The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-03

rlages, Deaths and Funerals oO cehsS s Local Notices IS cents per line. .,o,r Yearly advertisers are limited to theia own immediate business Gall matter to ,e oe unobjectionable). and their contracts uo no' Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
 A Kansas City boy named Sled is missing from his home. Perhaps he has gone sliding with the other boys. J. M. Kepner, just back from the frozen gold-f1elds with alleged millions, says that poor man has no longer any business to go to the Klondike.
 The United States army isn't as big as some armies, but it can shoot away money pretty fast. Projectiles used for it's great modern guns cost as fol- lows: Solid shot, S-inch, s69.S0 each; 10-inch, $144,50 each; 12-inch, $212 each; 12-inch mortar shells, weighing 800 pounds, $114 each, and 12-inch mortar shells, weighing 1000 pounds, $195 each.
 English farmers who are not allowed to use ferrets in hunting have scheme that saves them from the law and Hrives the rabbits out of their holes at the same time They have a small rubber hose with tin horn inserted in one end. This is showed down the bur- row and it does not take more than one blast to send bunny skurrying out as if many ferrets were after him.
 The New England Homestead reports that the value of all classes of farm animals in the United States increased $15o, 100000 in 1897, making the present total valuation $2,O37. 100000 It is call CuIated that the average value of sheep, which increased in number by about million last year, is $2.50, com pared to s1.95 and $1.60 respectively in 1887 and 1896 The highest average price of sheep per head was $2.66, re- ported in 1893.
 The January treasury deficit amounts 10 about $7,o0o0o0. The receipts have been about S.5Oo.0OO, of which $14,5oO,- 0DO were from customs and $12,000,000 from internal revenue, the remainder being from miscellaneous sources. The < customs receipts have increased about x $3,000, ,000 over December, but the inter nal revenue has fallen off $2,300,000 Of the gross expenditures of s35, ,266, 900, the pension list has called for $12,340,- o0O, and interest on the public debt s5,1oO,ooo
 The Universal Text Display Society, which has been organized at Niles, Michigan, announces religious cam paign of magnificent proportions, as the result of which it is intended that within a year every billboard, dead wall and fence in that State shall blazon forth some sort of a religious text. The inspiration for this particu- lar enterprise comes from an English man, now living in Chicago, who as- serts that the spirit of his dead father and the figure of his Master have ap- { peared to him in his dreams, com- nlanding him to be a universal text displayer.
 Tn the early part of May another railroad will be opened for traffic in Africa It extends from Matadi, on the Congo, one hundred miles from the mouth, two hundred and fifty miles up- stream to Stanley Pool, enabling traf- f1c to avoid the intervening rapids. Ii skirts the southern bank of the river at an average distance of about thirty miles, and connects the steamboat lines on the lower Congo with those on the upper. At the beginning of last year there were six steamers on the lower river belonging to the State, and four. teen on the upper stretches, which af. ford thousand miles of navigable wa. ters, to say nothing of the navigablt lengths of the tributary streams.
 ArIluCldt 1OWeTS HOW lulltdCe LTt natural ones so truthful1y that theS are much used in room decoration, ant the practice has become much more widespread since manufacturers have succeeded in giving them lasting per fume. But still more remarkablt fact, says a foreign paper, Is tha
 
 Dutch horticulturists have produced delicately fragrant varieties of flower. among those species which usuall. have a disagreeable odor. Thus sun flowers exchange their pungent smel for the scent of the rose, camellias ar, made to smell like violets, the fain perfume of primroses is intensified ant the large cyclamens acquire the exqui site aroma of the Alpine violets. Tn process is still a secret, but It is sai, that horticultural science will soon b prepared to disclose it.