The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-04
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 California will have more prunes this year than she ever had. Garry the news to "the boarders"
 A real Yankee must trade. The other day a Maine Yankee swapped two gravestones for bicycle.
 A corduroy road made of small cedar trees, which were in a perfect state of preservation, was unearthed the other day thirty-eight feet below the surface of the earth, seven miles east of Ash tabula, Ohio. Professor Carl Wright, teacher of geology in Oberlin college, who has visited the spot and examined the wood, gives f as his opinion that the wood has been where it was found since the glacial epoch.
 When Professor Virchow was in Russia a few weeks ago he was waited on by a deputation of female physi- clans. who came to thank him for hav- ing thrown open his lecture room and laboratory to Russian woman at a time when the German universities did not yet admit female students. Vir- chow, in reply, invited Russian female physicians to make use of his patho- logic and anatomic museum at Berlin, which has been recently enlarged.
 It takes some people long time to. learn. Another group of American claimants to an English estate has been deprived of it's delusion, although prob ably only after parting with a good many real dollars for attorneys fees and expenses. These dupes were led to believe that they were entitled to an estate near Manchester, but investiga- tion shows that the property has be- longed to its present owners for more than a century.
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 A peculiar form of bronchial penumo- mia communicated by parrots has brok- en out in Genoa, and the authorities have warned the people against keep ing parrots as pets. Of fourteen cases that were traced to the importation of ed fatal. At the Berlin veterinary school, where much study has been given to the question, out of one hun dred and fifty-four parrots fifty-four were found to be suffering from tuber- culosis which disease is hereditary in the birds and is intensified by the close confinement and discomfort of the voy- age to Europe.
 Consul Mantius, at Turin, writes to the State department that prominent physicians and laymen are preparing an exhaustive report, with exhibits, on the subject of apparent death and pre- mature burial" It is intended to make 1t the striking feature of the medical department at the national exposition to be opened there in April, 1898. An international competition, stimulated by prize, is expected to draw similar reports from all parts of the world. The purpose is to awaken universal at- tention, through this report and the es- tablishment of a periodical,to the large number of horrifying cases of persons who are buried alive every year.
 Vanity Fair is the rather frivolous name of a London newspaper but there is nothing frivolous about this, which it says to us: Unless this constant an- noyance from Washington shall cease, unless the Americans are taught to peacefully recognize that we are a great and powerful nation, gunpowder will have to be used. We do not want to see the United States put back many years. We are not in the slightest de- gree anxious to make history for them, but America must understand that there are bounds to our good nature, and that we have terribly dangerous temper underlying our usually unruf- fled placidity-a temper it will not be good for her to rouse.
 In recent lecture Professor Wilmer Stone of Philadelphia cited many facts to show that birds are natures great check on the excess of insects, and that they keep the balance between plants and insect life. Ten thousand caterpil- lars, it has been estimated, could de- stroy every blade of grass on an acre