Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-12

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the recent sale to a leading railroad trunk
line of the west by Mr.. John Brisben
Walker, the owner and editor of the Co.'S
mopolitan magazine, of piece of land in
Denver for which Mr.. Walker gave 81, 500
ten years ago. He now receives the rail-
roads check for two and half million dol
lars for it. Lest any one should be led by
this to believe that the days of wonderful
land "booms" in the west are not yet over,
1t may bs said that the land in the present
case happened to lie exactly where the rail-
road company very badly needed room for
increased facilities, and their necessity was
the magazine owners opportunity.
It Is announced that the Postofice de-
partment will begin supplying the new
house letter boxes at the rate of 1000 a
day after the 1st of next month. These
boxes are to be introduced in all the
cities and towns having free delivery,
will enable every householder to mail his
postal matter without crossing his
threshold, and to buy stamps or stamped
envelopes with equal facility by inclosing
his order, with the money, in the box.
There are two compartments, the lower
one for the reception of letters or pack
ages to be delivered by the carrier, and
the upper for the letters OF packages which
the carrier is to colleot-the act of lifting
the lid to place letter or package inside
displaying the word mail" as notice to
the carrier. Experiments have shown that
the house letter box is success and it is
expected that it will supersede the street
letter boxes some day.
The official reports forwarded by Colonel
Dodds, tho commander of the French
forces in Dahomey, ascribe new terrors to
the new explosive, melinite. He says that
the wounds inflicted by the bursting of
shell charged with this compound are es-
pecially severe, while the gases which fol-
low the discharge are 80 mephitic that not
only the enemy but the attacking troops
are likely to be overcome by them. When
he shelled the Dahomeyan stronghold at
Sabovi, the place was reduced to a dust
heap in an hour, but the vapors that arose
from the ruins were so noxious that he
was compelled to order his troops to re-
treat to the distance of half mile, in Or
der to avoid the danger of suoffoation. In
the warfare of the future. possibly, armies
will fight each other with discharge of
chemicals instead of shot and shell.
They are disputing in France over the
assertion of Zola that Louis Napoleon put
rouge on his cheeks the morning of Sedan.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily News has this to say: often saw Ma
poleon III. in 1870 and always noticed that
he was ivid. 1 never saw anything mo1e
ghastly than his face on the day on which |
he started from St. Cloud for Metz to head
the army of the Rhine. A Whit of death |
seemed to come from him. The prince i'm
perial was 80 affe cted by mis- fathers ap-
pearance as the emperor dragged himself
to his saloon carriage that tears stood in |
his eyes. The empress had resorted to
every artifce of the toilet to disguise the
wearing effect of mental agitation, and put
on courageous air which struck one as
very forced. I remember her looking al
most sternly at the ill-starred young
prince and saying, 'Louis, falls ton de-
voir." The emperor said, but with Wis
ible effort, "Nous ferons tous notre de-
voir;" he painfully climbed into the train.
She did not kiss him or the boy, or say a
kind word as the train steamed away. The
whitey-green face of the emperor expressed
narrowing anguish. This scene took place
at the little private station in the park of
st. Cloud. described it in a letter to you,
but that letter was seized in the postofice
No, the emperor was too much accustomed
to the reflection of his livid face in the
glass of his dressing table to be struck by
it on the morning of his surrender. I do
not believe that he or anyone about him
ever thought of using rouge.