The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-05

population of the United States is $l,' 236; that of the osage Indians Is $11, ,5OI per capita.
 Of the 100, 900 men in Newfoundland more than half are fishermen, who catch 15e0oo.oOo pounds of cod a year consume one-fourth of it and sell tho rest to Catholic countries for 4,45o,0 900
 Miss Alice N. Hall, graduate oi Mount Holyoke College and who holds masters degree from oberlin. has been elected assistant pastor of the Congregational Church in Fond du Lac Wis.
 The University of Wisconsin will celebrate next June the fiftieth anni- versary of it's first commencement during which time the newly elected president. Charles R. Van Hise, will be inaugurated.
 Five Paris policemen have passed their examination as motor car drivers They will shortly be put on duty with fast cars, so that they can overtake and, if necessary, arrest any other driver of such vehicles travelling at ex- cessive speed.
 Hubbardston, Massachusetts, with a population of a little over 1,20o, has twenty-five people that are eighty years old and over. The average age ot these people is eighty-five years; all of them. with the exception of two, are in good health.
 About 95 per cent. of all modern agri- cultural implements and tools used in Mexico are imported from the United States, the remainder being imported from Germany, latter principally with }. single handle and wooden frame, all being usually of the cheapest construc- ton.
 The custody of the White House flag has been taken away from "old Jerry,'' General Grants body servant. When the Honourable Artillery Company of London called on President Roosevelt, the aged negro hoisted the flag upside down Hereafter 1t will be in charge of a retired army sergeant and enlist cd man.
 A Devonshire, England, school has hit on a novel plan for securing the regular attendance of its scholars. Periodically those children whose at- tendance is most satisfactory are grouped together and photographed, to the envy ofathose not included. Cop. les of the photograph are distributed to the subjects, and the plan works out admirably.
 A Leipzic trade paper. in reporting on the recent fair held in that city, speaks favorably of new line of doll heads made of tin and covered with celluloid. The opinion is expressed in the paper quoted that this novelty is a desirable Improvement, as many lines of doll heads now on the market are composed of celluloid and are of great danger to children on account of the liability to explosion to which celluloid is subject. The paper says the use of ceiluloid in the manufacture of toys is making steady progress.
 1t Is a mistake, the Spectator says, to think or speak of the house of which Victor Emmanuel III. is the present head as the oldest reigning house in Europe. "King Edward, though it is a custom to date our monarchy from the Conquest, descends from Cerdic, who was independent in Wessex two hun dred years before Charlemagne. The house of Savoy (then called counts of Maurienne) rank from the time of the great emperor"
 The Boston News Bureau estimates the wealth of the leading members of the Standard Oil family as follows: J. D. Rockefeller. $5oo,oOO,OOO; William Rockefeller, s15o,oO O,OoO; Henry H. Rog- CTS, s1OO,0O0,0OO; Henry M. Flagler, $100, 100000; J. D. Archbold, $50,000,000; Charles M Pratt, $25,OO0,OO0; Wesley Hunt Tilford, $25,O0O,OOO; total, $95O,OOO,- 900. Then there are numerous Standard Oil people with wealth ranging between