The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-30


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 The Russian government has decided to adopt the metric system, and the minister of finance is about to issue decree substituting the metric measures for the old Russian.
 The Rev. Henry Varley, an English preacher, has boldly told the Bostonians that what they really need as a com- munity is salvation from Unitarianism, theosophy. land the insensate love of dressr'
 A town council in Ohio has passed an ordinance providing that no girl shall finger near the railroad station unless she has in her possession railroad ticket, the object being to prevent flirt- ations with commercial travellers. The trouble with this yarn is that commer- cial travellers don't flirt.
 All the tricks are not yet generally known. Gullib1e farmers of Allen coun- ty, Ohio, have been buncoed by a swind- Ter who went through the country ex- i1ibiting an enormous ear of corn, from which he sold choice kernels at choice prices for seed The ear was made from several smaller ears carefully cut up and ingeniously glued together in the natural form of big ear.
 No wonder there is trouble in the Austro- Hungarian empire. In Austria alone, according to the last census, there were s,461,5S0 Germans, 5,472,S71 Czechs, 3,719,2S2 Poles, 3,1105, ,221 Ruthen- ians, 1,176,672 Slowenians 675,305 Ital- ians, 644,926 Croats and Serbs, 2691 11O Roumanians and 430,496 others, while in Hungary there is similar diversity of races. And each declines to mix with the other.
 The effect of the use of automatic
 
 number of accidents to employees is shown by the Railroad Gazette from reports received from one of the lead ing roads of the country. About two thirds of the cars of this road are now equipped with the new. coupler, and where previously some twenty-seven or Ivy oir
 casualties on the road happened to en- ployes in coupling or uncoupling cars, only about eleven per cent. resulted from this cause in the year 1S96
 Japan's railroad companies are to duplicate their lines early in the new year. Tn consequence arrangements are about to be made by which great in- creases of rolling stock locomotives and other material will be made every year to 1903. In the case of one company alone it is estimated that the duplica- tion, with the extra rolling stock, etc.. will cost S15000,00O, as no less than three hundred locomotives and four thousand passenger and freight cars will be required. Much of this material is to be purchased in the United States It is said that the plan to set up a great electric light at Barnegat has been about given up. The mariners ob- 1ect to it, holding that it will possess distinct disadvantages beside a less powerful light. The intention was to Furnish signal visible beyond the line Of the horizon, thus rendering inestim- able assistance to navigators. But the experience of some American merchant captains and naval officers off the coast of France, where similar stations are maintained, is unfavorable to the adop- | tion of the same system. They have round that the illumination of the heavens does not show them whence | the rays come, and that if they attempt | to navigate by the reflection on the | sky or in the clouds they may be mis- guided. The lookouts cannot tell at | times whether the luminous signal is directed from a spot ten or thirty miles off, or whether it does not start from, another steamer.
 The business women of New Yorl, nave begun a movement for a menoorial to General F. E. Spinner, treasurer of the United States during the civil war General Spinner was the pioneer in tho employment of women in government offices. Of course there was much on position to the idea. When the fret greenbacks were printed there wera four on sheet, and it was necessary to cut the separate bills apart with scis- sors. General Spinner saw the bune-