The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-29


 recently deceased church worker at Atchison, Kansas, is to be inscribed: sShe got up ninety-seven church so- ciables, and also served her master on thirty seven soliciting committees"
 Woman is not yet fully emancipated. Having advertised in the local paper for a lost pocketbook, a St. Albans, Vermont, young woman called at the newspaper office, upon being notified that the purse had been returned there, paid for the advertisement, and went away, leaving the pocketbook and her muff.
 A special committee of the Alabama legislature on the State convict ques- tion has recommended that all of the county prisoners and all except twenty five per cent. of the State convicts be withdrawn from the mines where they are employed under contract, and that the State convicts be worked on the farms and in the brick-yards and the cotton factory belonging to the State.
 A Columbus saloon keeper was charg- ed with violating the Ohio pure food law by selling adulterated whisky. He claimed that beer and whisky were ex- v>+ fyar hn 1oy yU,S r,ro cause they were not food and he had paid a liquor tax. The supreme court holds, however, that anything used to adulterate beer or whisky, which by it. self would be injurious to health, comes under the provisions of the pure food law.
 A bill before the legislature of Cali fornia provides that two photographs shall be taken, at public expense, of every voter registered, one set to be placed in a book in alphabetical order of names, and the other in another book, arranged by streets and numbers of rooms in the houses. It is provided that the expense of taking the two photographs shall not exceed five cents and the purpose is to prevent repeat ing and fraudulent personation.
 Those who own propery in London have to pay dearly for the privilege. The debt of the metropolis of London, apart from the separate liabilities of the city, is $1sO ,0Oo, 900, equal to the state indebtedness of many nations. To meet this sum of s12,5OO0, 900 has annually to be raised in taxes, $6,OOO,- 900 going as interest on the various loans, and $6,500,o0o for their repay nent, rate of over one shilling in the pound being needed to meet the ere- uuirements of the debt alone.
 For more than twenty years the phos- phate beds of South Carolina have furnished the markets of the world with the material for fertilizers, but now they are deteriorating rapidly and the income Of the State from royalties is falling off very fast. This comes from the fact that beds richer in qual- ty have been discovered elsewhere, not South Carolina article has fallen in consequence to such an extent that il will no longer pay to mine and ship the article The price has fallen from $ and $S per ton in 1880 to g and S3.5C per ton to-day, and one company that has in the last ten years paid the State more than $3OO00O in royalties has closed it's affairs and gone out of the business. The loss of the income from this once profitable business will be a serious one to the State.
 have decided to erect monument tc Chief Oshkosh, in North Side Park
 
 sachems, and played prominent part in the pioneer history of the North west. The settlement at the mouth ol the Upper Fox River, planted in 1886 had been called Saukeer Point anG Stanley's Tavern, but in 1S40 the set tiers named it Oshkosh in honor of the chief. "The result proved" says tht Milwaukee Sentinel, ''that Shake. speare was laboring under misappre hension when he propeunded his ia mous interrogatory, Whats in { nane?' There has been a great deal il one for Oshkosh, which is known al over the English-speaking world on ac count of its name. With some, espe ciaIly ignorant foreigners, its reality i doubted, and 1t is therefore placed il the category along with Utopia ant