The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-23

5U,uuV HouSeS. NeW Ioih heo Aio'0o' houses.
 A St. Louis man who has just come out of trance says he has been at the gate of heaven three days. And the Chicago Times Herald calmly asks, Why didn't he come in?
 Some of the war news is extremely impressive. For instance, a dispatch stated that on Saturday the men at Fort Sheridan were polishing their weapons and currying their horses in preparation for the expected war.
 The republic of Switzerland Is going into the railroad business. The refer endum has resulted in popular approv- al of the proposed state purchase of the railroads of Switzerland at a cost of about $200,00O,000. The vote was 3s4,146 in favor to 177,1so against it. Accord ing to recent official returns, there are 2,3O4 miles of railroad open for traffic in Switzerland, on the five principal lines. The government is projecting a loan for the purchase.
 What divorce is or may be in this~ country is we'll illustrated in the case of the well known actor who was mar ried in Cleveland on Sunday. Three weeks ago his former wife secured in New York a decree of divorce from him, under which decree he was pro- hibited from marrying again during her lifetime. But as that prohibition had no effect in Ohio the marriage on Sum- day is legal; and the result is that the actor in question is lawfully married man when he is in Ohio, but a criminal if he goes into New York and main tains the same relations.
 ~ A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature providing that mo person shall place or main- tain within five hundred feet of State highway or of parkway or boulevard an advertising sign or a picture or poster intended to serve as an adver- tisement, if the superficial area of the said advertisement, either by itself or in connection with others placed with in twenty feet of 1t, exceeds ten feet square" It is further provided that any person violating the provisions of this act shall be fined not to exceed $100 for each week during which the viola tion continues.
 Dr. Elnmens, who turns silver into gold, as he says. has described the par ticulars of his process to the great English chemist, Sir William Crookes, who will only consent to state that he Is mot prepared to say that this is in- possible; still less that 1t is possible" At present, all he knows is that pr. Er1mens' gold, which he analysed, is really gold, but that does not prove 1t was made out of silver. And Crookes says that Dr. Emmens' performance is s'either the greatest fraud or the great est scientific discovery of the century" !" What has become of the Chicago gold- makers?
 The Municipal Year Book of Berlin eI1N hot l., forty-one years old, is the mother of twenty children. In 1896 there were five families with nineteen children sixteen with eighteen, seventeen with seventeen, thirty-two with sixteen sixty-three with fifteen, eighty-thre with fourteen and 126 with thirteen Two hundred pairs of Berlin parents counted a dozen children each, the mother in one case being only twenty. six years old. A mother of eighteen offspring was thirty-fve years old while women of twenty-three anc dren respectively.
 A queer case Is that involving a S5, ,O0( estate at Poughkeepsie. Two sisters Adeline and Matilda Prescott, possess ed of about s5,O00 apiece and very de voted to one another, decided to make their wills, each to leave her money tt the survivor. The wills were therefore made with this provision, signed ant laid away, the sisters resting in com fort with the thought that all haC been done that could be done to insur, the carrying out of their wishes. Bu when Adeline died and Matilda produc ed her will it was discovered that eacl sister had signed the others will. ant the documents were at once declaret void. In order to obtain her sister
 estate the survivor now brings suit fo $5,00O for services rendered.