The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-01

IAe hauSaS City Journal cheers the soldiers who don't find hardtack good with the remark that if they had stay ed at home they might have married cooking school graduates.
 The Dornphan county (Kansas) Times wants to know whether we are a nation of worms or of men. ''We certainly are not a nation of worms" replies the Kansas City Journal "any man who has broken his back digging < for worms could tell you that"
 According to Switzerland's latest census the population of that country Includes 21,727 commercial travellers. Of this number 16,743 represented Swiss firms; 3,257 represented German firms; 1,121, French; 2s2, Italian; 163, Austro- Hungarian; 52, English; 4e, Belgian; 19, Spanish, and Il, Dutch.
 A Belgian syndicate recently made & curious offer to the Portuguese gov- ernment. They proposed to establish elegant gambling hells, after the pat tern of Monte Carlo and Ostend, in va rious Portuguese towns, and were will ing to pay down an enormous sum of money for the privilege. In spite of the present financial difficulties of the country this tempting offer was promptly refused by the ministry.
 The finder box and flint are by no means to be accounted things of the past. Their manufacture is still car- ried on in the village of Brandon, Eng land, on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk. The work is done in little sheds, often situation at the back of the townsfolks' cottages, a large de- mand for this primitive form of light ing being created by hot, damp cli- nates such as Africa, where matches cannot possibly be kept.
 There is said to be practically no such thing as freedom of the press in S Japan. Whenever a newspaper pub fishes something unfriendly to the eov- ernment it is suppressed and the editor is sent to prison. The real editor is never imprisoned, though. Every newspaper has what the Japanese call "dummy editor," and his sole duty is to go to jail every time the paper is suppressed for offending the Mikado. Then the real editor changes the name of the paper and keeps on publishing it. Dummy editors spend most of their time in prison.
 The people of Gordon, in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, had unique flag raising Memorial day. The vil- lage lies in a narrow valley, with sides rising steeply to a great height Two convenient peaks were selected and a steel wire was carried from one to the other and hauled as taut as the means at hand would permit. The points of support are $50 feet above the village streets, but the sag of the wire wasted 150 feet, and when huge flag was pull ed along the slender bridge to the cen- ter of the gorge, it hung about eight hundred feet above the heads of the cheering crowd.
 
 The English Court of the Queens Bench recently had before it case in- volving the right of a community to protect itself against noise. The local authorities of Kent passed bylaw that mo person shall sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument or sing in any public place or highway within fifty yards of any dwelling house after being required by any con- stable or by any inmate of such house personally or by his or her servant to desist." The right of the authorities to make such a regulation was affirmed by the Lord Chief Justice and his asso- ciates with only one dissenting voice, that of MT. Justice Mathew, who thought singing in reasonable way was an inherent right of man.