The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-25

A Kansas City man who did not like his name Moses has had it changed to Moke. Hope he likes that better.
 "A San Francisco paper says there Is a scheme on foot to can California air and ship it east for consumption. It Is said to be good for consumption.
 There's luck in Kansas this year. While going over cornf1eld at Dwight, in that State, farmer found gold ring that his wife lost there eleven years ago.
 According to the official records of the yellow fever epidemic in the south, there have been all together 4,209 cases there, of which 446 proved fatal. This is a remarkably low mortality for dis ease that is commonly reckoned the most severe of all the fevers.
 There is sympathy in the world. A woman who pleaded poverty when ar-  raigned in 9 London court for keeping an unlicensed dog, wss allowed the customary fourteen days in which to raise the money. Her cause got before the public through the newspapers and in less than 8 week syrnpathizing dog fanciers had forwarded to the clerk of +ho ,o,,u+ e1E1 qn,, 1,o,, ,.oJsaA
 The University of Georgia is threatened with a serious blow in the movement of the farmers of that State to use the $3O,O00 a year coming from the United States land-scrip fund to found a pure 1y agricultural college "where the far mer's boy may attend without having his feelings hurt by city students laugh ing at the cut of his hair or the fit of his garments as they came from his mothers hands,"
 Colonel s. M. Garter, who recently died in Murray county, Georgia, was one of the few slave owners who prov ed such kind masters that their slaves refused to leave them at the close of the war, and at his funeral the re- mains were borne to the grave, quar- ter of mile from the homestead, by eight old negroes who were his farmer slaves, and who for over thirty years had raised their crops on the acres which they titled while in enforced ser vitude.
 The Technical club of Chicago, in a discussion of expert testimony in courts of justice, came to the conclusion that the German plan of having regular State experts gives no better results than the go-as-you-p1ease American plan. What remedy, then, is there for present abuses? The Technical club could recommend nothing better than the appointment of expert witnesses in various lines by scientific societies whom the combatant sides should em- pIoy when expert testimony Is needed. Then, too, lawyers should be more req sonab1e in their cross-examinations, and thus avoid making partisans of, the experts through sheer irritation.
 Speaking of Omaha, Congressman Mercer, of that city, says: Many con- cerns are working overtime, and new industrial enterprises are being intro duced or old ones enlarged. It looks to me as if Omaha will become the great center of the packing business of the country. It is in the center of the corn belt, and packing companies are moving there or charging their plants con- stantly. fPhiP Armour is building a modern packing house, to be operated by electricity, and it will cost $1,000,000 Other firms are enlarging their plants this year at an aggregate cost of about $1,000000. The exposition grounds are being transformed into magnificent show place, and when they are ready for the exposition next June they will contain, besides the buildings and in- door exhibits, model farms, showing systems of irrigation and most ap- proved methods of farming'
 The Rev. Anna Shaw, of Chicago. hopes soon to be appointed a police man. 'T would rather be a policeman than be president" she says. ssThe one crying reform that is now needed in New York and Chicago is two hun dred uniformed women policemen to walk the streets. If MT. Van Wyck or Mayor Harrison had the knowledge of existing sociological conditions