The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-20

SlIuaLlOuS, wants, NeDtS. uuu olucr sihui
 advertisements. One Cent q Word each ID
 sertion. Five Cents a Word for full weei
 tseyen times).
 A London buotblack displays this s1gr
 in sight of his patrons: If you like my
 work, .ell your friends; if you don't
 like it, tell me-"
 Seven of assachusetts governors
 were born on the 9th of March. They
 were Andrew, Boutwell,, Butler, Claf1in,
 Gardner Rice and Talbot. All but two
 are now dead. Ex-Governor Clafiln,
 who lives in Newtonville, occupies a
 house that has been the residence of
 two other governors.
 The portrait of King Edward VII on
 the new British coinage will show his
 profile turning to the right. It is tra-
 dition that the head of the sovereign
 should always turn in the reverse way
 from that of his predecessor. Thus
 George III looked to the right, George
 w to the left, William " to the right,
 and Queen Victoria to the left.
 < Chilian cavalry horses have been put through remarkable test of endur-
 ance. Twenty-one officers mounted on
 their ordinary chargers rode 250 miles 5,, Sax iy,o x,,tt n first day, 81 the second and SS the third.
 The route was over rough mountain
 roads, in some places 5000 feet above the sea level. All the horses were bred in Chili.
 A colossal bridge is to be built over the River Tyne, between North and South Shields. The bridge will attain height of 270 feet and will have a clear span of $40 feet, so that the larg- est vessels may be able to pass up and down the river with ease, From the bridge will depend platform, suspend ed upon cables, which will accommo- date tramcars, horses, vehicles and pas sengers thinks he has learned something be- cause he has lived through forty rail- road accidents, and been in two score of scattered railroad coaches. street-car smash-ups and fires in his twenty-two years on the road, says that the only | safe place to sit is in the middle of the | train, on the right hand side of the | coach. The only injury he has ever | sustained was sprained ankle.
 About $3O0,0O0 will be spent on the | Capitol at Washington during the con- gressional recess. Many desirable im- will be made, and the ar- shitect of the Capitol has been author zed to prepare and submit plans for the reconstruction and fire-proofing of .he central portion of the building and he renovation and redecoration of the Plans are also to be prepared 'or new f1re-proof building adjacent o the Capitol grounds to be used for additional committee rooms, storage md power plant.
 All the big men aren't in the United States. Edouard Beaupre, ex-cowboy, wenty years old, is astonishing Mon real. The top of his head is feet ncfes from the ground, and he hasn't .ot his full stature yet He weighs 3S7 ounds. He wears No. 27 boot. He 5 so enormously powerful that he can fit three grown men, seated side by ide on his left arm, seven feet into the ir. He has little brother, now eight ( ears old, who has attained height of ]
 feet already and bids fair to be the igger giant of the two. T German postmasters have been so an- NJ oyed by eccentricities in the shapes :. nd sizes of the envelopes inclosing lail matter that bill is to be intro- uced in the Reichstag prescribing the :, ze and shape of envelopes. Postmas- c ITS in this country are watching the Il with interest and hoping for sim z ar one. The chief annoyance is the clay in stamping the letters with z, ,stmark and cancelling stamps, for lese odd-shaped and odd-sized mis- yes will not pass through the stamp g machine in such way as to receive :, e stamp properly, and have to be :, me over again by hand.
 A Wilmington correspondent of the , 1ston Transcript tells how the lash is V ed in Delaware. The whipping posts IT Id the jails are beside the courthouses, p d Ghe Saturday after each session tlle re 1ippings usually take place. The rules oi them are quite strict; blows Ia ust be struck between the shoulders Il d the hips. The sheriff must crook Ise