The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-06

person in the world" A Kansas newspaper says that the length of binding twine, were it con- tinuous, which was necessary to bind the wheat of Kansas this year, would go around the earth ten times and leave enough to spare to hang every one of Kansas detractors in the measley East. Aah This is a year when wonderful things are told of the West. For instance. Pearl Bradley, who is not yet quite eighteen years of age, applied to the Supervisor of the Poor in St. Louis on Thursday for relief, stating that she had eight children to support. She was married at thirteen, and gave birth to four sets of twins, after which her husband deserted her.
 It is probably the general impression Inventions, but it has just been discov- cred that the ancient Romans practic- ed this method of advertising. In dig ging at Herculaneum there was brought to light pillar covered with bills, one on top of another. The paste used to stick them was made of gum arabic. The bills, when separated and examin- ed. were found to be programmes and announcements of public meetings, and e1yay, a1ootiop r,r0o1a m lions
 Baltimore is to have a barbers shop In which the operators will be as care fully on their guard against the propa- gation and dissemination of noxious bacteria as are the surgeons in mod ern Hospital. The razors and brushes will have aluminium handles as free from crevices as possible, towels will be sterilized by means of hot air just before use and the barber, besides working with bare arms, will wash his hands and all his implements between each exercise of his art, in a conven- tent bowl filled with an antispetic liq- uid.
 The rapid rise of the land about Hud- son bay is said to be the most remark able gradual upheaval of an extensive region ever known. Driftwood beaches are now twenty to sixty pr seventy feet above the water, new islands have appeared, and many channels and all the old harbors have become too shallow for ships. At the present rate this centuries, adding a vast area of dry aand or salt marsh to British territory in America.
 There is queer state of things in Idaho, resulting from recent decision of the Supreme court which practically nullifies all important State laws. Fol- lowing the action of the Supreme court one of the district judges has declared the anti-gambling law unconstitutional, It is expected that the constitutionality of the appropriations of money will next be called in question, and this will require special meeting of the legisla- ture But it is doubtful whether this can be legally done, as it is presumed that all but the first session under Statehood were illegal the legislative apportionments being open to attack under the Supreme court decision.
 A car-brake invented by a Kentucky mechanic and satisfactorily tested on a Cincinnati street railroad, is so effective and wthal so simple that it is a sur prise that it was not earlier devised. It was designed for street cars but may be used on all cars It is a friction band which is applied to a rim cast on the side of the car-wheel. It has a bearing surface of about 200 inches, as compared with the thirty inches of the brake-shoe now in use on street cars. It is operated in the same manner as the present brake, and costs but little more, but it is much more effective In the test a motor car was stopped by the brake almost instantly further ad- vantage claimed for the invention is in the fact that the bearing surface of the brake is shifted from the running sur face of the wheel to the special rim on the side, thus lessening the wear of the wheel
 The completion of the great Black wall tunnel under the Thames at Lon don and its opening to public transit are events of no small importance in the history of that vast metropolis. The revised and official data of this inn