The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-26

own Immediate business tali matter 70 De
unobiectionable). and their contracts 10 NV
tnciude Wants. To Let, For Sale, ETC.
a. Philadelphia has suffered greater loss
from fires in the first half of this year
than in any equal time in any previous
year since the organization of the pres
ent Fire department twenty-eight years
ago. There were 1476 fires and the to-
tai loss much exceeded $1,500,o00.
Facts gathered by the Rev. DR..
Frank M. North Of the Methodist Epls-
copal Church Extension and Missionary
Society show that within the last year
the churches Of that denomination. in
Greater New York have gained 215 fun
members and lost 224 probationers, a
net loss of communicates of nine There
are 51,Os4 scholars and 5,213 teachers in
the Sunday-schoo the total valuation
of church property is SS,466,60o, on
which there is a bonded indebtedness OF
$1,s45,972.
a
While testifying in recent case
London doctor said that he knew OF a
poison instantaneous in its action and
absolutely painless, but he refused to
give it's name on account of the use
which might be made of the informa-l
ton. That this judgment was correct
was shown Immediately. In less than
fortnight he received thousand letters
requesting the name of the poison, many
of the writer's pleading for the Informal
tion. Ga G8
1t is not pleasant to read that Profess
sor Nordenskjod, the famous Arctic ex-
plorer, has just lost the whole of his for
tune. He was on intimate terms will
the heads of the great Stockholm pub
fishing firm of Messrs. G. & B. Bajer,
which has failed, with liabilities stated
at $1,2500O0. Unfortunately, Nordensk-
jold is deeply involved in the specula-
tions carried on by the firm. Some time
since he had to sell the whole of his vail
uap1e geographical library, and now 1t IS
stated that all of his life's savings,
amounting to 100000, have gone in the
crash.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip of the
treasury department, who has just re-
turned to Washington from the west,
takes with him enthusiastic reports of
material and political conditions.
feel sure, he said, that the east does
not realize how rapidly the silver SEM
timent is waning. The silver people
have been COMPOUNDED by the great
gold production. The effort of the
western Democrats seems to, be to
make trusts the paramount issue of
next year. I do not believe that the
western Democrats will care to risk an
issue on the Philippine policy of the
administration. The people of the west
are too heartily in favor of the politi-
cal course of the administration in the
Philippines for the Democrats to hope
to carry any territory with that as the
leading issue. From a commercial and
business point of view, the situation in
the west is splendid. Everybody is at
work, and prosperity has brought con-
tentment,
In the district court of Pratt coun-
ty, Kansas, Judge Gillett has been
called on to decide a rather novel case.
During the civil war a certain northern
soldier went into the service leaving a
bride at home In due time the news
reached him that his wife had died, and
when the war had ended he did not re-
turn to his old home, but went West
In due time he married again and with
his second wife accumulated a large
amount of Pratt county property. Not
long ago he learned that his first wife
had not died, but surprising him IL
have been killed, had married another
man. This man died leaving her a
widow. When the Pratt county man
learned these facts be brought suit for
divorce. and the woman i'll the East
hoard of it and went out and fought
the case. asserting claim to part of
the Pratt county mans property. How
ever. after the lawyers had made a
great fight before him, Judge Gillett
granted the divorce and left the Pratt
county, man free to legally marry the
woman who has been living With MIN
for MANY wears as his wife.
writer in the Philadelphia Times
who has been studying the mosquito mas
oome to the conclusion that 1t is very
useless insect. Here is the result of his
Investigation: Just why the mosquito
bites people is not yet known. 1t Is not
~ furnish it food for it is an established
fact that a mosquito, after gorging him
Golf with human blood, dies within a
faw hours: whereas mosquitoes that
have never tasted blood have been
known to live very comfortably, even
+bro,,eh the entire winter and into the