The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-30


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 Among the directors of the First Ma tional bank of Huntington, Indiana, are two women, and one of them, Mrs Sarah F. Dick, is the banks cashier.
 A Paris advertising agent, who re- gently painted the front of his estab- lishment a, brilliant red, has been sued for damages by a nilliner, a jeweler and silk merchant, having stores op- pcsite, on the ground that the reflection of color makes it impossible for their customers to distinguish the color of the goods they wish to buy.
 The crowns of Denmark and Sweden are of almost similar shape, consisting of the eight arched diadems rising from a marquis coronet Ca circle of gold bor- dered with ernine, set round with four strawberry leaves and four pearls on ternate), which conjoin at the top under 8 mound ensigned with a cross bottone
 Not long ago the Sultan of Turkey 1t is said, sent several valuable presents to the Czar of Russia Among them startling as it may seem, was a piece of the true cross, a relic that the Sultan had no right to give away, as it belong ed to his nation He also sent a dia- mond studded cigarette case to the Czar and a diamond necklace to the Czarina
 There are no fewer than five vacancies in the Prussian order Pour Ie Merite, the number of whose members is re- stricted to twenty for scientific and ten for artistic merit They are caused by the deaths of Gustav Freytag, Rudolph von Gneist, Heinrich von Sybel, Neu- mann and Ludwig. The senior mem bers are now Menzel the painter; Theo- dor Mommsen, Bunsen and Max Muller.
 The resignation of Commodore Rich ard Peck takes from the active service of the Old Steamboat line one of our most esteemed and honorable business men, whose steamboat experience cov- CTS more than half a century. and the span of whose years about covers the history of steamboat navigation An octogenarian, he is still a man of viz or and with intellectual forces unabated. We rejoice that he is still with us, and may he live long and prosper
 The success of the recent bicycle show in New York is shown by the fact that it was attended by 100000 people Among the wheels shown was one of New Haven make, it being the new wheel made at the New Haven Chair company's factory. The New York Times gave an excellent picture of Pres ident Damn of the company. The show was so successful that the World face tiously remarked that all New York seemed to have wheels in it's head.
 
 Tea drinking is greatly on the increase on the continent. In Germany the an- nual consumption Of tea rose from B. O00, 900 pounds in 1880 to e,oOo,O0O in 1892, and in France, Hungary, Austria, Nor way and Sweden there was an equally notable increase. One interesting feat ure of this demand for the cup that does not inebriate while it cheers is that the increased consumption is greatest in the countries that use a great deal of alco- lio1ic drinks. Spain, the soberest coun- try in Europe, uses the least tea.
 Captain Roborovsky announces that the Russian Thibet expedition has final lv returned to the Russian domains, at Zaisan, after having crossed Dzungarla bv two different routes on their way from the Lyukchun depression. The expedition, which has covered nearly 10000 miles and made a survey of the whole route, and determined the posi- ton of thirty points by astronomical observations, returns heavily laden with natural history collections, 2S0 specimens of mammals. 1900 of birds, 450 of amphibia and fishes, So,0oO of in sects, 25OOO (, 300 species) of plants, 300 of seeds and 300 geological specimens. The meteorological station at Lyuk- chun has been working for fully two years.
 The New York Tribune we'll remarks ''What do people mean when they talk of asserting the rights of the United States against a foreign Power, with a revenue of s6,5OO,0O0 less this month thus far than the expenditures of Gov