Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-11

the monarch had all the rails, ties, etc., la- boriously carried across the desert to Teheran by pack trains, and the road began where it should have ended. Of the half million ex- pended, nearly one-half is for transportation of supplies across the desert
 A Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia has felt compelled to put the following notice on the door of his church Members and oth- CTS in the congregation will please refrain from the use of red bandannas or American flag handkerchiefs during the service, as the display of these emblems is distastefu1 to some members of the church and is calcu- lated to dstract from the tranquility of the devotions of the day.
 A Pittsburg nan has invented 8 glass conduit which he thinks solves the problem of underground electric wires. Plates of glass are groovsd on the upper surface, and the wires are laid in the grooves and cement ed with pitch. The other plates of glass are laid over the first and wires put upon them in the same way. When all the wires are laid the whole is enclosed in wooden box and embedded in cement
 D. A. Buckley, editor of the Cambridge News, says: I have been Democrat as long as can remember, and for thirty six consecu- tive years have voted the straight ticket; but cannot go free trade. This year am going for the first time to vote the Republican tick ct. have always believed in the Democracy and was one of the convention at Baltimore that nominated Horace Greeley; but the atti- tude of Cleveland and his party en the tariff question has decided me in taking up arms for Harrison.
 The proportion of women in this country engaged in agriculture to those earning money otherwise is one in thirty; and of those en- gagged in agriculture about one-fourth are in Iowa. Great numbers of women take up gov ernment lands. more often unmarried women than unmarried men. Betrotned couples have been known to go from the East and after living on adjoining claims join the two by marriage and possess together farm of 480 acres or more. Tree claims are also ta- ken by women, especially in Dakota.
 The fire loss in the United States and Can- ada for the menth of June, though slightly less than that of the corresponding time last year, reaches the large total of S, ,594 ,000. This, added to the losses of the previous five months, brings the total loss of the first half of this year up to SGT, ,2so, 900, which exceeds by nearly five millions of dollars that of the first half of 1887, and is over $13, ,000, ,0O0 in excess of the loss of the first six months of 1886. At this rate the fire insurance com. panies will have to raise their rates
 Congressman Brewer of North Carolina re- ports that from the latest advices received from that State the Republican ticket will be successful. The people in North Carolina, he says, irrespective of party, are in favor of the repeal of the internal revenue taxes which the Republican platform enumerates. "The Mills bill," said Brewer, (which is free trade document, is repudfated by the Demo- crats in the Tarheel State. and when it comes to free trade and projection the manufac- turers of the State will favor protection. Harrison and Morton will carry my State by an undoubted majority"
 The worlds oonvocation of Young Mems Christian associations at Stockholm, Sweden important ever yet held, inssmuch as the growth of the associations in all parts of the world has been very rapid of late. The past year has shown marked advances. Perhaps the greatest vigor has been shown in the United States, but the progress made in Great Britain, Germany, France and other European countries has been remark