The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-18

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 Local Notices E cents per line.
 Nevada is particular. She allows
 prize-fghts, but her legislature has just
 declined to pass lottery bill.
 They have a servant girl question in
 New Zealand. It is said that in many
 districts "the only way to secure the
 services of washer woman is by send < ing gig for her. Servant girls demand
 to be called lady helps and expect the
 use of the parlor piano and a private
 sitting room'
 President Paul Deschanel, of the
 French Chamber of Deputies, doesn't
 care much about the 13 superstition. He was married on Wednesday, the 18th, the bride and bridegroom were both
 born on the 18th of the month, the
 names of botll contain thirteen letters.
 M. Deschanel asked for Mile. Brice's ' hand on December 1S, and met her for the first time when he was travelling in
 Italy under an assumed name. inten-
 tionally formed of thirteen letters.
 The Roman Catholics of Great Brit
 ain. and of the whole empire, think they
 have good reason, in so tolerant an age
 as ours, to object to the formal abjura-
 tion of their faith which the king is
 called upon to make in his coronation
 oath. After quoting the language of
 the oath the London Tablet, the Eng
 fish organ of the Catholic church, de-
 clares: "Such language from the mouth < of the ruler of 1O,O00,0O0 of loyal Cath
 olics, we must plainly say, is intolera-
 ble''
 Alexander Graham Bell, one of the in- ventors of the telephone, has been serv-, ing as special agent of the Census Bureau in charge of the enumeration of the deaf, dumb and blind population Tof the country, and is now preparing his report. MT. Bell is a millionaire sev- eral times over, but is entitled to $6 day from the government while he is employed in this work. In his early life he was an instructor in a deaf and dumb asylum, and a large part of his time is now spent in the investigation of means for promoting the education of deaf mutes and sightless people.
 Julian Ralph has been moved by the latest gorgeous pageant in London to remark that the English people are so suffocated and chilled by fogs and de- pressing climatic conditions that they hunger for relief in color and merri- ment That is why they have the most gorgeous army in Europe; that is why on earth; that is why they wear more red on the streets and keep up their medieval pageants longer than their neighbors, and are the greatest patrons of the theater, the most ardent lovers of pantomime and ballet on earth
 know what they want. Gordon Bry- ans father kept books in a Cleburne, Texas, bank. Gordon ran away Gin his teens) to South America. There he drew $30,000 prize in a,lottery. Re- turning home he bought Dallas coun- ty ranch for his parents, and put the rest of his money into timber and saw mills down in Mexico. In two years he sold out to railroad companies at a profit of s100,000. He is now twenty three years old, and is in New York to promote one-hundred-mile railroad between Houston and Port Arthur. fractional effect of railway trains upon the air has recently been published by the St. Louis Academy of Sciences. This investigation was undertaken by Professor F. B. Nipher, at the request ,f leading railroad. and was the se- luel of a lawsuit in which the railroad { was defeated. In the case referred to a ] ,oy standing near the track, was over- { hrown by rapidly passing train, roll d under the wheels, and killed The ( ,vidence showed that he was not struck ( y the train, but was overwhelmed by / he air suction and dragged under The { supreme court of Missouri, however, re- { ,udiated the evidence of two leading f cientific men as to the probability of t leath being caused in such a way, and I enied by inference, the possibility of IT uch effects, with which everybody who I as ever stood by a fast moving train a ) familiar The investigation showed, 1 t S matter of fact, that with trains r oing at the rate of forty miles an hour. here is an inward pressure of the air s from four to six pounds per square V pot at distance of thirty inches from 6 he train, and that still air is reached p nly at @ distance of many feet. To