The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-25


 Include Wants TO Let, For Sale, etc
 The Syracuse Journal pointedly re- marks: Tt will take pretty large shelf to hold Tom Reed"
 General Booth, of the Salvation Army, intends to establish an industrial farm of 15,000 acres in Western Australia.
 The fibre of pineapple is being seri- Ously considered as g material of indus trial value in certain branches of man. pfacture, possessing a quality which, when spun, is said to surpass the ideal flax in strength, fneness and lustre.
 When General Arthur McArthur was appointed adjutant to the 24th Wiscon- sin Volunteers, in 1SG2 he was so small of stature and of voice that he was fla miliarly known as "The Boy" a name which still sticks to him in the Philip pines.
 The boys out in the Philippines do dream of home once in awhile. 1T dreamed last night" writes Clyde Knock from Manila to his folks in h. home and had good dinner after which I went skating"
 The German emperor is not disposed to regard the speech recently made in New York by one of our returned na- val heroes in the light of joke. There was probably too much truth in what Captain Cogh1an said for that. Never theless, the brave captain will probably find that he erred in talking too much.
 pr. J. H. Kellogg said in the course of a lecture at Washington the other day that there is more intoxication in a. cup of black tea than a glass of ordi- nary beer" pr. Kellogg is a strict veg etarian. He condemns such articles as mustard and pepper, and planes coffee and tea for causing various sorts of nervous diseases in women. Neither drink. in his opinion, has any value as a food.
 Yesterdays New York Mail and Ex- press records a fact that is of special interest here just now. It says "Bi- with unlighted lamps on their wheels Z will find that in their case all roads lead to the police station. The edct has gone forth that all reckless riders of this class shall be unsaddled and treated to a vigorous application of the law''
 The bubonic plague in India is abat- ing in violence, but quarter of mill lion people have fallen before it. One great obstacle in fighting the plague is the refusal of the natives to observe or dinary sanitary precautions. Their doctrine of fatality is another obstacle in the way of subjecting them to reason. The English have, however, made some impression upon them, and eventually 1t will be Sat least possible to keep the plague in check in certain districts.
 Now that ex-Speaker Reed has retir- | ed from the speakership race the Elm pire State is already in the field with | candidates for this big position, and | with the claim that to New York the | succession rightfully belongs. Two of | the competitors have already announced | their candidacy, James s. sherman of Utica and Sereno E. Payne of Cayuga. The latter succeeded the late MT. Ding ley as chairman of the Ways and 1 Means committee in the last Congress, and as leader of the majority on the floor. MT. Payne is chiefly distinguish ed from having occupied the chair in the Speakers absence and from having been an influential factor when the house was in Committee of the Whole.
 The women of Arkansas who want to wear birds on their hats must hereaf- ter buy them in some other State. The legislature has passed law providing that ''any person who shall have in pos session or who shall sell or expose for sale any feathers or skins or any parts of birds for use in millinery or similar purposes, or shall kill for such pur- poses any birds in this State, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than s25 nor more than $50 for each bird skin or part of skin or parcel of feathers so sold >or offered for sale or killed for that purpose" This law will hit the millinery business in Arkansas pretty hard, but it won't prevent any woman who really wants to adorn her head with parts of birds" from doing so. She will merely send over into Mis- souri or Texas for her new hat.
 Mrs I,eary's COW started the orpat