The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-19

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 Of the sixty eight thousand school teachers in Prussia only nine thousand are women, and yet they say that Prussia's schools are pretty good schools.
 An Indiana butcher has left $500 by will, which is to be used for the deco ration of his grave with pigs feet and pretzels every New Years Day. He directs that the old German song Al ways joyful; always thirsty" be sung at the decoration exercises.
 A novel flower has been found at the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. In the morn ing it is white, when the sun is at its zenith it is red and at night 1t is blue. The red. white and blue flower grows on tree about the size of guava tree and only at noon does 1t give out any perfume. That flower belongs in this country under the flag of the free.
 The Virginia senate has adopted substitute for the house bill requiring social clubs to pay nquor-license tax. The substitute requires that the clubs shall pay one dollar for each member and that list of the members shall be recorded in the courts. The objection to the house bill was that 1t would have forced the clubs to close on Sum- day and on election day.
 A noteworthy thing is the reappear- ance of gold in the custom house re- ccipts As late as September last, there was only one per cent. of gold in the returns from collectors, hut in Oc- tcber the amount rose to 3h per cent, and in November to 5 per cent. In December the gold receipts jumped to 9.7 per cent, and they have been only slightly less than that during the pres ent month. This helps to swell the total of the gold holdings of the treas jury, and is an indication of the large amount of gold held in the country out side of the treasury, as we'll as of the public confidence.
 Few people are aware of the extent to which chicory is used as an addition to coffee. This vegetable is usually spoken of as an adulterant, and many look upon it as such. It has, how ever, gained such foothold in public esteem that housekeepers are buying 1t and mixing it with their coffee by choice It is thought to make the cof- fee richer, and Is employed for the pur- pose and without any consideration for economy. An immense amount of chicory is grown in Nebraska and the last years yield is said to be of excel lent quality. At one factory 14,000 pounds of finished chicory are turned out every twenty-four hours. This is but one of the large plants in the state. There are contracts with Nebraska farmers for 15,OOO acres of chicory, and at Fremont the drying plant is running at the rate of eighty tons a day.
 According to Dr. Nansen it isn't time yet to give Andree up. He said that it is hardly reasonable to expect news of the balloon expedition before next August, and that for some time there after undue anxiety would be exces- sive. Andree, according to this cer- tainly competent authority, may be in Franz Joseph Land, in North or East Greenland, in Siberia, or even in Spitzbergen. Wherever he came down he would have to make preparations for winter, and the state of the ice would almost preclude the possibility of getting news about him until mid- summer at the earliest. In Spitzbergen or III fTdnZ JOSeI Lana ne would be able to get provisions-in the former case from food cairns, and in the latter from Jackson's depot. In Siberia, too, Andree would be able to procure plen- ty of bears and seals either to the east or west of Cape Chelyuskin, Tt must be remembered" concluded Dr. Nan sen, 'sthat Andree has plenty of guns and ammunition, so that his prospects of surviving the winter are just as good as ours were. If he is in Franz Joseph Land he will be all right, and will be able to come home next sum mer by one of the whalers"
 At recent meeting of the McGill Science graduates at Montreal some interesting facts about Hudson's Bay were brought out. This inland ocean, which is now called the Mediterranean If North A,oar;oo dra inc +ba ta,r;4 ,,s..-