The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-06

unooietcionabie), and their contracts do not
 include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
 A Chicago scientist says that the all
 luviaI beds on which the city is built are full of diamonds deposited there by the glacial drift. That's richer than
 mud.
 A Lishon newspaper has discovered a
 place in that city where titles and or ders are supplied on a large scale for. cash. particularly to South American customers. xs h~
 The London Globe contains number
 of amusing answers in recent exam
 ination for office boys in government 8 office. Some of the descriptions of a vol cano are graphic: "A volcano is a hill and smoke raises from the top" "A Volcano is a mountain with solphur and collection if Iron and led. Soon aftor few years they get hot and bursts
 
 the country" "A volcano is mountain which his a large amount of father and
 this sometimes overfows and burns vil-
 liages down." The most fiattering an- swer runs as follows: "The boundaries of England are united states america and Europe" Latitude and Longi- i
 tude," said another student, fare terms to describe certain spots on the sea. 'S@S s So great Is the size of a modern trans-i atlantic liner that the total area to be. covered every time 1t is painted runs up into the acres. Thus to entirely paint the too sides of a big steamship from water line to rail calls for enough paint to cover an acre of surface. About as much more Is required to paint the tup- per works. while the big .smokestacks call for over half an acre of paint and in the case of the German steamships with four smokestacks the total area must be nearer three-ouarters of an acre. Since the great ships of the first class companies are painted every voy- age, the calculation shows that to keep the one hundred or so vessels of the h. ternational Mercantile Marine company in first class shape requires the paint ing of about 2.250 acres each year at cost of between $25o,oOO and s5OO,OOO.
 The United States government is to undertake a religious census. Under the present law the census bureau is not reoNganized each ten years, as formerly, but Is a permanent bureau, and if so directed, is able to take census at any time. There was much disappointment among religious leaders because the bu- reau, in 1900, did not take census as in 1890. There was not demand that so detailed census be taken as at that time, l for much rudimentary work done in 1890 had no need to be repeated. Upon in- quiry the census bureau make the fol- lowing statement: Under the census act the office was authorized to take the religious statistics, but being special report, it was also required not to be taken ID until after the main census reports were completed. It will be be- gun in due season. but it is impossible l to say just when 1t will be completed"
 The creator of the <Anti-duelling | league, Don Alfonso of Bourbon and | Austria, declared in g. recent interviewl with a Viennese journalist that his | views were largely shared among the officers of the Austrian army, notwith- | standing the recent verdict of the court I of honor degrading cadet named | Webster because, in refusing chal- lenge. he had acted Sin manner un- becoming to an officer" Don Alfonso takes hopeful view of the situation. He referred to the reforms effected in Belgium. Switzerland, Scandinavia, and even in France, where formerly the duel was obligatory on common soldiers too, while now it Is restricted to officers. Even in Germany, ne added, there is no official opposition to the efforts to abol- ish duelling. The League has branches in all the larger cities, and many of the. members are officers. In Dresden the president is general.
 Judge Epaphroditus Peck. of Bristol writes thus to the Connecticut Citizen: There is no occupation, outside those involving hard manual labor (and per- haps excepting the medical profession). in which the temptations to use liquors to injurious excess are so great as in the law. The nervous stress and ex- citement of a hotly contested trial. the desire to be temporarily keyed up to ene's best effort, the celebration of vic- tory. all give great opportunity for a < rssp.s t