The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-19

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 Since the first of January the United States has exported s4.567,059 in gold and imported $64,444,16S. Several mil lions are on the way here and many more will come before the flow in this direction ceases.
 Tn Glasgow the street cars carry workingmen at reduced fares during certain hours of the day, and the courts there have just decided that clerk Is not a workingman.
 ''U. s. already means much, and an addition to it's meaning is suggested by an Englishman who writes to Bishop Doane of Albany: ''We are all so full of interest and sympathy over this odi- ous but most righteous war! do trust that the English synnpathies, which are with the States, whatever the Ameri- can papers may say, will convince all hard hearts that for the two English speaking races U. s. spells 'us', and nothing else"
 It is estimated by competent foreign authority that only 900 persons out of 100000 die from old age, while 1,200 succumb to gout, 1S,40O to measles, g. 700 to apoplexy, 1000 to erysipelas, 75OO to consumption, 4S,00O to scarlet fever, 25,O00 to. whooping cough, 30,0OO to ty- phoid and typhus, and 1000 to rheuma- tism. The averages vary according to locality, but these are considered ac- curate as regards the population of the globe as a whole.
 The St. Louis Star, speaking of the unfortunate mule reported by Blanco as having perished nobly in the bom- bardment of Matanzas, says that the mule lis the progeny of a pair of jacks sent by the king of Spain to George Washington little over 100 years ago. This was the first pair of jacks ever landed in this country" The Boston Transcript corrects the history of the St. Louis paper. It asserts that two jacks were sent by the king of Spain to Washington, but that one of them perished on the voyage. The present was made, despite the law of time in Spain, where the best breed of jacks are to be found, forbidding their ex- portation.
 M. F. Allen, formerly captain in the Seventh Ohio cavalry, has issued an ap- peal to the Federal veterans of the civil war, in which he says: "The present war for humanity having demonstrated that the Confederate soldiers and their sons and the ex-Union soldiers and their sons are one in devotion to our united country, and that we are all good Americans now, fighting under the one flag, is not this the right time to wipe out the last trace of ill-feeling en- gendered in the argument of 1S61-'65, and return to the survivors of the southern regiments the battle-f flags which have been held for the last thirty years or more as war trophies at State capitals of the North and at the War department in Washington"
 Reports of the destruction of the herd of reindeer imported to carry SUD- plies to the gold miners on the Yukon have been confirmed. Two United States army officers, who were detailed on one of the three government expe- ditions for the survey of the Yukon, have returned to Seattle and announce ed the abandonment of the expedition because of the failure of means of tlC UedLIlS Ol the reindeer. Like all other features of the unwise relief government expe- dition, the importation of the reindeer was a mistake and cruel one. All the calculations make as to the supply of moss in Alaska as food for the anil mals prove to have been unfounded The Laplanders who accompanied the herd found, after considerable foraging, enough moss to enable the animals to eat half rations for ten days after ar irving at Pyramid harbor. Then they were driven slowly up the mountain side to the summit. where it was un- derstood there existed pasturage suit able to the animals. The proper food