The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-24

0cAJ AOSOohiNCo itJ dild llIC pidyCI GO' big harvest of coppers, and made his escape.
 Miss Edith Walker of Sydney, who Is said to be the generous Australian who gave anonymously, the sum ot SlO,ooo to the British South African war fund, has devoted a large part of her wealth to various charitable ob. jects.
 The current quarterly dividends of the Fall River cotton mills average 1.71 per cent, compared with 07S per cent declared at this time year ago. Only four mills pass the dividend, while the number year ago was thirteen. The situation of this great industry con- tinues to improve.
 The manufacture of paper cigarettes in the two great cigarette making in- ternal revenue districts of Chicago the second and third-fell off more than 25 per cent. in January as compared with the same month last year. Then the enormous number of 159, ,4e5, ,73O pa- per cigarettes were turned out; now the record is only 116O59, ,76O. Hence 43,405,97O fewer have been put upon the market this January.
 Paris great worlds fair enterprise cannot be inaugurated on the official date set. April 15. Six weeks of rain are, to an extent, responsible for the delay in the completion of the build | Rings The rising of the Seine seriously Smpaired the solidity of the foundations of some of the most important instruc- tures erected along the quays In par ticular, the monumental palace of elec- tricity has sunk in at oneA Aextren1ity to depth of nearly ten feet, and the arch fleets are having their hands full
 Andrew Carnegie tells an interesting story as to how he came to turn his fortune toward building free libraries. When l was a boy down in Ale ghany,," said he there was a Colonel Anderson who one day announced that every Saturday afternoon he would keep his private library open for work ingmen and boys. I was fond of read brary on Saturdays. Do you wonder that when I grew old enough to realize the advantages I had derived I, then and there, resolved that, if ever I had any superfuous money, I would use it in buying books for poor people to bor- row?"
 In just and appreciative tribute to the late Henry c. Robinson the Yale Alumni Weekly says: Tt need hardly he said that, as senior member of the advisory board of this paper, he was al- ways ready to give it's plans and his problems his interested thought How much of difference his presence made at Yale meetings at Hartford and Yale meetings in other places; and indeed everywhere. How interested he was in everything that went on here and how sanely and helpfully he viewed things and advised men. He was good and helpful friend and supporter of Yale Just as he was of very many men Of Yale"
 Rev. Dr. Hills of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, has none but the most scath- ing utterances for "Sapho' After de- nouncing it as an absolutely perncious play and the character of Sapho as un- natural and a disgrace to womanhood, he adds: "In the old Greek play of An tigone,' that celebrated virtue and filial love, the chorus sprayed the audience with Q few drops of water. After the completion of Sapho' each evening the audience should be sprayed with nitric acid. It might also be well for the citv council to import some eulphuric lava from Vesuvius and spray the in- mediate vicinity where the play is be- ing presented There is no crime on the books like the crime of degrading young men and women. In the old time Atheniane put to death those who play ed upon the passions of men. The ar rival of this sense of justice would be most wholesome of New York to-day" Intensely cold weather has been pre- yailing throughout England during February. A correspondent mentions that while crossing Parliament Fields