The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-16

Include Wants, TO Let, For Sale. etc.
 The first municipal crematory on rec
 ord has been opened in Hull, England.
 It is a model establishment, costing
 S12,50O The charge for cremating a
 body is $5. The mayor, in opening the
 crematory, said it was departure from
 the established lines in municipal enter
 prises, but that it gave every promise
 of proving a great public benefit from
 sanitary and economic points of view.
 The South African war having cre-
 ated great demand on the part of toy
 dealers for leaden soldiers, a number of
 Parisians have organized society to
 oppose the manufacture and sale of the
 martial playthings "The League
 Against Leaden Soldiers is the name
 of the new organization, and Emile
 Zola is It's president. The circular sent
 out by the league states that the mem-
 bers desire to combat the prevailing
 practice of French parents who perpetu- ate the military spirit which is so prev
 alent in the Republic by buying toy soldiers for their children.
 The Mexican Herald does not believe that the Mexican dollar can be driven out of the East 'The big business
 houses of the Far East" it says, "and the Chinese compradores, always accus- toned to the Mexican dollar, give it the prererence. Few other coins have been received in any part of the world. And any one who knows the intense con- servatism of the Chinese may well doubt if, even in the Philippines (where there are not few Chinese traders) new dollar can wholly drive out the time honored Mexican coin. On the mainland the Mexican dollar is a stan dard of value, and the Chinese are mar vellously well acquainted with every feature of it, and can detect counter felt in the dark"
 There are likely to be fewer saloons in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan If an agreement just entered into by the large brewers of those States is not violated. By this agreement they are bound in future not to furnish fixtures for saloons, nor to repair or replace any fixtures belonging to the brewers now existing. The practice thus tabooed has been in vogue largely in these States, | as elsewhere, and, the brewers say, has become nuisance. It has increased | the number of saloons, without corre- spending increase in the general pat has lessened the ability of the retailer to meet his debt to the wholesales. It has led also to the entry into the saloon business of many irresponsible persons, the brewers declare, and has resulted in lowering of the standard of the retail trade.
 Governor Smith of Maryland has is- sued his call for an extra session of the legislature with view to the adoption # Immediate legislation reforming manifest and great abuses in the elec- ion law of the State" A bill has been to diseranchise illiterate vot- ITS Under the present law the candi- 1htes of the respective parties are ar 'anged on the ballots under the party ,mblem and illiterate voters are en- tiled, upon application, to the assist lnce of Democratic or a Republican pallot clerk, as they may desire in marking their ballots. The Republican ,arty emblem has been Lincoln's head. md the illiterate negroes have had no rouble in properly marking their bal pts, the instructions being simply to ut their mark in the space next to the lincoln picture. The proposed law will polish clerks, and the candidates ames will be arranged without refer nee to party, so that a person must ' e able to read to vote intelligently. The Republicans will attempt to have the INV set aside as unconstitutional if it hall be passed. @ According to the Modern Doomsday h ooA, the late Lord Leeonneld was one e twenty eight British noblemen pos s sssed of over 100000 acres of land m a le United Kingdom. He owned some- fl ing like 66,O0O acres in England and Il 1000 in Ireland, and his rent roll was e turned as S1dn nnn Q ,,aar ,rho n.,1=a Ii