The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-08


 has been decidedly overdone.
 The Trans Siberian railroad begun ir
 1892 is to be completed by 1908. Abou
 5000 miles of track have been laid and
 2,00O more are necessary to complete the
 line. The construction of the track has already necessitated the building o1 thirty miles of bridges.
 Count St. Ouen de Pierrecourt whosf
 family dated back to William the Con-
 Queror, and who died recently has pe-
 queathed to the ciey of Rouen his for.
 tune of lp,ooo,OoO francs on the nove
 condition that the city annually gives
 marriage gift of 100000 francs to a
 couple of giants in order to regenerate the human species. The candidates are
 to be medically examined, ard the healthiest couple will be chosen.
 An interesting suit is before the Span fish claims commission for damages for the death of newspaper correspondent, who was captured and shot by the Spanish in Cuba just after he had land- ed from an alleged filibustering vessel. The issue is, in case the correspondent is proved not to be f1libuster, whether his country was bound to protect him from the consequences of an act per formed in violation of it's own laws; also whether 1t must pay damages for having failed to do so, under the terms of Its agreement with Spain,
 It isn't all cotton in the South nowa- days. In Whitfield county, North Geor- gta, MT. W. J. Summerour has an or chard of 25o,0oo peach trees. Only one third of his orchard came into bearing last year, and from these he realized a net profit of $23,00O He will have dou- ble the number of trees in bearing this year and confidently expects to realize profit of $50,00O Another fruit grower in the same county sold his crop of peaches from 1,7Oo trees last year to a fruit buyer for $5,0OO cash, the pur- chaser picking and boxing them.
 If you would be rich and happy in- vent something just as good" as gutta percha, sEngland has contract for an all-British cable across the Pacific, as well as new one from Africa to Australia, some fifteen thousand miles in all Work has already been begun on the Afro Australian cable, and next year the Pacific cable will be begun. It has been recently stated by one of the English contractors that, while it was possible for France and Germany to get enough gutta-percha for their pro- posed cable systems, it was more than likely that they would be delayed quite a time in order to get sufficient SUD- ply, and that they would also be oblig- ed to pay high price for it.
 Vermont is going to Initiate New Hampshire by having one "Old Home Week." The legislature has set apart the week of August 11-17 for that pur- pose and local associations have been formed in many towns for the celebra- .tidn of the event. A State organiza- tion, of which Governor stickney is president, has general direction of eel ebrations. A proclamation will soon be issued by the governor inviting native vermonters in other States to return home at that time. The last census shows that more than two hundred thousand natives of Vermont are now living in other States There are fiourishing societies of sons and daughters of Vermont in Boston, New York, Washington, Buffalo Minneapolis San Francisco, Chicago, and in other large cities. Dr. Willoughby Gardner has an arti- | cle in the British Medical Journal on the dietetric value of sugar. He notes that the worlds consumption of sugar has doubled in fifteen years, and Great ! Britain's consumption has trebled. He undertakes to show that sugar is a po- tent creator of energy and maintainer | of stamina. This is proved, he thinks, | by laboratory experiments, and is also demonstrated by the fine physique of | the date-eating Arabs, the good health | of the sugar-cane plantation negroes | and the results achieved by Alpine climbers, Arctic explorers and German soldiers when fed on special sugar | iiet Increased height and weight and improved health among Engishmen l turing the past fifty years are largely attributed by pr. Gardner to the in- creased consumption of sugar