The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-23

successful in the Prussian military bands. Not only are they lighter than the ordinary kind, but they give out q much fuller and richer sound.
 Herbert Spencer, Rudyard Kipling and other distinguished Englishmen are convinced that the United States IS going to "bustn soon. It isn't the first time distinguished Englishmen have thought so.
 When the great Debs WIS living in grandeur at a Chicago hotel he boasted that lie had put potatoes and ice "out of sight" for other people. Now that he is in iail he wants potatoes and ice, and they have to be brought into him from n hotel near the jail.
 They are very old-fashioned in Nor way. A new law has been passed there which makes girls ineligible for matri- mony until they are proficient in knit ting, baking and spinning. Certificates of proficiency have to be earned, and without those no girl can marry.
 Lieutenant F. Bayer, of the French navy, to avoid collisions, proposes to introduce at tue top of all fast sailing steamers an electric light, which will cast q beam ahead to indicate the direc- fion in which the vessel is steering. So long as tho approaching ship vas not i'll the actual pencil of light it would be uuACues>u., tJ i..teI Ter course.
 Formerly all the mandolins used in this country were imported from Ger many and Italy; now nearly all that are used here, and a great many are used, ire made in this country In the past year and a half or two years the mando- lin has become very popular here, and Its popularity shows no signs of dimin- ishing. The demand for mandolins comes from all over the country, and it
 
 musical instruments are not always able to keep up with it promptly. It is said that we make in this country mandolins better than the imported, and the same is said of American gui- tars. Guitars made in this country are now used throughout tho land, and they are also exported to all Spanish-A meri- can countries.
 The repairing and enlargement of the "Jolly Post Eoy," one of the oldest inns in Philadelphia, revives historical stories of the hostelry, which was built lo0 years ago. Its name was derived from the boy who stopped at the house with the mails during the Revolution. ary period. Tradition of course says that Washington used to put up at the "Jolly Post Boy" It is also said that hc made it his headquarters during tht battle of Trenton. That Lafayette wal one of its guests there seems to be nt doubt. There is also reason to believ' that it enjoyed some celebrity as a re cruiting station during the war of th Revolution. In it's sanded parlors pa triots and Tories met to discuss hotl, the politics of the time preceding tn hostilities. Later the inn fell into tn hauds' of the British during raid. After peace was restored the "Jolly Post Boy" was tn scene of many political meet ings, and military companies engage' the grounds for drills. The inn is heart of again during the hard-oider cam paign of 1S4O, when cabin was erecte' near the side entrance and became tn rendezvous of local leaders of the city The house was also the headquarters o tho militia who were mustered into ser vice during the riots of 1S44.
 
 NON-SECTARIAN.
 The New York Constitutional conven tion is not making rapid progress, bu