The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-20

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 The world isn't yet full of physicians, Greater Glasgow, with a population of S53.000, has only 494 medical men, or one doctor to 1,726 of the population.
 The new Chinese minister at Wash ington is a Christian and a member of the Episcopal Church. Du Ling Fang was educated in London, and called to the English bar in 1877. He has been made director of Chinese railroads, con- nected with the negotiations for peace with Japan, legal adviser to the Viceroy Lii Hung Chang, etc, etc.
 The Troy Times calls attention to the fact that since 1890 forty persons have died in the electric chair in New York, whereas prior to that time when cleo trical executions became the rule, there were but 23o hangings in the state, the increase in the proportionate number of executions since the abolition of hangings being said to be due to the preference juries have for executing criminals by electricity rather than hanging, the latter being considered more barbarous.
 It will please many to know that the following is the paragraph agreed upon on coal tar in the free list: Coal tar, crude, pitch of coal tar, and products of coal tar known as dead or creosote oil, benzol, toluol, naphthalin, xylol phenoI, cresoI toluidine, xylidin, cu- midin, binitrotoluol, binitrobenzol, ben- zidin, tolidin, dianisidin, naptol, and taptylamin diphenylamin, benzaldehde, banzy1 chloride, resorcin, nitro benzol, and nitro-toluol, all the foregoing not medicinal and not colors.'
 Some people know what they want. M. Boryski, a medical student of War saw, has just obtained his diploma at the age of seventy-fve. He began his studies at the age of twenty-one, but his funds ran out, and he took to tax collecting to earn living. He was twenty years saving enough to resume his medical studies, and just then there was g. Polish rising in which he was concerned, and he was sent to Siberia for life. Tn 1895 his sentence Was rernitted. He hurried back to Warsaw, recommended his studies. and is now ready to practice.
 It Is said that there is not a single fol- lower of the Church of England among the confidential servants of the queen. They are everyone of them Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Lutherans or Hindoos. The queens chief personal companion, who shares her thoughts more largely than any of the most prominent figures at court, Is Pres byterian, a woman of fine sensibilities and absolute discretion. The domestic who stands to her majesty in the rela- tion of confidential maid and principal dresser, is as active a Methodist as is the so-called "clerk'' who accompanies a1er upon all her journeys, and who Is In charge of her personal possessions.
 The Congregationalist tells a story of the old and the new way of giving out church notices. An old-fashioned cler- gyman, supplying a church, had been in the habit of making the announce ments in his most punctilious manner and every one was couched in language like this: 'If it be in accordance with the will of divine Providence there will be a meeting in this house this evening; the subject will be Scripture Promises, and there will be short address by the pastor, no unforeseen accident prevent ing" After this sort of thing for sev- eral weeks everybody drew a long breath when his successor remarked in a pleasant, conversational tone: q haven't yet decided whether or not it's advisable to continue the evening meet ings during the coming month; 'tenny. rate, we'll hold one tonight, and let's all try to be there.'
 Since the coal strike began some O. the railroads have confscated wha ,--coaI they needed, and The People, a, So cialist journal, makes this comment Upon a broader scale the present con duct of the railroads will soon be en. acted A people, a society, from who's, eyes the scales shall have dropped, anC that shall have reached as clear an un derstanding of it's Rights as the rail roads have will be seen to proceed upol the principle that its Needs demand it ownership of the nations machinery o production, and will, in short order, b, virtue of the charter of Need asser its Rights, thereby asserting a nev