The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-16

ilolei pOrIefS Tn europe, dcCuIuihS to writer in the Critic, have a lan- guage which wary travellers would be wise to learn. They communicate with one another by means of the labels that they insist in plastering over boxes and bags. In the right-hand lower corner the label signifies mean ness, or, in other words, no tipping; in the upper left-hand corner it denotes liberality; in the middle it indicates a willingness to tip if well served.
 On account of the multiplication of free dispensaries and hospitals in Vienna large number of the physicians in that city are suffering. Their in- comes have been so greatly reduced that many are unable to live as befits their profession. An attempt has re- gently been made to get the Parliament to establish 8 higher scale of fees, the argument being advanced that this would affect only the well-to-do class es, as the poorer classes already had free attention in the hospitals.
 People of New Biddeford, Maine, think that new game has been work ed among them. A man representing himself as the agent of New York publishing house went there and hired a youth of the place to go over the di- rectory with him and point out the prosperous residents of Biddeford and Alfred. Nothing has been heard since of the book agent, but the houses of several of the people who were pointed out as being in good circumstances have been visited by thieves.
 At the Brunswick congress of Ger man naturalists and physicians few days ago, Dr. w. Herse of Dresden made public his discoverey of what he declares is perfect food for babes. He dilutes cream until it's component parts consist of 1.2 per cent. of casein, 012 of albumen, 3.S of fat, IS of milk sugar, 0.3 of ashes and 92.S of water, and to this he adds another 03S of al bumen and Az of milk sugar, when the result is an exact fac-simile of natural milk. He reported the practical suc- cess of his substitute as well, it having been tested with babes on large scale during the last six months and under all sorts of circumstances.
 The governor of Arizona reports that that territory now contains about ST. 800 permanent residents, an increase of several thousands over the estimate of a year ago. The class of immigra- ton into Arizona is said to be supe- rior, and many New England notions, we are told, are prevalent there. Phoe- nix, the principal town, is a well-built place with many brick structures and population of ten or twelve thousand and irrigation is doing much every year to increase the agricultural re- sources of the territory. The gover- nor intimates that Arizona should be
 
 many other territories have been taken in when their population and re. sources were no greater than hers
 A society has been formed in Eng land for the purpose of protesting against bazaars and entertainments fol charity purposes. The bazaar annoy ance is more prevalent in England thai in this country; still it thrives to con siderable extent in America. The pro motors of the society propose to rais, charity funds by direct appeal in orde to put stop to the bazaars. They cal themselves "The London Society o Church Beggars." They claim that ba zaars do not promote friendly feelings that they do not make enough none. to pay for the trouble and worry o getting them up, and that the proven ton society will be doing a good act i 1t succeeds in converting women to tn new idea.
 Gottlieb Kirchner, who recently diet at North Woodside, in South Australia ninety years old, was personal frien, of the great Napoleon. When the Elm peror was returning from the disastrou Russian invasion he passed througI Kirchner's native village His coac had been seriously damaged, so that had to be repaired. The work was in trusted to Kirchner's father, the villag blacksmith. The son, then a lad of fiv years, was so frightened at the soldier that he fled crying to his mother. Ma poleon, who had seen him, took him u m his arms to quiet him, set him on h shoulder and let him play with tl .ockade in his chapeau. When he d, parted he took the cockade off an gave it to the little Kirchner, in who's family it was long cherished as a reli Till his last years Kirchner often d
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