The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-24
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 Laureate Austin is said to be much worried over the unfavorable comments upon his first official poem.
 Parrots are put to a practical use in Germany. They have been introduced into railway stations and trained to call out the names of trains.
 An Indiana judge in his address to the local grand jury the other day, charged them to hear certain evidence with an unsparing hand.'
 The beautiful castle of Vizille, in which the French revolution of 17SS was planned and where the conspirators met for a long time, is to be turned into a large brewery.
 The number of horses killed last year in Paris for consumption as food is given at 2, ,1S6, exclusive of forty-three mules and 3S3 donkeys. Horsefiesh is sold at stalls where nc other kind of meat is allowed.
 It seems to be the general impression JthaIt Uncle SamuePs treasury will not reap much benefit from the new gold market operations; and that the pros pect for any substantial gaini from the present arrangements for selling bonds is extremely dubious.
 X It may be doubted whether many persons realize the magnitude of the steel-wire industry of this country. The 5,6Si, ,SO1 kegs of wire nails manufar- tured in 1894 were the equivalent of 25S, 1925 tons. Almost as many tons of steel wire for fencing are also annually produced.
 The English papers all note the death
 
 of Mrs. Cornelius, the old and faithful servant of Charles Dickens and who was the first person named in his will. She died on January at the residence of her sofl-in-law, at Peckham. She was aged seventy-five, and had suf- fered much in her last illness.
 Several signers of the declaration were colonial iron manufacturers, as were also two of the most notable off, cers of the continental army, General Nathaniel Greene and Colonel Ethan Allen. In 1742 Benjamin Franklin int vented the Franklin stove, which is still in use in some old Pennsylvania houses.
 The Hon. A. w. Paine of Penobscot, Maine has attended every term of the Supreme court at Bangor for fifty-nine years, with the exception of one winter, when illness kept him at home. He was on hand at the opening of the court last week, with a case for trial He has f argued cases at every term of court, ex- \ cept the one when he was i'll.
 Orange shipments from Riverside, Cal, averaged forty car loads day during, the first two weeks of this month. The supply of the fruit is not sufficient for the demands of the East ern markets. This good fortune of the California orange growers is largely due to the ill fortune of the Florida grow CTS.
 And now come srumors that Russia and Turkey have formed an alliance, offensive and defensive. If true. it n.eans much to England and will afford 'sG prolific topic for discussion abroad The Eastern question takes on a new shape if the reported combination proves to be a fact. British consols responded to the report by taking drop
 The Foot Guards very happily closed their series of entertainments last night with Captain Thomas graphic re- cital of thrilling adventures in the upper air The lecturer was in his best mood and took the attention of the audience captive at will. There are balloons and balloonists, but our home talent holds a high record for adventures by field and flood and ability to describe them
 Seven brothers, all over sixty-five years old, had a reunion in Fresno, Cal, recently, and a notable photographic group is an interesting memento of the occasion. The brothers are of the FuncB family. There are three sisters in tht family, too, all very near the three. score and ten years mark The eldest of the brothers is eighty-four and the youngest sixty-five. A noticeable fact is that each wears a long white beard and none is bald.
 When President Kruger of the Trans Saal paid his visit to England he re.