The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-28

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 Yearly advertisers are limited to |. the,a i,a unobjectlonabe). and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc. < A maker of fireworks calculates that between s1o,0OO,OOo and s15,OoOOOO' will be burned up in this country on the Fourth of July next. The country will be lucky if it gets off for that.
 The great farming States are pros- porous. The national banks of the Middle states had last month $495, ,0O0,- 900 of individual deposits against $400,- 100000 in May. 1897: those of the fur ther western States, $10O. 1000 against $So,700,0o0, and those of the Pacific States, s54,7o0,OOO against sSS,oOO,o
 The great decline in marine insur- ance rates within the past three or four weeks is an indication of returning confidence. A fall of fifty per cent. or more of these rates should make nna- terial difference in foreign commerce. The feeling is that there is practically no danger of capture by Spanish war ships.
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 A man who was born a slave at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1859, John R. Marshall of Chicago, will be the first negro colonel of the United States, commanding the Eighth Illinois regi- ment of volunteers. He was graduated with honors from a military school in the benefit of a course at Hampton. In civil life, he has served with accept ance in the county clerks office in Chi cago.
 A peasant family which has been collecting books on its farm for over three hundred years. has been discov- cred in the parish of Hesslingen in Germany. The books are on all possi- ble subjects, the oldest being a Mus covite History" printed in 1868. A curious fact about the family is that its members have always remained peasants, none having tried to change his station. even to become a village school teacher.
 A Philadelphia specimen of the ssCrimson Rambler" rosebush now bears no less than 6,50o roses and buds, by actual count, which is remarkable, considering the fact that the bush is only years old. Last years yield of buds, which was something like 4,500 at one time, was then thought wonder full, but this year the monster bush has done itself proud by breaking all previous records. The bush, when planted, four years ago, measured only six inches in height.
 Bicycling has secured a new devotee in the person of the Prince of Wales. The prince is already an enthusiastic wheelman- and is getting along fast, notwithstanding that he is mature pupil. He mounts and dismounts with ease and sgoes alone" after having a dozen lessons. One of his boasts is that he has not yet had a fall He prefers the upright position, with shoulders well back, and objects to low handle bars that necessitate stopping. The machine used by the august cycler is highly finished in nickel and black enamel, but with no sign of gaudiness about it. It was built especially for him by an English firm.
 Dr. Lawson Tait, a prominent Eng fish surgeon, has given some opinions which are likely to give fresh inn petus to the discussion of the relative merits of chloroform and ether as an- aesthetics. In passing, Dr. Tait says a word about nitrous oxide gas, known to sufferers with aching teeth as sslaughing gas" which will reassure some tinid ones. He says that it is absolutely safe and that there is only one recorded case of death from it's use, and that case is doubtful. He de- clares that the reason why chloroform is distrusted is that when anything goes wrong there is ar immediate death, followed, of course, by an in- quest and the consequent publicity. He declares that deaths from ether are much more frequent, but they are not immediate. The patient usually dies four or five days after the operation, and the death is attributed to bron- chitis. pneumonia, inflammation of the kidneys, or something of the kind. He said further that while ether is posi- lively dangerous where the respiratory organs or the kidneys are affected, there are cases in which the disease is directly induced by the anaesthetic. Such a tendency exists. I would never take ether, but I take chloroform fear IassIv Tn certain cases of acllte kid