The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-17

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 The oldest medical recipe is said by a French medical journal to be that of a hair-tonic for an Egyptian queen. It Is dated 4000 B. C., and directs that dogs paws and ass's hoofs be boiled with dates in oil.
 A Wisconsin lodge has been be- uueath S4ooo on condition that the members once each year drink two kegs of beer at a sitting. It is thought that the condition will be fulfilled.
 Paris is the paradise of the dress maker and also of the dress buyer who has money enough. There are in the city 10000 persons who make articles of women's dress and 5000 dressmakers. It has been estimated that the yearly amount earned in this business there is over $25O. .976, 900.
 There is said to be 8 decline In the art of cooking in France. It is assert ed that the chefs of reputation disdain to prepare dishes of ordinary kinds, but endeavor to hold themselves in reserve for grand occasions, delegating their regular duties to inferior cooks, while on the other hand it is alleged that the chefs employers have forgotten how this or that dish should taste and are incompetent to criticise.
 The "sanctificationists" of Curritucl1 Sound say that a second Deluge will begin on Christmas morning. They have already taken up their abode on four big barges, moored near the mouth of the Chowan. For the past six weeks" writes a newspaper correspon- dent, "the members of this sect have been collecting all kinds of provisions. Many barrels of salted fish are stored in the holds of the barges, together with sacks of potatoes, four meal and boxes of bacon. They have food enough to last them two months, although they expect to land on the earth again after the lapse of forty days"
 A Neapolitan prince who has just been condemned to two years impris- onment in contumaciam for swindling Paris money lender out of 5000 francs is pretty we'll loaded down with Chris titan names. He Is registered as Orazio Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Vincenzo Ferrer Antonio Giovanni Mattia Vim cenzo de Paola Francesca Geronimo Raffaele Pasquale Luigi Angelo Gen. nero Rocco Andrea Francesca de Paula Gaetano Alfonso Anna Filippo Neri Lutgardo Raimondo Neonato Gasparre Melchiorre Baldassare Lunica, Prince of Cassano, son of the Duke Della Cas- tellina and a Princess Riario Sforza.
 Some remarkable results have been obtained by M. Denisenko, Russian physician, in experiments with the sar of the wart-wort (Chelidonium major Linn.) which in Russian and elsewhere Is popular remedy for warts. M Denisenko has used this sap in eases of cancer growth where surgical treat ment was impracticable. He has also made a preparation of the sap for in- ternal use, and has lately recorded the history of seven cases of cancer-four external and three internal-in which this treatment seems to have caused the growths to disappear or become greatly reduced. A cancer-growth in 1ile dcSOPietsuS udS SC tiiuCIl uiIIlltSlleu that the patient who formerly took only liquid food can now swallow chop ped meat, bread and hard-b boiled eggs Other physicians are urged to test the remedy that has produced such as- tonishing effect, in order to verify its apparent great value, and to determine whether the two deadly alkaloids con- tained in the Chelidonium sap are dan- gerous in long continued small doses On account of it's poisonous nature the remedy must never be tried without the prescription of a medical man.
 The New Orleans Times-Democrai devotes several columns to an exposi- tion of the exorbitant claims presented against the estate of the late Fanny Sweet, of that city. The highest courts of the State recently decided that the rightful heirs to the estate were a brother in San Francisco and sister at Huntington, W. Va, and it was said each would come into the possession ot s10o000 worth of property. But a re ,,or+ to the court having charge of tht