The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-06

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 It is solmenly asserted that the doc tors in Sweden never send bills to their patients, the amount of remuneration being left entirely to the generosity of the latter.
 The Missouri editor who has decided not to enlist 'because it would be no honor to be killed by a Spaniard" has given a better reason for not enlisting than some have given.
 The University of Pennsylvania is about to take a new departure. It has determined to open all of it's under graduate courses to women and to give them the same degrees as the men. A woman's dormitory is to be erected as quickly as possible, and the university will soon be co-educational institu- tion.
 More than a quarter of a century ago William H. Seward, speaking in the City of Mexico, said: "The people of the United States, by an instinct which is a peculiar gift of Providence to na- tions, have comprehended better than even their government has ever yet done the benignant destinies of the American continent and their own re- sponsibility in that important mat ter.''
 It seems to be generally conceded In Ohio that the passage of the law in that State which leaves the question of capital punishment discretionary with a jury which convicts for the crime of murder will have a practical effect to abolish the death penalty in that State, for the reason that there are always jurymen who can be de- pended upon to save the life of a mur- derer, even though they are convinced of his guilt, provided they can secure a verdict of life Imprisonment.
 In the American Manufacturer new process is described by MT. H. L. Har tenstein for reducing the cost of pro- ducing iron by utilizing blast furnace slag to produce 'carbolite." This car- polite on being mixed with water pro- duces an illuminating gas of great val ue. One pound will produce five cubic feet of gas and each cubic foot is equal in illuminating power to fifteen cubic feet of ordinary coal or water gas Thirty-five cents worth of carbolite, sold at $50 a ton, will produce as much light as one thousand feet of ordinary gas costing s1. By the utilization of slag to make carbolite the cost of mak- ing pig may be reduced by one-half.
 Brugsch Bey has discovered the ear- Hest records of illustrated comic liter ature in a papyrus of the twenty-sec- ond dynasty recently found at Tonnah. The drawings are colored and represent animals performing curious antics. In one picture a rat, dressed as a grand lady, is waited upon by cat as lady's maid, who holds up a mirror to her mistress. In another, rat appears as a young Egyptian dandy, whose cere- monial peruke is being dressed by an obsequious cat as barber. In a third, a cat figures as a nurse, tenderly car- rying a rat in her arms. In a fourth, two jackals wait upon a COW; one jackal carries two milk pails suspended from yoke across the shoulders, the other empties a pail into a trough over which the COW is bending.
 In a recent decision the Iowa Su- preme court suggested a sensible method of checking the widespread abuse of the insanity plea in the de- fence of criminals. The courts sugges- tion is that if at any time in the course of the trial 8 doubt shall be raised as to the sanity of the defendant, a spe- cial trial for insanity immediately be ordered. If a jury of medical experts found that the defendant was really in- sane the criminal trial would at once be dropped. But this would by no means give the defendant his liberty On the contrary, he would be sent to the ward for an indefinite time. If the Investigation of the experts, on the other hand, should develop the fact that the defendant was sane, then the trial under the original indictment would be resumed, with the insanity plea eliminated from the defence. The suggestion is based upon the idea that the plea of insanity will not be raised so frequently when the counsel knows that it will be intellectual in securing the release of his client.