The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-14
REPUBLICAN
NOMINATIONS.

WAAabA<AbI mchlN LEf, or ohio,
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
 GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
 The new ship on wheels, which is to be tried on the English Channel as soon as an enlarged model can be built, is a high framework resting on six broad hollow wheels. The wheels are made to rotate at a speed corresponding to that at which the ship is driven for ward by it's screw, and experiments made in tanks indicate that there is a great saving of power in rolling over the water instead of ploughing through it.
 The United States Fish commission has sent an expedition to Crater lake, Oregon, to decide whether it is feasi- ble to stock it with fish. It is the deep est body of fresh water in America, it's greatest depth being 2,000 feet. It is five miles in diameter, almost circular, and is thought to be the crater of an extinct volcano. No fish have ever ex- isted in it, and the object of the in vestigation will be to decide whether there is any food for fish in the lake.
 Aitchison, the greatest manufactures of and dealer in glass eyes in Europe, was recently interviewed. He says that England alone consumes 50000 glass eyes annually A good English glass eye will last, abort year and costs $5. Glass eyes of German and French make are cheaper but will not stand wear so long as the English. The greatest destroyer of the glass eye is the salt contained in the tears; its caustic action upon the glass has up to this time baffied all human invention.
 Yhe expenditures of the government last week reached the enormous total of s14,279,00 more than half of which was for interest and pensions. The other increases were caused by the first heavy drafts on the appropria- tions of the new fiscal year. Of course, the receipts, though larger than for many weeks previous, could not equal such payments; and the result is that there is already a deficit v4 over seven and halt millions for the new fiscal year, though we have nv. yet reached the middle of it's first month. And tho gold reserve is again below the s1OO,- OO0,00O mark.
 Rabbi Tobias Shamfarber, of Balti- more, has made a classification of the various types of modern Jews, in these words: "The ceremonial Jew, the Rosh Hashanah and Tom Kippur Jew, the Kaddish Jew, the Jew for revenue only (the Schnorrer), the Jew who does not want to have anything to do with Christians, the Jew who does not want to have anything to do with Jews, the ethical-culture Jew, the charity Jew fwto thinks that Judaism begins and ends with charity giving), the cere- monial Jew. But he alone is the true Jew who is proud of his Judaism and carries it out with him into his daily life"
 TTntiI recently bank stock in Missouri was assessed for taxation at about the nronortion of value listed for real es- tate and personal property, which va ries from one-third to one-half of the actual valuation. But a closer reading nf the law convinced the Board of Equalization of Gentry county that bank stock should be assessed as mon- ey and of course at it's par value. The Supreme court confirms the opinion, and there is consequent great com plaint of the inequality of assessment between bank stock and farm land, for instance There is no possibility of relief other than through the legisla- ture.
 The new Raines law in New York is exceeding even the expectations of it's advocates as revenue producer. The total receipts to date amount to nearly s1O 100000, and the returns are not yet cnmpIete. This insures a return to the State treasury of over $3,000,00O as the States share of the yearly proceeds. And another point in favor of the law is that the local receipts, after deduct ing the States share, for the New York city treasury, for example. will exceed the fouor revenues received by the city under the old system when it did not have to share with the State. But full ,v one-half of the States total share will come from New York city and BrookIyn. and Buffalo will contribute half of the remainder.
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