Arizona republican., 1897-10-07
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

The expected resignation of the Greek cabinet is not so serious a mat ter. for the London Times correspOn- dent at Athens says that although M. Ralh has rendered his resignation, it is believed that neither King George nor the Greek nation will ac- cept a Delyannis ministry, and Ralli will be requested to retain office with a reconstructed cabinet.
 Dispatches from India give assur- ances that Ameer Abdur Rahman of Cabul is loyal to the British, from whom he receives a most liberal sub sidy. Deputations, or, as they are called in Afghanistan, ''jirgafs, from the Afridis and Orakzai tribes started on their way to Cabul to solicit the help of the Ameer, which the priests had encouraged them to hope tor; but when they reached the city of Jellalabad the Ameer's officials sent them back again with the assurance that their master was still true and loyal ally of the British government.
 eeThere were giants in those days, not only among the men but among the stalks of corn, that Is two thou sand years ago or more. Dempsey Waggy, a farmer of Madison county, Indiana, obtained some corn seeds which he had taken out of a mound builders tomb in Arkansas, estimat- ed to be at least two thousand years old He placed them in the ground, and to his surprise and delight the growth has been something prodig- ious. The stalks of corn are twelve feet in height; the leaves resemble a cactus leaf some of them being five feet long; many stalks bear six ears of corn, and the grains are solid and exceptionally good for feeding cattle. The story is a good one, and is given on the authority of a correspondent of the Chicago Record.
 IA correspondent writing to the Lon don Daily Chronicle from Christiania says that Dr. Nansen, the Arctic ex- plorer, will leave that city on Oct. 2 for the United States. Dr. Nansen, so the dispatch continues, has made an arrangement with the lecture bur eau in this country whereby he un- dertakes to deliver fifty lectures in different parts of the country, and for which he will receive the liberal re- muneraHion of S65 100000 in addition to percentage of the receipts.
 The Pail Mall Gazette, London, in it's last edition of the other evening, made the statement that in the course of the next month two transatlantic cables will be laid from some point in France to the shores of Massachu- sets, and will be in full working or der before the end of October, and adds there will be a reduction of rates substantial enough to place the pool cable companies in an awkward preddcament'
 The twelve jurors in the celebrated Luetgert trial at Chicago find the length of the trial tedious, and the other day they played a remarkable game of base ball on the National League grounds, on West Polk street They were escorted by two deputy sheriffs, and the game was played with seven men on each side Right and left fielders were lacking Not even the regular employees of the ground were allowed inside the fence, and the jurors were carefully escorted to and from the grounds by the sher- dffs.
 A Newark doctor has been disci- plined. Dr. W. F. Seidler has been expelled from the Physicians club of that city on account of his being party to the publication of certain matters connected with the experiments with the Roentgen rays. The matter will also be brought before the county and state medical society and the inter- esting question will be raised as to how far a physicians knowledge is at his own disposal.
 The American Institute of Archi- tects is holding it's annual meeting at Detroit The convention takes place in the Hotel Cadillac. MT. G. P. Post of New York is president, and in his opening address he complimented the secretary, of the treasury for his de cision that hereafter the buildings erected by the treasury department shall represent the art of the coun- try, if this can be accomplished by a limited competition s He also advo cated the enactment of a more viz orous law for the regulation of the governments architectural work.