The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-25


 Short Bull, Sioux chief, has been hearing about Christianity, and hc shows hts good sense by saying: "l would rather go to heaven four times that to go to he'll"
 When 1t comes to costly playthings the latest present to tho boy King of Spain may be said to cap the climax. It Is nothing less than an infant regiment comprising four hundred warriors, ranging ill age from to years.
 B. A. Williams, a watchmaker of Broadway, New York city, recently ac- oomplished ,A remarkable mechanical feat-that of drilling hole through the entire length of common pin, from head to point, the opening being just large enough to admit of passage of fine hair. Mir. Williams is the mechanic who two years ago cut q sew ing needle in two lengthwise and then drilled holes and fastened it together SO nicely that the split could not be seen with the naked eye.
 There is a constantly growing trade not only in electricity sent to the cus- toner by wire, but in regularly stored electricity. Storage batteries are much used for running photographs and other light tasks, and batteries are charged at places that make business of manufacturing electricity. The price is about fifty cents per cell, and it takes from six to ten hours to charge q battery, the time varying with it's size. Stored electricity is handled liko any other commercial article.
 Underground London is an interest," ing place. The latest underground rond there will run for part of the way un- der the low level main sewer, which, in it's turn, runs along beneath the dis trict underground railroad. So at this point in the city there will be, first, a busy main thoroughfare, below that a steam railroad, then huge metropoli- tan sewer, then an electric railroad, reaching it's terminus at q depth of about siXty-three feet below the street, and here it will communicate with an- other line, which will lie at depth of eighty feet.
 It is good idea they have in Paris of naming streets after great men. Three streets in Paris are to be named after the authors Edmond About, Guy de Maupassant and Octave Feuillet. Taine, the critic and historian; Brillat- Bavarin, the epicure; Charcot, the great physician, and Fourier, the Socialist philosopher whose communistic colony in New Jersey half century ago was more interesting experiment. than even the Brook Farm-all these are to have their names perpetuated in the new baptism of streets that is taking place in Paris.
 Henry Sartain, son of the famous Sngraver, John Sartain, tells how in 1851 Poe's poem, ''The Bells" was first published in Sartain's Magazine. Poe, he says, ''oA1ne into the office one day, md handing father a stanza in manu- ycript asked him what he thought of it. Father looked it over and said he Thought it pretty good. Is 1t worth o6f asked Poe. Father said he thought t was, aud paid him the money. The peem was the first stanza of "rhe Bells.' 4 week or so later Poo again sauntered Into the office, with the remark: Well, John, see yon haven't printed my poem yet Father replied that he had not, because of lack of space. Well, Two got nothar stanza here. Will you let mo have & five on .t?' The man looked so utterly wretched that father paid him the money and took tie B9BIlZd. SClll HuOGuoE luSGallme0G or two additional stanzas followed within month, and then it was that the poem was first printed"
 The Norwegian legislature has been making some changes in the Gothenberg liquor system which prevails there. The principle of .intrusting the liquor trade ot each district to public company, in which the licensing authority is exclu- lively vested, is confirmed and extend a, bst material changes are made in the diSFibution of profits. One of the tsvoritearguments of the opponents of tAs systeAq has been that, inasmuch as the prontsNavs been largely applied to purposes winch would otherwise be de- frayed out of sates, there must be, and eftsn has been, tendency on the part ef the rate-payert through their repre- sentative bodies tS encourage the sale q drink and generally to increase the Fstt s-.s+ [ -g ..E s=t