The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-21

prices. Moral: Buy Woolen thlngs De- fore 1t comes.
 Whats the matter with Lucy Curtis? She's all right. She is the mayor of Cimarron, Missouri, runs the town, con- ducts general store and is the leader of the local Sorosis.
 There was a time when the govern fnent of India had to import annually $25o,00O worth of quinine and did not get enough of 1t even then. After great many experiments the cultiva- tion of the cinchona tree was made suc- cessful in India, and now there are A. 100000 trees in Bengal, and every rural postofflce in India sells a f1ve-grain packet of the drug for half 8 cent, while the government makes from s2,- poo to $s,50o year out of the profits
 Some good rules for classifying artists are thus given by the Boston Tram script: "If he paints the sky gray and the grass brown he belongs to the old school. If he paints the sky blue and the grass green he belongs to the realis- tic school. If he paints the sky green and the grass blue he belongs to the bmpressionist school. If he paints the hky yellow and the grass purple he is rolorist. If he paints the sky black and the grass red he is an artist of great decorative talent-great enough to make posters
 "A cotton man at Selma, Alabama, re- sents the imputation that labor in the mills of the South is more poorly paid than that in the mills of New England. He tells us that many of the young wo- men operatives in Selma earn more money than the "lady clerks" of that town and that the male operatives are generally paid more than they earned ..Rs- farmers when cotton was selling, at eight cents. Many employees have mon ey in the bank and all are comfortable. They come from native families, and are quick, honorable and industrious.
 According to Correspondents who write to English papers from Vienna, business at the Austrian metropolis has been badly hurt by the various unfor- tunate conditions which have conspired to make trouble In the first place, the harvests have been bad throughout the country and that has raised the prices of provisions, and the Christmas trade was consequently light, while special lines have been heavy losers through the mild weather. Then the political troubles have upset business very ma- terially. The anti-sernitic feeling has also added to the depression of busi- ness iia
 Judge Holmes of the Supreme court bf Massachusetts has decided that the receivers of the Bay State Beneficiary association must pay claims only on deaths that occurred previous to the ap- pofntment of the receivers This edict shuts out claims to the amount of about $42,000 already filed. Under this ruling there should be a dividend of between 20 and 25 per cent. There are, however, disability claims to the amount of $780, 900 upon which judgment is yet to be passed. If these should be allowed, cer- tain litigation would follow, and the consequent reduction of the dividend could hardly be estimated in advance. Justice Holmes decision applies also to the Massachusetts Benefit associa- tion, so that the unfortunates of both organizations can sympathize with one another.
 The Philadelphia board of education 3s wide awake in the matter of hygiene in the public schools. In addition to concurrfng with school boards else- where in forbidding the mixing of the pencils used by the children, it has de- cided that each pupil be furnished with q drinking cup, that children showing symptoms of illness be sent home, and that schools in districts where infec- tious diseases exist shall be scrubbed weekly with solution of carbollc acid. At the suggestion of the board of health 1t was resolved that plants, vines and other such decorations in the school rooms where a large number of children are confined daily are a menace to their health, because they are generally per- mitted to remain in school rooms for great length of time, thus catching dust. Such decorations will be per. mitted to remain in schools no longer than between sweepings.
 
 A man may owe his life to his doctor but the doctor does not always get even