The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-14

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 There are five comets foretold by as- tronomers for the year 1898.
 The entire collection of coins and medals in the British Museum consists of nearly two hundred and fifty thou sand specimens.
 Edmund Fish of Hillsboro, Illinois, the oldest living graduate of the Uni versity of Michigan, was graduated from that institution in 1S45.
 For the eighth year in succession the Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas of Broolzline, Mass, has been invited to occupy the pulpit of Dr. Parker's City Temple in London during the summer months.
 Miss Sophronisba Breckinridge, the eldest daughter of Colonel w. c. P. Breckinridge of Kentucky, has just been made Fellow in the department of physical science in the University of Chicago.
 The women of New Orleans who formed an Audubon monument asso- citation some time ago have collected sufficient money to enable them to make definite plans for the monument, which will be placed in the park bear ing the great naturalist's name.
 The mountain people of North Car olina and West Virginia are said to ' put salt in their shoes in order to keep off the witches. Bancroft related that one of the aboriginal tribes of North America refrained from eating salt in the belief that 1t turned the hair white.
 St. Louis Domestic Science club, or ganized to elevate the domestic ser want and domestic work and to con- duct cooking classes in order to inn prove the health of mankind, is receiv- ing many letters from men seeking wives, who want advice on the subject from the club.
 Glasgow, Kentucky, recently adver- tised the sale of two negroes who were persistent vagrants. It was the first procedure of the kind since 1865. The law orders the sale of their services for the term of their sentence, the purchaser being obliged to feed, house and clothe them.
 Chicago Times Herald: The Spanish minister of marine says: "No Spanish ship should strike her colors to ar American man-of-war. She should blow up her own magazine first" Ii there is no objection from any source and we hear none-that proposition vii be accepted without debate.
 A western woman has designed a skirt for cyclers which can also be used as a walking skirt, row of buttons and buttonholes being placed at the front and rear which can be opened tc form divided skirt for riding, and buttoned tn centre length for walking
 A London society Journal in a late issue describing court presentation says: Mrs. Pierpont Morgan, who wore remarkable dress, is the wife ot big American plutocrat, and has the intention of storming London with hel