The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-09


 own immediate business Gall matter to bt
 unobjectionable), and their contracts do no
 include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
 General Lawton, in a recent inter
 view, said he was total abstainer.
 The total number of vessels passing
 through the Suez canal in 1898 was 3,503.
 Of this number 2,295 carried the British
 flag.
 Mrs. Hetty Green says: "The idea
 that the way to financial success is a
 hard one is all wrong. The road is not
 rough It Is easy to find and to travel.
 People look for it in out-of-the- e-way
 places, and 80 miss it' Please tell us
 where to look, sister.
 A Cincinnati milknaan invites his customers to have the milk which he serves analysed twice year, at his ex- pense. The tests may be made at any time, without warning to the dairyman .--his object, of course, being to prove that his milk is of standard purity all the year round. He does large busi- ness and finds himself well repaid for his outlay for the analysis
 Dr. Thomas Hunter, president of the Normal College of New York, has asked the pupils in the institution to consid- CT the pocket as a moral agent. He says that a pocketless being is per- son of low moral status and he told the young women of the college to go home, and put, at least, one pocket in each of their gowns. His argument was that woman without a pocket leaves things lying about in the way of those tempted to be dishonest, and that general klep- tomania Is the result.
 A negro was before a United States court in Philadelphia the other day, charged with some infraction of the law. He had no counsel and the judge assigned Hampton L. Carson to defend him. The government, by the testimo- ny of several witnesses, established a strong case against the defendant The learned counsel for the prisoner said: "Now, Sambo! Please take the wit ness stand and give your version of this affair."" The "man and brother" looked wise and quizzical, and turning round for a moment said: Boss, in these yeah circumstances I guess it would be bettah for me to remain neu- tral."
 A Springfield Massachusetts woman has made determined and successful move. She had the misfortune to have a son who was addicted to the use of liquor and who was in the habit of get ting intoxica ting beverages at a near by saloon on Sundays. She asked the police to enforce the law after having appealed to the woman who kept the saloon not to sell her son any more liquor, but the police seemed to be un- able to secure any evidence to warrant | an arrest. It was one woman against | another, and the woman who had right | on her side won. She went to the sa- | loon on a recent Sunday, had no diff | flculty in getting in, bought and paid | for a bottle of gin, met her son in the | place as he was purchasing similar bottle, hurried out, gave her evidence to a. police officer and when the woman saloonist was in court not only the mother but the son appeared against 1er and she was sentenced to jail, it being her second offence.
 A United States consul has sent in a 'eport on a peculiar railroad that he ound in operation in the county of Down, Ireland. It is a combination of all and pavement, both of steel, and on t run cars with Hanged wheels and reight wagons with unf1anged wheels, which, on reaching the end of the rail- oad-it is only three miles long-con- inue on their journey over ordinary oads at the heels of ordinary horses All the trains" says the consul, "are mixed trains-passenge and goods or reight combined. The passenger line , built of steel rails, outside of and dioining which is a lower line of steel ails, The wagons run on the lower utside rails; the inner rails for the ars are high enough above the outer all to act as a guide to the wagons ' eeping them on the track. There are o terminal charges, so the cost of andling is light. There is no delay or ifficulty in getting the wagons on or E if the ends of the line. The cost of ne road including land and all, was bout s77,S6o"
 l 'It will cost you ST. said the jeweler, 1 lspecting the works of the timepiece trough his eyeglass, "to put this watch (