The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-13

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 No vaccination, no vote, Is the rule III Norway, and it is said to work well.
 One of the features of the new hospi- tai building in Berlin is to be a large room in which patients with maladies of the respiratory organs can breathe air artifcially impregnated with salt.
 If some big corporation asks you to work on Sunday, refuse" MT. Moody said to his Carnegie Hall audience. 'eThe devil will tell you that you will starve. We'll, starve. It would be a grand thing to be martyr in this age It would be a grand thing to have a martyrdom close the nineteenth cen- turby. You have only three years more" This is a cheerful invitation. Don't all respond to it at once.
 Twenty families are said to have nov ed into the cottages that form the nu-
 
 cleus of the colony founded by the Sal- vation Army at Soledad, California. Each family Is to have a farm of ten acres for cultivation principally of the sugar beet, and Claus Spreckels has agreed, to use the product. Apparently the colony Is to be restricted to fifty families, who will till an area of five hundred acres.
 It is a notable fact that the engineers of the Chicago drainage canal who are now visiting the Isthmus of Panama, are all agreed in considering the route chosen by de Lesseps as a perfectly feasible one. It is possible that within twenty-five years the worlds commerce will be as much changed by the channel from the Atlantic to the Pacific as 1t was when the illustrious Frenchman finished his canal at Suez.
 Miss Hsu of Soochow Is happily mar Tied. She recently married a red flower { vase as a substitute for her betrothed, who died before the wedding day. He was a son of Lu Jen Hsiang, Vice-Chan- cellor of the Imperial Academy at Pekin. The young woman having de- ternined to marry no one else adopted this means to enter her betrothed's $ family and so be treated as a widow. The people of Soochow are talking of building stone arch to commemorate Miss Hsn's virtues.
 The Iowa tribe of Indians living in Kansas and Nebraska has sent to Con- gress a petition, asking that the tribal trust funds be credited to the several members individually, instead of to the tribe as whole. At present the inter- est is sent to the tribe in one lump sum and Is spent for the shiftless paupers, while those who work for themselves derive no profit from it. That each should receive his own share of the in- terest and spend it as he pleases shows that the old tribal comnunistic ideals are giving way before more modern so- cial institutions.
 The most northern hotel in the world is on the shore of Advent Bay, where it washes the west coast of Spitzbergen It's season is necessarily short, extend ing from July 10 to August IS, but il extends a hearty welcome to the few venturesome travellers who have the te. merity to seek It's shelter. It has ac. cornmodations for thirty guests. It is announced that the increase of trave made the establishment of a postoffice in the hotel a necessary feature. The hotel is in an approximate latitude of 7s degrees 15 minutes, or five hundred miles further north than Hammerfest Probably a better idea of it's situation may be gained from the statement that the late quarters of the Jackson-H Harms worth expedition in Franz Josef Lant were hardly more than one hundred ant fifty miles nearer the Pole. The build ing naturally is unpretentious in ap pearance, being only one and one-hal stories high, with a diminutive porci at the front As matter of course, f is built of wood.
 An improved process in steel casting applicable to large or small guns en. zine cranks, railroad wheels, propeller shafts. etc. the invention of Ellis May is described at much length in the Pal Mall Gazette. The design of the inven tor is to meet or prevent those hidder flaws in steel which so often produc, bursting and fracture The plan is tt make the castings In an air-tight cham Der from which all air is exhausted the mould or casting being placed in tn chamber before the exhaustion of tn oIo s.