The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-21

riages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each Local Notices 15 cents per line, .,.,. Yearly advertisers are limited 10 tneN own Immediate business tall matter TO pe nnobjectionable). and their contracts do not include Wants. To Let. For Sale' etc.
 Queer things are done In Kansas. One of the public school teachers of Emporia writes poetry and compels her pupils to read it aloud.
 Japanese officers who fought in the late war against China have petitioned their government to erect a monument to the memory of the horses that fell in battle. Why not?
 It is related that in certain parts of Australia when a man marries each of his wife's relations strikes him with stout stick, by way of welcome into the family. A very indicative custom.
 Score another for Woman. In new stair-carpet fastener, patented by Ca- nadian woman, wire cone is slipped over the edge of the carpet with one end of the wire ending in a loop in which the screw is inserted to hold it in place, the fastener being put down first and the carpet afterward forced into the coil of the wire cone.
 A prize of virtue has been conferred by the French Academy on Mlle Bon- nefois, who has devoted her life to the education of the nomad population of the booth and the caravan. She goes the round of all the great fairs and sets up her tent school among the shows and circuses, doing an immense amount of good, and she is highly pop ular among her rough clients, young and old.
 Sixty-eight sailors lost their lives while navigating the great lakes this season. Not single passenger on the lake steamers was the victim of acci- dent but one did jump overheard and drown himself The season was chiefly remarkable for the large number of narrow escapes of crews from wrecked vessels. In this respect the work of the 1ife-saving service was extremely good throughout the chain of lakes, many daring rescues being placed to the credit of the life-savers.
 The announcement that the Hon. Will liam J. Mills is to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme court in New { Mexico gives much pleasure in this re- zion, where Mir. Mills and his fitness for the important place are well known. MT. Mills is good lawyer and has the real Judicial quality. He has had an extensive experience in public affairs, and has a thorough knowledge of men and things in New Mexico. He will feel at home there and will do his full duty.
 Lord Halsbury, the English lord chan celor, who practically appoints the judges of the high courts of justice, has had an unexampled run of patron age during the past twelve months. He has promoted four judges and appointed five new ones, while the recent death of Baron Pollock and the resignation of MT. Justice Day give him two more places to fill. Of the thirty-two ire movable judges no less than twenty owe their present positions to him, and two more will soon. Two other judges were appointed by the preceding Conserva- tive lord chancellor, Earl Cairns, and only eight obtained their places from the Liberal lord chancellors, the Earl of Selborne and Lord Herschell.
 Political reasons, it is alleged, induced Insurance Commissioner McNall, of Kansas, to issue an order that tornado insurance coudl only be written by certain Kansas companies, thus debar- ring outside companies from partici- pating in that kind of risk. That was last May. Shortly after the order was issued destructive wind storms swept western Kansas, destroying thousands
 
 suffered thereby declared that Mo- Nails order prevented them from in- suring their crops. Many of them were Populists who declared that on this account they would never again vote the Populist ticket. Later the commissioner revoked his order, saying that nonresident companies might take tornado risks if they compiled with the laws of Kansas. This action of the commissioner has not so far as ascer- tained coaxed back any of the repudi- ating farmers to the Populist ranks.
 Taking a hint from the generation of electricity at Niagara Falls and more especially from the Carnegie iron works, whose electricity is generated by