all slave preach CTS, is now over 80 years old and be- lieves as firmly as he did in 1878, when his famous sermon was preached, that ''The Sun Do Move.n He recently gave an outline of that celebrated discourse, which, he says, was composed in order to set at rest some doubts which had arisen ill the mind of young member of his flock.
 Queen Victoria has, it is said, lately -been approached by several biographers who want details of the life of the court since 1S3... The queen uniformly re- fuses to do anything for them, feeling that the historians who wish to deal with her reign will find sufficient trustworthy material in the memories of the chief officers of the household Immense stores of memoranda from the queens own hand are among the royal archives, which are ill charge of the keeper of the queens closet
 A rather remarkable marriage was solemnized at the Bristol (England) registry office the other day, when the bride, a buxom woman of 43, wheeled to the office in large-sized old-fash- toned perambulator the bridegroom, q comedy looking man of 45, but of such, diminutivc stature, owing to his being crippled in both legs, that when SUD- ported on his feet he was only thirtv-six inches high. The woman, in answer to questions, admitted that the. man had not done any work from his birth, and she was going to support him by her work. She assured the officials that she knew well what she was about. She "wondered what the crowd found to laugh at, as it was only a wedding" At his request he was married as he sat in the perambulator, the crowd cheered and covered them with showers of rice. The police had to clear way through the crowd for the strange happy couple.
 The second year of the University of Chicagocame to an end on the 22d inst, and the assertion is made bysits friends that during the brief period of its his- tory it has made progress unprecedented / In the history of education. When the institution was first established, there were but four buildings on the campus; now there are seven dormitories two weil-equipped laboratories, each built at a cost of e250, ,000, a museum, the Cobb lecture hall, the temporary library and gymnasium, and the temporary build- ings for astronomical work. In addi- tion, the Yerkes observatory and a house for the president are in course of bl,ilding. More than $2,000,000 has been added tot the funds of the univer- sity. The faculty, at first mere hand ful of instruotors, now numbers 157.
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