The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-23

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 The Official History of the War of the Rebellion, which is published by the United States government, has cost S2,- 3S4.32S up to date, and this amount will be brought up to the round ss,OO0,000 before the work is completed. In con- sists of 112 volumes. and each volume will have cost about $25,0OO Too much.
 A London tradesman has worked up a big trade by keeping watch of the newspaper announcements of births and recording them in 8 book and then when the little one's birthday came around again sending out few days in advance typewriter letter to the mother calling attention to the suit able gifts in his stock and wishing her many happy returns of the day.
 Lavender is still used in English linen closets, but the supply is threat ened with extinction. The growers in the village of Hitchin, one of the chief centers of the lavender industry, as- sert that owing to a succession of bad seasons the plant is dying out there, and that, moreover, they cannot com pete with foreign limitations of laven- der water. The business of growing and manufacturing lavender is mainly in the hands of Quakers.
 Councillor Isaac Allen was not invited to their regular dinner at Young's Hotel by the white members of Governor Wolcott's council, but he says he does not mind being left out He says: "Those men are all flnanciers, who clip their coupons and play crap at their GlQOS, Wlll1C | dlli cb POOA i'oll "ltIl nothing but the clothes wear, and it is natural that they should keep to themselves
 An old postoffice inspector says that money should never be inclosed in let ters. Money orders are cheap and should be used, as money in a letter is a constant temptation. It Is practical ly impossible to place money in a letter so that postoffice enploye will not discover the fact. Paper money has a peculiar odor unlike anything else on earth and the clerk who is dishonest uses his sense of smell in spotting let ters that contain money.
 The Executive Council of the Phila- delphia Board of Trade which has been considering the Cuban question has just made sensible report. It is to the general effect that our representa- lives at Washington should concern themselves first and foremost with the affairs of this country before settling those of Spain and Cuba, the belief be- ing expressed that we have enough troubles of our own to remedy In trade and finance without involving our selves in the troubles of others, espec- ially in way that may aggravate our own.
 Kansas will attempt to deal with the convict labor problem. The legislature proposes to divide the convicts in classes, a number to, be employed in digging irrigation ditches. another class to be used in road building, another to be utilized In raising farm products for the State institutions, and the more vicious ones to break rock in the penitentiary to be used in building State macadamized roads. It has been argued in opposition to the plan of employing convicts at road building, that it would not be practicable on ac- count of the increased liability of es- cape and the great expense required for supervision. If Kansas demon strates that this objection is not based on tenable grounds, it will blaze the way for sweeping reforms in the treat ment and utilization of convicts in nearly every State in the Union.
 It is great work that the State oi Massachusetts has undertaken, that oi supplying the metropolitan water dis trict, including Boston and twenty seven other towns and cities with pure water. An immense lake, nine miles in length, covering 4,195 acres, 3S5 feet above high water mark, and with al average depth of forty-six feet, is tc take the place of what is now 8 busy manufacturing district in the valley oi the upper Nashua river. The greater part of the two towns and five villages including churches, schools, the house! of 1,711 people. two large mills, an6