Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-12

lux Of newspaper men to that town to start new papers, as a gouty man belonging to the profession is evi- dence that those engaged in it are living too high.
 Henry Clews closes his weekly financial circular by saying that the immediate outlook of the market is therefore more favorable, and it would not be surprising if considerable ef- forts were made to stimulate greater activity. Good opportunities for trading are offered in the present sit uation, but we continue to advise the taking of moderate profits when such are offered.
 A scientist has discovered method that will make it possible to mix milk and water, having in mind the prac- tice of adultering milk in many of the large cities. Judging by the component parts of some of the stuff that comes from the milkman, it would be advantageous to provide against the mixing of chalk with water.
 A Kansas paper sarcastically ad- vises General Funston to go away back to the Philippines and sit down if he doesn't want to get into trouble through the pernicious activity of smallbore meddlers. "If he stays in this country" says the paper, "he will be investigated; some one will charge that he stuck pin into Agui- naldo, or that the capture was not regular and congress will take it up."'
 There is going to be a contest in the effort to make the census bureau permanent on account of the clause that will affect the standing of the employees under the civil service rules. Democrats favor putting all the clerks under the civil service when the change is made, because if this is not done their appointees will proba- ply be thrust out under the present republican regime. The commission and President Roosevelt are said to be opposed to having the present force of clerks sheltered under the protecting wings of the classified ser vice.
 Miss Alice Roosevelt will accom- pany Special Envoy Whitelaw Reid to the coronation exercises as a plain young American girl and will not ac- cept the proposed honors of being re- ceived as a princess. The United States do not grow any princesses yet.
 A wealthy New Yorker very indig- nantly declines to give up his private box in theater there on the occasion of Prince Henrv's visit. He says the prince is no more than any private citizen; that private boxes are not given up to the president when in New York and that he and other friends of the president still call him Teddy" He thinks Prince Henry is not entitled to any more considera- tion than the president.
 Machinery is wanted at West Point that will clean S,400 pairs of white duck trousers in a week. If the rules regarding conduct there had always been as strict as the rules on cleanli- ness, great deal of the "dirty linen" might not have been washed in pub lie at the recent congressional investi- gation on hazing.
 There has been a sort of house cleaning going on at the capitol in Washington under the supervision of Architect Woods. He has been in vestigating the ventilation quest on also and in doing so set lot of germ traps for the purpose of ascertaining the hygienic condition of the halls of | congress. These traps consisted of sterilized gelatine plates. The result is that he has found more kinds of disease germs than exist in the aver age meteorological labratory. He has secured bacteria of lock-jaw, tuberculosis, typhoid, influenza and many other diseases. The house has produced twenty-three germs of vari- ous kinds to seven found in the sen ate chamber. In a piece of carpet taken from the floor of the house he found several million germs, the in- fuenza microbe predominating. Woods found he had some of almost all known germs.
 Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York, has been creating considerable to himself recently by preaching a series of sermons on I'm He advances the startling though not entirely new theory that all souls are not immortal.
 The democratic members of con- gress who are objecting to anti anarchy legislation because it is against state rights are putting that doctrine to bad use. Attempts on the lives of national officers can be only as crimes against the nation.
 They must have good system of , -ailroading ih Mississippi. Accord ng to the report of the railroad com , mission only four passengers were killed on the nearly 2,900 miles of -ailway in that state during 1901. z In 1900 only one passenger was killed. f There were fifty one employees killed r ast year, of which thirty eight were | rainmen, eight shop men, two switch, f nen, one stationman and six other I employees.
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