The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-29

ton, 70 cents: one week, s3.20; one month, S10; one year, $40.
 A doctor writes in the London Lancet that as regards sanitation and ventila- ton the English churches retain the customs of the middle ages.
 Cincinnati has a negro weather prophet who claims to be the "only genuine" Unlike most of his class, he pays no attention to atmospheric condi- tions. but relies on sort of sixth sense which enables him to read the move ments of the sun, moon and stars like an open book"
 A Philadelphia man has discovered that in his neighborhood people have to be very careful about doing work on their own premises. He says: Ny boy, who is fourteen years old, wanted to earn little pocket money last week, and as our barn and the fence needed painting I told him to paint the fence. an easy job for him, as I thought. He made good job of 1t, too. This week I sent for a painter to fix up the barn, and I find that not one will undertake the work. on the ground that my boys work fouled the job suppose I'll have to let them repaint the fence, or else do the barn myself.'
 Father John of Kronstadt, who has prophesied that the war against Japan will continue for twenty-five years, is really the Rev. John sergrieff, one of the priests of St. Andrews cathedral in the famous fortress city. After the czar, he is and has been for years the greatest man in Russia, by virtue of his piety and reputed power of healing, People of the highest rank, as well as the poorest peasants, go to him for help. He was summoned to the death bed of the Emperor Alexander, and when the present czar was stricken with typhoid in Livadia public opinion necessitated that the imperial doctors should be reinforced by Father Johns healing touch.
 The sculptor Gallori has been com naissioned to complete the Garibaldi statue in Rome. At a recent meeting of parliament the hope was expressed that the work might be completed at the latest in 1911. the semi-centenary of the proclamation of Italy as king dom. It was begun in 1884, but the un- expected difficulties in securing a firm Foundation for it on the Capitoline Hill and the lack of funds have unduly re- tarded it's progress. Attention is called to the fact that the new Palace of Jus tice, which was begun fifteen years ago and the cost of which was estimated at 100000 lire, has already cost 27,0o0,00O, and 100000 more are now asked for.
 Dr. Henry B. Lesher, of Salma, Jef- ferson county, Iowa, claims to have started Grover Cleveland on his politi- cal career. He was in Buffalo when Mir. Cleveland was nominated for sher- if. Dr. Lesher says: When 1t came nearly time for sheriff to be nominat- ed said to my neighbor, When the nominations are open I'm going to shout t'Cleveland!" Well, pretty soon the chairman announced that nomina- tions for sheriff were open, and shout cd as loud as I could. Grover Cleve- land!' It was taken up all over the house, and then someone nominated him. He was elected by a big majority and he kept going on till he lit in the White House.
 A queer case has developed in Mount Vernon, New York, where one Ernest Gruber, well known citizen, is said to have been voting illegally for many years, indeed since 1862. The story is that Gruba came to this country when he was seventeen years old, and when he attained his twenty-frst birthday he enlisted in the Union army, and at the close of the Civil war was honorably discharged, having been in a score of bloody battles. After the war, Gruba lived in the northern part of the State, and was elected constable of the village He has also been constable in Mount Vernon. His attention was recently called to the act that he was not legal American citizen. He will take out his papers this week in the United States court in New York city.
 .The white plague is rare in Japan according to D. Irving Hancock. One reason he gives is that the Japanese corsets are worn only by a very few women who ape western customs. The vast majority breathe deeply and fully in way impossible with the corset. s- .e.As.. f5E.