Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-13
President Cleveland was fully planned and
all arrangements completed" An 30 forth.


The time worn ssmillion stamps" lie still
survives and is likely to prove immortal.
People all over the country are trying to
accumulate 100000 cancelled postage
stamps, in the belief that q standing offer
is made by the government or by some
body of big prize for such collsction.
Some think that SIC, 900 is the sum guar
anteed, while others imagine that the re-
ward is the endowment of permanent
bed in hospital. The popular notion on
this subject being somewhat underlined,
letters asking about it are constantly re-
eeived at the postofice department, Wash
ington. But no denials serve to destroy
the widespread faith in this strange CHI
mera.
A simple and ingenious plan is used to
discover where coal thieves are numerous
along the line of some of the Pennsylvania
and New Jersey railroads. The coal is
merely splashed with whitewash after It
has been loaded upon the cars. AS coal
trains are slow ones, and are often side
tracked for days together at obscure little
places, where there are few or no employees
to guard them, the enemies of the Coal
trust take advantage of these delays to re-
plenish their bins. A glance at load that
had been sprinkled with whitewash shows
where coal has been removed. and places
whore such removals are frequent are
either guarded or avoided afterwafd.
Richard @. Kerens is the member of the
Republican national committee from Mis-
souri,, and he appears to have some very
sensible ideas. For instance, he says: The
permanent headquarters should not be
place where people cit around and smoke
and tell stories. It should be in New York
city and should be in charge of q compe-
tent executive officer who is not afraid of
work. Nothing can be gained by sitting
around quietly for four years, and as
plenty of work which will bring forth good
results can be done, such headquarters
should be established at an early date.
The national committee should know what
is going on in California and Maine, as
well as In New York, and when 1t is known
what the feeling In every state Is, the COM
mittes will be in condition to accomplish
muck more effective work than was ever
before disposed of by it. There is no
cause for Republicans to be discouraged,
because the next four years will demon
strate clearly that the Republican policy
was the best one for the country to follow.
The probability of more thorough ex-
PLANTATION of the Antartic continent has
directed special attention in scientific
remarkable region. It ia an Ice cap, nearly
circular in form, and about 5000 miles In
diameter. It's thickness is still proble-
maticsl matter, and has been the subject
of much theorizlug by scientific men, who
argue that, if there could be assigned to it
thickness of $1,000 feet, 1t would present
a mass of ice large enough to displace the
earth's center of gravity nearly mile to
the southwark of its center; gradual
displacement of this sort, caused by the
slow accumulation of ice, would, as as
serted by some, produce an imperceptible
drainage of the oceans from the north to
the south, and the gradual emergence of
northern and submergenos of southern
continents. In fact, geologists claim that
an examination of our globe exhibits an
actual result of this sort. Thus the greatest
mass of the ocean is gathered about the
south pole-the northern hemisphere in
cludes about five sixths of the land surface
of the globs-and it is afi irmed that this
inequality is increasing, as evidenced in
the slow rising of the northern continents
and the sinking of the islands of the Pacific.
1t is, however, considered more probable
by some that the water is slowly draining
accumulating in the southern.