The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-07

4ODltuary Notices. Tn prose ot yerse, io cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local Notices ID cents per line. . Yearly advertisers are limited to their unobjectionable). and their contracts uo not include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc. XXX It is still read. The book that had the largest sale last year was not "The Yel- low Twins" but the Bible.
 The city authorities of Oakland, Cali fornia, have very properly decided that all employees of the city who refuse to pay their personal bills shall be dis missed from service.
 Krefeld is. fenceforth, the only cor rect spelling for the manufacturing town near Dusseldorf, the form Crefeld having been condemned unanimously by a convention of all the school teach CTS of the district, to whom the Prus- sian government referred the question for final decision.
 Massachusetts collateral inheritance tax, enacted in 1891, is proving an excel lent revenue producer. Receipts under it for 1897 amounted to $507,971.S5, of which s6,8o1.43 was interest The col 1ections for 1896, which was regarded as the first normal year, were $275,573.24, so the increase for 1897 was $332, ,398.61.
 
 { The Saxon Ministry of Public Educa-' tion has ordered that hereafter the em- ployes of that department should dis continue in official notes the use of the punctilious terms of courtesy that the Germans are fond of interlarding in all formal communications. It is also di- rected that the full names of officials shall no longer be signed to official doc- uments, but only the family name, as in the German military service
 There Is high engineering authority for the statement ant electrolysis is seriously threatening the East river bridge, and the entire structure will have to be insulated from the ground lp, if the process of disintegration is to ..-br stopped. The constant leakage of electricity, which results in dissolving metals and other substances with which the current comes in contact on the re- turn trip. will only be aggravated when the new overhead trolley goes into op- eration, and hence the stir in engineer ing circles.
 No wonder wages are reduced in the New England cotton mills. During the first half of last year forty cotton mills were erected or proposed in the South, against eight in the North, and in the last six months the number was twen- ty-six in the South, against four in the North. This makes total of over 800 per cent. in favor of the South. Tn ad- dition to this several southern mills, es- pecially in North and South Carolina ! have enlarged and improved their prop erty to a marked extent.
 The sacred fires of India have not all been extinguished. The most ancient which still exists was consecrated twelve centuries ago in commemoration of the voyage made by the Parsees when they emigrated from Persia to h. dia. The fire is fed five times every twenty-four hours with sandal wood and other fragrant materials combined with very dry fuel. This fire, in the village of Oodwada, near Bulsar is wis., dted by Parsees in large numbers during the months allotted to the presiding genius of fire.
 Figures compiled for the New Eng land temperance bureau of the license vote in the thirty-two cities of Massa- chusetts show that nearly quarter of the whole number of voters failed to vote on the question at the recent city elections. Of the total registration of 313,722 voters, 247,333 voted for mayor, but only 2,229,191 voted on the license question. There were 125,4O5 yes votes and 103,7S6 no votes, making a license majority of 21,619. Now, this majority for license is only S2 more than the number of voters who neglected to vote on the question. Furthermore, there were 62,994 voters who stayed away from the polls entirely, making with the ''license dodgers total of S4,5S1 not recorded on license.
 Grover Cleveland ought to be appre- ciated in Princeton. John Clifford of that town, farmer and editor who is well acquainted with real estate values there, says that MT Cleveland's selection of Princeton as a place of residence has increased the value of real estate 50 per cent. That is to say" said Mir. Clifford, MT