The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-01


 as, fell from her bicycle the other day and bit off her tongue. It is not good plan to keep the tongue between the teeth when wheeling.
 Princess Beatrice has, it is said, writ ten an oratorio (which is to be execut- ed next spring." Probably, and we hope that it's execution will be less painful than such things usually are.
 tsI think Miss Bradley is right in de- ciding to christen the battleship Ken lucky with water,' says a Kentucky colonel. We want to drink our whis- key; we don't want to spill it around on ships, even if they are named after Kentucky
 All the houses in Mobile, Alabama, in which there were fever cases last fall are again to be disinfected careful ly and thoroughly. When they were disinfected during the prevalence of the fever the work was necessarily done hurriedly and without that care and completeness possible now that cold weather has come. It is hoped to remove all apprehension of return of the disease next summer.
 Illinois Germans do not want their children taught in the public schools that a glass of beer and pipe are im- moral or injurious. A recently enacted law ordains that temperance physiol- ogy shall be taught in the schools, and the citizens of Belleville, instead of conforming to the prescriptions of the statute, have taken a popular local vote upon it, resulting in it's rejection by an overwhelming majority. The \ Prohibition committee has taken the Irease into the courts, and their decision will probably determine whether a State law can be annulled by the vote of a local constituency.
 President Diaz several years ago in- terviewed a famous bandit who was in prison The robber informed the result of having no work to do. The president liberated him, made him chief of police of his native district, which was one of the worst in the ;
 country, and informed him that he would be held strictly accountable for all robberies in his district From that day to this not one has occurred. More over, the president has appointed many more bandits to office under sim liar conditions, and it is said that they have, without a single exception, made successful thief catchers in Mexico. Male teachers in the parochial schools of the West are scheming to exclude women from teaching in the schools. The motive is apparent. The arguments are that the church prohib- its the employment of women as teach CTS, and that women are not practical teachers. The clergy say that there is no church rule against the service of women as teachers, and they ought tc know. Generally they favor the em. ployment of women in the lower grades of the schools, but they are outnum- bered by the male teachers, and, in the Missouri synod at least, they expect tc be outvoted when the discussion leads up to that stage next month That will not settle the controversy, how. ever, as the congregations must there after be consulted. AS each congre- gation has exclusive control of the con. duct of it's own schools, the ministers expect that women teachers will con. tinue to be employed in most of them by NM. Tortoriei and Grasso of Ca .tania, Sicily, to produce artificial blacI marble of superior quality have proved so successful as to lead to the estab lishment of works for it's manufacture at that place. Common white sand. stone is first cut into the desired shapes; then the various pieces ar, placed in large square iron tank upon q heavy wire grating, the latter resting a few inches above the bottom of the tank, in order to keep the ston, from touching the bottom and to per init the fluid to penetrate freely every where Through an iron pipe a moltel mass of volcanic asphalt, mixed II equal parts, is let into the tank iron an adjoining boiler until the moltel mass fully covers the piece of sand stone. This liquid is kept boiling il the tank for a period of thirty-si1 hours; then the stones are taken out placed upon brick floor to cool of and dry, and are afterward polishe,