The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-24

A Chicago man who has just died left $1,700 to his favorite dog.
 A candidate for the postmastership at Waldoboro, Maine, owns 62b hens and chickens, and urges as one claim for the position that a man that can manage a big flock of hens successfully is equal to any public trust.
 Free speech isn't any freer in some places than 1t is in New Haven. Galician Socialist candidate for the Reichsrath having proclaimed on the stump the unpleasant truth that the Emperor of Austria canont declare war without first consulting the Roths- childs, has been sentenced to eight months hard labor, including fast day once a fortnight, for lese majeste.
 Frank Piscator left Michigan a year ago and went to the Yukon, leaving his parents poor, helpless and with mort gage on their home. He returned three days ago with $75,OOO of Alaska gold just as foreclosure proceedings had be- gun. The obligation was paid, the are made comfortable for their declin- ing years. Good as play, and perhaps as true.
 Twenty-Five years ago scientists pre- dicted that abundant coal fields would be found on both sides of the British channel, and the predictions have been fulfilled. Besides the great Kentish fields discovered several years ago and yielding bountiful1y even since i'm mense tracts of coal have been re- gently found between Calais and Cape Grisnez The French discoveries were the result of those in England, geolo- gists being sure that the same belt ex- tended under the water from one country to the other. This last discov- cry is of the greatest importance to in- dustrial France.
 E. V. Smalley tells of seeing in St. Paul the other day some samples of silk fabric made from the fibre of the Ca madam fir tree. These samples, MT. smalley says, were not limitations, but were actual silk, though not the prod uct of the cocoon. They are made by a French process and a company is being organized in New York to manu- fracture such silk. It appears that the inventor cut open silk worms and stud fed the process of converting the mul- berry leaf into silk filament under a microscope and anaylzed 1t chemically. Then, with the same chemicals that the worm secretes he began to initiate it mechanically. Obtaining from the wood the identical substance exuded by the worm he constructed a machine to force the pulp through small holes and thus make the thread.
 A historical festival like that con- ducted last summer in Plymouth, Mas sachusetts, is again to be a feature of the old towns summer life. Six days are to be devoted to the pageant, the 2sth, 29th, 3Oth and 31st of July and the 2d and 3d of August. The more at tractive features of last year will be re- tained, and many new scenes and dances. in which descendants of the a,,s+are dance-hating Pilgrim passen- gers of the Mayfower will participate, will be added. The story of the loves, sorrows and adventures of the Pil- grims their life before leaving Eng land, their sto-- in Holland, their arri- val at Plymouth. their home life and later history, and the history of their descendants down to the beginning of the present century, will be told in a novel and attractive way. During the fete the old Windsor House will be open to the public, and the Crow House will also be on exhibition.
 Chief Clerk Treleaven, of the Santa Fe freight office, in Kansas City, tells the following story of trip he has just made through Kansas: When the train stopped at Larned, Kansas, I heard a voice say, in a tone of com mand, Come out of there!'' I looked out of the car window and saw an old man holding a tramp who was just crawling out from the trucks under a car. supposed it was the sheriff of the county, and that he had caught a criminal. T want you," said the old
 man, as the tramp stood on his feet.
 'I'll give you s1.5O day. Then it
 dawned on me. The old man was out
 catching farm hands for the harvest
 field. A moment later younger man
 came up and tried to hire the tramp,
 but the older farmer drove him away,
 saying the tramp was his by right of
 discovery, and he proposed to keep him