Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-29


to be provided with bicycles.
It will be hard to fight the Germans. At
distance of 900 feet twelve sharpshoot-
ers were able to shoot to pieoes in nine vol
leys q newly erected wall eight feet high
and one and one quarter feet thick. This
was done ct Zwickan, In Ssxouy, to test
the efficiency Of German muskets.
Prince Bismarck, according to the book
recently published by Hans Blum, "The
German Empire at the time of Bismarck,
is not q wealthy man in the American
sense. The mortgage on his estates re-
quires him to pay about $50, 900 every year.
The income from his Friedrichsruh prop
erty has been as much as $60, ,000'a yesr,
but II has averaged him only about half
that sum. His entire income is not far
from 500, 900.
Messrs. George J. Gould, Edwin Gould
and Howard Gould and Miss Helen Gould
have all filed sfidavits in the Office of the
New York commissioners of taxes and as
sessment to the effect that they are no
longer residents of New York city. The
explanation of this move is that the per-
sonsl estate of the family, which was rated
by the assessors at $500, 900 when Jay
Gould was alive, has now been raised to
SIC, 1000, 900 and taxes assessed on 1t for
$3.50, 900.
An application has already been made
for this years award of the celebrated
prize the ''Dunmow Fitch of Bacon" The
prize was instituted in 1914, for "that
married couple who will 60 to the priory
and, kneeling on two sharp pointed stones,
will swear that they have not qusrrelled
nor repented of their marriage within a
year and day after its celebration" The
awarding of the fitch has been revived of
late years, and is the occasion of . great
festival of fun. It will be awarded this
year some time in August.
Although nearly ayear has elapsed since
the death of the fifteenth Earl of Derby,
his brother and successor has only just
now received from England's lord chancel-
lor the writ summoning him 20 take his
seat in the house of lerds as the sixteenth
earl. The explanation of this delay is in
tsresting. The late earl left q widow, and
in cases where there is no male issue of
the union at the time of peers death his
seat In the house of lords remains vacant
for nine months on the chance of the birth
of . posthumous heir. This little formal
ity was strictly adhered to, notwitnstand-
ing the widowed Countess of Derby is
over seventy.
A New York wood dealer, who handles
many cargoss of oordwood annually, fnd-
ing that the time consumed in unloading
carts at the yard amounted to coneiders-
BILE item of expense. has invented a Cart by
which this item is eliminated entirely.
The cart has horizontal platform hung
low between a pair of wheels on q crank
axle. The platform is held in place by a
button shutting into q elot in the forward
part of the frame of the cart. The driver
backs up to the string piece on the wharf
and his cart is loaded. Then he drives to
the yard, and when he Is at the spot where
it is desired to unload the wood he simply
turns the button and releases the platform
and the platform tips backward, and thus
the cart unloads itself. The driver never
stops at all-he just keeps right on to the
wharf again. The operation is so extreme.
ly simple and so obviously economical that
it is delight to the eye of even the most
casual observer.
Sir George Williams, just knighted by
Queen Victoria on account of his being
the father of the Young Mems Christian
association, is not the kind of man that
usually gets knighted. He is in retail
trade. At twenty he went to London
and, while serving an apprenticeship tn
business house there, he became deeply
imbued with religious feeling, and en-
gagged in a missionary effort among hil
ellow-apprentices. This movement Of
his resulted in the birth of the Young
Mems Christian association in London.
The conversion of the head of the firm
was one of the earliest triumphs of thu
little band. Mr.. Williams became treas
urer of the London association in 1858,
and retained the position until the death
of Lord Shaftesbury. when he was elected
to the presidency. He holds the presi
dency of thirty religious and philan
thropic societies in London, and is di
rector in as many more. With all these
duties he finds time to manage q dry
goods house, of which he is the head. III
Is now seventy years old.