The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-26

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 A Kansas high school girl has seen the weak point in a very poetical bit of advice. She took for her theme on graduation: Hitch your wagon to a star and have the end-gate in"
 M. Trois Etoiles, in an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes asks whether the moment has not come ito send the Cape Verde squadron to the New Eng land coast, say about the height of Delaware?" MT. Etoiles is a fine strat- egist.
 President Masso of the so-called Cuban republic says that ''all who fail to join the Cuban forces before it shall be too late must seek a home in some other country This remark indicates what we have before us after we have driven the Spaniards out of Cuba.
 Some surprise having been expressed by outsiders because two Chicago peo- p1e were married and divorced on the same day, the Chicago Times-Herald remarks: "Of course they had to be married before they could be divorced; as a matter of fact, they were married, divorced and remarried on the same day"
 A travelling salesman, just back from Mississippi, says that this is copy of letter-head used by a merchant in small town: "Blank & Go, dealers in furniture, hardware, groceries, drugs. collins, tobacco, snuff, fruits. dry goods, saddles, nails, candies, soaps, cider, vinegar, groceries, needles, and threads, clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes, country produce bought and sold, agents for the Life Insurance com- pany; will also take your measure for taiIor-made suits; livery stable in con- nection.'' And then in parenthesis: Mrs. Blank takes boarders.''
 Professor A. E. Dolbear is responsi- b1e for the interesting statement that the variation of speed in the chirping of crickets depends so closely on tenn perature that the height of the ther- mometer may be calculated by observ- ing the number of chirps in minute. At sixty degrees Fahrenheit the rate is eighty per minute, at seventy degrees Fahrenheit one hundred and twenty per minute, and the rate increases four chirps to the minute with a change of one degree. Below a temperature of fifty degrees Fahrenheit the cricket is not likely to make any sound. When alone a cricket does not observe any great regularity in his chirping, but at night, when a number are collected, they appear to chirp synchronously and observe the time perfectly. Crick- cts in an adjoining field will have the same rate but there will be noticed a different beat.
 Nature has been getting information from the bee keepers as to immunity from stings. Circulars were sent to 145 bee keepers in Germany. From the re- plies it appears, says Nature, that all but twenty-six had acquired immunity, nine or so having it naturally. The number of stings required to bring about the result varies from about thirty to one hundred, and the reme- dies applied range from tobacco juice saliva and water to French brandy, rum, ammonia, acetate of alumina, heat and massage. Dr. Langer, who is conducting the Investigations, states that two to five per cent. solution of permanganate of potash injected will counteract the poison. It used to be supposed that the poison of bee stings was due to formic acid; but as 1t has been found that heat does not destroy the poisonous activity, this can hardly be the case and it is more likely that the toxic substance par takes of the nature of an alkaloid.
 Young MT. Brice thus defends himself and some other sons of millionaires who have been appointed to places in the army: Who are better able to serve in the volunteer army than we, who can afford to go to war and have 2 no families dependent upon us? Take my own case, for instance I have no family dependent upon me like many another man whose serving would mean the actual suffering of his wife and children. I'm looking for no sub stitutes, and I am not crowding out regular army officers from the line. My appointment doesn't affect them. Regular army officers are not jumping out of the line to accept staff positions