The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-07


 Local Notices. 15 per me ,,4od to their Yearly advertisers are limited 0 .u +o be own immediate business Gall mat,et matn dn no. unobjectionable), and their contIi'i nIa sic. inclnde Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc. The "pari-mutuel," or French goNei"- ment tax on race course betting mas produced s15, ,s52, 900 during the past rlVe years.
 Russ,a's death rate is fifty-one per LOGO, and is increasing, according 'o 'iio imperial registrar generals latest an nual report.
 No less than 3OoOO,O0o acres of Cuoa-- naarlv half the island--is forest. There are thirty different species Of paiiiis alone found there.
 Four showmen in different parts ol pennsylvania are exhibiting "the ioeH- tical horse and sleigh used by the Bid- dles', in their famous escape,
 There is deficit of $12,oooooo on the German estimates for the financial year 1901. This is the largest deficit recofoeo sinca the foundation of the German em- pire.
 The Sultan of Turkey has issued all trade prohibiting gambling in his do- mfnions. and ordering the prosecuuon of tba ,essees of those establishments where it is carried on
 Chinese Coolies were first brought into the United States in large numbers as laborers on the Central Pacific rail- road After it's completion thousands were out of employment and took up laundry work because in California towns at that time there were so few women to do such work.
 in a recent address Minister Wu said fhe oldest paper in the world was the Pekin Gazette, which is more than looo years old. He declared 1t wasn't much on printing news, but it was very use ----fI fs,I publication, as it contained all 'he doings of the court and printed the edicts of the emperor.
 Senator Hoar received word the other day that friend who had been sup nosed to have appendicitis was, suffer ;np not from that ailment, but from acute indigestion. That is good news, said the senator. "I rejoice that the trouble lies in the table of contents ~~ rather than in the appendix"
 This years attendance at the ter largest universities of the country is re ported by pr. Garman, the registrar o coI,,u,bia, as follows: Harvard, 5,516 Columbia, 4,402, Michigan, 3.Sl6; Chica po. s.727: California, 3,540; Minnecota ab5s. Cornell, 9,216; Wisconsin, 2,Sl2 Vale. 2.6S0; Pennsylvania, 2,52O.
 The following notice has been placaro ed in the entrance hall of Wurzpuri Irr,iversity: Honorable ladies who at ~'-N- hefore entering the lecture room the nnst take off their hats. In case c non- compliance with this notice, the ,,ust expect to have their hats take away by force
 One of the French railroads uses novel form of speed indicator for it's lc comotives in cases where on account ronairs. defective structure or lack attendance the speed is to be kept W1tf in a certain limit. It not only snow the speeds, but when this rises aboV the required point it acts automaticall to throw on the air-brakes.
 Reniamin Ellsworth, who had bee keeper of the light on Castle Nec Tpswich, since 1861, was believed at U time of his death to be the oldest igh ho,lse-keeper of the country. He Wi horn in 1913, was married three time and managed successfully to rear family of nine children on salary
 
 s400 year.
 During the period from 1891 to l9 the exports of the United States I creased in value from s970 ,5Os,646 to 5 ABE. 3sO 919. Of the increase of four hu dred and ninety-five millions more th' four hundred millions is attributable Frurope and North America and it m he said that the details of the tra nrove conclusiveiy that the highe pron,ise is where there is the hight civilization.
 The success of Lord Kitcheners bio house policy in South Africa and t gradual wearing away of the Be forces encourage London prophets or more to fix a period to the host1lltl which they now hope to see ended
 september Meanwhile London Bears ,ority already quoted in the World signataimated that the total cost of the