The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-29

IsSS No wonder Senator Depew likes to be X m cheerful as he can be when he is off X duty, He is trustee for estates aggre- N Sgating $2OO, 900 in value, besides be- ' @ssdng director in seventy-six firms and x x 41sdrporations.
 Professor Trimmer of Berlin, who has | |s Ibeen Investigating the matter, says x that in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Ind Russia one in eighty-five women { found in asylums for the insane is an s x-school teacher. Too many reports to X iaake out?
 3s The mourning displayed on diplomat x 5c and consular offices abroad has been \ Hecided by Controller of the Treasury S EfAcewell not to be proper charge s ES4atnst the United States. The ambas- x gsdOrs, ministers and other agents who < fAped their buildings will have to |# #f'lIls1kA good the expense out of their own
 Dbckets,
 |Sa When the late Ii Hung Chang visited
 Germany a few years ago the kaiser < iSk&d him: How do our women com
 4ar1 with those of China?" T really x E&Anot tell" said Lii, slyly, fastening &ln eyes on the corsage of a lady who {sT66 present. Eve never see half as x 1sdch of our women as you do of |s sEolfs,''
 N Lisbon has been suffering from pest H N fAts for which the general anti IotH of cats, traps and poison proved SAb0rtive. As a last resource bacili < sSjsre employed and the municipal doc Hore were commissioned to inoculate x 6Cnie rats with an infectious disease. A Sallitable virus harmless to man, was a&(ound, few rats were captured and Mtil0culated and then released. The ex- @Tleriment proved a great success, for TIT bacillus rapidly spread and the rats
 He'd with wonderful rapidity. so that in
 
 K0m rodents. It is now proposed to z f6&r vessels from rats in the same The enterprising men who had the S40uf4ge to build the White Pass and % %1kon railroad were looked upon in
 5Slno quarters as mere visionaries, but
 x appears that the road paid thirty
 GSr cent. in dividends during the last SSI6cAl year. This lofty line from Skagua S0ver White Pass to Lake Bennett and
 b&vond gets good prices for its trans
 S6rtAtion of freight and passengers, and iaB mo rival worth mentioning. Some
 uSiness is still done with the laborious
 xlSdges that were used before the rail- 3oad was built and the iron horse was spjtt th commission. but that is all. It XVIII mot be long before the rails are ex- 4e1ded to Dawson. s III the opinion of the Southern Cross, | |e$uenos Ayres is growing too fast for | s&11e health of the Argentine Republic. | IT will soon be city of 900,000 inhabi- | 4ai3fe. Every year adds about 35,Oo0 | III iB larger than Liverpool, larger than | sBir1ningham, larger than Edinburgh, l aaxrer than Madrid, Hamburg, Warsaw. l axnd 1t IS the metropolis of a country | mt on more than 1,2OO, ,0O0 square miles I III !Soil has a population of less than B., | 0s0D0 .The Argentine Republic is a S3SdpOle," says the Argentine paper, | xsIlSarly all head and very little body. | Mhe head is big enough and can take care of itself. Back to the land; back 't{3 your provinces; back to rural indus try, These must be our watchwords."
 A few days ago the annual dinner Took place at the Bridge House hotel, Eondpn Bridge, of the oldest campano- 16Eical society in the world--the Society If College Youths. It was founded in 1S87. the members meeting to practice beIl ringing at St. Martins, College Hill, ;ffnper Thames street, Thirty-four wears before a body of campanoogists was formed, named the Companie of fIas sschoIlars of Chepeside. The art of helI ringing may be said to have bcgun when Fabian Stedman, a printer, the first known SpfltAr on this subject, and the sXNather of Change Ringing" pub I}shed in 1677 the "Campanologia," 61dicated to this society, of which he Nas . member. He is said to have Irjrintea his changes on slips of paper ir his leisure hours and they were first iilllne m the tower of St. Benedict, Cam Sffdge, by members of the College of Yonths who were on visit to that
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