The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-12


 5 in the week for cutting corns.
 A wooden chimney stack 16O feet high is in operation at Mapimi, in the prov irlce of Durango, Mexico. The interior is lined with corrugated iron, and there are platforms at intervals to throw x water on the wood if it catches fire.
 A rope manufacturing company or Brooklyn recently made rope 17,7Oo feet in length, or over three miles, without a break, and weighing 22,O3O pounds. It is for use in bituminous coal mine. It was made of forty-tWo strands of crucible cast steel.
 The following named States and terri # tories in 1900 did not contain any city with a population of 25,oO0 or more: Arizona, Idaho, Indian territory, Mis- sissippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
 Iowa has a law which provides for the confining of habitual drunkards in insane asylums. It is popularly known as athe old toper law" and it's enforce rnent is reported to be having a won- derfuI effect Many men who for years cIung to the habit of getting drunk reg ularly have reformed and become more or less useful as citizens.
 The pistol-carrying habit has assum- cd such proportions in Memphis that Judge Moss of the local court has in- structed the grand jury to inquire what can be done to cope with the evil. The Commercial Appeal notes in that con- nection that probably one man in six on the street carries a pistol The habit has grown especially among the negroes, who have laid aside the razor and taken up the pistol.
 A portion of the first iron bridge built in England, which spans the Severn at Ironbridge (salop), has given way. The parting of the girders caused report like thunderclap. The bridge was erected in 1779, and, according to the act of Parliament under which it was built, the sovereign has to pay toll be- fore he can cross. The act gives the trustees many powers and at the foot of the list of tolls appears the follow ing: "This bridge being private prop erty, every officer or soldier, whether on duty or not, is liable to pay toll for passing over. as well as any baggage wagon. mail coach, or the royal fam < ivy
 Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the < great prime minister, devotes her life x to charitable work among the poor of East London. She is warden, which is equivalent to head worker, of the Wo- mans University Settlement, in that forlorn district known as Southwark Miss Gladstone was vice principal of Newman college, Cambridge, until a year before her fathers death, when she resigned to become his secretary \ and constant companion. For several years after his death she lived in strict retirement, and has only recently taken I'D public affairs. There is said to be a striking personal likeness between Miss Gladstone and Mrs. Bramwell Booth.
 Princes latest photograph of Roose- welt shows the hand of the chief execu- tive to be positively spatulate, says Tip < in the New York Press. The spatulate hand, according to highest authorities, has a good muscular development, es- pecially at the finger tips, which are al- most club like in appearance. It indi- cates love of movement, consistency and great natural managing abilities. Its possessor is unassuming, appreeiating wealth rather than luxury: is very strict and his language is inclined to be forcible rather than ornate. He is of logical turn of mind not over religious, but with morality of his own: is rest less when doing nothing in particular, and most happy when engaged in real hard work. His motto is Self Help" He has justice seeking nature, and never stoops to unworthy means to &C., complish an end. He has the quicken ing spirit of advancement, is inventive, and endowed with great constructive and mechanical powers. spatulated in- gers, excessively developed, will pro- duce tyrannical desire for action.