The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-23

ELK IuISul llilu IL WOulu PGy Dllli " chAy try to be a good newspaper man.
 Massachusetts is proud because she contributes a greater average percen- tage to the postal revenue than any other State in the Union. The average quantity of stamps used yearly per in- habitant in that commonwealth amounts to $2.30. New York comes next with E2.27 per capita.
 For Prince Bismarcks monument to
 be erected at Eisenach over a thousand
 designs were, sent in by three hundred competitors The committee picked out
 three designs from these as the best,
 and on opening the sealed envelopes
 containing the artists names found
 that all three selected were by Herr
 Kreiss of Dresden.
 It is said that hotel proprietors Throughout the country are complaining of loss of business due to the decline In the numbers of commercial travellers on the road, which is in turn due to the formation of trusts. It is asserted that something like 75,O0O "drummers" have been thrown out of employment recent 1y under the rapid reorganization of in hustry into large monopolistic combna- tions.
 Write popular songs in you want to make money. According to the Chica- 20 Tribune, suit has been brought in the court there to recover s25,00O from the composer of "On the Banks of the Wabash" "The Letter That Never Came" "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me-" T Believe it for My Mother Told Me So,' and other soul-stirring lyrics of similar nature. The plain tiff claims that the money is due him on a contract with the composer, the former putting in the money and the latter the talent for the production of these gems. As showing the profits of this kind of song writing, it is set forth in this case that the composer has real ized not less than $2Oo,O0O from these eongs
 The construction of telegraph line from Bona to Stanleyville, Congo Free State, is advancing with great rapidity. Several brigades are now occupied with the line between Kwamouth and the equator. The superintendence of the part already laid is carried out by a European assisted by native soldiers and workmen posted at intervals of from ten to twenty kilometers. The natives respect the line, but it frequent ly suffers from thunder storms and damage by roaming elephants in the district From Leopoldville to Dolo the line runs along the railway, then from the Dolo station it follows a native kootpath toward the upper country be- tween the Congo and the Kasal. From the river. It crosses the Kasai at a place where the river is 1925 yards | wide.
 According to a paper published at l dimasol, the inhabitants of Cyprus are | beginning to think that, so far as taxa | tion is concerned, they are worse off | under the British government than they were under the Sultan of Turkey In | explanation of this fact 1t is said that | Lord Beaconsfield's government accept ed, without inquiry, the excessive and misleading figures supplied by the Otto- man government as to the revenue of the island. In this calculation were in- cluded taxes which were remitted or only partly paid under the Turkish adv but which are vigorously exacted in full by the British govern- ment. New taxes have also been intro- luced, and the revenue now raised is largely in excess of the amount the Porte collected in the island while only B small proportion of it is expended on works for the general benefit of the Cypriotes The natives do not express my desire to be handed over once more .o the gentle mercy of the Turks, but think that they are paying rather high price for their present advantages.
 A recent report issued by the French bureau of agriculture shows that Spain and not Italy should have the adjec- tive sunny" placed before it. On the average, it is said, Spain enjoys about B. S000 hours of sunshine a year, while Italy has 2,300. France has almost as much sunshine as Italy, her figures be- Ing 2,200 Germany has at her dispos al no more than HOO hours, while Eng land, the land of fogs has to get along with 1,400, less than half of Spain's