The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-23

account at the state savings banks. The amount at the credit of the depositors in the savings banks in 1896, when the last statistics were taken, was $6S0,000,- 900. The rate of interest is 3A per cent. More than half the depositors are wo- men, and the vast majority of them belong to the working classes.
 ! An aged citizen of Amboy, Indiana, willed that he should be buried in a in which there should be sawdust and two comfortables. He directed that a spring wagon should be used instead of hearse to take his body to the cemetery, all of which was done. No other thing he had done in life had in- < hicated any eccentric turn of mind.
 The recanting of several of his fixed opinions on vegetarianism by Sir Hen- ry Thompson has aroused interest in England. In 1879 he said: "The vege-
 
 extract from his food all the principles necessary for the growth and support of his body, as we'll as for the produc- tion of heat and force" Now he writes in the current number of the Nine- teenth Century that flew persons can sustain their health and fair amount Of strength on strictly vegetable niet."
 Invent some useful little thing and make your everlasting fortune. A patent for fastening kid gloves has yielded fortune of several hundred thousand dollars for it's fortunate owner, and the inventor of collar clasp enjoys s2o,0Oo royalty year as the reward for his endeavor. A new kind of sleeve button has made $50,0o0 in five years for it's patentee, and the simple twisting of safety pins in such way that there is no possible danger of the point sticking in the child prom ises to enrich it's owned beyond any of his early dreams of wealth.
 Spain's little king is called s.for short" Leon Ferdinand Marie Jac- ques Isidore Pascal Antoine. His formal titles includes the information that he is not only king of Spain, but of Castile, of Leon, or Aragon, of the two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, of Navarro, of Grenada. of Toledo, of valence, of Galicia, of Majorca, of Minorca, of Seville, of Ceredena, of Cordova, of Corcega, of Murcia, of Jaen, of AL garva, of Algezira, of Gibraltar, of the Canary Islands, of the oriental and oc- cidental Indies, of India and of the oceanic continent, archduke of Austria, duke of Burgundy, of Brabant, and of Milan, count of Hapsburg, of Flanders, Of Tyrol, and of Barcelona and lord of Biscay and Molina.
 A queer statute in Kansas provides that if a man makes affidavit with the county clerk before the first of May of any year to the effect that his re- 1igion forbids an enlistment for war, he cannot be drafted. War gives a present interest to this old enactment. It was apparently framed for the ben- eft of the Mennonites, which religious sect has many members in parts of the State. It is tenet of the Men nonites that no one shall participate in strife of any kind, or resist an at tempt to use violence in any manner. and in the present scare they have been taking advantage of the laws provisions. They are flocking to the country seats to procure what is called In Kansas nonresident" certificates.
 There is at least one advantage in having a wedding at Thigh noon.' .' Such a wedding can't be marred by such an accident as happened the oth- CT evening at a wedding in Georgia. The bride, looking the picture of love- liness, stood under the swinging chan delier. So did the bridegroom. The bridegroom was over six feet two, and In lowing his responses to the minis ter's questions he accidentally tilted the chandelier, which overturned a kerosene lamp, the oil of which spat- tered all over the brides dress and the minister's broadcloth coat, To say that the bridegroom was mad would not do justice to his feelings. But he restrained himself, and supported the bride to the front porch, where the ceremony was concluded under the stars of heaven. The minister has sent in bill for his coat, but the bride groom swears he won't pay it.