The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-03

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 Sir John Lubbock, who has beer honored by peerage, has selected the title of Lord Avebury. The honor is richly deserved,
 An electric safety block signal which will bring train to a stop without the assistance of the engineer is now being introduced on several American railroads.
 Professor Ogden Doremus of New York city recommends the use of phos- phate of ammonia to render wearing apparel, curtains and other starched goods, as we'll as furniture, non-inflam- mable.
 
 In ordering the next installment of American mules for South Africa the British government might avoid con- fusion by kindly stating whether they are wanted for table use or for haul ing purposes.-Mail and Express.
 The portrait of Emperor William which Professor Hubert Herkomer is painting will be ready for exhibition at the big Berlin Art Exposition early this spring. The pose and treatment will be entirely new, and the Emperor has left all to the artist.
 John Addison Porter, secretary to President Mckinley, has completed a collection of crayon portrait photo- graphs of his predecessors in the White house, to be hung in the secretary's of flee. There are twenty-five portraits in all.
 The Belgian missionary Senden de- ecribes a strange .''cure" he witnessed in the Congo State. A negro woman having been struck by lightning, her eggs shell and all, down her throat. sShe recovered.
 EThe story that Mary Anderson-she has another name now, but few would recognize her under it--has been robbed at the Riviera resort of a number of jewels of great value is probably cor rect. There has been no report of an intention on her part to return to the stage.-Providence Journal.
 The worlds production of coal for 1899, according to reports just at hand, was as follows: Total production, 662,- S20, 900 tons; Great Britain, POP, ,o54516 tons; United States 196,405953; Ger many, 130,92S,4O0; Austria Hungary, 35,- 03S, 415; France, 32,439,7 Belgium, 22,- 975,o93; Russia, 12,s62, ,o33; other coun- tries 30, 114,SO4.
 Edinburgh is at the present time suf- fering from severe epidemic of grip, and this mysterious disease still seems to baffle medical skill. It is now ten or twelve years since it had the first visita- has claimed victims every year. This year the visitation has been peculiarly acute and widespread.
 One by one the little town mutual fire insurance associations are going out of existence in Illinois. The last of these concerns to announce it's re- tirement from business is the Spring field Town Insurance company In their own way these associations served a useful purpose for time, but their day of usefulness and prosperity has passed. Before midsummer comes the coun- try will be engaged in a Presidential i campaign, which usually renders busi- ness rather conservative Hence it | seems not improbable that hopes and | fears Gas regards the working of the | new currency bilD may both be consid- erably disappointed until after the re- suit of that campaign has become def- nitely settled.-New York Tribune.
 "Out of $55,00O,000 donated last year to American colleges, it is noted, 'only $43S,0O0 was given to colleges in Southern States" The more reason, of ! course, why every Southern State should give adequate and liberal SUD- port for it's own colleges. There are no millionaires to take care of such in- stitutions in this part of the country. News and Courier.
 Mexico is raising more cotton every year. and consequently the exports of this product from the United States