The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-11

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 Grasshoppers have been reported al- ready in Madison county, Ind, and at Bar Harbor, Me
 An expedition in search of Andree IS about to leave Stockholm for Siberia, the cost being borne by the Swedish Geographical Society.
 Sir Henry Irving's eldest son has just published a life of the bloody Judge Jeffreys, in which he tries to rehabilitate that worthy's character.
 Sir Mary Anthony Tuite, Bart, who died recently in county Tipperary at the the age of 90 years, spent more than half century of his life in try ing to perfect flying machine.
 Melbourne University made record score at cricket in playing with a local ~s,,t xo,o,,+1,, i cor ,r,,pc i,, opo ;ppjoo Including five scores of over hundred. A new kind of cloth Is being made in Lyons from the down of hens, ducks and geese Seven hundred and fifty grains of feather makes rather more than square yard of light, water proof cloth.
 Queen Victoria objects both to elec- tric light and gas-tlat is, so far as her own personal use is concerned. Oil is permitted very slightly, but candles of an extra-special make are still her favorite illuminant.
 The late Duke of Leinster left his valuable collection of postage stamps to England. It is particlarly rich in the issues of Australia, and contains fine specimen of the great rarity, the western Australia 4d blue, with frame inverted.
 One of the good Kansans found in looking over his accounts that he had never sent church subscription paper to a subscriber who had paid 30 cents for 1t thirty years ago, and he forward ed the sum with interest at 10 per cent to the mans widow.
 There were 1,2S1 fires calling for the services of the Fire department of Bos- ton in 1897 and s661, ,2o3 worth of proper alarms in the same time Eighty-siS per cent. of the fires were confined tc the buildings in which they originated
 Bicycle riders ana others Who art compelled to face strong winds can use a new eye guard consisting of double wire frame hinged in the center ant carrying two mica sheets of large sig, with cushions around the edges to res against the face when the guard fl drawn tight by the elastic cord attach ed to the outer edges.
 Tropical wars are always destructive of human life. Years ago our govern ment sent an army of 7,400 men tc Florida to subdue the Seminoles, in cluding all their women and children The job was finally done, but it cos 1,531 lives of soldiers, of whom only 5 fell in battle. Since then we have pait $53,000,000 in pensions on account of tn, Seminole war.