The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-14

tion without noise. Each bidder writes his name and bid upon a slip of paper, which he places in a box. When the bidding is over the box is opened by the auctioneer and the goods declared the property of the highest bidder.
 Georgia has a State pension roll that amounts to $5S0,o0o annually. Among the 10,437 names which it bears are those of 3,803 widows of Confederate soldiers, 3,3S1 invalid soldiers and 3,17s indigents. The widows are cared for by an annual appropriation of $24O,OOO, the invalids get s1so,ooO and the indi- gents $150,000.
 "The dust1ess road-bed company" which has just been organized in New Jersey, has taking title and benef- cent aim. One of the incorporators is "A. J. Cassett of Philadelphia, former vice president of the Pennsylvania rail- road, and the plan is to develop patents for sprinkling road-beds with crude pe- troleum, which has been found satis- factory as a permanent layer of dust.
 Belgium's census shows that within the last ninety-fve years the popula- tion of the country has doubled, rising from three millions to six millions. But the records of the large cities make still more interesting showing. Ant werp in a century has risen from 53, 900 to 257,000, an increase of 3S3 per cent; Liege has advanced from 46,O00 to 160,- 900, Ghent from 550o0 to 155, ,Oo0 and Brussels from 6e,0OO to 1S7, 0oO
 Investigations have recently been made as to the number of cabinet off, cers who were college graduates. Out of 262, ITS, or more than two-thirds, have been college graduates. Of this number Princeton has p representa- lives; Yale and Harvard, 21 each; Will liam and Mary, 10; Dickinson, g; Uni versity of North Carolina, &; Dart mouth, '; West Point, Drew and the University of Pennsylvania, each; Universities of Virginia and Brown, 4 each. Three other institutions have 8 each; eight are represented by 2 each and three by 1 each
 f.,5e znlz Al been driven by the passage of law prohibiting convict labor to advise the Introduction of the English treadmill system as the only available means of saving the prisoners from the insanity that results from the combination of close confinement and idleness. The authorities recognize the economic wastefulness of making men perform useless labor, and they dread the charge of brutality which resort to a long -discredited device will bring up- on them, but they say that in the cir cumstances no other course is open.
 John Howard Parnell, M. F., who has just been chosen city marshall of Dub lin, issued circular, in which he said: : The poverty and almost absolute want with which my mother, my sisters, and are face to face render it imperative men and councillors of the Dublin cor poration to intrust to me the duties of the city marshall Through the devo- tion of my late brother to the cause of Ireland, his estate, on which his moth CT and sisters, as we'll as myself, de- pended for our bread, and Avondale, the home which has been in our fami- 1y for generations, must come under the hammer. It is to prevent this, and to keep the ancient family roof-tree, that offer myself as a candidate for this position.
 They have poets, too, in Kansas. The Salina Suns poet says: When the sar begins to rise and the geese begin to mate we hear the gentle carol of the county candidate. o, he's g. jolly fel- low, and he's full of vain conceits and sees a bosom friend in every man he meets. Ills asks about your family your horses and your hogs, and shows a friendly interest in the children and the dogs, Oh, he's a jovial gentleman as gamesome as a lamb, as blithesome as meadowlark and happy as a clam He goes to church on Sunday and his pious traits appear. but when it's nee. essary he will then set up the beer Oh, he's buoyant, sanguine duck, the jocund candidate; he starts out early in the morn and stays until it's late his patient wife unlocks the door, anc with 8 look of pain she says: "Yot needn't lie to me; your legs been pull. ed again"