The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-02

 unobjectionable).. and their contracts do not include Wants; To Let For Sale. etc.
 A Georgia judge in sentencing a cul- prit the other day, very gravely re- marked: Tt is always probable that something improbable will happen"
 The Kansas undertakers' association proposes to ask the legislature to pro- vide for the examination of all persons who desire to engage in the undertake ing and embalming business and to grant to successful candidate the title of professor
 At last a German medical congress Cat Wiesbaden) has given condition al sanction to the study of medicine by women. The condition 1t imposes is that they shall be thorough--doing the same work, hearing the same lectures and passing the same examinations the men do.
 The Winnipeg papers say that the Dominion government has given beautiful block of six acres in the heart of the city, valued at $40,0O0, for a university site. The government has also lately granted 150,0O0 acres of val uable land. The provincial government has advanced $6O.0O0 for the erection of a suitable university building, which will be devoted to general university purposes, but especially to the teach ings of science. It is said that the Rev. Dr. Brice is to beAthe first principal of the new science university of Winni- neg.
 Notwithstanding the large amount of it's Chinese indemnity Japan finds itself in financial straits and lacks capital to carry on it's largely increasing volume of business. Business men in all parts of the empire are making urgent ap- peals to the government for relief. But with the purchase of new warships and other expenditures the imperial treas ury finds the demands upon it all and more than it is at present capable of meeting and is considering new schemes of internal taxation to make up the de- ficiency.
 A notable thing happened the other day at charitable asylum for the poor in San Pietro, in Vincoli, near Rome. The Prince Santa de Cristina went to pay the institution visit, and he was so touched by seeing the poor people gobbling down plateful of soup that he almost burst into tears. On leaving he said to the director: q will not get into my carriage! Take it and my horses also; I give the whole to that pious charity" and shaking hands with the director, he walked away, leaving the astonished man with the carriage and horses on his hands.
 Jeanne Chauvin, the only woman lawyer in France, has instituted, course of law in each of the five prin- cipal girls schools of Paris, and, she is at present the only woman who is cap- able of carrying on this work. In ad- dition to this it is said that Mlle Chau- win has several private pupils as well, 4o 1Jo yers; she devotes her leisure moments to drawing and painting, and is writ ing at present series of articles for the Revue Hebdomadaire, under the general head of 'Levolution Femi- niste."
 In Emporia (Kansas) there flourishes a peculiar religious sect who call them selves the Children of the Church of God, and the organization is presided over by pastor who is attracting at tention by challenging other ministers to joint discussion. The sect believes that the ten commandments should be kept; that wine is forbidden in church; that water should be used as the em- bIem of Christ's blood; that feet must be washed by the elders, and that to be sanctified the member must be breathed on and kissed by the elders. The church makes no distinction in color, and the Emporia congregation is mixed between the whites and blacks. Recently a white woman was on trial before a se- cret society lodge for permitting herself to be kissed by a negro elder, but she routed her enemies and retained her membership.
 pr. Andrew Wilson, of London, writes thus: q have received several letters of late reiterating question I might well be tired of answering, Do toma- toes cause cancer?' But for the fact that one takes a pleasure in stamping ones foot on a misleading statement calculated to prejudice people against a vegetable food which is entirely