The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-19

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 The Empress of Russia operates a
 typewriter and assists her husband by
 taking down many of his letters from # dictation. Useful woman,
 Mayor Carter Harrison is anxious about Chicago's finances. He wants Governor Yates to call the legislature together in special session. "At pres ent," he says, ruin and calamity stare us in the face" Ruin and calamity ' together would be inconvenient for Chicago.
 Among the British newspapers there 149 Newses, 123 Gazettes, 120 Chroni- cles, 119 Heralds, 104 Journals, 95 Ex- presses, 70 Guardians, 6S Observers, AS x Standards and AZ Mercurys.' There are 40 Free Presses, 3S Telegrapfs, 31 Mails, 30 Posts, 29 Independents, 23 Couriers and as many Examiners and 22 Echoes.
 More trouble. A war has broken out between Claus Spreckels and the OK nard interests in California The Ox- 1lards have built great factories for re- 3,,t, ,,-ti nerly sent to the Spreckels refneries. Epreckels has cut the price of sugar one-half cent a pound, which will, if continued, take million dollars year out of the pockets of the beet root su- gar men on the Pacific coast.
 The following attractive advertise ment recently appeared in the London Morning Post: "A rock built, creme lated castle. buffeted by the Atlantic eurge, at one of the most romantic and dreaded points of our ironbound coast, in full view of the Death stone; ship wrecks frequent, corpses common; three reception and seven bedrooms; Aseszaay modern convenience; 10 gs. a week. etc."
 Profiting by their observation of the ways of the capitalists who insist upon determining the kind of instruction giv- en in the universities to which they give their support, the members of the Glass Blowers association now pro- pose to organize school teachers into labor unions for the purpose of exclud- ing from the schools all text books on economics that do not deal with labor problems from the trades union point of view and bear the union label
 Some important changes are to be made in battleships to be built in the near future as part of England's prn- cipal defense. For one thing, it has been decided to cut down the masts of such ships some sixty feet, because the new signaling devices introduced into use recently make tall masts unneces- gary. Furthermore the high fore and aft bridges are to ba lowered, built en- tirely of iron, and so arranged that in easily be slid overheard.
 The assertion in the Ohio Demo- cratic platform that the protective tar Tiff. at the present stage of our indus trial development, fosters trusts, and tends ito promote a Socialistic spirit among the people as the only refuge from oppression mo one can deny" the Portland Oregonian (Rep) says. "Neither can any one set aside the as- sertion that tariff reform more than sever is needed now, when foreign mark cts are a prime condition of our con- tinued prosperity. Evidence of these things is on every hand. The vast wealth of protected corporations is not only proof of their favored position un- der the government, but is manufactur- ing socialistic spirit on every hand"
 About sixty years ago Nicholas Girod bequeathed $100,000 to the city of New Orleans to establish home for orphan children of French percentage. By lit igation the amount was reduced to about one-quarter of the bequest, but by judicious investment the fund had grown to SS3.OO0 in 1864, when it was de- cided to build the asylum. A gift of a site between a swamp and a cemetery was accepted and the building was erected. But the French Society would not occupy it. They were afraid of the swamp, and with reason, for the city's alternative use of the building as a house of refuge for boys had to be abandoned because of the excessive mortality Now the swamp has been 1 drained, the building is to be leased | as a home for the negro waifs of the | city, and the proceeds are to be devot- ed to the support of French orphans ill l