The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-27

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 Scienkiewcz, the author of "Quc vadis?" is fond of hunting. The wilt boar is his favorite game.
 The Rev. James M. Gray, D. D., o1 Boston has been invited to England as the temporary occupant of two import ant London pulpits which will be va cant during the coming summer.
 The Pan-American exposition exhibit of agatized and petrifed woods from l the stone forest of Arizona will be the most extensive display of the kind ever attempted.
 Numerous Gladstone memorials are being planned Among them will be a monument at Edinburgh, a library at Hawarden and a national memorial of type which has not yet been decided upon.
 India and Ceylon have competed so successfully with China In the produc- tion of tea that, whereas in 1880 2,100,0O0 hundredweight of the leaf were export ed from China, only 1,6S1,0O0 hundred weight left the country in 1899. M The fact that thirty-eight Mormon missionaries sailed from Boston Thurs day on their way to Europe, where they go to spread a knowledge of their gos- pei, indicates anew that the Latter Day Saints are both hopeful and aggressive.
 According to Germanys latest census that country contains 127,120 more males than females Upon this the Boston Herald remarks: Since Massa- chusetts has a large surplus of women something might be done to induce those thrifty Germans to come over here and enter into the United States of matrimony."
 If it were not for sentimental reasons" remarks the New York Jour nal, ''it would have been good bus!- ness move for our government to in vest in British consols. They could have been bought so much cheaper than United States bonds that the interest drawn from England would have paid our own interest and left good profit in the Treasury"
 Dan A. Stuart of Dallaa,. Tex, is on his way to New York to organize a big oil and iron company to operate in tEe Beaumont fields and .he iron territory northward in the naighborhood of Rusk. He says if oil development at Beaumont is success there should be fortunes in the Texas iron fields. Tammany Hall capitalists are said to be interested in the enterprise.
 with all his eccentricities the En- peror of Germany understands his peo- pie and is one of them. The spirit moves him at frequent intervals, through the dignity of his position as a heaven ordained head of the German people, to say things that irritate think ing Germans, and at times arouses their fierce resentment, and then he proceeds to do something in such simple, genial German fashion that his people are all with him. Brooklyn Times.
 General Joseph Wheeler in I.eslles Weekly hopefully says: T believe in one year the entire Philippine archi- pelago will be as peaceful and quiet and their general character and civilization. l think we can certainly hope that the peaceful and law-abiding character of the people will be better than that i which now exists in Mexico, and very | nearly as satisfactory as the condition in our Territories
 A State exposition has just been opened in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande du Sul Brazil. This city," says a correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (which is one of the most progressive of South America, with about fifty thousand inhabitants, has combined with the State authorities to make this first industrial exhibition great success. All sections of the Rio Grande have responded very generously with produce and manufactured arti- cles. The opening of the exhibition was graced with the presence of the Ameri- can Minister, Colonel Bryan, who was dined and feted. A review of the mili- tary forces of the States was held in his honor."
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