The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-18

1early advertisers are limited 10 tneir own immediate business (all matter to be Nnobjectjonable). and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 A Baltimore man has refused to mar ny because his girls feet are too flat.
 Civilization is making rapid progress in darkest Africa. One hundred miles of the Uganda railroad have been con- pleted and will be thrown open to traf- fic at once. There remain three hun dred miles to be constructed before the Victoria Nyanza is reached. The last forty miles were laid down in a little over two months.
 Director Robert McAfee of Allegheny (Pennsylvania) department of public works intends to import and breed Ger man starlings. believing they will wage effective destructive war upon the Eng fish sparrow. To the latter he attrib- attes injury annually to the amount of thousands of dollars to the buildings and gardens in Alleghany and Pitts burg.
 "A story is told of foppish French man who knew no English, but who was an Anglomaniac, and wrote "Esq." after the names of men to whom he wrote letters. By and by friend ask ed him what this meant. "Why, the English do it." the other answered. "Yes, but what does Esq mean?" s'Why, you see, the English are of very cold temperament, and admire cold things, and Esq., which means Esqui- mau, is a great compliment
 The jury system has received another boom in Wisconsin, where it is said that the jury's verdict in recent case was decided by 9 game of cards. The affidavit alleges that after the jury re- tired to consider the case the vote stood eleven for the plaintiff and one for the defendant It was then agreed, contin- ues the affidavit. that a game of seven up be played between two of the jurors, and that on the result of the game the case be decided. A verdict was return ed to the plaintiff.
 Kind words can never die, and some harsh words are very slow about dying. Judge Pryor in New York in a recent divorce suit, decided that "inhumanity may be evinced and cruelty inflicted by verbal outrages as well as by bodily abuse.'' In explanation of what he meant by verbal inhumanity," he said that it was "such angry, contumelious and degrading reproaches by a hus- band, applied maliciously and without provocation, as makes his presence an intolerable grievance, destructive of the happiness that is the end of the matri- monial association
 "A Memphis paper tells the following fish story: ''Mr. Makett went out a few mornings ago to a marshy place that had dried out on account of the continued dry weather to dig fish bait, and, while digging with grub hoe, to his great surprise, instead of finding. fish bait, he dug up fine fish that weighed three pounds, and upon exam ination he found that in the mud for one hundred yards around there was a great quantity of trout, white, perch and bass. MT. Makett carried home a half bushel of the fish, and now instead of digging bait, he goes out every morn- ing and digs mess of fine bass. The inches"
 The regimen prescribed by Dr., Schweninger, Bismarck's physician, for reducing flesh is severe. He deprives his patients of almost all liquid nour- ishment. He does not permit them to taste beer and that of itself is hard ship which will reduce almost any Ger men to a skeleton. One small cup of coffee, without milk or sugar, is allow ed in the morning and during the day occasionally the juice Of an orange. Before meal time the patient may have the juice of lemon in a small cupful
 
 of boiling water. No potatoes or other vegetables that contain starch or sugar are permitted; no butter cheese or food that is fried in lard or oil.
 Revenge is sweet to some people. It is related that the personal enemy of 8 man buried a few miles out from Detroit has actually raised 0 hill of pumpkins on the grave of his former neighbor this year. There was once great rivalry between the two as tc which of them should get the prize fol the big pumpkin and the big squash al the county fair, and the dead man i.