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The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03
THE THISTLE AS FEEL

There are farmers in Western Me- | braska who have made hundreds of | dollars each fall baling and selling for | fuel the common Russian thistle, but a few years ago regarded as a menace to western agriculture. These are not iso-
 lated exceptions, either. The thistle abounds through the western counties. In the fall the weed Is to be found in enormous quantities through the open country. The special baling machines
 can place in compact packages, similar
 to baled hay hundreds of pounds of
 this weed in a day. It makes eXcep- tionally fine fuel, and in the west, re-
 mote from coal fields, where a ton of
 coal costs s15, and the farmer must
 do the hauling 10 to 20 miles, the Rus-
 sian thistle is fine substitute. Again,
 the common tumble weed" is baled for
 fuel. It resembles the Russian thistle,
 with the exception of the thorns, and is even more prolific. In the fall of the year 1t assumes a ball-like shape, and in the first winter wind breaks it's frail stem and sends the fluffy roll of dry vegetable matter bounding over the prairie like a great ball. From this fact it's name, tumble weed' is de- rived. The first ravine or draw the weed strikes affords 1t a lodgment, and successive balls soon make pile as big as a freight car. Farmers drive their wa vone into these draws load them down by pressing them with their feet into great wagon boxes and burn them in the grass" stoves.
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Moscow's. CANNON AND BELL.

MOSCOW'S, CANNON AND BELL l As a whole Moscow is nothing but | MoscoW-a city apart, exempt from
 comparison, beyond description A Rus
 sian wit has said that it is remarkable
 for two things--a cannon which has
 never been fired and d bell which has
 never been tolled And these are per
 haps the two most striking single ob-
 jects On the way through the Krem- lin which is, of course, or rather was, a great fortress surrounded by walls a
 mile and a half long, you pass in the
 arsenal yard an enormous quantity of bronze cannon neatly disposed in
 groups. Towering above them is the "Czar Cannon' 8 huge and highly dec
 orated piece of bright green bronze, weighing 40 tons, with a bore of IS in- ches, cast In 15S6. It is merely decor alive, for a hatful of powder would
 blow 1t to bits. A hundred yards far 1 ther on is colossal bell on the ground weighing 200 tons While it was being raised to the tower in l737 it was brok- en, and the 11-ton piece Knocked out of it lies by it's side. These cannon re- mind me of q significant little incident
 As everybody knows, Napoleon brought 800 cannon into Russia with him and took nine out again, Of the remainder, 365 are here, together with many more from Austria and Prussia and Italy and other enemies In a glass frame is a brass tablet telling this proud story. We stopped to read it-a party of four, including guide-when instantly a sentry ran up with fixed bayonet and sharply ordered us to move on Gath erings in the street are not permitted in Russia. He was, Of course, an ig- norant man. too zealously executing orders he did not understand but the incident tells it's story. There is also something peculiarly absurd in visitors being forbidden to read tablet set up in public place to tell of Russian vic- tories.-Henry Norman in the London Chronicle.
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.IiEi F.

Hibernian in front of unfinished | building to fellow-w workman at fifth story window-Mulcahy, go to the
 spaking tube. I want to tell yez to come down.-Boston Commercial Bull letin.
 "It's terrible the way the price of coal is going up" walled the pessimist. Well" there's one thing to be thankful for" said the optimist; "coal doesn't melt, like ice. Philadelphia Record.
 Judge-You hit the plaintiff with a chunk of coal, and your conduct pre- sents not one extenuating circum- stance.
 Defendant-Beg pahdon, Sah, jes' one, Sah. It was soft coal. Sah.--Chi- caso News.
 Hattie-"He paid me @ very pretty compliment. He said my movements were bird-like." Bertha-'I saw him the day before gazing at Mrs. Quelpers ducks, You don't suppose it was they that put the idea into his head?"-Bos- ton Transcript.
 "Well--this is great, I must say"
 Whats the matter?"
 T gave Della money to get me some things in Paris, and here she sends a note with them worded as if she were making me present of them. "-Indi- anapolis Journal
 Miss Redd--"Did you hear about one of our caddies getting married?" Miss Green-"No; is that SOP" Yes: and he requested the organist to play some thing appropriate" And did he?" "Yes; he played After the Ball "- Yonkers Statesman.
 Not Her Fault.-May Putter-"Eve- rybody's talking about the way you let Jack Huggard kiss you on the links yesterday" Belle Hazard-"Well, I couldn't help It. I was just teeing off when he asked me If he could have just one kiss. I yelled, Fore and he took them. m."-Philadelphia Press.
 When the Real Work Begins-Of course. as woman became more inde- pendent 1t was more difficult to win her.
 "In these days" said the youth, "a man has to work for bride"
 True" replied the benedict, "but not SO hard as he has to work for a wife when the preliminary task is finished" Chicago Post.
 More Census Bulletins.--Horsene Wis, September 29.-The people of this city are dissatisfied with the census, which gives 1t a population of thirty three souls It had been confidently expected that the returns would show at least forty people here. The gain of i6,7 per cent, however, Is considered highly gratifying.--C Times Her ald
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03
Why Pn ts ON the Fence.

The pictures of the candidates are hangin'
 everywhere They're gettin' up processions, ana there
 music In the air; The banners stretch across the streets most
 every block or so The papers they are tellin' how the 'lec-
 tion's sure to go; :, Some of them say McKtnley's vote IS DouEu
 to be immense, Some say that Bryan's got 1t sure-but pa
 he's on the fence! They're holdin moetin's in the halls anu
 everywhere around, And men are fockin there in droves ana
 gettin held spellbound; They talk about free silver and the danger
 1t would bring, The orators jump up and down and Jaw
 like anything; The folks are mad and shakin' fists; mn
 says the strains intense, For lection ain't so far aWay-but pa ne 5
 on the fence. The ,Joneses they're Republicans, the
 Smiths are Democrats, They used to run together, now they hght like dogs and cats; They talk about prosperity and what eX- pansion means, They scold about the army and about the Philippines But pa he runs q grocery, and he says there ain't no sense In gettin' one side mad at you--so lie keeps on the fence
 $. F. Riser in Chicago Times-Herad.
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pBOGRESS yN CHINA,

| There appears to be 8 government i'll China in these days, and 1t Is acting with some vigor. An imperial edict' has been issued and this edict doesn't favor the Boxers. It also doesn't fa- yor some of the high Chinamen who did favor the Boxers. It announces that Prince Chwang, Prince Yih, Sec
 ondary Princes Tsai Lien and Tsai
 Ting. are deprived of all their ranks
 and offices; that Prince Yuan is de-
 prived Of office and Is handed over to
 the imperial clan court, which shall
 consult and decide upon a severe pen atty, and his salary is to be stopped; that Duke Tsai Ian and the President of the Censorate, Ting Nien, are hand ed over to the said board, who shall consult and decide upon a severe pen alty, and that yank Vi, Assistant Grand Secretary and President of the Civil Beard, and Chao Shu Chiao, Pres- ident of the Board of Punishment, are handed over to the Board of Censors, who shall consult and decide upon penalty
 What the "severe penalty" mentioned in this edict means remains to be seen. It ought to be pretty severe If it is going to be anything.
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yEBR1sK4,s OPPORTUNITY

All Republicans and many Democrats are hoping that Bryan will be so thor oughly slain at the polls this time that
 he will know he is dead and be willing
 to stay in his political grave. Nothing more effective could be done to con- vince him that he cannot be an immor- tai candidate than to have his own State repudiate him. The Republicans are making great efforts to carry Me- braska. In 1896 Bryan's plurality in that State was 13,576, and change of less than 1000 votes would give the State to Mckinley. Can this change
 be made? Some good judges think it can. Encouragement to think it can is given by a competent observer in Lin coin, Mir. Bryan'e own town. S. H. Burnham, president of the First na- tional bank there, says: Unless I am greatly mistaken, there will be very material change in the political results d point to talk with farmers coming from different precincts, and from diff ferent sections of the State, and almost without an exception they tell me they know of many in their different locali- ties who are going to let we'll enough alone and vote for Mckinley. Many of them voted for Bryan four years ago. The general feeling here is that the Re- publicans can elect a governor, carry the legislature, and secure the electoral vote for Mckinley.
 There ie some talk of 'local pride" in Nebraska, but there isn't much excuse for 1t to be found in Bryan. Rather might the people of Nebraska take pride in helping to relieve the United States of the incubus of Bryan and Bryanism.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

on and the painting of the face. The faces are painted on the finest of white muslin This work SIS also the stitch ing of the dresses, may be taken away from the workrooms. One woman em- ployed by the Brooklyn house has be- come an expert at doing the faces, and has supported herself for some time by that means. Before the painted cloth is put on queer little pads covered with pink muslin are fastened to the head to give the well-rounded cheeks and the slight pinkish tinge to the unpainted parts of the face Over this the face is pinned in the cheaper dolls or seWed in the more expensive ones.
 The work required in making the dolls is neat and by no means difficult, and large number of girls and women have been enabled to find employment in this way.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03
fl DEADLY WEA POW,
Bryanisn-

It is dangerous enough to go to war now, but the indications are that it will
 be still more dangerous. Experiments are being made in England with a weapon which seems to be well calcu- lated to discourage such charges as now figure in battle pictures. It is a patent centrifugal quick-firing ma chine-gun, five feet high and weighs
 about 500 pounds. It is intended for a
 battle-ship, earthworks, and garrison
 purposes. The motive power is elec-
 tricity, transmitted to motor attach
 ed to the side of the gun which causes
 8 disk to revolve at g very high rate
 of speed. The bullets, which are fntro
 duced into the interior of the disk at
 the axle. travel along curves in the in
 terior to the circumference, and are
 there impelled through a barrel. It is claimed that this disk can be made to revolve at the rate of 12,0oO revolutions 8 minute. and eject shots from the muzzle of the gun with an initial veIoc. ity of 2,000 feet per second. One of the chief characteristics of the weapon is that 1t will maintain a continuous fire If necessary, shot may be discharged at every half revolution, but in prac- tice one shot every fourth revolution will be found sufficient. The bullets are spherical. The tests at NeWcastl were made with 8 belt driven by eteam-engine, no electric motor being
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

available. A steel target tenth of an inch thick, was shattered with D. 800 revolutions minute. The calcula- ton is that with motor a steel target half an inch thick could be pierced at 400 yards. There is no heating of the barrel of the gun, because of the con- tlnuous stream of cold air which is impelled through it by the turning of the disk. The disk itself is also free from heating, on account of the spe- cial bearings on which it is constructed.
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BnteIs
Broadway Central HQtal.

rms IS the season when everybody goes to New York. It Is tho great metropof- tan city of this continent and offers tho visitor such varied attractions as no othcr city this side of Paris can present. A first. class, elegant and comfortable hotel. iin the Broadway Central, New York. afTords Yisltors every accommodation and tbe most central ana convenient location In the city. least expense to guests. Send for circular.
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 of the island twelve feet over q space four miles square, and build such 8 sea
 wall as would be considered adequate.
 Professor Kolthoff, who recently re- turned to Sweden from Greenland with a pair of musk oxen, one of the ob- jects of his travels, believes these in- teresting animals can be acclimat tized In the north of Sweden. In matter of food he says they are as easily pleased as the American goat that digests oyster cans A full-grown OK will weigh between 1,4O0 and 1,500 pounds, and it's flesh is good eating. A few of the animals were also shot and their meat taken for supplies. The flesh of the cows was excellent, while that or the bull seemed to have a flavor like musk. The meat compared favorably with mutton, and the expedition lived for no little time on the supply. The professor salted some and will serve 1t to his friends this winter. Another item of value in the animal is it's wool It is very thick and falls off every spring. It Is as fine as the wool of the sheep and the fiber is of great strength. It is estimated that the shearing of one OK will equal that of twenty sheep.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03
RAG DOLLS AND THEIR MAKERS

Several establishments for the manu- facture of rag dolls are now being man. aged by women in different parts of the country. But the most interesting of these, since it was the first in the field, is that carried on by two young women in Brooklyn. From a small be- ginning the originators of this rag doll have seen the business grow until the dolls are now found in all parts of the country. Women are employed almost exclusively also in the various process eS of manufacture
 The most interesting part of the mak- ing of these cloth dolls is the putting
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

Within seven days of the destruction the two-mile bridge to the city across Galveston bay, and now all lines are open to the city, as before, and as good as ever. None of the railroad interests concerned is advising an abandonment of the site, and all are predicting a promised before. Speaking, however, of plars to protect the city from anoth- CT disaster of the kind, Professor Lewis M. Haupt of the government isthmian canal commission says that s20.00o, 900
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For District Electors,

For District Electors, First District--M. S. CHAPMAN, of
 Manchester. Second istrict-FREDERICK DE
 PEYSTER, of Portland. Third DIFFERENTIATION F. WILL l LIAMS, of Norwich. Fourth District--G. W. MARSH, of
 Bridgeport.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

Judge Miller, of Mercer county. Penn- syfvania, visited the county fair the other day, and, seeing a big wheel of fortune, took an axe and smashed if to pieces. The other operators of gam bling devices departed immediately Judge Miller says if the local authori- ties won't stop gambling, he will
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 15 CENTS WEEK, 50 CENTS MONTH, s FOR SIx MONTHS, 96 YEAR. THn SAME TERMS BY MAIL
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

The women of Wurtemburg, Ger many, have adopted a novel scheme for aiding charity. They have issued a leaf1et headed, Collect Women's Hair" explaining that every woman can con- tribute to helping the sick and poor by sending their useless combings to cer- tain depots, whence they will be for warded to a hairdresser to convert them into invisible hair nets. The ex- planation is that until recently China supplied nearly all the hair used in this way, but the exportation of hair from China has stopped
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

During the last eleven years, the Kaiser has made more than seven hum dred speeches, which have been printed in the Reichsanzeiger. This is at the rate of one speech in every six days. Heap talk
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03
REPUBLICAN NOMiNA I'll ONS
FOR PRESIDENT,

FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM MCKINLEY oT Ohio.
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT. THEODORE RoOsEvELT, of New York.
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For EIectors-at-Lnrwe,

CHARLES S. MERsICK. of New Ha-
 ven. HENRY H. BRIDGEMAN, of Norfolk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

Materials and machinery to carry on the petroleum industry have recently been imported into Japan on quite an extensive scale as result of the dis covery of new oil fields in the province of Echigo. In Kashiwazaki, the city nearest to the new fields, seventy pro- ducing and thirty refining companies have been started and number of drilling companies organized to put down wells by contract for the owners. Japan consumes annually about 600O0,- 900 gallons of refined petroleum, of which amount about one-third is pro- duced by local refiners. This shows a marked increase over the ratio of the native ana foreign product q year aso, which was then one to ten.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-03

1HE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STR EFT.
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For Senator,

Eighth District-FREDERICK
 AvERILL, of New Haven.
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On a recent journey from Salzhurg to Munich the Prince of Bulgaria took his stand on the footplate of the engine, and drove the train himself. He made the engine driver present of 60 francs and the fireman one of 30 francs. In a letter from the administration of the Bavarian railroads to the Bulgarian court it was pointed out that the accep- tance of these gifts is against the rules of the service, and that further, the engine driver had no right to permit a stranger on the engine. The conductor of the train, 1t was added, had also been blamed for not drawing the atten- ton of the Prince to this regulation.
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For Judge of Probate, LIVINGSTON w. CLEAVELAND, O. New Haven.
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For State Officers.

For State OmcerS.
 FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE P. MCLEAN, of Sirnsbury. TOR LIEUTENANT-GOvEFN OR, EDWIN 0. KELLER, of Norwalk FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, CHARLES G. R. VINAL, of Middle town.
 FOR TREASURER, HENRY H. GALLUP, of Norwich.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, ABIRAM CHAMBERLAIN, of Meri- den.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, lssurd ThurndRys, Ono Dollar Ye~v.
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s For Congressman, Second District-NEHEMIAH
 SHERRY, of New Haven.
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For Represcn tatives,

DENNIS A. BLAKESLEE a
 GEORGE F. HALL.
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Hibernian in front of unfinished building to fellow-workman at f1tth- story window-Mulcahy, go to the spaking tube. I want to tell yez to come doWn.-Boston Commercial Bull
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-18
CURIOUS FACTS.

The first watches were made at
Nuremberg, Germany, in 1477.
The chance of two finger prints be.
ing alike is not one in sixty.four bill.
ions.
Mrs. William Swartwood, of Noun
tain Top, Penn, recently gave birth
to her twenty-fifth child.
1t is said that the peasant of the
south of France spends on food for q
family of five an average of twopence
day.
The most extensive cemetery in the
world is that at Rome, in which over
5000, 900 human beings have been in
tered.
Raleigh, N. c., has the largest pair
of oak trees in the United States,
when perfect symmetry of trunk and
top is taken into consideration.
Kites always carry odds and end ds of
what they consider ornaments to their
nests. Among other things, pages of
books have been found in them.
On the big steamer Oceanic there is
no seat at the table marked No. 13,
and no cabin bearing that number.
This is concession to superstition.
Originally clocks had only the hour
hand, but the minute hand was added
later, as it became fashionable to
make the dials as decorative as posi-
BILE.
In the mails recently received in
Milwaukee, Wis, were the ashes of n
woman of that city who died while
visiting Germany and was cremated
there.
A child was lost in the Blue Ridge
Mountains and three months later it's
dead body and that Of the dog who
was with it were found. Both had
starved to death.
GeEs are said to be subject to dis
ease. Sometimes these prove fatal.
and the jewel dies. Some gems lose
color gradually, others crack without
any apparent cause.
India's area OF wheat farms is now
about two-thirds as large as that of
the United States. The wheat is still
threshed by being trodden out by
bullocks and bufaloes.
In an old church in Herefordshire,
England, there'are two thriving elm
trees, which naturally sprouted from
the pavement OF the edifce, and stand
one at each end of pew.
At Munich there is hospital which
is entirely supported by the sale of
old steel pens and nibs collected from
all parts of Germany. They are made
into watch springs, knives and razors.
The oldest resident of the town of
Emporia, Kan, is J. p. Mather. who
is said to be a direct descendant of
Cotton Mather. Though eighty-tive
years of age, he goes daily to a gym
nasium and exercises on the bars.
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inability to give me any bread, as II
was not yet baked, but offered TO
make me some crackers; this, how.
ever, 1 would not allow her to do,
though she pressed me again and
again. The old habits of hospitality,
which are so marked all through the
Boer nation, no matter what their
critics may say to the contrary, still
hold good in these irresponsible wan
derers. None of these people asked
me for news of the outside world.
Their world consisted of the piece OF
land their stock fed on.
"I found out during my stay in the
country that there we're about 100
families of Trek Beers in Damaraland,
while there are several hundreds of
them scattered over the New Repub-
lie in Zululand and Ae neighboring
country; but their own people do not
favor them, they look on them as
pariahs and ontcasts, who have no
stake in the country, and the trekkers
have been invited on several occa-
sious to seek fresh fields The pres
ent war in South Africa will spell ruin
for many, ard the Trek Boer is per-
haps the only inhabitaut of the coun-
try who could be in no way affected
by it were he to stand aloof; bnt
blood is thicker than water, aud thero
is no doubt that he will sink all
former differences and rally to the aid
of his countrymen.