The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-30

exclusion by tariff of American tools.
 A man was charged the other day 1T
 New York with scorching. His name
 was John Spoqs He gave his namt
 and told how it was spelt. But nobody
 could pronounce 1t. "As uttered b1
 the prisoner" said the clerk, 'it seems
 to be the commingling of a hiss of z
 punotured tire and the wheezing of ar
 infiator."
 An interesting question has arisen in
 Kansas. Should a governor devote him.
 self to ''office hours and be where peo- pie can always find him, or should he go
 about the State making speeches and
 attending hanquets? The Kansas gov despite pledges previous to his election
 of strict attention to business, and
 there is dissatisfaction in consequence. has proper pride. He has declined the offer of Louisiana Confederate veterans
 to aid rebuilding his home, which was recently destroyed by fire He says he is grateful to them, but cannot per- init them or any other Confederate vet erans to carry out this generous pur- pose. "Wth the land on which my home stood free from incumbrance," he adds, land with my health somewhat improved, hope to be able by my own efforts to rebuild my home before great while"
 William Bradbury rich man of San Francisco, has been defying the law for two years by splitting on the floors of street cars, and has been frequently fined therefor Some months ago he was sentenced to spend twenty hours in Jail. He appealed to higher court, which has just confirmed the Judgment, so he was compelled to do time the other day like any other con- vict His friends are deeply chagrined at his obstinacy in the matter, and they hope tht he will now cease defying the law in order to make nuisance of him. self.
 A remarkable pebble, which was picked up somewhere in Egypt that land of dark mysteries, is in the pos Twelfth street, near Walnut, says the Twelfth street, near Walnut, says the Philadelphia Record. The stone is translucent, and at casual glance looks like an ordinary seashore pebble. It is about half the size of a walnut and oval in shape. When the stone is held to the light it's remarkable pe- culiarity i9 beheld, Inside Is drop of water that circles about the interior. How 1t ever got there Is mystery that nature alone could solve. The surface of the stone Is perfect bnt there is no doubt of the hollow interior. Tine peb- ble is only interesting as curiosity, but many wealthy institutions have of fered good round sums of money for it. The owner, however, will never let it get out of his possession, as it was given to him by an old sailor friend, who was drowned several years ago
 Two schooners high and dry in piece of woods on George Island, off Apaach- icola. Florida, are evidences of the height and force of the tidal wave which accompanied the West Indian hurricane along the South Atlantic coast last month. One of the sehoeners Is the Emma l.. Cottingham uf Philadelphia and the other is the Warren Adams as there is no way of launching them. Captain Still-nan of the Cottinshan says 1t Is hard for even the human eye to believe that vessel could be hove | such. a distance from the water by a 1 tidal wave and dropped i'll the thlclS of | the woods. The wide path moved | through the trees by the vessels weight l as she was shot overland on the top of l the wave is apparent. Trees of tremen- l deus size were uprooted. and the anchor, l which was down at the time, ripped up the earth like plough over the course Of the direction in which the schooner was Nurled. Captain Somers and all 1 hands were on board, and never dream ed that the vessel would ride out the storm. The tidal wave which carried her into the position she now occupies was fully masthead high.
 Everything is on big scale in Kan sas this year. At Fort Scott the other day. Joseph Schultz was adjudged n- sane. It was in testimony before the jury that the poor fellow believed that he was heir to s45O 1000, 900; that he had