The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-23


parts Of this country. In one school in
Steelton. Pennsylvania, Principal E. A.
Drawbaugh teaches thirty-three Amer
leans, two Germans, one Irish, three
Polanders, one English, one Syrian, six
italians, six Hungarians, five Bohe-
nlians, three Slavonic, four negroes and
che Arabian.
It was announced at Leavenworth,
Kansas, that Mad ,me Caroline Won We
Der would sing at the Sunday morning
service Of the First Presbyterian church
and the church was crowded. When
the service began the pastor, Rev. Page,
announced: ST regret that Madame
Won Weber will not sing at the morning
service, and I think we will have to
worship Cod
A g.il who can see the x rays has
been found by DR.. Brandes of Halle, who
discovered her. Starting from the fact
that the rays do not penetrate lenses,
he hunted for some one the lens Of
whose eyes had been removed, an oper-
alton performed not rarely for extreme
short-sightedness or for cataract. The
girl, who had had the lens of her left
eye removed, was able to see the light
with it, though her right eye, which
retained it's lens, could see nothing. Dr.
Brandes assert that the rays affect the
retina of the eye, and If anyone's head
is enclosed in an opaque vessel near
the source Of the rays, the light can be
seen even with closed eyes.
The Methodist church has been very
much alive in this country. The latest
reports show that the membership of
the church has in the past thirty years
been nearly trebled, advancing from
$685. to 2,70o,00o. In it's progress it
has in the same period increased it's
travelling preachers from 6,7SS to 14,S12;
Its local preachers from S,156 to 1887;
the church buildings from 9,43O valued
at SCI, 100000, to 24,914 valued at $110,000,-
600; the church parsonages from 1883
valued at $2,S0O,00O to 9,75S valued at
SIC, $50, 000 The Sunday schools have
grown from 13,00S, with 146,967 officers
and teachers and ,592 scholars, to
1850 schools with $4,000 officers and
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To encourage personal cleanliness, a
Public Baths association in Philadel-
phia includes in Its elaborate plans for
an all-year-round bathing-hou we'll
equipped laundry and Mushroom in
which women may do their family
washing. For all Of this the charge
will be but a few pennies, within the
reach of the poorest classes, for whose
accommodation the project has been
advanced The public wash-room will
contain twenty sets of wash-tubs, each
partitioned off in little separate COM
partments, together with steam drying
closets, wringers, mangles, and other
washing appliances. There will be an
ironing room on the same floor. Wo-
men will bring their "washings" Of
Clothes and before they leave the build
ing the clothes will be thoroughly
cleansed, dried, and laundered.
The Mccall bill for the restriction of
immigration of ignorant and undesira-
bic persons, which had incorporated
with it as an amendment the Corliss
bill intended to keep out Canadians
who have been in the habit of migrat-
ing back and forth, has passed the
house. The bill excludes all male per-
sons between sixteen and sixty years
of age who cannot read and write the
English language or some other Ian
guage, excepting parents of persons
now living in this country or hereafter
admitted 1t is also made unlawful for
any alien who retains his home in d
foreign country to enter the United
States for the purpose of engaging in
any mechanical trade or manual labor
unless permitted by the Secretary Of
the Treasury for the purpose of teach
ing new arts or industries. This does
not apply to sailors or other employees
of vessels, nor to railway employees
whose duties require them to pass over
the frontier TO reach the terminus OF
their roads.