Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-09
OF CURRENT INTEREST.

lowerfalls? And why not Eastcambridge?
And Southboston? The postofice orthogra-
ply is inconsistent. Elsewhere the desire
to be consistent has led the department in
TO worse combinations than either of these.
There was FaWcett Gap in Virginia,
which was straigntway corrected at Wash
ington to Fawcettgap. Well and good: that
looks distinguished. But 1t happened shat
in North Carolina there was place called
Roaring Cap and Fawcett Gap having be-
come one word, the department was at once
forced to rechristen the other place Rear
inggap,' though the change brought these
two g's into such absurd proximity"
A decision of exceptional interest to all
bicyclers has been rendered by a Penn
sylvania judge in a suit for damages
brought by woman whose husband was
killed by Il train while crossing a railroad.
The evidence showed that the rider was
obliged to wait on coming TO the tracks
for freight train to pass, but. instead of
dismounting. he made what is called Il 'bi-
cycle stop" riding his wheel around in Il
circle. As soon as the freight train was
out of the way he started across the rail-
road and was struck by a train on the
other track. The court held that he was
guilty of contributory negligence. that the
bicycle stop" was not a stop in the legal
| sense, and that the rider had not exer-
| cised due diligence.
| Young and pretty Miss Lille Cosgrove
| entered the postoffice at Great Bend Pa,
| a few days ago with several other young
! ladies, when she gave little start, stood
| still, and, clasping one of her legs at q
| point above the knee, looked fixedly
| straight before her. Girls" she whispered
| to her companions, when those men go
| out l want to tell you something" The
| men soon departed. and she released her
| grasp upon her skirts. when Il dead mouse
! fell upon the floor. She felt the intruder
| cayorting about her, but she never
screamed a scream tried to mount the
table or the letter boxes. She just gripped
him, stood quiet and squeezed the life out
| of that rodents body.
| No one seems to know The age of Senator
I Harris, of Tennessee. whose present Illness
| seriously alarms his friends. Harris him
self doubtless knows. but, if So he will tell
no one else. The date of his birth has
never appeared in the Congressional Direct
| ory during the twenty years of the SEN
| ator's service. As he was admitted to prac-
tice at the bar in 1871, and was in the leg,
| islature of Tennessee during the Mexican
! war, it may be inferred that he is at least
| full four score years. He was elected to
| congress when Zachary Taylor was elected
| president. He served two terms as governor
| of Tennessee and was an aide to the COM
manding general of the Confederate army
of Tennessee during the last three years
| of the war.
| The low prices realized for sealskins will
| probably do more to prevent seal poaching
in Behring sea than the labors of all the
| commissions that have considered the sub
ject. The price of e1 los 4d will not do
have been so used to good wages that they
will refuse to work for less. Under the
| present scale of wages it will cost 50 u
skin to land them in Victoria, B. c., so
that if skins sell for $3.50 in London, the
loss is fully $3.50 on every skin. 1t is es-
timated that the loss of the poaching fleet
of last season will amount to 100000.
Some of Lyman J. Cages friends inti-
| mated to him the other day that they
would like to give him a public dinner be-
fore he went to Washington. You must
excuse me-" was his reply. Il want no
demonstration in my honor now. If. after
four Years of service q member of the
cabinet, my neighbors think l have served
my country so faithfully that they desire
to show their appreciation, dinner would
be all right. 1 prefer, however, to enter
my country's service without heralding.
Let my record in Office speak for me-"
Erastus Wiman lectured in New York
Friday night on pivotal Points in Life
Individual. National and Local" He ex-
pressed the opinion that economic condi-
tionS would soon greatly mend so that
dollar wheat and O-cent corn would not
be improbable, basing this expectation on
the fact that in fifteen years population
had increased Is per cent. while wheat and
rye areas had increased only 1Ia per cent.
The price had been low even in view of
this, he pointed out, because in fifteen
years there had been ten large crops.
The London Daily News says that New
York's demand for English mems hats.
once an important feature of the London
hatters' trade. has greatly diminished.
Probably the price has had something to
do with it, for a guinea London hat sells
for two guineas (s1D here. In regard to the
domestic product: many men consider the
charge of s. exorbitant for a silk hat from
n standard establishment. The high hat.
alone of all articles of masculine attire and
haberdashery, remains expensive now
as it was twenty years ago.
New York was Incorporated in 49,.
Brooklyn was Incorporated in 1901 AMI
| Long Island City as a village In 1889. The
antiquarians declare that the first authen-
1t was burned in A. d. 81. Paris was
burned in b. C. 81, and tine earliest au-
thentic mention of its existence as a set
tlement is traced TO Julius Caesar. or rath-
er 1t was ascribed to Julius Caesar, though
there was never anything traced TO Julius
Caesar, so far as history records.
There are 100000 buildings in the city Ci
London, including stores and public build-
ings. There are 100000 buildings in Paris.
There will be within the territory included
in the Greater New York $4,000 building.
of which 10000 are used for residential
purposes.
Governor Pingree. of Michigan,was asked
the other day for a brief sentiment" on
Washington's birthday, and replied that
Were living at the end of the nineteenth
century and too busy to write sentiments
about men who have been dead hundred
years"
The Walls Have Ears.
From the New York Sun.
1t was a radiant night in June, and as
they walked slowly up the roselit path
from the quaint little gate by the road, he
bent his head lower and touched her check
with his lips.
She looked up at him in surprise.
Perhaps he had been hasty; perhaps it
vras NOT his right TO touch the shrine of