The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-21

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 In order to deter boys from smoking cigarettes it was suggested at a meet ing of the education committee of the London County Council that the dia- grams of cigarette smokers handwrit- ing which appear in the medical off, cers report should be enlarged and dis played in schools.
 the oath of office for a second term at Topeka the other day he said in the course of his brief address: T am growing more and more in the convic- tion-an old-time conviction--that public office is rather to be borne than that 1t Is a prize to be coveted" He seems to be bearing it cheerfully.
 Many of the Chinese are so poor that they can't even afford a Waterbury watch, but it is said that they can tell the time of day by the appearance of a cats eyes. The pupils of cats eyes become gradually narrower toward noon, at which time they are scarcely perceptible lines, drawn perpendicular ly across the eye. After that time the dilation commences again, and at dusk the pupil is full.
 An agricultural lecturer in Columbus, Ohio, talked about breeding, and dwelt at length on the importance of the food that animals eat, He thought it made a great difference with the qualify of the stock. A mischievous friend in the audience posed him for minute with the inquiry as to what would happen if a child in heather country were fed on missionaries steadily; whether such diet would make it robust physically and intellectually.
 Wales has found her Carnegie in the young member of Parliament for Mont gomeryshire- Davies. Not only has he given Aberystwyth college col lection of Soudanese armor, and prom ised to become responsible for $115,O0O, the cost of new laboratories at the col lege, but in addition to this he has set aside $150,0OO for ministerial education in connection with the Welsh Calvinis tic denomination, to which he belongs. The millionaire is just twenty-four, and is fresh from Trinity, Cambridge,
 The lobster catcher has his troubles too. Fishermen around the Isle of Wight coast complain of the serious can1age done to the lopster-flshing in dustry by the practice of the artillery at local forts and by his majesty's ships firing at targets in the sea- Rep resentation was recently made on the matter to the southern sea fisheries dis trict committee, which communicated with the Admiralty and military au- thorities. In future notice is to be giv- en at Sandown of all firing practices, and the fishermen are urged to use larger buoys in order to give masters of vessels a better chance of avoiding them and lessening the probability of causing damage.
 Advance sheets of the Official Cath olic Directory show that the Catholic population of the United States is now 1S.0S9,353, an increase of 437, 1909 over the nrevious year. The total number of Catholic clergymen is 15 093, an increase of 609. During 1906 there were 334 new Catholic churches established, making a total of 12,14S. There are eighty-si2 ecclesiastical seninaries, with 5,697 stu dents, and 4364 parochial schools with an aggregate attendance of 1,O96'842 The Catholic hierarchy of the United States consists at present of one papa delegate, one cardinal, fourteen arch. bishops, ninety bishops and eighteen abbots. Including our island posses sions. there are 2O,9S6,2 ,266 Catholics un aa, +l,o Trrited Sta tes flag