The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-22

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 Yearly advertisers are limited 70 tnsis own immediate business fasl matter 10 pe unoDietcionablej, and their contracts do nor incIude Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 A Japanese author is said to have completed work of fiction that runs into ninety volumes. -
 Telephonic communication will be opened on August between Stockholm and Berlin. r .<
 Shooting at live adversary with wax bullets, by way of duelling practice, is the latest exercise of Parisian votaries of the revolver. <
 William T. Richards, the celebrated marine artist, will erect unique sum nler residence on small island oil Newport. The rocks and deep founda- ton will be blown out and the entrance to the place will be from underneath the building.
 President Scott, of the American In stitute of Electrical Engineers. believes that In his profession the opportunity for advancement is exceptionally great. In spite of the large classes now being graduated there is still a demand for thoroughly educated men.
 The provisions officials of Prussia have been petitioned to have eggs sold in the future by weight instead of by number. The object is to protect Ger man poultry breeders against those of foreign countries. German eggs Weigh- ing on an average from 38.58 to 51. A pennyweights, while those imported weigh from 25.72 to s2.15 pennyWeights.
 Kaizawa and s. Katow. of Tokio. Japan, and I. Kapuchi, of Kobe, Japan, members of the commission appointed by the Japanese government with a view to developing the tea trade. have started east from St. Paul. They are wealthy tea merchants and will spend some time in this country seeking in formation as to the best methods of ex- tending the commercial relations be- tween this country and Japan.
 xYr:.. 5saxY fSaf. importance is attached to college ath- letics. In letter to the senior class of Pennsylvania he says: You have 7 lost out of your college life that which it were better to have kept. We play ed hard in my college days, but we talk ed of our sports less than you do. You, I fear, care too little for your intellec- tual athletics. Athletic sports are meant, as I see them, to insure that the body shall be made and kept sound"
 By its recent lease of sixty acres of land the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company has increased the area of the grounds to 1.240 acres. The site is now practically the shape Of a parallelogram over mile wide and nearly two miles long. This is the consummation of the company's original plans. The great building scheme was laid out and the Main Picture. of the Exposition grounds, which has been widely circil- lated, was composed with this acquisi- ton in view.
 The average daily wage of English railway employees set against that in the United States is as follows: Engine drivers, 1$I. 50. against ss.7s in the United < States; flremen. $102, against s2.16; cons duetors, s1.20. against s3.17; other train- men. ss cents, against ss; maehinists, s1.1s, against s2.s2; carpenters, SIPS, against s206; section foremen, s1.sS, against si.71; trackmen, "A cents, against s12s; swftchmen, fagmen and watchmen, s4 cents, against s1.T4; tele- graph operators. SLIP in England, against s1.9s in America.
 The New York American well says: As quotations were marked up too high on the upward swing, so, now. they are apt to be forced too low on the downward move. The stock tape cre- ates sentiment, and the presiding gen. jus in the bear campaign has thus far not allowed recovery to continue for more than twenty-four hours. It is not little people who are selling now, but rich men and powerful institutions. Europe had become somewhat optimis- tic on American securities, but the me- gotiating of loans at six per cent. in the foreign money centers has dampen- ed the ardor of those who were inclined to be bullish. It is. believed that favor able news is not far off, but certain in- terests will accumulate lot of cheap stocks before some of the rumors now afiOat are confirYaedn