The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-20

"Hennery eggs" is the latest Boston notion
 A sign in a Buffalo clothing store reads: Pants ss cents leg; seats s free"
 Norwegian fishery commissioners have been measuring the salmon's leap by means of standards erected below waterfalls. They have found that the fish can leap to height of twenty feet.
 A good way to keep anarchists out Of the country, says the Emporia kan- X sas) Gazette, twill be to search every man who lands in this country, for con- z konants. If he has over three times as
 many consonants as vowels in his name, dump him in the deep blue sea- w Queen Christina, regent of Spain, IS M collector of playing cards One or her most recent acquisitions is an ivory pack. hand painted, which belonged to Prince Eugene. the colleague of Marl- borough in the campaign against Mar ehal villars.
 There Is a remarkable wheat stack on farm near Stradbroke, England. It < was built in 1873, and the owner made a VOW that he would never thrash it IL tx- iva Shf1linpo sack, price which has never been of fered The stack stands on an iron support two feet from the ground, and Z is in an excellent state of preservation It is estimated that the stack contains z50 bushels.
 "A promising movement has been started in Virginia for the benefit of the negro population. The idea orig mated with pr. R. E. Jones of Rich fnond, and several prominent and < wealthy negroes are associated with < him. The first of the proposed settle fnents will be established near Rich-
 mond Plots of ten acres each will be laid off, and upon each will he erected four r-roomed log cabin of antique style. These plots will be sold on easy irastaIlment plans to negroes anxious to tbetter themselves. They will be given practical and systematic instruction in farming, an experienced expert from stile institute at Hampton being en- ossKed as instructor. Houses will be built on the lots as they are called for, and when an occupant wishes to dis pose of his farm he has to sell it back to pr. Jones and those associated with him.
 An English engineer proposes to con- < meet Alexandria, Egypt, with Shang- hni, China, by means of railroad. The road, about 6,4oO miles long. will have 5 three divisions. The middle one, of B. 125 miles, is already in existence in India. From Alexandria the road will run east-southeast over the Isthmus of Sinai to Akaba. the north end of the bay of Akaba: from there almost due east to Kurvelt and Bassorah; thence through Southern Persia to the tron- tier through Baluchistan, and across that State. which is under the English protectorate, to connect with the India railroad net From Kunlong, the east ern terminus of the Indian railroad system, the line would extend via Tali- fu. Yunnan. Hankow and other points on the Yangtze to Shanghai. This would be southern line paralleling roughly the Trans Siberian road and competing with it.
 According to a writer in the Worlds work, the sultan's Yildiz palace at Constantinople is a monument to fear. 1t Is assassin proof, bomb-proof, earth- < quake proof f1re-proof, microbe-proof. Architects and engineers are building and rebuilding necessarily. Some new SGCreC retreat IS diWhyS uHuel way s The entire domain is surrounded by an immense wall, thirty feet high, and the choicest troops of the empire stand guard around 1t. An inner wall, twelve feet thick with gates of iron, incloses the private residence itself. The walls Of the sultan's dwellings are filled with ! armor plate, to resist projectiles. It is said that a mysterious passage connects with ten secret bed chambers forming an intricate labyrinth. No one but his body attendant knows where the sultan may sleep during any particular night. He has electric lights and telephones in his own apartments, but forbids them in Constantinople. Telephones might prove handy for conspirators. and he believes that | dynamite cartridge could be sent over a wire into the palace. He fears electric explosions. so Constanti- snople still gets along with gas light. He hates the word dynamo. because 1t sounds like dynamite. Balloons are ta-