The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-30


 weight fell during a recent storm a
 Jessore, in Bengal. Metal verandf
 roofs were perforated, cattle maimed
 trees beaten down, and 8 man killed
 outright by the downfall.
 The Rational Sabbatarians" of Edin'
 burgh, encouraged by their success ir
 obtaining Sunday cars and Sunday
 opening of the museum. are now aiming
 at Sunday opening of picture galler-
 ies, and hope to be successful.
 These are big times. A number of Duluth, Minneapolis and Chicago men
 have organized the Saskatchewan Land Company, with a capital of $3,5OO, 900 to purchase one million acres of wheat lands in the Saskatchewan Valley of Manitoba.
 A paper in Norway the other day con- tained the following advertisement: I, the undersigned, declare that, through a regrettable mistake, I circulated the rumor that the coffee house keeper, Jor- gen Henriksen, had drunk a glass of beer. I humbly apologize to Mir Hen riksen for this unfounded imputation." 7"
 A house in Orient Long Island, has a beautiful interior decoration in the shape of branch of crimson rambler rose tree which has thrust itself through a crevice between the upper and lower sashes of an unused window, and, having been trained along the ceiling of the room, has budded and blossomed.
 A memorial erected by Edward Long streth of Philadelphia to John Fitch, who was the first to apply steam to the running of boat, has been erected in Warminster, Pennsylvania. It bears the inscription: John Fitch here con- ceived the idea of the first steamboat He ran a boat with side wheels by steam on a pond below Davisvile in 1785 Bucks County Historical Society"
 The London Society fc9 Promoting the Employment of Women has just is- sued it's forty-thrd annual report Lady secretaries and clerks are three times as numerous as they were in 1891, now, numbering 22,000. The supply of rrt,o Jo bat,, iaf ter fashion far exceeds the demand, There are in London alone 2,2S4 women printers, but yet very few who can use the linotype machine.
 An interesting way of celebrating the coronation of Edward VII. is that which will be followed by Denby Dale, near BarnsIey, England, where mammoth pie will be baked in honor of the event. For over one hundred years the inhab- itants there have baked large pies in cornmemoration of remarkable events. As far back as the recovery of George III. the practice prevailed, and anoth- CT occasion was the conclusion of peace between England and France in 1Sl5 when the pie contained half a sheep twenty fowls and half peck of flour To celebrate Victoria's jubilee the pie | was baked in dish weighing 1500 pounds. It was eight feet in diameter, two feet in depth and the total weight | was over two tons. The cost was S1 ,25O, | and it was drawn by ten horses Un- fortunately the pie, when cut, was | found to be uneatabe and another was | made the following September when | more than 2,O0O persons partook of it..
 Officers of the Photographic office of | the Navy department are commenting on the absence of icebergs, which are usually encountered by steamers plying between England and the United States at this time of year. Only two or three cases of sighted icebergs have been re- ed by the hundreds in past springs | Icebergs usually appear off the Grand 1 Banks of Newfoundland as early as February 15 and are seen in more or less numbers until about June 15. As before stated. there has been an almost l total absence of floating ice in that vicinity this year. According to a scientific idea, the non-appearance of icebergs along the banks of Newfound- land will have pronounced effect on the weather in Europe during the com- ing summer. It is held that the ab- sence of fioat ting ice off the northern coast will insure the lack of storms and Europe this year. ss