The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-30

hanged at Red Lodge, Montana, the
 other day for murder, wasn't as bad
 as he might have been. He thoughtful.
 ly requested those who might attend his
 funeral not to uncover their heads in
 the cemetery and so run the risk of
 pneumonia.
 Frank Stanton says that a precocious
 Atlanta youngster, who had just re-
 turned from Sunday school, where his
 mother had taken him over the protest
 of his father, startled the family circle
 with this question: Mother, isn't hell
 slightly overcrowded?" "No, my dear,''
 was the cutting reply. "Your father is
 still living"
 The czarowitz is going to try to have
 some fun riding petroleum tricycle.. At his order a silver mounted machine
 of this description has just been ship ped to hin, from a Paris factory. The
 tricycle. is also provided with car which can be attached and in which at
 times the Russian majesty will sit, while his brother, the Grand Duke Michaelovitch, will mount the motor and do the steering.
 A bill making the keeping of a crap game a felony received 49 affirmative to 30 negative votes in the Tennessee house, but failed because the affirmative vote lacked one of being a constitution al majority. Some novel ideas were ad- vanced during the debate. One mem- Der did not like to see white people en- gage in the game, but he thought 1t Was the negros inalienable right to z .shoot craps" and he did not wish to lessen the colored brothers amusement. Another thought it would be just as sensible to declare progressive euchre a felony, and a third protested that un- der the proposed law the penitentiary accommodations would be insufficient
 The ups and downs of life come to mind when one reads that Edward J. Hubert, the. .,discoverer and promoter of the wonderful Calumet and Heca cop- per mines, is still living and that a member of his family is suing his for mer partner and fellow promoter Qun- cy A. Shaw, to recover stock alleged to belong to him as a part of the origi- nal deal. MT. Hubert retired from the combination some years ago, and a trust fund was established for the maintenance of himself and family. Hubert discovered these two mines in 1864, and bought half interest in the Calumet for $16,S0O. The Hecla mine was bought for $6O,OOO. Subsequently the stock was selling on the market at $15 share. To-day Calumet and Hecla is quoted around $350 share. In 1865 or whereabouts, the copper business not till 1875 that the mines became actually profitable. Y In order to ascertain the effect of acetylene gas on the health, in view of It's increasing use for illumination, some experiments were recently carried on with animals. An atmosphere contain | ing twenty per cent of acetylene was found to have no deleterious effect on | the animals, and from that it was de- | duced that living beings would not be | injured by breathing such an atmos- phere. In an atmosphere containing { forty per cent. of acetylene, dog suc- cumbed after breathing no litres of the mixture. As ascetylene gas has an in- tense odor on escaping into the air, may be said to be considerably safer than ordinary Illuminating gas. There 1. is no danger of explosion until there is one-twelfth by volume of acetyIene mixed with the air. In burning acety- lene removes but little of the oxygen from the atmosphere, and has small heating effect in comparison with it's power, the heat of combus- tion being under 300 degrees C., while with an ordinary flame it may be as high as 1,300 degrees c.
 Bishop Potter of New York has been severely criticised all over the country for some remarks he has been reported to have made in defense of the saloons. Tn response to these criticisms he has made an explanation of what he said and what he meant on the subject. In his letter he says: You have been mis- informed. I have never expressed any