The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-19


 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own lmuediate business (all matter to be unobiectlonable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
 It Is related that bank in New York has increased it's business. particularly among fashionable women, by issuing to it's depositors gilded check books with monographs thereon. The blank checks are printed in gold from exquis- itely engraved plates.
 It is generally conceded that Con- necticut's new governor is by far the 1andsomest man in the group of six teen governors, whose pictures are pub lished in Harpers Weekly. And if he does half as we'll in office as they say he will he will satisfy the old saying concerning handsomeness.
 England sent last year about 5,000,000 worth of textile machinery into Ger many and nearly s1oOO,00O worth of sewing machines. This year, however, Germany has supplied considerable portion of her own needs of this char acter, while the United States has en- tered into successful competition with Great Britain in these goods.
 A very pious resident of Iowa makes the following announcement in his local paper: T deem it necessary at this time to make an explanation in regard to my thoroughbred hogs not being on exhibi- tion at the county fair this fall. care fully and prayerfully considered the matter, and after learning that liquor would be sold and gambling permitted on the ground I came to see that I could not conscientiously take part in the fair, much as I would have liked to have my hogs on exhibit. T must re- main true to my God.'''
 Recent estimates of the speed of mi grafton flights have been curiously in Hated by an idea of one of the most conscientious of observers, the late Dr. Gatke, and the wide popularity of his fifty years record of bird migration watched from Heligoland gave wide currency to his views. They assigned rate of speed to birds when migrat- ing which on any ground but that of actual observation was quite incredi- ble. The two test cases were that of the gray crow, which he estimated at 10S geographical miles an hour, and that of the small blue-throated warbler, to which he gave an even higher rate of progression.
 A new use for steel has been found by a Sheffield, England, firm, which is making a steel harness trace consist ing of narrow ribbon of steel, from three-fourths to one inch wide, rolled very thin and cased in leather. A sim gle trace of this kind when tested at the Sheffield testing works, recorded a IGnSllG UFGdklIlS StIdlI Ol f,oto pOoildS St while an ordinary leather trace of the best quality, tested at the same time, broke at a strain of 2,700 pounds. In addition to being lighter and stronger than the ordinary trace, the steel arti- cle is about 20 per cent. cheaper. The steel is necessarily of the very finest quality, and is so pliable that it can be twisted in any direction.
 The constitutional changes that have heen made in Louisiana will have the result of causing a division of the whites into opposing parties, predicts 4he New Orleans Picayune. Such division has been postponed in Louisl- ana by the act of President Mckinley in appointing to the federal offlces Ill this State leaders of the negro party while the white Republicans, who are citizens of prominence and respectab.l- ity. have been ignored. But the day will come when there will be two re- spectable white parties In LoulSldHd and other Southern States, and such a consummation will be for the general good, because there will be two proper parties. each to watch the other
 The Charleston News and Courier can sometimes say things that need saying in the South. For instance, this con- corning the negro-kilIirg mobs: The mob no longer demand for their vic tiuls men who have committed fragrant crimes, and no longer pretend to es- tablish the guilt of those whom they kill. They kill indiscriminately and with little or no regard to the question of guilt or innocence. They killed ne groes at Phoenix against whom no of fense was proved, or even charged. They were intent on killing white men who had committed no offense worthy