The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-30

riages, Deaths, and Funerals, 50 cents each
 Local Notices, 15 cents per line
 Yearly advertisers are limited to theli
 own immediate business tail matter to be
 uuobjectionable), and their contracts do noi
 Include Wants To Let. Tor Sale. etc.
 One of Vienna's bad men is burglar
 twenty-eight years old who has already
 undergone seventeen sentences and ia
 charged with committing over four hun
 dred burglaries and thefts in the last
 ten months.
 D1fferent places, different names Tn
 the Stockholm directory there are set
 down 11,311 Andersons, 4,611 Erikssons
 2,915 Janssons, 7,S12 Johanssons, 2,7O3 x Jonssons, 7,085 Karlsons, S,446 Larssons,
 S,677 Nilssons, 3,1O2 Olssons, 6,496 Peters, sons, and 3,o5s Svenssons.
 The Methodist ministers of Chicago
 didn't have much success in their at
 tempt to do away with dancing at the
 commencements of the Chicago public
 schools To their petition E, Benjamin { Andrews the general superintendent,
 answered that the sole authority in the matter rested with the principals of tho
 various schools, and they, in turn de- \ clined to interfere.
 s% The funds invested so far in the Paris exposition aomunt to $7600000. Of this sum $5 60O,0O has been paid away dur ing the present year. The Paris munic- ipaIity has contributed $2 100000 of the 4,O00, ,00O promised by the city and $500- 900 has been supplied by the Western of France railway and other various undertakings. The state has contribut- ed $1,300,0o0 and has agreed to pay $1,- 100000 moHe before the end of 1899.
 China isn't entirely dead. Her com- x lnercial activity during last year, ac- cording to figures now published, was wholly unprecedented. Her foreign trade was nearly three hundred mill lions in value; and the excess of her imports forty millions, as compared with an average of twenty-eight millions for the previous ten years. These figures cover only her ocean trade and do not take into account the immense overland and coastwise trade with Corea, Indo- China the East Indies and her own col- onial possessions of Mongolia and Thi- bet, the balance of which is largely in her favor.
 A Biblical student in Washington, says the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record, declares that if the descriptions of Solomon's temple are &C., curately given in the Bible and by secu- lar authorities, the total value of that edif1ce and its contents must have ex- ceeded $5000O. 900, 900. In the first place, the value of the materials in the rough is estimated at $12,500 900, GOO, and the labor at s, ,0OO, 900, 900. According to Will lalpandis 10000 men were engaged in dressing cedar lumber, S0,000 were en- gagged in cutting stone and 60,000 in bearing burdens, for period of seven years, who, in addition to their wages, received 50 cents a day for food Ac- cording to the same authority, which is scorroborated by Josephus, the vessels of gold were valued at 1400G0 talents, which, reduced to American money, is equal to $2,326 4S1, 015. The vessels of silver are calculated at $3,231 ,715,000, the yestments of the priests and the robes of the singers at $10,05O,O00, and the value of the trumpets of gold was $1,0O0,0O0.
 A movement in Georgia for the diver sification of crops is making much head way. Less cotton and more wheat is the advice given to farmers in some | sections, and it is being acted on intelli- | gently. The convention of State wheat | growers, held last fall, is to be repeated | next month, when methods will be dis cussed experiences related and the | prizes offered by the Macon Telegraph 1 for the best wheat yields VIII De aWaru- ed. The acreage devoted to wheat this wear is much larger than that of last year, and Pope Brown, president of the Wheat Growers association is sanguine that the existing acreage will be null tiplied twenty-five times next year. sIhe splendid yield of wheat all over middle and lower Georgia has demon- strated this year beyond all doubt" he says, "that wheat is a better paying crop for the Georgia farmer than cot ton" Thus far all the wheat grown in the State has found a home market, and there is a demand by local flour mills for more at price, according to a Macon correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution, higher than that quoted in New York, sMills in Atlanta and Co., 1umbus" he writes, have had agents out for a month or more contracting for all the grain they could get at from pr &, on nantc raY bushal o |