The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-19


 own Immediate business tall matter to be unohiectionabe, and their contracts do not ,nclnde Wants To let. For Sale, etc
 The reporters know how to put things One of them announces that happy couple "were the recipients of a daugh- ter Thursday night
 A Maine woman who asked the Rev. Elijah Kellogg his age the other day was quickly answered by the author of "Spartacus:" T do not tell my age. say am thirty-eight I am sure of that.'
 Colored men and women of the South have subscribed for the capital stock to start cotton factory in which col ored operatives are to be employed. It is proposed to run the mill night and day and to employ 600 hands. This is business.
 E. E. Baker, of Dennison, Texas, is suing for divorce. and he ought to have it. Mrs. Baker is addicted to the inordinate drinking of puttermilk. He says that she consumes a gallon of it at the three meals and on retiring at night, and that it makes him sick. Furthermore, Mrs. Baker snores so loud that it is impossible to live in the house with her.
 The collapse of the New England nnackerel fishing seems to have come to stay. The entire haul of the year is not expected to exceed 12, 900 barrels, which is less than half of the miserable catch of 1895, and is little better than one sixth of the catch of last year. In times past years catch has amounted to 100000 barrels, but the day of great things in mackerel fishing has been some time gone.
 An American engineer named Un- thank, who has recently measured the great Chinese wall, reports that his measurement gives a height of eighteen feet, while every few hundred yards there is a tower twenty-five feet high. For twelve hundred miles the wall goes over plains and mountains, every foot of the foundation being of solid granite and the rest of the structure solid ma- sorry.
 An interesting sight at Opelika, Ala bama, is a patch of ''limbless" cotton. The plants are from five to seven feet high and have no limbs or branches at all. The bolls form on little twigs two and three inches long, and when in bloom the stalk presents the appear ance of white column. A crop of about four bales to the acre Is what is expected, under fair conditions. This Alabama patch is the property of the Rev. I. N. Fitzpatrick. a presiding elder of the negro Methodist church, and such is his care of his unique crop and his confidence in his neighbors that he watches it at night with dogs and gun,
 The people of New Hampshire were surprised because one of their judges the other day sentenced a man to for ty-five years in prison as an habitual criminal. The offender had been in dicted on three counts for breaking and entering, and, being convicted upon each count, the judge made the penalty fifteen years for each, or forty-five years in all. The county solicitor had previously called the attention of the court to the mans record and, in reply to the judges question, the accused ad- nitted that he had been in prison twice before, and that this would make his third term. People did not know that the courts have the right to punish an offender as an habitual criminal Yet an act was passed in 1893 which ex- pressly provided that "any person who has been twice convicted of crime, sen- fenced and committed to prison for terms, not less than three years each, shall, upon conviction of a felony conn., mitted in this State, and upon proof of such former convictions, sentences and committals, be deemed to be an habit ual criminal, and shall be punished by Imprisonment in the State prison for a term not exceeding fifteen years"
 The calorific and evaporatiye value of various oils as fuel for steam raising has been made the subject of much in vestigation by R. R. Wallis of South Shields, England. In comparing coal and oil he shows that the value of each varies greatly with the quality and cir cumstances under which they are burn ed, oil doing from one and 8 half to two and a half times the work of an equal weight of coal. This is accounted for on various grounds, namely the com plete combustion of oil without loss of heat by soot or smoke; there are no ires to clean with the accompapvino