The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-29


 Miss Antoinette Bertha Krupp, only daughter of the late Herr Krupp, the famous German gunmaker. Miss Krupp inherited a fortune of s14,000,000, and now has absolute control of the great iron and steel works at Essen. Miss Krupp is an artist of considerable skill.
 Chancellor McCracken of New York university addressing the student body the other day. said: "I wish we could require from every freshman Sunday school diploma that would certify that he knew by heart the Ten Command inents. the Sermon on the Mount, a church catechism of some kind, score of Scripture Psalms and the best classic hymns" s.
 A citizen of Glarus, Switzerland, died shortly before his wife's expected confinement. He left his property to be shared between the wife and the chiid-if boy, the child should get six and the mother four parts of the prop erty; if girl, they should divide equal ly. Now the woman has been blessed with twins-a boy and girl-and mo- body knows what to do. ... ..=
 The Rev. Dr. Groucher, president of the Woman's College at Baltimore, has reached the conclusion that Eff the money that is expended on chewing gum by the people of this country were expended in spreading the gospel the world would be saved in fifty years" Z Perhaps not, but there are many in the world who would be pleased by the death of the chewing-gum habit. .
 Building operations in Philadelphia are coming to standstill. as a result of the exactions of the labor combina- tions. Not less than ten millions of dol- lars worth of contemplated improve ments have been postponed or aban- doned Architects and draughtsmen are finding little trade, and when most of the present contracts are completed on the ensuing January 1. there will be a great many men out of employment in Philadelphia. .
 Work on the ornamental vase which the Russian ministry of finance is about to present to the New York stock ex- change. in recognition of the action of the exchange in listing Russian securi- ties about year ago, is completed. It is about four feet high, is of marble, richly ornamented with lapis lazuli and bears an inscription commemorative of the place of the Russian securities on the American market. ~.~
 The Vandalia Mail and Express boasts with justif1able pride that it bears the proud distinction of being the 2 only paper in Missouri which did not perpetrate on it's readers about three columns of gush over the weddings of Miss Ruth Bryan and Miss Frances Cook. They are nice girls, the Mail and Express admits, "but," it says, '.Vandalia is full of girls just as intelli- gent. just as talented and darn sight better looking than either of them"
 The exportation of butter and eggs from Russia is assuming large propor- tions, The regular steamship service lately established between Riga and London for the transportation of but ter and eggs to England could not car- " all the consignments, and an extra steamship of large tonnage had to be added thereto. Even then about thirty carloads of butter could not be shipped as promptly as desired. Russian but ter is even shipped from Siberia to Denmark.
 The Bishop of Bristol the other day told the Church Congress that a ''gen- tleman" wrote to him few days ago saying, You scoundrel! What are you doing for your e5,oOO year?" and the new Bishop of Manchester recently had g story on the same lines to tell against himself pr. Knox was speaking to a Birmingham audience, and impressing them with the fact that pr. Gore, the Bishop of Worcester, was quite overwhelmed with work. And yet" said Dr. Knox, there are people who think bishops do nothing. Only the other day I was coming out of Deans Yard, Westminster when a man, very unsteady on his feet, lurched up to me, looked me all over from gaiters to the crown of my hat, shook his finger in my face, and said, Lazy, lazy!' B - lal,