The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-21

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 It is evident that confidence is restor- ed. J. R. Palmer of Chattanooga ad- vertises for lost umbrella.
 About $400,000 of worlds fair money still remains to be distributed among the stockholders at Chicago. It has been tied up by litigation.
 A wife in Sedgwick, Kansas, has sued for divorce because at the time of her marriage the husband did not inform her that he was subject to epilepsy" And she gave him fits besides.
 According to a writer in the Inde- pendent, only four of the states of the Union use officially the term common wealth, these being Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky.
 It is said that if the earth's atmos- phere were suddenly increased in thickness to seven hundred miles the sun could not penetrate 1t and the earth would soon be wrapped in ice. It is also said that there is no immediate danger that the earth's atmosphere will be so increased.
 The London Lancet prints a long ar ticle on "the therapeutical aspects of talking, shouting, singing, laughing. crying, signing and yawning." All are said to have their hygienic uses. Talk ing is pronounced a healthful occupa- tion, good for heart disease, and to some extent substitute for bodily ex- ercise.
 Citizens of Elizabeth, New Jersey, have been violently opposed to the de- sire of the Standard Oil company to lay pipe across the city Permission to lay this pipe would have to come from the citl council, so a delegation of property owners appeared there the other day to protest, and one Of them carried coil of rope into the chamber just to intimate in gentle fashion what would be the fate of the councilman who supported the oil company.
 A machine to blow glass is one of the recent achievements. At Muncie, h. diana, the machines are now used in making fruit jars. According to the Iron Age, "the introduction of these machines in glass making is fully as revolutionary in that trade as was the Introduction of the Bessemer converter and the open-hearth furnace in the iron trade, the type-setting machine in the printing business, the self binding l1ar- vester in agriculture, the spinning jen- ny in the cotton trade, the sewing ma chine among seamstresses, Sc. The window glass manufacturers are antic- ipating the early perfection of blowing machines for their branch of the trade"
 An interesting exhibit at the Trans mississippi exposition at Omaha is to be the "Tom Thumb train, so called because it is said to be the smallest in the world. It is the work of young man without technical training The engine weighs four hundred and fifty pounds, and it's length, with the tender, is six feet seven and one-half inches.