The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-27

A German experimenter, Herr Bern- hard, noting the structure of alumin- unn. decided to try it for putting an edge on fne-cutting instruments, such as surgical knives, razors, etc. He found that 1t acted exactly like 8 razor hone of the finest quality.
 Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, head of the department of entomology of Stanford University, has been granted a years leave of absence in order to make a thorough study of, and report upon, the silk worm industry. He will conduct his investigations in Italy, where complete silk worm experiment station has been established.
 The Providence Journal rises to re- mark that if it occurs to unsympathetic minds that there is anything besides a coincidence in the peculiar fact that within short time the good city of Providence has given to the country the most adventurous plunger among spectators, the most notorious keeper of gambling establishments and the most daring counterfeiter that this land of ours has recently produced, let it be observed that we are an even-tempered. law-abiding, honest folk, still conduct ing the lively experiment. which has made the place famous and that the ambition to do nothing by halves is one of the chief characterist cs of all cl asses.
 A southern writer gives this story of a negro preachers version of the par able of the Good Samaritan: There was a traveller on a lonely road said the preacher, who was set upon by thieves, robbed and left wounded and helpless by the wayside. AS he lay there vari- ous persons passed him, but none offer ed to assist him. Presently, however, a Good Samaritan came by and taking pity on the wounded mans plight, help ed him on his mule and took him to an inn. where he ordered food and drink and raiment for the man. And dis am a true story, brethren" concluded the yet. and in de do way am standin' de yet. and in de do away mstandin de skel-ton ob de innkeeper, waitin' for de Good Samaritan to come back an pay de bill"
 Miss Retta Bethel, former United States vice consul at Eleuthera, small island of the Bahama group, has a trunk with strange history. She came to New York on the steamer Orizava, which lest Nassau on the morning of Bethels stateroom was robbed while she was asleep and her trunk removed. the vessel. but it could not be found, and it was finally decided that the thief had thrown it overheard after possess ing himself of $19O which it contained. It was found. broken open, on the beach of the island of Elenthera, seventeen days aster it had been taken away by it's owner, having foated at least 100 miles after being thrown overheard.
 Lord Dartmouth will lay the foun- dation stone of the new building to be erected by the alumni of Dartmouth college in place of the one burned some time ago. The present earl is the fourth, a direct descendant of the man after whom the college was named by Dr. Wheelock, its first president. His lordship has the right to bear the arms of the first President of the United States-three stripes and two stars-for the first Lord of Dartmouth was a son of Elizabeth Washington, eldest daugh- ter and chief heiress of Sir William Washington, of Packington, Leicester shire. The earl has devoted recent years to literary and historical resea arch, and his services have been appreciated by King Edward, who has appointed him one of the members of the royal commission on historical manuscripts.
 A meeting was recently held at the Sorbonne, in Paris, in honor of Captain L'Enfant, the African explorer, who has found a new road into the interior of that country which it is claimed will altogether supersede the present Congo route. The aim of his mission was to find means of communication be- tween tho Benone and the Logone, and to see if 1t was possible for a barge leaving the mouth Of the Niger to reach Lake Tchad by following water route, that is. the Niger, Benone, Mayo-Kebi, Tonbori, Logone and Chart. Captain L'Enfant carried along with him steel barge. taken over in sec Hons, and successfully accomplished