Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-23

Fook and Wong Fook, are entered to COM
pete in the cycle races at Los Angeles
Thanksgiving Day.
The United States Supreme court has de
cided that the great lakes and the rivers
connecting them are "high seaa'' within
the meaning of the ststute. 1t Is rather
curious circumstance that the two judges
whose disagreement on this point took the
case to the supreme court are now mem
bers of that court and helped review their
own decision. They are Justices jackson
and Brown. Neither changed his former
opinion, and Justice Brown filed dissent
ing opinion in the present instance.
The tunnel plan for rapid transit in New
York city has been revived by eomspny
which claims to have the capital to build
and operate railroad to be contained in
double-decked tunnel, which shall extend
from the Battery 10 Harlem. There La to
be a spur from Union square to the Forty
second street depot. The tunnels are to
contain four tracks, the two upper ones
for local, the lower for express service, and
the road is to cost $50, 1000, 600 complete,
and to be in operation in three years.
1t is said that Governor McKinley's
father-in-law, James Saxton, of Canton,
Ohio, now dead, was strongly opposed to
the political ambitions of his son-in-lsw
when q young man. he did not want him
to run for congress, in the first place, and
after he had served his fret term, strongly
advised him against standing for re- cleo
ton, declaring that "this going to congress
is a waste of time" and that ''the young
ster had better stay at home and build up
q law practice and amount to something" :"
The much disputed question of the lofti-
est mountain on the North American con-
tinent has at last been settled. John Part
ridge, secretary of the Geographical Soci-
ETY. of the Pacific, has received letter
from the ckief of the United States coast
and geedetic survey, Washington, D. O.,
stating that Mount Orizaba, in Mexico, is
the highes'. Mount st. Elias, Alaska, has
for many years past been considered the
highest but Orixabs has besn proved to be
higher by 2s9 feet. The exact figures, as
forwarded to Secretary Partridge, are:
Mount orizsba, 1884 feet; Mount St.
Elias, 1S. .e15 feet.
Thus saith the Topeka Capital: Notw!th-
standing calamity, populism and the con-
sequent contraction of our credit and the
hardships to which eastern demands sub
jected us, we have paid off in the Ave years
since 1888 not less than rs millions of debt,
or 80 per cent. of the entire amount from
1886 to 1889. We say to the eastern cred
itors of Kansas that in view of all the cir
cumstances this volume of liquidation
under pressure aud at the most inoppor-
tune time is as phenomenal as the growth
of the State In wealth from 1880 to 1889
and that Investments in such a State at
present valuations are as safe as in any
securities on the face of the earth. Calsn-
ity is dead in Kansas. Now let the ecram-
BILE of eastern loaners to get their money
give place to an attitude more calm and
reasonable.
DR.. J. q. Porter, of Washington, who
has been making scientific researches In
Smithsonian Institution, says that, con-
trary to general belief, the stature of the
mountsineers is not greater than that of
| the men of the lowlands, and their average
physical health is not as good. Exposure,
bad diet, worse sanitary conditions and
habitual consumption of poor whiskey
have contributed to make fevers, especially
| typhoid, very general among these people
| of the mountains. Neither the man nor
the women are as long-lived as inhabitants
of the lowlands. The use of snuff is Of
fensively common among the women from
an early age, and it is said that persona
neatnees Is not one of their attractions
| This is often due to extreme poverty ant
the grinding labor of their lives. Th'
ignorance of these mountaineers is dens
beyond belief, the best evidence of which
probably is the existence among them o
superstitions which have been exploded II
other remote regions long eiuce. The ALLIE
ghany denizen still believes, for instance
in the animal ghost, or phantom, whicl
ueed to frightened the German and >Danisl
peasants two or three centuries ago
Among the animal phantoms which ar
still supposed to haunt that country ar
the "headless bull" of the Chatala Valley
"the black dog" of the same locality, 9Th
white stag" of the sequatchie Valley an
"the bleeding horse" of the Smoky Noun
| tRins