The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-08
1HE WEEKLY JOUREAL. Issusd ThuEsdsys. One Dollar a Yes

1HE WEEKLY JOURNAL. Issusd Thursdsys. One Dollar a Year.
 Kansas City has lost much by floods lately, but the Kansas City Journal complains that the city's floating debt of STE, ,OO0 wasn't washed away.
 Methodism in England last year gained in membership only one per cent, and the church leaders are some what worried. Some fear that whist is largely responsible for the small in crease.
 Revenge is sometimes too complete. It seems to have been so in the case of an Ohio man who ithoughtlessly called neighbor "a sardine." The of tended neighbor promptly licked him, burned his house and ran away with his wife.
 A British expedition has been sent to explore Hudson bay for the purpose of determining whether new grain route is practicable. The plan is to ship grain from the western portion of Canada, to be shipped by water during the brief summer season in which navi- gation is open.N
 Spanish newspapers claim that the oldest general in the world is the Count Cheste. He is 95. and has served in the army eighty-one years. His health is still good. He is president of the Spanish academy, and occasionally attends meeting. He has translated Dante's works into Spanish.
 Joseph Snyder, an athlete of ninety two, who lives in Aetna, New York. challenges any man of seventy-five or older to walk from ten to fifty miles. Mir. Snyder says: ''I'll walk him either with or without canes. though I prefer to carry one just for company. I walk at least ten miles every day, and the fellow who takes up my challenge will have to scratch gravel mighty lively to wirl.'' =- .7.' ,..
 Lieutenant Colonel Seton Churchill of the British army told a good story at the London Missionary society's meet ing. Tn She first Boer war, he said, they were holding religious service in, the open and a Kaffir asked what all the noise was about. He was told that they were worshipping God because they wanted to go to heaven. which was very nice place. The native then inquired: Why, then. does not Eng land annex heaven D
 It is being seriously suggested in England that King Edward, breaking through all tradition, should pay visit to America next year, beginning his tour with a stay in Canada, as he did many years ago. It is pointed out that nowadays transatlantic journey is really small matter, and one writer expresses the opinion that therefore the visit of a European sovereign to the United States is but matter of time.
 An illustration of hardship resulting from the new German meat inspection law is given by the United States con- sul at Bremen. The charges on twenty barrels of boiled pig liver were: Ex- animation, SIS; chemical examination, $1440; examination for trichinae s69.s5; duty s12221; total, $224.47. The flyers were worth STA. The case being ap- peaIed, the Secretary of the Interior held that, as the flyers weighed less than S.S pounds each, the new law pro- hibited their importation absolutely.
 That's queer strike in Jersey City where a representative of the union asked proprietor to establish the h. ternational Machinists union scale. He refused. on the ground that some men were worth more to him than the union scale, and he proposed to follow the old rule of paying a man what he was worth. He was willing to meet all the union conditions except paying the uni form rate os wages. which would rec ognize the union and, failing to do this, 6 strike was ordered. The employer proposes to fight the union to the end on the ground that "a man should have an incentive to prove himself better workman than another"
 Governor W. D. Jelks of Alabama an. nounces that before he goes out of office all the felony convicts in the State will be taken from under the control of con- tractors and put in the hands of the State authorities. We have at present about 1900 felony convicts in Alabama a-. ,,,a-I~1S s,, ,,as,,e.