The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-06


 . negro and was born a slave.
 Everybody will be glad to know tha < Secretary Roots illness is not as dan sS gerous as was reported, but a series ol < cArbuncles is very annoying, to say the 2 Ieast.
 Three men have just been inoculatet 8 with bovine tuberculosis by the health x board of Chicago to see how it works < and test Dr. Kochs belief that 1t cannot z be reproduced as tuberculosis in hu-
 man being.
 The young King of Spain has body < guard of veterans who have distin- 2 gtiished themselves in the army and all
 of whom are natives of the Espinosa $ district which, according to tradition,
 has always produced men of unim- @ peachable loyalty.
 The market price of linseed oil has x deciined within about twenty days some z twenty seven cents gallon-a break of 7 unparalleled extent in the trade. Pres < 6nt prices are f1fty-five cents, against
 eighty-two cents less than month ago.
 New competition with the Linseed Oil trust accounts for it.
 The frontier defense of the Roman empire between the Danube and the I Rhine has been under examination by a
 royal commission for eight years and { the work is nearly completed. At Car
 nuntum, in Austria Hungary, an an-
 cfent bakery has been discovered. The room contained two baking ovens and
 a row of charred, completely preserved
 bread leaves Ancient bread has been
 Known hitherto only from Pompeii
 The United States government has
 decided to abandon pneumatic guns,
 better known popularly as dynamite guns The guns were mounted in New
 York and San Francisco, and dyna-
 mite cruiser, the vesuvius, was built
 for use in the Spanish war. The cruis-
 CT was not a success, however, as her
 range was too short. High explosives
 in rified guns at a range of from five to
 gix miles will accomplish all that was
 expected of the dynamite guns.
 New York is emerging from its sum- nner dullness and comparative quiet ute, as says the New York Sun: "The opening of important theaters with crowded audiences, indicates that the town has started on the autumnal sea- s0n; and a further indication is seen Ill freshly stocked shops and bazaars and their throngs of interested cus- fomsrs. Moreover, Wall street has re- Uuined business after it's holiday inter- val. and trade generally is proceeding briskly." s It 10 singular fact that the con- sumption of rice per capita in this country has decreased in the past cen- tury, and that the American people use 10 the family only half as much as in 1 the earlier half of the last century. Rice | 1a as good and as cheap food now as | then. The probable explanation of the | decline, as given by the New Orleans | Hines Democrat, is the smaller produc- lion of the cereal during the period just before and after the civil war, but more particularly the decline in the North of the art of cooking rice.
 Recent discoveries by the Germans in Armenia are of great interest. Dr. Beck and Dr. Lehman have recently found abundant evidences of the existence 800 years B. c. of an ancient Armenian kingdom, of which Van, on the lake of that name was the capital Inscrip- lions bearing upon its history have been copied and data of great service kre being accumulated. Among the rest $ bilinGual inscription in Assyrian Ind Vannic, the Cuneiform syllabary being employed, but under late kings these signs were used to denote the syl- ables of the Vannic tongue.
 Galveston is recovering finely from Ehe effects of its big disaster, as all will be glad to know. The Galveston News yf September l contains a synopsis of The commerce of the port of Galveston for the trade year just closed. and shows, in spite of the unprecedented hurricane of last September, that bus- ness is being conducted on a greater Icale than ever before. Gaiveston's to- sl cotton receipts for 1so0-1so1 were