The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-01

The Ohio Republicans have decided to 2 postpone the formal opening of their T campaign until October 19 which Is but
 two weeks before the election.
 A Kensington (Fkansas) man who had < neighbor arrested for islander swore
 to the following affidavit: T hereby " solernnly swear that the defendant set
 upon me, calling me lobster, paul
 Der, a scarecrow and idiot, all of which
 certify to be true"
 "The European Sabbath" isn't as < spopular in Europe as it was, though it
 seems to be growing in popularity in
 thfe country. An account of great demonstration in Mines, France. on a
 recent Sunday, says that employees
 marched through the ancient city, bear
 iri6 banners with the inscription Buy
 nothing on Sunday Many of the
 uhops were closed and proprietors of { those that were not were asked to fol-
 low the good example. Most of them
 < rave favorable response at once by ~ putting up their shutters Throughout
 the demonstration not single disor- x derly incident occurred. The Sunday y closing movement has made big strides afhroughout France recently, and the geffects may be seen even in Paris.
 S An optician Is thus quoted in the < Phi1adelphia Record: Nne-tenths of { the railroad men, pilots and men in ' whose business keenness and correct
 ness of vision are necessary adjunct B pussess blue eyes. Haven't you ever
 noticed the penetrating quality glance
 from an azure tinted eye seems to
 have? The cold steady look from such Z Ian eye appears to read you through Ind through. In a great many years
 TT practice I've discovered that very $ few blue eyed people are compelled to aAxveAr glasses Blue eyes are very at- sfkHctiye, but brown eyes are the most '&beautiful. Intellectually is usually de- noted by gray eyes, and hazel eyes f1-
 dicate talent for music The com
 honest eye is the gray eye, and the
 rarest is violet.
 new way of preparing wood for fs tx ix A1Io Graon
 wood is placed in large wooden trough whose bottom is covered with lead plate. This is connected with the ' positive pole of battery. Covering the wood is second lead plate which l forms the negative pole. The wood is
 then subjected to a bath in a solution | Acomposed of 10 per cent. resin and 75 1 Der cent. soda. Under the influence of | bthe electric cusvent the sap Is drawn l s{3tit of the wood and rises to the sur &faca, the solution being absorbed by | the wood. The operation requires from fiye to eight hours. The treated wood Sfs allowed to dry for about two weeks, Vel1er 1t Is ready for use. The drying ran he hastened artificially If desired.
 The consumption of horse and donkey meat as human food is growing at great rate in Vienna. Consul Hurst, in a report to the State department, says that last year the number of these ami po,, I,ie jp "a oitv | was 2b, $40. A government decree of IApril, 1854, gave legal permission to cut up and sell horse meat as an arti- lcie of food, and ever since then the taste for this kind of meat has grown. The price of horse meat ranges, per pound of fore quarter, from to 8 cents; hind quarter, 6 to cents; choice cuts for steak and roast, from to il cents; the same cuts in beef averaging from 20 to "A cents pound The horse meat is also worked up into sausages and as such sells at correspondingly low. prices. The horse meat butcher ehQps of which there are now no less { than 1855 in Vienna, present clean and attractive appearance, and they are in no way distinguishable from the shops where the usual kinds of meat are sold, ( save by the sign announcing their spe- ( cialty. Restaurant keepers who serve | horse meat must designate this fact in ' a special column on the bill of fare of- { fered to patrons. Stringent regulations { are enforced regarding the proper con- I dition of the horses slaughtered, and in- $ spectors are appointed to see that they l are observed
 Eiilicus--"There is nothing like a :, cpiend in need'' Hum! That depends largely upon whether you are . |n need, or your friend."-Josh Wink. g