The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-20

The stone is a pointed shaft of seashore granite elahoratey and fancifully curved. II has deeply chiseled inscrip- ,ion: "Don, for sixteen years our silent brother and friend. His faithful dog shall bear him company"
 One of the small economies that is roming into use on railroads is that of ,tarting the fire under the locomotive with oil instead of wood. By the use of litl e waste, and spraying apparatus for the oil, the fire is started at cost of about two and a-half cents. while with wood the cost is from eleven to thirty five cents. The time required is about the same.
 This is certainly warm weather. A farmer in Nebraska is raising four legged chickens. They use only one pair of legs at tipe, curling the spare set up under the body like a stork. Every half hour the chickens change legs, and such is the unerring accuracy with which this operation is timed that the crew of an accommodation train which stops at a station near by are ac- customed to set their watches by four legged chickens change of.
 It is said that one trick of coffee ship pers is to put a stove-pipe into the mid dle of the bag, fill all around it with good coffee, fill the pipe with an inferior coffee, draw out the pipe, and tie up the bag. When the coffee comes to be sam pied a tube is sunk for some inches through the side of the bag, and from the samples the whole is judged and ap- praised. The tube, however, seldom reaches the coffee that was put into the stove-pipe and so the whole bag is rated much above the quality of the core.
 A recent decision of he United States Supreme court is to the effect that off, cers of bank have no authority to 
 name of their bank, unless they have been formally and specially instructed to incur such obligations by the direc: tors. It appears that the Fidelity Ma tonal bank of Cincinnati was summon- ed into court to answer complaint al- leging that it refused to pay debt of e200, 900, that sum having been bor- rowed by the notorious E. L. Harper, as manager of the Fidelity bank. The directors of the respondent bank denied having incurred such indebtedness, on the ground that they had not ratified tr had knowledge of the alleged transac- ton. In the opinion of the Supreme court they were justified in the refusal to admit the claim.
 Concerning the distinguishing of sig nal colors, Dr. A. K. Wright, an expert. states it to be a fact that total color blindness is very rare, also that yellow blue color blindness is extremely rare Che common form, in fact, being the green-red blindness; and it so happens that, ill the establishment of signals, green and red lights form tho most commonly used colors, and hence, from three to i've men capable of doing work ss pilots or engineers are kept out of such employments, often with results Shat arc almost cruel. Most color-blind men can feadily distinguish yellows and blues, and Dr. Wright proposes to solve the problem by having the red lights exhibit distinctly yellowish tinge and the green lights a distinguished bluish tinge. He thinks that by the adoption of such plan the difference between signals could be readily made out by almost ali the color blind.
 The United States government has been picking up horses for the cavalry and artillery service very cheap in Washington and Oregon this summer The average price paid was s75 for each animal, which is uncommonly low when the style of animal required for the army is considered. A government purchasing agent says: We inspected horses recently at The Dalles, Pendle- ton, Walla Walla, Ellensburgh and North Yakima, and at each place found about 100 awaiting examination, I se- lected such as met the requirements which are that they must be bays and grays, fifteen hands high and upward, md from four to eight years old. These were passed upon by the government officials, and if found satisfactory.