The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-15

Yearly advertisers are limited to their nnobiectlonable). and their contracts do nor Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 A young woman in Worcester Eng land, has just died from eating wax candles to improve her complexion. She didn't improve it.
 The yellow fever scourge has already cost New Orleans twenty millions, and it will cost much more. It would not have cost that much this year to keep the city clean.
 New York is about completing the first pneumatic tube system of any size in this country. We are away behind Europe in this matter, though we lead the world in the matter of electric rail- roads. Some of the large cities of Eu- rope, such as London, Liverpool, Bir- mingham, Paris, and Berlin, have been provided with pneumatic tubes for messages for forty years, and they car- " an immense business.
 Bohemian sportsmen during the year 1895 shot and killed fifty men, women and children, and wounded 2,014 per sons, chiefly gamekeepers. They also killed, among other game, over 15,000 dogs, 8,762 cats horses, 15 cows, 1S2 calves, 276 goats and 129 sheep. For this they had to pay collectively over $5OO,0OO for doctors, fines and indemni- ties, and to spend 74,3SS days in jail. The Austrian government collects the statistics.
 Her young man dropped dead just before the wedding day; the sudden shock killed her mother; her sister died on the way to the funeral, and her brother then committed suicide. These troubles upset London young woman, and she tried to drown herself. The magistrate before whom she was brought, however. told her that ''she had allowed herself to get into a very morbid state," and had acted very fool ishly and childishly.
 waterworks of Pittsburg, and it is re- corded that for nearly twenty years the city of Pittsburg has gone on pumping fully two-thirds of it's water supply to twice the height necessary to send it to the consumers on the lower levels. It has at length reached the stage of rem edying this waste of one-third of it's power by building a low-level reser- voir. Can any one doubt that private enterprise, to which economy and profit were vital necessity, would have stop- ped that waste long before it reached a total of nearly $1,ooo0Oo, by putting in $100,000 standpipe?
 This is New York city's new ordi- nance regulating the use of lamps on vehicles and bicycles: Hereafter, each and-every bicycle, light wagon or wag- ons not>use for the delivery of goods, also vehicles used for the carrying of passengers exclusively, using the pub- lie streets or highways of this city, until one hour before sunrise a light or lights, so placed as to be seen from the front and each side, such light or lights to have sufficient Illuminating power to be visible at a distance of two hundred feet, said light or lights to show white in front and colored on the sides.
 According to the Kansas City Journal this is how Mrs. Lease went into poli- tics: Tn 1890 the Farmers Alliance sprang into existence, and Mrs. Lease wanted her husband to join the move- 1nent and become politician But he which politicians are made, and sug- gested that she go into it herself and leave him in peace. Mrs. Lease had never thought of entering politics, but she consented to try it. How, when and where to get the first speech off was the puzzle. Finally neighbor Dixon, was taken into the deal and he arranged it so that Mrs. Lease could appear before the next Farmers Al liance county convention and make a talk. She was there on the appointed day, and as soon as her name was men, tioned she rose and made a bee-line tc the stage. Her maiden speech, they say, was stemwinder. She was the sensation of the hour, and before thai campaign was over Mrs. Lease was the best advertised politician in Kansas,
 The increased expenditure for ire, travelling libraries, authorized by tn,