The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-07

riages, Deaths and Funerals. 50 cents each' Local Notices Is cents per me. +o their Yearly advertisers are llmlteu lo % ha own immediate business (al matter a ,o no+ unobjectionable) and their contracts uo ho' Include Wants To Let. For sale' etc.
 Those who participated in Labor Day had to labor hard to keep cool.
 Paderewski will not play football this year. He has had his hair cut
 Another biography of Marie Bash- kirtseff is in the works Too bad. That discouraged and discouraging young woman ought to be allowed to rest in peace.
 John Brown has been an employe of the Philadelphia postoffice for fifty three years, and Charles J. Summers has been letter carrier there for near ly thirty-four years, all that time on the same route.
 The retiring president of the Detroit board of education in his annual report
  courses be established for parents as well as for children in the public schools His idea is to give some of the advantages of schooling to grown peo- pie who have come to America from foreign countries, where they have not had the advantage of free tuition.
 
 An important feature of the present Anglo-Egyptian expedition against the Mahdi is the successful sinking of wells in the desert between Wady Hal ia and Abu- -Hamed, The presence of water at such distance from the Nile has never been suspected, either by Eu- ropeans or natives, and bids fair to rev. olutionize not only the desert tribes, but the entire conditions of desert life. Indeed, the problem of converting the great African deserts into fertile terri tory seems to be at length in fair way toward solution, not by means of let ting in the sea, as proposed by Count de Lesseps, but by the sinking of wells. Water is evidently to be found every where iii the African deserts, provided one digs deep enough.
 According to the statement of Pro- lessor Lewes London fog deprives coal gas of 11.1 per cent. of it's illumin- ating power, but this Is not so aston ishing as is the fact that under sim ilar circumstances, the searching light of an incandescent burner loses as much as 2O.S of its efficacy. The reason given by Professor Lewes of this phe nomenon is that the spectrum of both the incandescent and the electric light approaches very nearly that of the solar spectrum, being very rich in the violet and untra-violet rays. It is precisely these rays that cannot make their way through London fog. To this is at tributed the fact that the sun looks red on foggy day. The violet rays are ab- sorbed by the solid particles floating in the aqueous vapor of the atmosphere, and only the red portions of the spec trum get through. The interesting ad- ditional statement is made in this con- nection, that the old argand burner is much more successful in resisting a London fog than any of its later rivals
 By order of Parliament a report has just been made out and published con- cerning the unclaimed funds in the Keeping of the various government de- partments at the present moment The Chancery Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature has in it's posses sion over s3OO,0OO,Oo0, after paying dur ing the last two years $S5,000,0O0 to suc- cessful claimants. The Irish Court of Chancery holds some s5O,0O0,O of un- clsimed moneys, while the unclaimed government stocks and accumulated dividends retained by the Treasury de- partment amount to $2S,0O0,000. Un- claimed dividends in bankruptcy are figured at $5,600, 900, while unclaimed army and navy prize money and accu- mutations of pay exceed s3;00O, 900. All these funds are used by the British government until claims thereto have been satisfactorily proved. An endeav- or will be made when parliament meets to transfer to the State the custody of unclaimed funds In the hands of bank CTS and others. These funds are known to amount to colossal sum, far ex- ceeding the total amount of unclaimed money now in the keeping of the gov. ernment.
 Olive culture in California is becom- ing very extensive. A notion may be had of its growth from the fact that in 1894 100000 olive trees were sold fol planting from the nurseries from Pc mona alone, while shipments and or. ders from that place for the first hal of 1895 amounted to 50O,OOO trees. It i: estimated that 600 900 olive trees wer,