The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-14

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 The Belgian government has offered
 a prize for the best picture showing the
 evil effects of drunkenness.
 A we'll behaved Missouri man who
 has worked hard and is now an invalid
 thus deposes. 'The mistake I made
 was in not getting drunk often enough.
 Either that or some other amusement
 would have given me more rest, It is
 a mistake to work too hard Every
 man should have some bad habit;
 hunting, or fishing, or belonging to a
 golf club; something to keep him from
 ruining his health by overwork."
 Official reports show that during 1900
 the United States produced the largest
 amount of coal ever recorded in the
 country's history, and continued the
 supremacy of the United States among
 the coal producing countries of the
 world. Practically complete returns to
 Edward w. Parker, statist ician of the
 United States Geological Survey, show the total output to have been 267542, 444 short tons, an increase over the preced- ing year of 13,so2,452 tons, valued at $27s, 1920, ,o00, an increase of 16 per cent over 1899.
 The University of Pennsylvania is about to erect, at a cost of more than $500,000 exclusive of grounds and equipment, medical laboratory building which will be unexcelled in every respect. The trustees are also contemplating the erection, in the fu- ture, of a new medical hall, anatomical building and auxiliary buildings, which will adjoin the new laboratory about to be erected, and which will form one of the most extensive systems of build ings devoted exclusively to the teach ing of medicine in Europe or America.
 A kind of counterfeiting that has be- come popular i'll England of late is the manufacture of spurious shillings out of genuine silver. As the amount of silver contained in shilling is worth only about half of that sum the coin CTS reap excellent profits. All of the false shillings detected heretofore have been cast in a mold, but it is pointed out that were the count nterfeiters to en- list the service of an expert engraver and die-sinker detection would be all most impossible and the only obvious remedy would be to increase the size and weight of the coins
 Company of the telephone wires | through the Sumatra jungle was a diff | f1cult and dangerous undertaking. In the forests were elephants tigers, hogs | and other wild animals, and these were not only source of danger to the | workmen, but they frequently uprooted | the telephone poles and dislocated the | wires. The natives steal wire from the line to make and mend their traps. l The company are obliged to place line watchers at intervals of twenty miles I to watch and catch these wire wreckers, l and also to quickly repair the line whenever it is injured.
 Brazil is getting out of her financial difficulties. President Campos Sales the Brazilian congress in his annual message that "the country is now fully prepared to return to the normal condition of specie payments" Gold has been accumulated to meet in- crest payments abroad. The annual interest payments to be made in gold aggregate $16,75,S15. A large sum is kept on deposit in London for this pur- pose. Twenty-Five per cent. of the cus- oms are payable in gold. The revenue s increasing. The gold value of the paper milreis in April, 1900, was about ' cents, but in May, 1901, 1t was about 5 cents--a great improvement in the 
 The locomotive builders of Great | Britain are feeling better because of a eeided increase in their trade. Tn ad- iton to the large number of locomo- ives that are under construction for he home railroads, Natal has just en- cred into contract with the leading , rms for the supply of seventy-five ; six hundred freight and 1 fty-four passenger cars. The govern nent of Cape Colony is also placing Z ontracts for locomotives and rolling 1 teck, for the greater part, with the z British manufacturers Belgium has l l lso purchased several of the Dunalas- ' s--A