The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-14

Eases Deaths and aer Funerals. s. 50 'en centa each
 IScai Notices, l5 cents per line.
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 Iucluoe wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 speaking of stealing, the Register
 yesterday stole our careful report of < Dr. Newman Smyth's sermon It is well
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 type if it hadn't been too proud to send
 It's wheelbarrow over through the alley.
 An effort to adopt the Torrens system of land tenure has been made in Min nesota. and the Attorney General of the State has reported to the Senate that while the Torrens system of land-title registration could not be adopted in the State in it's original form, without con- fioting with the State constitution, a modified system may safely be made a part of the State laws.
 King Oscar of Sweden and Norway. always ready with his purse in the pro- motion of scientific research, appears to have rendered great service to man. kind by having, at his own expense, caused deaf and dumb man to be treated under a certain system of mas sage of throat, ears and the surround ing parts of the head, advocated by a great Swedish surgeon, with the result that the lucky patient has begun to speak and can hear.
 George Jaubert, Frenchman, says he has found a chemical substance which, ! by contact with the atmosphere, clears all foulness from the air, and restores automatically the normal and requisite amount of oxygen. Six or eight pounds of this substance, he says, will enable a man to live easily for twenty-four hours in diving-bell. Perhaps some of 1t would help man to live easily in a crowded theatre or railroad car.
 The Gaulois, of Paris, complains that the prevailing Anglomania in that city has affected even the municipal author tiles. The city offers to the children in the public schools boxes of letter-paper marked "school prize, given by the city of Paris" The paper and envelopes are marked with the arms of the city, and are adorned with vignettes representing famous Parisian monuments, but the makers mark shows that they come from England. This is very Smart" thinks the "Gaulois," and wonders if the City council will be having it's linen done up in London before long.
 Too many captains in England, says the Army and Navy Gazette Gondon) "An officer of high rank in the royal the country" it says, land finds often enough that his title of captain is no { longer a sure passport to the society of the neighborhood, Can one wonder i at 1t? We have our army captains. our volunteer captains, and our merchant | captains, to say nothing of adventurers of doubtful repute who assume this popular designation on the strength of | having once held a commission under Don Carlos or President Balmaceda."
 The Alabama legislature has provid- ed for the submission to the voters of that State of proposition for the hold ing of a constitutional convention in- tended radically to alter the present system of voting by the establishment of an educational qualification such as now exists in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi. The suffrage in Ala bama Is now practically free, one years residence in the State, three months in the county and thirty days in the voting precinct being required only Aliens who have declared their intention to be- come citizens are permitted to vote in Alabama, the qualified electorate in which Is in excess of 250.000, though the total vote for President in 1896 was less than 100000. Alabama is now the State having the largest colored popula- ton exercising the right of suffrage without any constitutional restrictions. The present State constitution of Ala bama was adopted in 1868. i A vigorous denial is made of the re- cent report that Russia had made a. :, secret bargain with the Amir of Af- ( ghanistan for extending Russian rail- way communication to Herat. The story appears to have originated in the e recent opening of the line to the Koshk, $ a point two or three hundred miles off :, The arrival of the first locomotive scar- , ed the natives so badly that the Amir !, caused proclamation to be made that the Russians had no other object than a the improvement of the country. It is 4 reported also that the proclamation de- 2