The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-03

original amount.
The Washington gossips are telling a
good story on Senator Marion Butler.
OF North Carolina. When he made his
speech on his bond sale bill he invited
his wife up to the Senate to watch his
effort from the gallery. It was so long
that she went to sleep, leaning on the
front rail Of the gallery. not caring to
80 out and in that way make folks
think she was uninterested in what her
better half was saying. Some Senator
went and told Butler that his speech
had put his own wife to sleep. The
Senator saw the point and wound up
his brilliant remarks a good deal soon
er than he expected to,
A writer on the ssfar eastern ques-
tion,' speaking Of missionary influence
In China, says: Missionary work is
practically the only agency through
which the influence of western civiliza-
tion can at present reach the masses.
The missionary alone goes out into the
slbyWays, as well as the highways, and,
whether he resides in a treaty .,ort or
iii some remote province, strives to live
with and among and for the people.
The life which he lives whether it be
the ascetic life Of the Roman Catholic
missionary or the family life of a Iro-
testant missionary with wife and chill
dren, is in itself standing reproach to
the life Of gross self-indulgence led by
the average mandarin. But in the
eyes of the latter it becomes a public
scandal when. in glazing contrast to
every vice Of native rule, the foreign
missionary in his daily dealings with
the people Of his district conveys a con-
tinuous object lesson Of justice and
kindness, Of unselfishness and integri-
ty.
An experimenter recently undertook
TO discover why a cat invariably falls
pn its feet. He finds that a cat always
falls on Its feet, providing it has dis
tance Of a yard to fall in and enable 1T
to make a half-turn in the air, 50 as to
cat fts feet undermost It holds its
raws vertically and manages to pre-
serve this position during the rest of
Its fall, in spite Of the initial movement
III rotation taken by its body. The me-
chanical explanation is simply that the
animal. by thrusting forward it's left
limb. shifts the center of gravity of the
whole body so as to make 1t revolve
rnon the axis of the spine until the
Feet reach the ground. Moreover, cat
aoas not hurt itself by a fall from a
height. not only because it invariably
falls on it's feet, but because the struc-
.ura of a cats back and spine is ex-
trenely flexible. The muscles OF its
yeqs also are extraordinarily strong and
numerous and, further, it has elastic
nads or cushions consisting of mass
of f1brous tissue and fat on all it's feet,
seven in each fore paw and five in each
hind paw.
An official report has been made on
the death of Professor Langerhaus'
child which was the occasion of an at
taclx on the anti-diphtheritic serum
last winter, has at last been published
in Berlin. The Professor injected the
serum into his healthy boy himself to
snocl1Iate him against Group; the child
died almost Immediately, when his
father published violent attack on
4he serum. The whole stock of anti
toxin. from which the portion used on
the child was taken, has been traced,
analyzed chemically and microscopical-
Nv and found to be of normal quality.
THE doctors who made the post-mortem
examination found that the child died
of suffocation. He had eaten his
dinner just before the injection and
had some milk and cake after 1t; this
he threw up, and being faint on ac-
count of the pain from the injection,