The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-06

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 Tn six weeks,' Speaker Reed Is quoted as saying, ''this country will be ashamed to look back to this war frenzy
 Queen Victoria covers a great deal of ground and water. She is now sover- eign over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 300 promontories, 1000 lakes, 2,000 riv- ers, and 10000 islands.
 Let it be recorded. A servant girl on farm near Cambrai, in northern France, has lived seventy-two years with the same family. She is now s4 years of age and still does her work.
 There is an old woman out West who knows how to make diplomats useful. She has written to Ambassador White at Berlin, asking him to procure for her autographs of the emperor, the enn- press, the crown prince and Prince Bis marcl, sending. along little pieces of linen on which she wished them writ ten, to be worked into a quilt.
 Out of the last batch of conscripts in France no fewer than eight we'll known cyclists, some of them enjoying Euro pean renown were rejected as physi- cally incapable of doing duty in the ranks. Hypertrophy and other dis eases of the heart were the chief causes of there rejections, which occasioned profound astonishment to the candi- dates themselves.
 Some of the delicate instruments in the Toronto Magnetic Observatory, in- tended to measure fluctuations in the earth's magnetism, have been greatly disturbed by the electric currents flow ing through the earth from the adja- cent trolley lines. Accordingly these instruments are to be removed to point nine miles from the city and two miles from any possible trolley route. The records of the Toronto observatory date back more than half a century, and are the most valuable of their kind ever obtained on this continent.
 The Valparaiso Chilian Times has the news that a society has been formed at Antofagasta "to raise woman to the position she deserves and which God gave her at the creation" The rules include: "All conversation or discus sion in the societys hall on politics, re- ligion, or lineage is strictly prohibited, and the title of equality, which is the motto of our society shall be enforced in every way" Members Shall be scrupulously clean when they attend the meetings, wearing dresses of ele- gant simplicity, of small cost, and suit able to the age of the wearer; but this is no obstacle to the beauty of fit which will augment the beauty of the younger members"
 By means of what is called a metallic ore separator a Chicago inventor pro- poses to extract ore from the sands of the seashore. The machine, of box form, has its front covered with brass plates, behind which are three power full electric magnets, one above the other and twenty-two inches apart, the ends of the magnets coming in contact l.. ,Io41 I d.. them at the point of contact. The sand falls in a stream in front of the brass plates, and as it does so the particles of iron ore are drawn out, adhering to the plates, where they, too, are mag netized. The upper magnet catches the greater portion of the ore, the last particles remaining in the sand being caught by the lower magnet. A com mutator breaks the current at inter- yals, thus magnetizing the plates and allowing the accumulated one to drop into hoppers, from which it is convey ed out of the separator; the ore in the sand varies from to 35 per cent.
 In the event of war every shot fired from the monitor Miantonomoh, now lying at League Island navy yard, will cost Uncle Sam S250 The projectile weighs 800 pounds and the powder over 300 pounds. It is claimed by the officers on the vessel that this mass of steel can be thrown with accuracy at least six miles from the present elevation of the guns, and much further than that should the guns be raised higher than the elevation at which they are now fixed on the vessels deck. The officers will be careful to see that no shot is wasted should they ever go into a battle. The ammunition will be used with the best possible advantage, be- cause the monitor has storage room for only 100 projectiles. Should the enemy appear the ironclad will not attempt to run away, even though that enemy