The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-28


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 The most valuable clock in the world Is one which was made by Louis XIV. and which is owned now by one of ths Rothschiids, who bought it for S1s,oOo. Queen victoria's New Year gifts to the poor of Windsor, Holy Trinity and Cleiver amounted to $1,oO0 The beef distributed weighed a ton and a half. Miss Anna Laurens Dawes, who is making quite reputation as a maga- zine and newspaper writer, is daugh- ter of ex-Senator Dawes of Massachu- setts.
 The Sultan of Turkey wears over his arms a turban, enriched with pearls and diamonds, under two coronets, the first of which is made of pyramidical points, heightened up with large pearls and the uppermost is surmounted with cres- cents.
 Among the Turks bath-money forms an important item in every marriage contract. If a husband refuses to give his wife sufficient money for bathing purposes she may go before the cadi, take off her slipper and turn it upside down. If the grievance is not redressed she has grounds for divorce.
 Speaking of MT. Gladstone at Biarritz, an English paper says: ''He is hardly noticed; not a soul appears to be in any way anxious ito see him, and the only thing that has aroused a little interest in his person is the news from South Afriea and the recollection that he was the chief retrocessionist of the Trans vaal and the modifier of the suzerainty clauses afterward."
 The enormous movement of grain over the western railroads last week is well told by the following: The Bur- lington brought into Chicago 733, 800 bushels, against 62 400 for the same week in 1895; the Chicago and Northwest ern delivered 276,sOO bushels, against 3250; the Rock Island 179,4oO against 33,S00 and SO on through the list. Ger tainly this first response to the advance in grain must figure in the January statements.
 Miss Jane Harrison, ILL. D., the dis tinguished lecturer on Greek archae- ology, is among the cleverest women of an age renowned for successful work by members of the fair sex. It was in little village of Yorkshire, not far from the coast, that Miss Harrison first developed her love for the classics. Af- ter displaying remarkable talent at school, she devoted five years to stren- uous study at home, and then entered on her brilliant career at Cambridge.
 The delicate and infrequent opera ton of removing a steel silver from a mans eye by magnetism was success fully performed at Anderson, Ind, few days ago. John Carter, a work man in the wire nail works, had a steel silver three-fourths of an inch long buried in his eyeball. The piece of steel could not be seen. A very high-power magnet was placed over the eye-ball and the silver was thus drawn out. The sight of the eye was destroyed.
 
 Arizona scenery just made accessible by the opening up of new rail and stage roads is a remarkable natural bridge, in the Tonto basin, not far from Flag staff. The bridge is $50 feet long and spans canon some 200 feet deep, at the bottom of which flows the river. The bridge is of rock, and is perfectly pro- portioned. The under side is gracefully arched and the upper perfectly level The walls of the canon are honeycomb- ed with caves, in which are a great pro- fusion of stalactites and stalagmites.
 One of the most remarkable cases of longevity in Pennsylvania is to be found in the Wilkinson family, the ma jority of the members being residents of Mount Holly. The ages of the eight persons now living are Mrs. Martha Groom, 91 years; Priscilla Wilkinson, SS years; Margaret F. Lamb, S4 years; Ann Curtis, S3 years; Mrs. Ruth R. Bar ton, S2 years; Lavinia Wilkinson, 79