Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-02

The action of Judge Fenn in selecting another day than Friday for the hanging of Flanagan will attract good deal of attention. There is, of course, no reason why Friday should be especially Hanging day"
 Mayor Swan, of Eppelborn in Hanover, has selected an enormous oak in that town and put seats and benches for over one hundred persons in the leafage. A mas sive wooden flight of steps leads around the enormous trunk from story to story, seven in all, up into the crown of the tree. The seats are all ornamented with rustic work, small cannon are at the top, and thirty foot fountain.
 A New York undertaken pointed out to a reporter the other day, as one of the most curious things he ever met within his business, handsome casket lined with yellow satin. The yellow had been sub stituted for the customary white at the re- quest of a woman whose main ambition in life was to look we'll, and her last dying request was that her coffin be lined with old gold satin, as that color best set of her complexion, which was rather sallow and dark.
 The commander of the St. Petersbura police force has issued an order that al stores and business houses owned by Hebrews should have signs with the names, patronymics, and families of the proprietors written in large, showy letters The cause of this new order, which is th' nearest approach to medieval regulation by which the Jews were compelled to wea' yellow patches on their garments, is tha merchants of the Jewish faith do no write their names plainly on their signs in order to avoid the too frequent intru sion of official extortionists and the preju dice of the unreasonable masses.
 census bulletin just issued shows tn relative economy of cable, electric and ani nal motive power for street railroads. Tn bulletin covers the statistics of fifty stree roads, ten of which are operated by cable ten by electricity and thirty by anima power. The expense per car mile on cabl roads varies from 9:39 cents to 21.91 cents on electric roads from 9.34 cents to 36.0 cents; on animal roads from 9.10 cents 27.02 cents. This shows that both cabl and electric roads are cheaper in operatio than horse roads. But the figures sho' that the electric roads which have th least expense per car mile, have the great est expense per passengers carried. Tn reason of this is that the older systems al operated where traffic is more dense.
 The United States Patent office is n longer party to the fraud of perpetual me tion, as it now refuses to take the ''frt fees" (s15) from the perpetual motto cranks, as it's does from all other inver tors. Up to three years ago it was GUS tomary to accept this fee and in course time letter was sent to the perpetual mt tion applicant telling him that his clail was based upon an irrational principle, an that he must furnish @ working mode Of course that was the end of the applic, tion and the fee was covered into tf treasury. Now, however, circular
 sent to all applicants for patents on pc petual motion machines telling them thu no consideration would be given their p pers until working model was file, This settles it every time, although man Of the tsinyen torsD oat hioh1v indiDnant
 the rejection of their "first fees.'