The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-25
NOMINATIONS.

REPUBLICAN, NOMINATIONS.
 FOR PRESIDENT,
 WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio.
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
 GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey. s----===-=----- s----===-=--------= -------=-=
 One of the most advanced countries in the world is New Zealand. It is now proposed there to create an old age pension fund, allowing $2.50 week to every person who reaches 65, by tax ing public amusements.
 Some idea of the effects of the agri cultural depression in England may be gained from the fact that farm of PAT acres in South Lincolnshire, which cost a22,0o0 some forty years ago, was re- gently put up at auction and with drawn from sale because the highest bid was only 97,S0o.
 Mrs. Ellis of Sydney, Maine, who will be one hundred years old next January, is in full possession of her faculties. Some one asked her the other day if she intended to celebrate her century with a jubilee. "Jubilee?" she retort- ed. Me have jubilee? Why, bless you, I have jubilee every day.
 Near Ardenlee. Scotland, there is a unique advertisement, made of flower beds. The beds are each gigantic let ter, forty feet in length, the whole forming the words Glasgow News" The total length of the line is 123 feet; area covered by the letters, 14,845 feet. The advertisement is on the side of hill, and, being of bright-colored flow CTS, can be read from a distance of four and a half miles.
 At least one of the original Mckinley men has been discovered. He is Colo mel James H. Roberts, of Lockport, Kentucky. Six years ago, out of some extra fine tobacco that had taken the prize at a Louisville competition, he made what he called a Mckinley twist eighteen feet long, decorated it with blue ribbons. hung it up on the wall, and invited his neighbors to drop in, half a dozen years later and sam- pie it in honor of President William Mckinley.
 In the Journal of Mental Science for July. MT. John Turner gives some sta- tistIcs dealing with hereditary insanity, based on 1,039 cases in the Essex Coun- ty asylum. It appears that daughters suffer most from insanity in the par ents, but that insanity in the father is more likely to be hereditary. Thus 106 insane fathers had 117 sons and 13S daughters who were insane, and 236 in- sane mothers and 113 sons and 1S2 daughters who were insane. The sta- tistics support Darwin's law of hered- ity, adult paternal characteristics being more liable te be transmitted to male offspring, and adult female character istics to female offspring.
 A London paper says that the pub fishers of the late c. Fl. spurgeon's ser- mons have just received an order for 1000, ,O00 sermons from the Sturgeon Memorial Sermon Society, Brighton, formed for the distribution of the ser mons as loan tracts. The weekly pub- lication of these sermons, which has continued without a break for forty one years, is enc of the amazing liter ary successes Of the century. Over twenty-five hundred different sermons are now in circulation, and there are sufficient unpublished manuscripts in hand to continue the issue weekly for some years. The total number already issued in England must be considerably over one hundred millions, and they are still as popular as ever. The sermons have been translated into almost every known language, and have an immense sale in America and the colonies.
 The will oe the Contesse de Rohan- Cnabot. who died in Paris last winter, is likely to give rise to an interesting lawsuit. The testatrix. whose maiden name was Zefita Hayward, was an American. She married Count Guy de Rohan-Chabot in 1888. The will leaves the Count only 20f., and distributes the remainder of large fortune among friends and servants. Much of the for tune is now invested in France, but the contesse possessed over s250,000 worth of property in the State of New York alone. It is not the Count de Rohan- chabot who is attacking the testament hut the American relatives of his late wife. These allege that when the will was made the testatrix was mentally deranged, and only signed through il-