Show CURRENT NEWS may 10 the conference of the methodist church south at st louis yesterday adopted resolutions against card ing theatre going and other kindred amusements minister lincoln is much improved in health and spirits alic loss of hs son pulled him down greatly hut he is now recovering hia ordinary demeanor and transacts business in his usual way A eign sailor named Sund swall is a lion of london society just now he navigated a small boat from in norway to the thames single hand ed and thinks of continuing his cruise to the united states tappet names of alie four baay states are as follows north dakota is the flickertail flicker tail state south dakota is the gat state washington is the chinook state and montana is the stubbed toe state more bridal couples are said to have visited washington this spring than ever before one of the hotels makes a present of a boquet to each ando that enters its dining room and iti flower bills this season have been enormous dom pedro and G W childs of the philadelphia public ledger are warm public friends ana frequently exchange letters when the emperor used to visit this country he always made it a point to be the guest of the wealthy editor william blacks new novel is to be I 1 called stand fast craig Eoy stoa and the characters rill include several scotch persons and two representatives af the united states the novel will appear serially in this country and england A share company with a considerable working capital has been floated in england to work a patent for what is callad the sterilization of milk that is the destruction of the bacteria through which certain diseases notably typhoid fever are spread there were forty six cremations at working england last year double the number for 1888 in paris the number reached but this included bodies from the hospitals and anatomical laboratories the use of cremator ies is also increasing in italy and germany notwithstanding the population of new is rapidly increasing there has been no increase in the number of drinking places for several years the report of the excise department lust mades bows that there are seventy eight less liquor saloons than there were last year marquis the well known chinese statesman and former minister to the courts of london paris and st petersburg tetersburg burg who died recently wag one of the small group of extremely able men who initiated twenty years ago the attempt to apply western methods to chinese affair |