The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-15
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 Only about four thousand bills have already been introduced in congress.
 About a thousand employees of the Pennsylvania railroad will be retired on the pension fund January 1. Lucky men.
 Henri Turot, the Paris journalist deI- egated by the French geographical so- cety to study American operations in the Philippines, predicted before a Paris audience last week that it would take 100000 men 10 years to "pacify" the islands.
 The Detroit News tries to account for the fact that so many ministers from that city have been sought by churches in other places on the theory that the newspapers in that city, which keep as close watch upon the citys pulpits as upon the city's government" have advertised their virtues and abil- ities.
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 Introduced pension bill which will meet with little opposition from the taxpayers of the great republic. Mir McDowell's bill provides that all sol diers of the civil war who forfeited their pensions through engaging in the re- cent Spanish campaign shall again re- ceive their monthly stipends, with full pay for the time of forfeiture
 The analytical commission appointed by the London Lancet to investigate the composition of American cigarettes. as we'll as that of the most popular English makes reports that the tests failed to show opium, arsenic. phos- phorus or mercury in a single instance. There is not a single scintilla of evi- dence," says the Lancet, lon which can be fairly based the allegation of the presencesof any substance injurious to health.'
 The Boston Transcript tells a story of man who has a class of boys in nat ural history One of the subjects which he took up was butterflies and moths, and he told the children good deal about the chrysalides and cocoons. Af- ter he had got the boys we'll instructed he showed one of the smallest of them a very nice, attentive little boy--one of the cocoons and asked What butter fly Is this the cocoon of?" Then the lit- tie boy looked up and said slowly and respectfully: My papa says that all cocoons look alike to him!'
 The Kansas City Journal says: Paul | Benninghoven of St. Louis, who enjoys | the double distinction of being the tall | est man in Missouri and a nephew of | Dom Paul Kruger, was in Jefferson City the other day. He told a reporter | there that recent letter from friend of his in South Africa indicated that | the Boers had been preparing for the | present war ever since 1894, a big dyna- mite factory in Pretoria having been | engaged five years in turning out am- munition with view to readiness for anticipated trouble with England MT. Benninghoven intimated a belief that Ladysmith had capitulated and that the news is being suppressed in London"
 A central station for the production Tata-Tovaros, Hungary, city of 12OOO inhabitants. Five miles of pipe covers the city and furnishes gas to 15S street lights and 250 burners in houses. The generating station is located over 600 1 feet from the nearest house. The gas is produced in four generators by the fall of the carbide into the water. The gas for each group, on leaving the gen. orators, passes into a cooler and then into purifier, and finally into two gasometers of 106 cubic feet capacity. ] The generating plant requires the ser vices of only two men, and the total cost of the installation was s30,0OO, of which $19,O00 went for the pipe system.
 Consul Monaghan writing from Chemnitz, again calls attention to the German business invasion of Russia. Not only German capital and drummers but German settlers are still swarming into the Czar's dominions. German banks and German mills already ] a bound there. Americans must hustle to overcome the German start. Says Consul Monaghan: The field open to us