The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-19

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 land and make his home in Alsace N where he was born. He will spend the s#swinter in the Riviera, after which he Z will settle down in Alsace, devoting his
 time to literature and scientific pur- < suits.
 S& Some people find life queer. Maurice
 Ruben married Belle Wittenberg al
 Sutton, Nebraska February 12, 1895
 Subsequently he renounced Judaism, to
 gIer great grief. Then he became insane,
 and she procured divorce. After his Z discharge from the asylum he looked { her up and converted her to Christian ' ity. Last week they were married over s again. They are going to engage in < mission work in Pittsburg.
 Ssa A real centenarian, Mrs. Elizabeth \ Banbury, died recently at Richmond, Y Surrey, aged 108 years and IA days. x Her father was born in 1749 and her E mother died in 1795. She saw George III.
 riding on horseback before he became
 mad. She was a Quaker and took an
 active part in the anti-slavery move $ Ment Sir Percy Sanderson, the British { consul general in New York. was her
 cousin.
 @Ss Five hundred women are attending { the lectures at the Berlin university. %trl1is is the highest number known.
 Among them are daughters of Count X Won Posadowsky- Wehner, imperial sec spretary of state for the interior, and
 Herr Moeller, minister of commerce. { The new rector of the university. Pro-
 fessor Cekule von stadowitz, opposes l5tle attendance of women, and has re-
 fused to permit woman to address the ( Students society, which his predeces-
 sors allowed.
 x There has been a noticeable increase in foreign students at the Japanese
 Universities. The imperial university la0f Tokyo has registered eighteen for ReiEn students, of whom ten are Chinese, 8gVne Korean, six Hindoos, and one Fii- pho. Two Hindoos are studying me- 5Shanical engineering in Tokyo; 200 Chi
 Aese are studying in the military
 schools, seventy Koreans are in the va Srioue universities, most of them study ling law and politics, and considerable
 number of Filipinos have gone to Japan
 this year for the purpose of study. s%S. Hinder ordinary conditions, according to the recent calculations of a German
 scientist the whole amount of blood in the body passes through the heart in 4thirty-two beats. In man of ITO pounds there are about thirteen pounds Of blood, which passes through his heart two and quarter times minute. Es- stimating the flow at thirty pounds to the minute, we have 1880 pounds an hour and 43,200 pounds a day passing through this human pump Expressed lin mechanical energy, the work done in a day Is equivafeht to 54o,ooo foot pounds.
 The Foster house in West Brookfield, | Maesa chusetts which has just been burned, is supposed to have been built | in l7S5 by General Joseph Dwight, | Conspicuous figure in the Louisburg ex- Dedition of 1745 He commanded the | Ninth Massachusetts regiment, was | graduated from Harvard college in 1744 md was a delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1774-'75 He was chosen a councillor in 1774 and was disapproved | by General Gage, only to be reappoint- ed in 1775. He was merchant in ! Springield The house was after his death occupied by Judge Jedediah Eos ter. When General Washington inquir- ed what ssachusetts man he could especially rely upon in the struggle for he WAS referred to Judge Fostar. It is known that Washington went to West Brookheld once to see me fudge on some important matter of the State.
 T,ests recently made in Milwaukee have demonstrated the value of music M The dentists office. Some men, and more women, when they visit their den- tigt for the removal of tooth, become strangely affected by the nitrous oxide hat is administered to deaden the pain' They sing or laugh vociferously, move ,neasily, and some try to dance Oth- IFS have vivid recollections come to