The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-23

The Denver Times says that "the c1i- mate of Colorado is the next thing to kiss.'' California must now claim that her glorious climate is kiss.
 French postoffice employees are in a dilemma. They have just recieved an order first forbidding them to read pos- tai cards and next directing them not to allow insulting or libellous postal cards to pass through the malls.
 A New York judge decides that per- son falling from his bicycle while learn Ing to ride cannot recover damages from his teacher, as he Is bound to fall sometimes. The judge has ridden B wheel, evidently.
 It always pays to be kind. Tender hearted women who refused to have their hooks baited with worms while put on Lake Owassa, New Jersey, fish, ing, substituted chewing gum instead and one of them caught a four-pound bass while the men patiently waited for the first nibble at their worm- baited hooks.
 There is an encouraging opinion from the government weather man at the Omaha observatory who ventures the prediction that the spring floods in the Missouri valley will be omitted this season. He has lot of scientific req sons for coming to this conclusion, and is able to show that the river is at least fifty per cent. lower now than 1t was 7cver known to be at this time of the year.
 The man who made Queen Victoria's wedding ring is still living. He is German and now lives in Philadelphia, working for large jewelry firm. He learned his trade in Germany and then went to England, and when the order for the ring was given his employers the job was intrusted to him. At the to ladies of the court in commemora- tion of the wedding. What has be- come of them is question. Doubtless they are cherished as heirlooms by de- scendants.
 Boston is congratulating herself on her very good health. The number of deaths recorded the past week was 1SO, compared with PAS for the corre- spending week of last year, and only two of these deaths were from con- tagious diseases. There has rarely, if ever, been time at this season of the s year when there has been so little sickness in the city, and this gratifying state of things has been continuous since the beginning of the present year, the number of deaths during this time having been less by 447 than during the same time last year.
 A French engineer offers to build a tunnel from Spanish territory in the rear of Gibraltar over to Morocco. He does not intend to disturb the British ir their possession of the famous rock Strange as it may seem, he does not believe that the project would be any more difficult than the Alpine tunnels, and he says that the cost will not be over $2500O,0O0, or a small fraction of what the suez Canal cost. When fin- ished the French railroad system in Africa, now comprised in Algeria, but to be extended over the Sahara, would enable France to keep a direct line of communication open from Paris to Timbuctoo or Boussa at all times.
 A little less than two years ago a rich grain merchant of Odessa died, leaving a fortune of 4,0o0,OOO rubles to his three daughters, under peculiar conditions. They were only to inherit the money on condition that they be- came servants, washerwomen or farm workers for eighteen months. The time has passed and the young women have come into their fortune. Two of them were chambermaids, and the third a girl of all work in Odessa houses. They did not have much trouble in securing situations. In the course of their ser vitude the two younger daughters re- ceived more than 800 proposals of mar riage, and the eldest 450. They declin- ed all, and now assert that they will continue to live in single blessedness.