The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-04-23

u eSSA iCaNllCn llleLl DiAC iiiSAAsNN'tA an average speed of 30 knots for three consecutive hours She will carry six quick firing guns, and five more boats of the same class are under construc- tion.
 These are the salaries paid by Cuba to some Of it's Spanish officials: Cover nor general, s5Oo0o. in addition to the palace, g. country house, servants, coaches and G fund for secret expenses; director general of the treasury, $ls,5oO; archbishop of Santiago and Bishop of Habana, 5000 each; commander gen era.l of the naval station, $16,392; Gen. eral Legundo Cabo and president of the audience, s15,OOO each; governor of Ha- bana and secretary of the general gov ernment, $S,000 each. All these officers also receive free lodgings and servants.
 A bill giving voters in cities the pow CT of legislating by direct vote has been favorably reported in the Massachu- setts legislature. It goes beyond the referendum system, as 1t provides that any citizen may propose a bill, and if he can obtain the signature of 25 per cent of the voters the council must submit the bill to popular vote at the next regular election, which occurs not less than thirty days after the filing of the proposal If the signatures reach 30 per cent, and the petitioners ask for a special election, it must be ordered. Besides this the council may at any time submit to popular vote any meas ure pending before it or enacted by it.
 Having been very successful in rid ding the orchards and vineyards of the State of several insect pests by pitting one destructive insect against another California is now trying the same prin- ciple in her rivers. Some of the rivers are almost alive with carp, which are a serious nuisance because of their de- structiveness of other fish. The State large number of black bass, of both the small-mouthed and arge-mouthed va- rieties, and turned them loose in the carp-infested rivers. Bass are vora- cious feeders, and game fighters, and 1t is expected they will destroy great numbers of the carp fry and eventually clean out the carp. The bass are, of course, very desirable game fish to have in the rivers, while the carp are not
 Senator Cannon of Utah has an idea. He proposes that the government shall construct a miniature typographical map of the United States in the city of Washington It will be miniature in- deed, but also monstrous, for it will represent every feature of the coun- try down to the hillocks, duck ponds and railroad stations, one foot of sur face to represent square mile of actu- al area, and the whole making a map more than half a mile one way and a third of a mile the other. MT. Cannon is quite serious and has put this project into joint resolution for the appointment of of commits sion of five, to serve with out compensation, three being appoint ed by the president, one by the pres- dent of the senate and the other by the speaker Of the house, whose duty it shall be to inquire into and report upon the advisability, practicability and cost Of establishing such a map.
 There are as bad people in Boston as in New Haven. At meeting of the Boston Paint and Oil club the other evening a speaker had the temerity to say that the sacred Common ought to be cut up by a thoroughfare. 'Tha L. T gs. 1Ixs..