The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-31

nually exported to the London market from Victoria, Australia.
 Typhoid fever continues to rage in Philadelphia, and from thirty to forty new cases day are now being report ed. And yet the city council refuses to appropriate dollar to purify the wa ter supply, whence all the trouble comes.
 Colonel Waring, who has studied streets, said in Boston: "I will merely give it out as my idea that, while as- phalt is the most difficult of all pave mnents to keep clean, it is practically the only thoroughly scientific pavement we have"
 < A bill for the extermination of rab- bit dogs introduced in the Florida leg islature was defeated by a representa- tive from Polk county, who said that for his part he had the best rabbit dog in Florida, and any man-if it was the governor himself-who tried to kill his rabbit dog would find he had the big gest fight on his hands that he had ever got into. He sat down amid long and continuous applause.
 Kenasha, Wisconsin, had an infidel, but he is dead. His name was Lewis Knapp, and when he was alive he was queer. One of his cranky schemes was the erection in the city cemetery of five monuments, upon which he had in scribed from time to time shocking and blasphemous epitaphs in anticipation of his approaching death. Law was re- sorted to to compel him to remove the monuments, but he won the suits.
 Mr. Crowley, formerly chief of the San Francisco police, has received from the Chinese government an honor granted to but one other white man, General Grant. It is a banner, the pos- session of which admits the. owner to the imperial grounds at Pekin. MT. Crowley's uniform fairness to the Chi nese of San Francisco, during the twen- ty-five years he was at the head of the police department, led the Chinese mer- chants of the city to petition their gov ernment for the flag for him. It is fifteen feet long, five feet wide, and as elaborate as only the Chinese can make things. One side shows a battle scene on a background of white silk, while on the other side are Chinese characters innumerable, birds and flowers, the en- peror's name in royal green, and a large number of small mirrors in silver frames. It isn't probable that MT. Crowley will ever want to use this elab- orate admission ticket, but it is beau- tiful thing to have in the house.
 Much interest has been excited in England by the discovery of carbonifer- ous rock under Lord Dudley's Himley estates, situated in the westward of what has been considered the limit of the south Staffordshire coal fields. The discovery is regarded as one of national importance from an economic point of view. Biologists say it is possible, oi course, that, although the formation is carboniferous one, no seams of work able coal may be found in it; but, in the opinion of others, this is scarcely likely, the more natural probability be- ing that it is real extension of the fields of southern Staffordshire, and that the coal areas of Staffordshire Warwickshire, and Shropshire form one great whole. Some years ago similar boring operations on the eastern side of the staffordshire fields added very largely to the area available by the most profitable mining operations, ant that discovery, with the one now made is believed to almost indefinitely extend the limits of England's coal supply.
 "A notable phenomenon, says the Lon don Engineer, recently occurred at the royal arsenal. It seems that in experi meting on firing gas in mines specia gun is employed to do duty for a bort hole with charge of high explosive and pressed cylinders of raw, dry clay three inches long and nearly that il diameter, are used to represent tamp ing. These shots are made to act il various mixtures of air, coal dust, ant gas, and to stop the course of the plus eventually a cast-iron target plate, al inch thick, was placed twenty-five fee in front, at an agle of forty-five de grees, in order to break up everything into dust and throw it upward. Afte three or four shots with this arrange ment the clay plug, weighing seven ant one-half ounces, perforated the incl iron plate. and the hole thus made ha