The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-09

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 London is always boom city. Every month over twelve hundred houses are built within its boundaries.
 A perfectly healthy woman, in the opinion of Dr. Cyrus Edson, is quite a rarity" So is a perfectly healthy man.
 An Indiana court has convicted bank president of having received de- posits when he knew the institution was insolvent and punished him by inn posing fine of $21S. And yet we won- der at the increase of discontent.
 A Chicago physician seems to know what is good for children. He recom- mends the use of sweets and pure can dy by them. He believes that 'the taste for sweet stuff should be encouraged rather than checked, for it tends to ward off a desire for alcohol later in life." According to his observation, drunkards avoid sweet things.
 The Russian government recognizes the increasing importance of artillery in modern warfare and the necessity of having an extra supply of trained men to replace artillerists killed in battle. To provide this artillery reserve a number of men in each cavalry and in- requisite to make them capable artil- lerists.
 Dr. Macarthur, the leading Baptist minister of New York, thus explains away the miracle of Joshua stopping the sun. Says the doctor: 'It is sin- ply poetical way of declaring that great body of trained soldiers were overthrown by men little accustomed to war. and before the sun went down. It is not to be taken literally any more than other words of the Scripture, such as The stars in their courses fought against Sisera,' The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord The little hills skipped like lambs.'''
 The annual parliamentary blue book giving statistics of mineral production in the United Kingdom for 1896, shows that the quantity of coal mined was nearly six million tons greater than in the previous twelve months, but the value was $200,000 less. Production ot pig iron was the largest ever reached being s,659,6S1, tons. Gold is still pro- duced to a small extent in Wales, but the quantity fell from $500 ounces in 1895 to 1852 last year, owing probably to the abandonment of enterprises that were foated during the boom in gold mining shares.
 It is believed that the most remark able group of street mains in the world is under the surface of Amsterdam avenue in New York There are six water mains, each over four feet in di- ameter, on which the entire population depends for its sufficient water supply. In addition there are two electric sub- way conduits, a twenty-inch and a twelve-inch water main, one thirty inch gas main, one twenty-inch gas pipe, and six gas pipes from eight to ten inches in diameter. In all there are eighteen large pipes under ground.
 Colonel John Cussons, grand com. mander, and Captain Thomas Elicit adjutant general of the Grand Camp Confederate Veterans, Department ot Virginia, have issued call for gen. eral meeting to be held in Lee Camr Hall, Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday October 19, at o'clock p. m. ''This gathering" says the call, 'of vel known educators and eminent citizen. of Virginia is for the purpose of formu lating a definite plan for the exclusion from our schools and colleges of all his tories which are grossly erroneous il their statements, or which in their ami mus are unfriendly to the State.''
 It now appears that the attempt tc bring buyers to New York by an ar rangement for special fares on the rail roads was an almost ridiculous failure When the great scheme was started we were assured that at least twenty-five thousand merchants would he drawn tC the metropolis by the inducements. A a matter of fact the total number o. country merchants registered at tht rooms of the merchants association