Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-11

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 Tsfph ,rs of the Worlds fair at Ant werp next year, in their efforts to have greater attraction than the Eiffel tower or the Ferris wheel, have decided upon a restaurant in the air. A great stationary balloon is to be built, and below this. on iron girders, an immense restaurant build ing capable of accommodating good num- Der of people. An elevator will carry pa- irons to the restaurant, which Is to be @ palatial pile in the French style of archi- lecture of the Seventeenth century.
 It is said to be "a settled fact" that Sec retary Carlisle will, in his forthcoming re- port, ssk congress to 50 modify the present authority granted the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds as to enable him to issue three per cent. short time bond, redeemsble at the pleasure of government after three years. This action on the part of congress will remove the difficulties which MT. Carlisle seems to think are in the way of his issuing bonds now, namely, the long time and high rate of interest,"
 The French commiasariat and the minis ter of war have been figuring on another siegs of Paris and the amount of food that would necessarily have to be laid in for man and baaat. Here are the fguree: Bresdstufs, 24S, ,0OO tons; meat, 11S, 100 tons; salt, IA, 793 tons; dry vegetables, 34,- 40 tons; potatoes, 295, ,260 tons; milk, 6,6O2, 300 cubic meters; coal, 1000, 900 tons; hay, 6S8. 940 tons; oats, 50,052 tons; straw, SS ,S94 tons. The above are given as the very lowest estimates on a six months food supply for the $500, 000 hu- man beings and the 2,750, ,090 domestic animals now within what is known as s'the outer defense Hnes" Such 8 supply would cost $10G, ,0G0,000.
 The statement of the public debt of the United States shows an aggregate increase of debt last month, including certificates and treasury notes amounting to $17, 1884, 215 50. The cash balance decreased by $4, ,5S1 ,341.51, the gold reserve standing as low as $84 3S4. S62. There was an increase of $56S, ,617 50 in debt bearing no interest Compared with year ago the amount of money in circulation is larger by SIP, 400,- 900. It Is noteworthy that tho quantity of standard silver dollars in circulation is less than 1t was year ago, and there has also been heavy falling off amounting to $4s,- coo, GOO in the circulation of gold certif- cates, but national bank notes have in oroosa3 hr eoo sOn nnn
 A unique pilgrimage is talked of by some Pittsburg enthusiasts who want to get up a movement to girdle the earth with se- ries of religious conventions on the 1900th anniversary of the Christian era. The scheme is for an expedition of perhaps 1,- 900 persons, who will go entirely around the world, holding religious services at every important stepping place. The ser vices would, of course, be entirely non seetartan, ard San Francisco. Bombay, Jerusalem, Rome and London would be taken in on the way. Several weeks would elspse between each service, and 1t is cal culated that the expedition would take 8 year in making its rounds and cost each of the crusaders about $1,000. The great trouble is going to be to find the 1000 en- thusiasts with the $1 900 to spend in this way.
 Vastly Vasilievich Berry, the latest ad- dition to the band of Russian political refugees in London, has had some ex- perience. He is sixty-four years old, and tive nty- six have bsen spent in exile and imprisonment He has been inside no less than thirty-two prieons, and yet has com mitted no act humanity or civilization can regard as a crime. He was arrested in 1862 on suspicion of taking part in the propaganda of a revolutionary society and sent to Siberia, ss ''no proofs of his guilt" were forthcoming, to quote the terms of an official document referring to his case. He endured terrible privations with his young wife and child while in Asia. In 1870 he was allowed to return to Russia, but for writing a pamphlet advocating the abolition of class distinction and tyranny he was soon after exiled for another four teen years. He is q prolific and distin- guished writer, and his "Primer of Social Sciences" was at one time standard edu. vegetarian, and his daily diet consists of a plate of rice boiled in water and glass of red wine. Yet he works ten hours a day at his desk.