The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-01

Local Notices. 15 ce1.s per line.
 Yearle advertisers are limited 70 tneir
 rvn immediate business (oll matter 10 oe
 1nob1ectionablcl. and their contracts do not
 Include Wants, To Let For Sale. etc.
 Philadelphia is little slow in several ways. The Philadelphia city hall was
 designed to cost $30OO,O00 and was to be
 completed within ten years. It has cost \ $25, 100000, and after nearly thirty years
 Is yet incomplete.
 The Boston Herald thinks 1t may in-
 terest struggling young authors to
 know that there was a time when
 one has just refused an offer of $10O,000
 for three books, walked the streets of
 Paris unable to afford the price of a
 newspaper There are many struggling
 young authors who can reasonable take
 some interest in the first part of Zola's
 experience.
 A pleasing profit Is reported by the
 New York City and Suburban Homes
 Company, corporation which tries, in
 dealing with the tenement house prob lem, to combine business with philan-
 thropy. The success of this effort is
 attested by a per cent dividend on
 the company's holdings, amounting to
 about s2,O0O,O0O in Manhattan. Next
 year the company will spend S1.25O,OOO
 chiefly on model tenements for colored
 people on the west side.
 A woman member of the Londonderry (Ireland) Board of Guardians the other Iday offered as a present to the work house infirmary an engraving of
 Guido's "Ecce Homo" in memory of Queen Victoria, in whose room copy of the picture hung at the time of her death. The ultra -Protestants of the board at once objected to the accept ance of the gift, on the ground that it if it was not actually Popish it was 1.-the thin edge of the wedge" aA3 A@ct tHlS piCluIe III, eASidlHieu oHS member and next thing the paupers will be asking for the Popish mass" This prospect was so terrifying that the picture was declined by vote of IS < tn 7 A candidate for a seat in the Austra- Han commonwealth parliament issued | on the eve of the election the following statement; T have travelled in the | conduct of this contest more than 10000 | miles, large portion on foot. I have | published and circulated, chiefly by my own lands, or by those of members of | my family, 100000 pages of literature | lin book form. have published 139,OOO | copies of speeches delivered in the con- stituency and 125. 900 copies of four-page circulars. It is utterly impossible that | this amount of work and literature can fail to have its effect" Alas! it was only too possible. The candidate who tramped, printed and published on this colossal scale found himself at the bot tom of the poll when the count was fin- ished.
 J. Pferpont Morgan isn't the only smart one Miss Martha Walk is su- perintendent of a Philadelphia home for friendless children. 'Remembering a region in Indiana county. Pennsyl- vania, which ought to produce a good quality of coal, she secured a weeks leave os absence and went up there Within a week she satisfied herself that coal of the best quality and in enor- nous quantities lay hidden beneath the ground. Within another week she had | options upon 10000 acres in the heart of the district and her friends became in- terested in about 10000 acres more all secured at the option price of s3o to $40 an acre. She returned to Philadelphia and proceeded to market her options. l Surveyors were sent into the region, a l l syndicate was organized, with a result ! { that it took Miss Walks 10000 acres off ( her hands at an advance of $1O an acre. and is negotiating for a second lot { which she controls. Travelling museums as aids to les e sons Tn geography will be feature in the Chicago public schools. To carry , put the plan the Chicago Bureau of S Geography is to be incorporated, so s that 1t may receive gifts showing the r of the several States. T Already specimens for exhibition valued a 1t $2,000 have been contributed includ- S ng illustrated sheets and specimens F rom the mining regions and the cot O on-fields. The bureau will issue a geo. h graphical journal every month showing t. he work done in the schools to ad- W 'ance the knowledge of geography. It u will collect books and magazines such u