The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-22

The Iu.rrnal and Ouurter
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 Out of the $525 5,OOOOoO over which 15o women in England have exercised tes- tamentary powers during the last eight years, s13, ,4SOO0o has been bequeathed to charity.
 The city council of Bath Maine, some time since refused the request of Charles E. Moody to set up an addi- tional street lamp near his home. MT. Moody died a little while ago, and when his will was read it was discovered that shortly after the refusal of his request flor the lamp he had revoked an in- tended bequest of $75,00O for new city hall.
 A German military officer has been collecting the total number of armed soldiers kept under drill by the Euro pean nations. If we could have all the armies of the continent on war foot ing, he says, and drawn up in one long procession, with their guns and ammu- milton and baggage wagons the column would be rather more than 24,000 miles long. Marching day and night it would take nearly a year to pass given point.
 The sheriff of Navajo county, in Ari- zona, is sending out notes of invitation reading thus: You are hereby cordially invited to attend the hanging of one George Miley. murderer. His soul will be swung into eternity on Decem- Der 8, 1899, at ? o'clock p. m. sharp. Latest improved methods in the art of scientific strangulation will be employ ed and everything possible will be done to make the surroundings cheerful and the execution success.
 Municipal ownership of the docks is urged by Controller Bird S. Coler of the city of New York He says 1t would be most profitable investment for the city, which is now forbidden by the con- stitution to take such step. He says that the constitution should be amend | ed, and as a matter of fact it would be were it not for private profit, which is engaged in keeping things where they are, and the water front of the great city more inadequate in proportion than that of any other city of it's class |
 Ernest Bauer, an extensive poultry ! raiser of Coffeyville, Kansas, having read in an agricultural journal that bo- racic acid would preserve chicken meat ! almost indefinitely, assumed that the chemical should be mixed with the feed | of the fowls and given to them to eat | He tried the experiment with the result | that 762 of his 800 chickens died within | twenty-four hours. He sued the editor of the paper, but the court held that | any man of ordinary intelligence should | have known better than to try to pre- serve the flesh of living birds by means of chemicals.
 Mayor-elect Conway of Troy has made the usual discovery. At pub- lie banquet the other evening he said: ''The men who told me that after elec ton my troubles would be at an end remind me of the story of the minister who officiated at marriage and told the groom after the knot had been tied that he had reached the end of his