The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-03

There are 23oooo,ooo copies of news papers published every month in the new paper is started to supply "a long felt want
 Long investigation of the effect of water on teeth, made in Bavaria and Sweden, shows that decay bears ded- mite relation to the hardness of the wa ter. The harder the water, the better the teeth, and the smaller the quanti- ty of calcium and magnesium salts, the greater the decay.
 Queer things in Kansas Seven years ago Kansas calf tore mans vest from a backyard fence where it. was hanging chewed up the garment and swallowed gold watch that was in the pocket. A few weeks ago the calf, now a fully grown animal, was slaughtered for beef, and the watch was found in such a position between the lungs that the process of respiration, closing and filling the lungs, had kept the stem winder wound up and the watch had lost only four minutes in seven years.
 c. w. Andrews, of the British Mu- scum, who was sent out to explore Christmas island, which lies about two hundred miles south of the western end of Java, is on his way home His sur- vey shows that the whole island is al- most certainly raised atoll, resting on a volcanic base. Though the flora ap- pears to be poor, the soil is wonderfully suited for coffee and other tropical produce, while phosphate occurs in great quantity over a considerable area, and there is also valuable timber.
 A society has been formed in Eng land for the purpose of checking van- dalism. and its recent annual report shows that it is doing useful work. One object is to prevent the dissertation by railroads of places of natural beauty, and the principle was laid down that access should be provided to such places but that lines should not be laid through them. The society has opened negotiations for the purchase of Tin- tern abbey, and hopes to secure the preservation of the Christ's hospital building as home for the. proposed university of London. One member de- clared that the ancient monuments of England ought to be preserved, if only because they give so much holy pleas- ure to American tourists.
 The Kennebec Journal says that young man was recently taken to Lewiston hospital and suffered the re- moval of rib. When he came to him. self he was told what had been done, and seemed satisfied. Shortly after he dropped into a semi-unconscious state and kept calling for "the woman" For two days he was delirious, and fre- quently called for "the woman. T want to see the woman," he kept say- ing. At last the nurse in desperation said, "Well, I'm the womanr' The man looked at her critically from top to toe, and said: "Who would have thought that they could have made such pretty girl of one of my ribs" And then he settled back on his pillow, and when he awoke again he was in his right mind and was better.
 A new venture in publishing is about to be made in Vienna by the German Austrian Literary society, now in pro- cess of formation under the auspices of more than hundred scientific, literary and artistic personages with the object of partially developing intellectual life in all departments of literature, science and art It is proposed to affect this by means of limited liability company with a capital of 5OO0OO florins about SIT 7,5O0), of which amount 100000 fiorins have already been subscribed. The 
 society intends to produce good books, illustrated works and periodicals, and will have it's own printing, illustrating and binding establishments. Whether in getting rid of the publisher the creators better themselves remains to be seen.
 M de Grandsaignes, in his recent work on spontaneous combustion, affirms that the term is misnomer, since all combustion must of necessity have some cause, but comedies the con- yenience of the expression. His defini- tion of it is "the carbonization of body, whether accompanied by flame