The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-07-29


X as laborers on the streets. Perhaps
these boys will he rich some day. q
81 am not gifted with words to de-
scribe my actions, but picture in the
corner Of this letter will fully Illus
trate what I make Of myself each day."
\ wrote Winfield (Kansas) boy, So
journing in Colorado, to his father. And
the picture in the corner was of a long
cared Mexican jackass.
Beer cannot be legally sold in Kan
sas, but the report comes from Milwau-
kee that the brewers of that city are
4 finding the demand for beer in Kansas
far greater this year than ever before.
Every day, it is said, dozen carloads
OF the liquor are shipped into the State
ana the breweries are actually unable
to keep up with their orders
Look at your paintings. A few months
ago the Venetian painter Braus bought
four pictures for ga from Dalmatian
peasant named Braidotti. who had
4 picked them up when a neighboring vii
la was dismantled. Recently Braus
found that one of the pictures had been
painted over another on the same can
vas, and on cleaning off the top one he
discovered a st. Sebastian by Titan,
y which had been stolen from Italy by
zone OF Napoleons generals. Braus has
sold the Titan to the Count de CAS-
sellane for $4,000
sir Hiram Maxim, speaking at
Getting of the Maxim Engineering
smpany, said that electric railroads
,re reyolutionizing American city life
"a property values, whereas Great
Nttain was deplorably behind in the
of electric traction, which had
spread out populations and mitlgated
some Of the greatest evils of modern
cities. He declared that light electric
roads were capable of one hundred and
twenty miles an hour that their con-
struction was perfectly practicable and
that their cost would be cheaper than
that of the present steam lines
The French company which hold the
practical monopoly of the Egyptian
sugar and molasses industry has just
cornpleted arrangements by which 1t be-
4 comes the concessionaire for number
Of years of some forty thousand acres
If land in the vicinity of its great
works at Nag Hamadi, in Upper
Egypt These lands will be devoted
principally to the culture of beet root.
The company already possesses extern
sive fields of canes. Egypt Is now not
only able to cater for herself as far as
sugar is concerned, but has begun to
sscompete successfully with French and
tx ustrian sugar in the Levant markets.
The Rev. Mollie B. Craft is, accord
Ing to the Chicago Record-Herald the
first regularly ordained woman minis
ter IN the religious work of the colored
race Through her efforts the First
Raptist Colored Church of Chicago
Heights has Just been organized, with
q membership of only nine persons
MRS Craft is well known to all colored
church. goers from Tennessee to Michi-
pan and to a large number of white
people, who have given her their en-
coura cement and support. Mrs Craft
was ordained in Milwaukee in 1898. She |
Is graduate Of the Howe Baptist The
illogical School of Memphis. Her even
gelical work began IN the North; much |
Of 1t was in the mining and lumber dis |
stricts of northern Michigan, where she |
organized many churches.
An expert named Dawson made elab- |
brate preparations to take observations |
of fleet firing when the late Queen Vic
toria,s body was taken from Cowes to |
Portsmouth The result established the |
fact that the reports of heavy guns |
were clearly audible at the extraordi-
nary distance of one hundred and forty |
miles inland, while at distance of |
eighty-four miles the reports were so |
loud that laborers in the fields stopped
work to listen, and at sixty-one miles
from the guns windows were shaken
and other symptoms of conclusion were |
shown not usually connected with any |
hit adjacent detonations. The results
of the observations bear upon the
Sampson Schley controversy, inasmuch |
as Rear Admiral Schley's statement
concerning the hearing of guns forty |
miles away, which he believed were
fired by the Spanish fleet. was received
By many persons with considerable in
credulity.