The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-27

Money is being collected in England to help restore the belfry tower of the Ca- thedral of Ravello, on the hilltop above Amalf. It is necessary to strengthen and preserve the tower, as it is in a dangerous condition.
 The Chicago Record well remarks: "Captain Coghlan should confine him. self to making the brief but splendidly convincing speeches of the kind he de- livered from the bridge of the Raleigh last May" He probably will after this
 The "beef inquiry" is matter in which a good many struggling fami- lies, especially those where children are numerous and wages scanty, have long been interested from pure personal standpoint. The inquiry in this depart ment usually, it is said, comes about meal time.
 The West now chimes in and claims that it is it's turn to have the national LGdulIS W6SL6TH papers urge that that section is entitled to the @ honor because of its numerous 'popula- ton and also on the ground that it has not had fair proportion of Speakers in days gone by. They also argue that E as their section elected more than half of the Republican members of the next house, it has big merit to bank upon in the case, in addition to it's other claims. All of which, it must be admitted, has weight in the controversy.
 Speaking of the recent lynchings in Georgia, the Chicago Record remarks: Ut is particularly humiliating to the United States, at time when it Is oc- .cupying such conspicuous position be- { fore the world as champion of the op- z pressed, to have such barbarous, inhu- man and uncivilized outrages taking place at home. In the eyes of the world the whole nation must share the igno- nliny, though under our institutions only the State of Georgia can do any thing toward wipng out the disgrace by bringing the mob dealers to punish mert."
 When the English captured the city of Benin they found and sent to the British museum some three hundred remarkable bronze castings. These present animals and human figures with various ornaments in relief. The lines are strong and the workmanship is of great beauty The origin of these cast ings greatly puzzles ethnologists. It is now thought by some archaeologists, notably Mr. Read of the British muse um, that they were the work of some European bronze founders who settled there in the sixteenth century.
 The great bell from which Schiller took his motto for the "Lied von der Glocke" will shortly belong to the voices of the past. This is the bell of the Munster, at Schaffhausen. It was cast at Basel in 14S6. A piece of the metal broke away more than one hundred years ago and new and dangerous crack was revealed last year. For the sake of its historic past 1t was treated with all possible care; it was covered | up in winter and it's voice was heard | only on Sunday in summer Now it is | to be melted with the four other bells If the Munster and new peal will take | It's place.
 In battleships of the first class, con- pleted and in commission, Germany matches the United States, each nation | having four. But the United States will shortly add five to it's vessels of that type. Germany will soon increase it's number by two. The advantage in that class of vessels lies with the Unit ed States, although at the present time two of the American battleships are in the Pacific, one being as far away as least a month to equip for service the four battleships now completing on the Atlantic coast In cruisers the United States has the greater strength. Ger many has, moreover several big steam ship lines which can offer many large craft to the government.
 Yesterdays New York Tribune re- marks editorially concerning the pres- ent aspect of the stock market: "The |, figures do not warrant a definite infer ence that stocks are relatively higher than at the last period of great national development and prosperity, nor that they should not further advance. A more positive inference might be war ranted, but for one fact The stock market is now absorbed and overload