The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-02
ICAN NOMINATIONS.

GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
 General Harrison shows the fallacy of the 16 to 1 ratio in this fashion: "They can say that ten muskrat skins are equal to one beaver skin, but that does not make it so. The fur trader fixes the ratio.''
 Brest's town council had the queer idea of selecting men of M. Felix Eau citizens that was to greet the Presi- dent of the republic on his recent visit to the town. All classes were repre- scented, including dock laborers and apothecaries. M Faure, who is we'll preserved man for his age, was startled at the ravages of time on his contem- poraries.
 Charles R. Field of sedalia, Missou- ri, is recovering from his silver craze. Some time ago he bet $500 with another Sedalia man that Bryan would be elect ed. and the money was placed in the hands Of a stakeholder. MT. Fields still believes in free silver and is going to vote for Bryan, but he is wise enough to be anxious to call the bet off, and is suing the stakeholder to compel him to surrender his $500.
 Uncle Sam pays to pensioners in Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio and Indiana efghty-two millions every year. The battle between patriotism and honest money on the one side and revolution and free silver on the other will be fought out in those States, and the votes of these pensioners, who are interested in preventing a reduction of 50 per cent. in the purchasing value of their incomes, will have an important bearing on the result.
 It is said that a Philadelphia firm of glass manufacturers, established near ly one hundred years ago, sacrifices hundreds of thousands of dollars of business annually because it holds principle dearer than money. Its origi- nal founders belonged to the Society of Friends and of course did not believe in war, litigation or the sale of spirituous liquors. Consequently this Quaker firm has never sold a bottle or flask for the use of still or brewery, and has repeat ment because it could not conscien- tiously furnish supplies for the army or navy department.
 The largest ballot yet printed for an election in Philadelphia will be used in the coming presidential contest. It measures two feet by nearly three feet. The number of parties in the field is what has caused the increase in the size of the sheet. There are nine col umns Eight parties are already in the fight, and the ninth column is for the use of any party that may yet decide to go into it. The parties and their candidates as they will appear on the ballot are: Republican Mckinley and Hobart; Democratic, Bryan and Sew all; Prohibition, Levering and Jones National, Beatty and Southgate; Peo- ple's, Bryan and Watson; SociaHstic- Labor. blank; free silver, Bryan and Sewall; sound money, blank
 The first large steamship to be built for the trade between England and Africa was the Scot, and in spite of it's great size in the beginning it has re- gently been actually cut in two and an additional fifty-three feet set in it's thickest and loftiest part. The task was prodigious, for the huge vessel had to be drawn up high and dry to begin with and the saving, cutting and unbolting was an almost endless under IaKlnS. linen the HlllnS III the new part securely enough to stand the strain certain to come upon a vessel demanded the most accurate workman ship. The thing has been successfully accomplished, however, and the inn mense boat now measures 560 feet in length, 55 feet in breadth. 34 in depth with gross tonnage of nearly 5000.
 Occasionally the office seeks the man This seems to be the case with regard to the position of military attache tc the United States legation at London One would hardly suppose that so at tractive detail. and one at so import ant station as London, would be re- fused by any army officer, but the post has been offered to several officers, and