The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-30

own immediate business (all matter to be Gnobjectionable). and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 The other day the governor of Ha- vana province hoped that the heavenly vault would sink and bury the entire United States in an abyss before the sole of an American invader should tread the Spanish land" His hope has perished.
 Cambridge university has sent out an expedition to Torres straits, between New Guinea and Australia, to study the anthropology of the natives. Seven professors are in the party; two will study native psychology, one, who car ries photograph, their music; anoth- CT their decorative art They have a cinematograph to record native dances and ceremonies.
 Prince Henry of Prussia has receiv- ed number of valuable presents from several Chinese magnates, including a sceptre of dark-c -colored jasper about 2.0oo years old, over dozen pieces of porcelain more than 1000 years old, and several antique ornaments of gold or white jade. The total value of the presents the prince has received is said to exceed a10,O00.
 The expected has happened. With the exception of Sir John Willoughby and Colonel Frank Rhodes, all the British officers dropped from the army on account of their participation in the Jameson raid have been restored to their rank. There is much grumbling in London because the two men ex- cepted have not yet received their commissions back.
 Here's chance for some United States rich nobleman. All the Mon- nnouthshire estates of the Beaufort family, comprising 26,ooo acres with a yearly rent roll of $15o,ooo, are offered for sale by the Dukes eldest son, the Marquis of Worcester. Included in the sale are eight castles, among them Usk, where Edward ". and Richard TIT. were born; Chepstow, Raglan, Stri- gull and Grosmont, besides the ruins of Tintern Abbey and the manorial rights over King Arthurs Caerleon.
 Here are some answers taken from z an Australian examination paper: "John Wesley joined the navy in 1799, and by degrees rose to be Duke of Well lfngton.'' "Charles the first imprisoned nine members. Among them was George Eliot'' Montford was the chief man in getting the constitution of Clar- endon passed, 115S; fought battle of Lewes, 1264, and was killed, 1265." we have no summer in this country when the North Pole Is turned toward the Equator.' 'while the ancients thought < the world was round, we now know that the sun never stands still" Gar bonny Cassid" and Lack-tail ducks" were given as variants of "carbonic acid" and ''1acteal duets"
 The British legation at Tokio has just sent home report on American im- ports into Japan which must be much less pleasing to the English than to us. The summary is for the year 1897 and < 1t shows that the German goods sold to Japan decreased twenty per cent, that British goods increased about five per cent, but that ''the United States has acquired very largely increased share of both the import and the export trade, the value of her imports and ex- ports having risen no less than fifty seven and fifty-five per cent. respec- lively" Indeed, the increase in imports from the United States into Japan last year was greater than the increase in imports from any other country. One reason for these great gains on our part is said by the British officials to be the quicker deliveries which can al- ways be obtained from America.
 A mechanical and an economical triumph reported from Pennsylvania is the daily shipment of tons of molten iron by railroad from the blast furn- aces at Duquesne to the Homestead steel works. This remarkable service was instituted on the 1st of June, and is now an ordinary daily routine. The molten iron as it is tapped from the furnace runs into an immense mixing ladle having a capacity of 250 tons and from this it is poured into the cotton ladle-cars, the ladies being made of sheet-steel or iron, with lining oi refractory material. The cars are ther hauled by locomotive to the stee works, where the direct conversion o1 the molten iron into open-hearth stee