The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-10

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 snapped a pistol in her husbands face was fined $50 and costs. When her husband paid up for her he was unable to see just where he and his wrongs came in.
 The fire insurance companies did not suffer as much during the first half of this year as some might suppose. Their losses in the United States and Canada amounted to $S7, 7,1O5,s5O, against sSS,926,- 15O in the same time last year and s1OS,- 298, 300 in the first half of 1900.
 Belgian cities are liable for all dam age done to private property by rioters, and Brussels has accordingly been or dered by the court to pay $4,000 for win- dows smashed during the riots of 1899, The rioting this spring was much more serious, and larger bill will have to be met by the city.
 Since 1895 earthquakes in Austria have been recorded by instruments in- stalled under the direction of a govern ment commission. In 1898 209 shocks (mostly smalD were noted; in 1899 19O and in 1900 169. Reports are regularly received from large number of volun- teer observers, and several complete seisnologicaI observatories are main- tained.
 The Philadelphia Press tells people who are figuring up the enormous losses on account of the coal strike. that the mines are always idle four months in the year, and if this time they take it out of the summer season instead of some other. the loss will be little or nothing, provided the strike does not last longer than four months, and work is continued through the other eight.
 A magnificent collection of jewels and plate which is to fill one of the stalls at the coronation bazaar is on view in London. The finest contribution toward the display of plate is that loaned by J. Pierpont Morgan. It comprises a large number of masterpieces of the Renaissance, the value of most of them being reckoned in thousands of pounds. There is g. statuette of Diana on a stag, which. when filled with liquor. travels about the table by means of clockwork.
 A Paris newspaper relates that a party of men, sitting in front of a Boulevard cafe, were recently approach ed by a man who had clarinet in his hand and who said: "Gentlemen, excuse me. I have to make my living, but I suppose you would rather give me sou not to hear me-" They took the hint. He repeated this performance, till, one day, one of the men said he felt like hearing tune, and asked him to play. II am sorry," said the man with the clarinet, "but cannot play note."
 The New Orleans Picayune thus urges the erection of statue in memory of General Beauregard: The people of the South owe Beauregard monument be- cause he fought with great distinction and success in Virginia at Manassas and Petersburg; in Tennessee at Shiloh; in Mississippi at Corinth, in the Caroli- mas, and particularly at Charleston, which city he fortified so impregnably that it resisted every assault by land and sea. and was never captured until it had been abandoned by the troops. The South owes Beauregard a statue, but, above all, the people of Louisiana should be foremost in providing for it.
 Harry Lewis, an old colored barber of Washington, crossed the ocean to re- turn to King Edward lock of hair which he had cut from his head when Edward, then Prince of Wales, visited this country in 1860. The negero was a barber on Potomac river steamer on which the royal party went down to Z Mount Vernon and cut the Prince of Wales hair He kept lock of the hair. and short time ago conceived the odd notion of returning it to the king So , he took all the money that he had saved and made the journey across the Atlantic. He has now returned home penniless and bitterly disappointed that he was unable to see the king and to give back the hair. He is ninety years old.
 Philosophic. hic.-Poorman-"It's so hard to be economical. Many a time I get wishing was Russell Sage or some thing" Cummazy-."Huh! he's worse off. If it's hard to be economical if you