The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-26

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 Captain Dreyfus, the forlorn prisoner at Devils Island has apparently hopeless future before him, as tn chances that justice will be done him ar vanishing.
 Germany hasn't ordered any more warships to Samoa. She evfdentl. thinks there are enough there now t( insure peace and order. If it turns out that more warships are needed the three big nations interested will probably see < to it that Samoa has some more.
 Bryan is home again and his admirers < claim that everywhere on his recent trip his reception has been immensely en- tilusiastic. But it seems to be written on the wall, nevertheless, that Bryan will never get votes enough to elect him president of this country
 The crown princess Marie of Rouma- mia, who was princess Marie of Edin- burgh, has queer fad of collecting scent bottles. Her love for these seems to be inherited, for her grandmother the late empress of Russia, had won- derful collection of beautiful and curi- ous scent bottles which was valued at 35,oOo.
 New Haven's dust problem is seri- ous one. There is altogether too much of it flying about for comfort or health. Various of our leading physicians as- sert that our dusty streets are bad menace to the health of thousands of our residents and even the sturdiest must suffer more or less from the evil. Cannot our city fathers alleviate the difficulty?
 In the city of Haverhill, Mass, which has Socialist mayor, the total number of voters registered at the State elec- tion of November for governor, State officers and members of Congress was 7,O77. At the city election in December 1898, when the municipal and school of- hcers were voted for, the total registra- tion was as follows: Male, 7,O92; female, { 498 The number of electors who voted was as follows: Male, 6,3O1; female, H.
 An increase of 45 per cent. in the ex- penses of Missouri's legislature consists mainly of patronage handed around among the members. The cost of clerk hire will be $26OOOO against $14O, 900 last year. It cost the state $S,000 to engross bills, when the work would have been done for $236 at ordinary business rates And the legislature has appropriated only beggarly $1O.OOO for the state militia. Dr. J. Marty, a French criminologist has recently made an examination of 4,O00 delinquent soldiers of the French army, and has found that in height weight, breast mea sure muscular pow CT and general condition, they averaged ! much better than the well behaved SOL 1 diers Dr: Marty does not imply that l criminals are by nature better physical ly than noncriminals, but suggests that | much more wretched than respectable | ones that only the uncommonly strong survive.
 All the world once upon a time knew that there was "corn in Egypt" just as the world knows to-day that there is corn in America. The demand for American corn abroad increases and the value of it for food is becoming more generally known and appreciated. Eng land has increased her demand for corn from 57O00, ,00O bushels in '96 to S1 1000, ,OOO in '97, valued at 26,OOOOOo France and Germany are also both taking more every year and the rest of Europe in- creases it's demand constantly In all we sent to Europe in 1897 155, 900 900 bushels of corn, and 718,127 barrels of corn meal. Corn is not an inconsidera- ble crop when the figures are looked over.
 One of the great Wall street men of to-day and he is one of the last of famous old group of financial giants, is Russell Sage. Next August he will be years of age and he is still hale and alert. He does not look his age by almost twenty years. He ar rives at his office every morning at 9:30. He is director in thirty eight different from which he draws in di-