Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-24

is no warmth of character In the English
race, and there Is vein of disloyaity run
ming through the length and breadth of the
land. am, Therefore, proud of my direct
descent from the house of Hanover. Ny
love and sympathies are all with the father
land" .a
According to late report of the direc-
tor of the mint Is, $40 silver dollars with
the date Of 1904 were coined during ths
year. To-day less than dozen Of them
are known to be In existence. There were
loo. 200 half dollars coined In the same
year; at present but one is known. What
ever became of the silver coinage OF that
year is one of the unsolved governmental
mysteries. Thirty.two years later there
were only 1000 of the 1885 dollar pisces
coined. Yet anyone who has % to invest
can get one of them for poeket-piece. A
thousand dollars would not buy an 1904.
N. Paul Jsbioohkoff, the inventor Of the
electric CANDLE" who died recently In
saratoff, Russia, was director-general Of
the Aoscow-Koursk telegraph lines when
he first took An interest In electric lighting,
and the Nihilist propaganda Of 1s7a. whsu
the railroad tracks the Czar Travelled over
were lighted as q measure of safety, gave
him his frst experience In practical work
In that line. n. Jsblochkof made num-
ber of important inventions besides the
candle, bis system Of the distribution of
currents by means of inductive coils hav-
ing been held to be the master patent for
transformer distribution. His system of
distribution and division of the current by
means of condensers was used ct the Paris
Exposition in 1878.
A New Orleans grand jury has discov-
cred that there are IA, ,4a5 indictments for
violations of the Sunday law and
916 indictments for violations of the
lottery law, not one of which has been
pressed to trial. "The grand jury will be
SLOW" they say to the judge, "to waste
time which might be better employed than
by adding to the pile of untried indic.-
ments already in the possession of the dis
trict attorney. The entire fraternity Of
law breakers are banded together for sslf-
protection, and, we fear, include some high
in authority, but We hold ourselves In
readiness to push further investigation Is
soon as the district attorney viii try
single case of violation of either the Sun
day, lottery or gambling laws"
The city of New York expends from the
proceeds of taxation half million dollars
year for miscellaneous purposes not
specified on the tax bills. These are some
of the items which go to make 1t up: Ad-
vertising, $4,000; jurors fees, sec, 900;
preservation of public records, 81. .4s0;
salaries of inspectors and sealers of weights
and measures, $5,400; fund for street
openings, 5000. 900; fees of witnesses, S.
500; fees of stenosrsphers, Court of Gen.
eral Sessions, 81, 900; miscellaneous claims,
$500; registration of plumbers, 81, 1,12o;
Commission for Revision of School Laws,
5000, and contingencies in the District
Attorneys Office, $751; 500. Under the
latter head comes special detective service,
witnesses expenses, and special counsel.
Notwithstanding the appropriations of
Sc. 900 for stenographers' fees In the Court
of General Sessions, and the payment of
50, 500 each to three official stenographers,
q total of 81, 500 for this item, the city is,
from time to time, sued for stsnogrsphers'
fees.
The recent action of the League of
American Whselmen In amending their
constitution 80 as to exclude Afro-Ameri-
can wheelmen has provoked great deal
of bad blood and controversy. II the
southern vheelmsn had not been sharp
enough to secure a seoret vote on the
amendment 1t would have been defeated.
This is conceded. It was hoped that the
adoption of the amendment would dispose
of the color question, which had besn Q
bone of contention between northern and
southern whselmen for many years in the
league, but It seems rather to have intensi-
fed feeling In the matter and will be
heard from In the next convention of the
league. Many northern and western wheel
men regard the step IS backward one,
which should not have been taken. How
ever this may be, the action of the Louis
Vile convention has brought out Q propo-
sition from Mr.. L. ]. Isascs of the Eureka
Wheel club of Cleveland that Afro -Ameri-
cans organize wheel association of their
own, and the suggestion has met with CON-
siderable favor.
Mr.. Douglas W. Freshheld writes q let
| ter to the London Times concerning the
memorial to be erected to Tennyson st
Freshwster, Isle of Wight. He says: II
has been decided to erect on the highest
crest of the Down, overlooking the western
and of the island, and between the woods
of FarriDgford and the Enslish Channel, Q
| granite monolith In the form of an Iona
| cross. The design will be furnished by
Mr.. Pearson, R. A. With the permission
/ of the authorities of the Trinity Bouse,
who propose to change the name of the
landmark from the Nodes beacon to the
Tennyson beacon, the present structure
pile of tsrrsd wood-erected by the cross.
The spot chosen, "tbe ridge Of the noble
Down" Tennyson loved, will, I believe,
recommend itself to his friends and the
companions of his daily walks. As Q
land and sea mark, in view Of every ship
that passes In and ont of the Needles OF
under the islsnd, the beacon cross should
form conspicuous and fitting memorial
to one of England's greatest poets. A
considerable sum has already been sub
scribed locally aud smopg the late Lord
Tennyson's friends. But more money 4,
needed to make the monument what II
should be in scale and fnish. There must
be many, both in England and In Amer.
lea, who would like to be contributors tc
this memorial. I am desired to AJAX oil
such to be good enough to forward theil
contributions before July next to tn,
Rev. j. Merrimsn, D. D., Freshwater, Isl,
of Wight, by whom they will be at ono
acknowledged.
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