The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-20
GLEAN1NGs AND GOSSIP.

The potato forms nearly IA per cent.
 of the total food of the people of this
 country.
 Nome's population this winter is esti-
 mated at about 5000, which is 1,500 less than last winter.
 Hereafter no physician who is unable | to speak English language will be giv-
 en a certificate allowing him to prac- tice his profession in the Hawaiian ter | ritory.
 An employe in French tobacco fac-
 tory has invented a machine which
 makes the head on cigars after they are
 rolled and does the work of about a
 dozen hands.
 The city of Agua dtlla, F. R., Is de- sirous of negotiating loan of $5O,000.
 The money is needed to pay the pres
 ent municipal debt, amounting to $S,o0o, and to build a market house and pave the streets.
 The United States has now afloat 225
 war vessels of all sorts and no less than
 60 in course of construction. Of the
 latter eight are battle ships six are
 armored cruisers and nine are first
 class protected cruisers.
 Mrs Elizabeth Allen Denison, ''the
 Barbara Frietchie of Texas" died last
 week. She raised above her home in
 San Antonio the first federal flag that floated in the state. The town of Deni- son, Tex, was named in her honor
 The annual appropriation for the ex- penses of the presidents office. fnc1ud- ing the presidents salary, compensation for his clerks and secretaries. the fur
 nishlngs of the White House and tho maintenance of the grounds, is less than S3000oo a year.
 Two of the 400 inscribed clay slabs found by the German expedition in the center of Babylon are said to be "pearls of Babylonian literature" One of them contains a great part of the celebrated compendium which explains the Baby lonian cuneiform characters,
 Under favorable conditions of peace the mortality among soldiers Is prac- tically the least known, with death rate of only five in every 1,000 Compar- ed with a soldiers life the placid days even of clergyman are full of dam ger for his death rate is II in 1,000 or more than twice as great as that of bis militant brother.
 Birds are made to take their own pie lures by the ingenious apparatus of O. G. Pike, an English photographer. A bait of fat is placed on an electrical wire which is so connected with a cam era that when the bait is removed the camera shutter is released, giving an exposure of the sensitive plate.
 Thomas w. Lawson has turned his at tention from yacht building to calen- dar making Friends of the Boston have received copies of handsome calendar designed by him, in silver and ornamented with devices which present complete al- | legory of that whirlpoI of speculation which threatened not many days ago to engulf the author.
 At the old fashioned inns and restau- rants in Sweden 1t Is customary to charge less for women than for men, 1n the theory that they do not eat so much. At some hotels in Sweden a man and wife are charged as one and one- half persons if they occupy the same room. A husband and wife may travel IS one and one-half persons by railway md also by post routes, furnishing their own carriage
 It was stated by a Philadelphia paper hat upward of half million linen pocket handkerchiefs a day were sold in during the holiday trade. For the large department stores 50,000 ! day each was said by the managers O be the average. Less than 2 per ,ent. of this output was manufactured n this country. They were made for he most part in Ireland and Switzer- and, while a proportion of the finer luality for women came from France.
 It is announced that two foreign uni 'ersfties for women will be opened next ear. one at TOlSio, and the other at Moscow The Russian university for yomen has been endowed by wealthy M. Astraknoff. with 5,000,O00 ubles. It will contain for the present nly three academical faculties-medi- al mathema tical and physical science. 'he Russian minister of education, | , ,hose sympathy has heen gained, cans