The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-15

public, has been ten years III process ol erection. The sum of $2,o00,00o was ap- propriated for Its construction, and the actual outlay has been $1,315.07 within the appropriation. which is something of an achievement.
 Professor William Hallock of Colum- bia university, under whose direction n shaft is being sunk in the earth near Pittsburg, hopes to reach a depth of ten thousand feet by November 1. The work is being done in order to learn something concerning the strata of the earth and the comparative heat of it's crust at various depths.
 Pekins Kin Pan is the oldest news paper in the world, having been pub lished continuously for nearly a thou sand years. It began as a monthly. became weekly in 1861, and since the beginning of the century has been a daily It now publishes three editions day, and in order to prevent cheat ing by the vendors prints them on pa- per of different colorss the first being yellow, the second white and the last gray.
 One doesn't have to go to California to make money growing fruit. John Miller of Berkeley county West Vir- ginia, has just sold his apple crop for a little more than S20,000. This is the product of thirty-four acres of noun tain land, the assessed value of which is less than $3 per acre. As side issue MT. Miller realized between $3,000 and $4, 900 from his peach crop. His father, from a much smaller apple orchard, realized between sS,OOO and $1o,OOO.
 The annual Grand Army reunions the first and the last stand of the con- federates were made on land owned by the same man. A part of Bull Run bat tlefield was owned by Mir. Mclean Af- ter this famous battle he decided to move to a locality where there would be less fear from the ravages of war By a strange coincidence he took up his abode at Appomattox, which snbse- quently proved 10 be the final battle field of the Civil war
 TL j., l.. solid is the pith of the sunf1ower, with a specific gravity of OPS, or about one extensively cultivated in Central Rus sia, and various uses are served by its different parts, the recent discovery of the lightness of the plth essentially in- creasing the commercial value of the plant For life-saving appliances at sea cork has buoyancy of one to five, while with the sunf1ower pith one to thirty-fve is attained About eight hundred cubic inches of it would weigh as much as one cubic inch of iridium, the heaviest metal
 It costs something for a rich man to die in England. It is announced that the British exchequer will receive close to $1,000,000 estate duty on the person hlity of William Winans, the American multi-millionaire, who died recently in England. Under Sir William liar. courts revised scheme the death duties upward pay duty at the rate of per cent. This testator might have evaded payment of large part of this tax by assigning his property during life to his sons, a course taken by many wealthy Englishmen since the passage of Har- courts graduated duties.
 The experiment of carrying bicycles on trolley cars in San Francisco has proved highly successful. Attachments for the purpose were placed last Feb. ruary on the Market street division ~dASt NiASA 1uli thlouSH LILLY trict. In the first month 266 wheels were carried, which counted not only five cents for each wheel, but five cents for the rider This amounted to s26.2( for that one division, which otherwise the company would not have earned Three months later the number ot wheels carried on this division was 962 rhe company has now equipped nearly all the cars for all parts of the city with racks on both front and rear dash CTS.
 Bishop Turner of Georgia has revived the old scheme for the return of tht negro race to Africa and is speciall7 interested in the work of the Interna tional Migration society, which is or ganized upon much the same lines a the Colonization society of half a cen