The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-11
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 An international geographical con gress will be held in London this sum mer, at which delegates are expected from every civilized country in tht world.
 The centenary of the founding of the Jews Hospital and Orphan Asylum ir London was recently celebrated by the customary English dinner. The sub- scription taken up netted f1S,0O0
 And now the Derby Transcript ap- pears as an eight page paper--a very marked improvement. The paper also recently came out in new dress of type, all of which speaks of prosperity wsll deserved.
 Tn Italy self-destruction Is in most cases the denouement of a love drama, whereas in France, out of an average of $500 suicides a year, there are not more than about 300 that can be classed as suicides of passion.
 The City of Carlisle, England, has its sewers ventilated by their attachment to Ghirty tall factory chImneys, which, of course, create strong upward Sraft. besides heating and destroying disease germs in the effiuvia carried up.
 Ei1phrates Esculapius Endymion Me- Jimsey is the name of a clerk in the recorders office at Marysville, Mo. He signs his rather euphonious name with a big ,ubber stamp His mother was student of oriental history and hythol- ogy.
 Score one for Yale in the field of de- bate. Harvard's freshmen did we'll in the big intercollegiate debate at Alumni hall last night, but the Yale boys did better. It was a well fought contest, but the honors rest with old Eli this lime.
 Emperor William is no more satis- fled with the maneuvers of army corps which have hitherto amused him. He wants, this fall, an army maneuver in which about 10000 men shall be en- gagged. The necessary orders have been issued.
 Interesting to brides and others is the Tact that the word Honeymoon" is derived from the German, and has its significance from the fact that the Ger mans formerly drank mead, a sweet liquid made of honey. for thirty days after the wedding.
 The poet Swinburne is fifty-eight years old and in the prime of physical condition. He is an unimpressive fig ure. He Is scarcely five feet in height, his face Is ghast1y pale and his head, which is large in proportion to his body, Is covered with thick shock of uncombed hair.
 Mrs. M. A. Jackson of Charlotte, N. C., whose husband was General Stone wall Jackson, is announced as the new editor in chief of Woman, a magazine published at Richmond, Va, Mrs. Jackson has testified to her literary ability in her 'Life and Letters of Etonewall Jackson" Benjamin Silliman, marble bust of whom was presented this week to the | New England Society of Brooklyn, of | which he was the first president, is | nearly ninety years old, and is son of | Gold Selleck Silliman, a noted lawyer | of Newport, R. l., in the early part of | the century; and he is nephew of the | first Professor Benjamin Sillinlan of | Yale.
 Dr. stuhlmann, who is travelling in | Africa, has come upon a tree whose fruit gives out a tallow-ilke fat. The | tree Is one of the largest in the forests | of Usambara, and the fruit is big and | heavy, measuring 8 foot in length by | half foot in diameter. It is a new species of the guttiferi The natives call 1t mkani, but the botanists name it Stearodendron Stuhlmanni.
 In the government of Kasan, in Rus sia, no fewer than 11,O34 converted heathen, 5,690 of them women, relapsed from the orthodox faith into their orig inal idolatry last year. During the same period in the same district 12,1SS Tartars, including 5,767 women, gave up the Greek church for Mohammedanism, and the TeliQious authorities haIieue