The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-19

cents. one week. s. 20; one month, s10; one Obituary Notices, in prose or ,IeassseE verse, l9 Deaths, and Funeral, 30 cents each. LocaI It is calculated that the rich men of Philadelphia have lost $5O0,00O,oOO by the shrinkage in stocks.
 A Russian family is asking the Prus- sian government to pay it $2o,Oo0,0 900 for the value of an estate given to an an- cestor by Frederick the Great in 1741, for the latter's assistance in arrangking favorable treaty with Russia. Better late than never.
 Sarasate, the noted violinist, will be sixty next year. His curls, which twen- ty years ago were black as raven, are now as white as carded wool. He is still a bachelor. and his income from his work averages ten thousand pounds year.
  GOO, ,o0O T per cent. Confederate bonds, is- sued in 1863. have raised a fund of $6o,- 900 to obtain recognition and settlement of them. Sixty thousand dollars is quite little money to throw away, but doubtless it will fall into worthy hands when 1t is thrown.
 
 The Capitol at Washington being "dry" nowadays, the saloons in the inn mediate vicinity do thriving business. The saloon nearest to the Capitol on Pennsylvania avenue now displays a sign whica reads, from the Capitol side: First Chance" On the side which one sees on approaching the Cap itol is the legend: Last Chance"
 The Pennsylvania Railroad company has begun the planting of a future for est of 5O.OOO young locust trees for the purpose of providing railroad ties. Three farms near Conewago, comprising 300 acres of land, which the company bought some time ago will be used for the planting. Experts in forestry say that the enterprise of the company will eventually save it many thousands of dollars.
 It is reported that of the eighty or more beet and cane sugar factories of Spain all except two or three have just been merged in sugar trust. The for mer finance minister. Lopez Puigcerver, has been elected chairman of the board of directors. The beet sugar industry of Spain, although comparatively young, is already far more important than the cane sugar industry. The two together produce almost 100000 metric tons annually, some of which is ex- ported .a>
 Reed Shoot says that he is mot in the least worried" by the possibility of being excluded from the Senate. He denies both that he is a polygamist and that he has taken any secret oath to the church recognizing it as superior to the country. He adds: There is no secret oath administered, and no distinction is made by the church regarding the allegiance be- tween apostles and other members ' If that is so Smoot will stay. The late Theodore Mommsen was one of the most absent-minded of men Once while going from Berlin to Char. lottenberg, half hours journey, the trolley car in which he rode went of the track. The rest of the passengers took another car and went ahead, and the stranded vehicle was abandoned til help could be found. Mommsen remain. ed reading his book An hour or two later the sound of jacks, lever, derricks etc, aroused him. Rising from his seat he went to the door, and with the mos complete unconcern imaginable remark ed T suppose we have come to stand. still!''
 The inhabitants of Jerusalem whc can pay for ice can have it now. Ar artificial ice plant, which manufactures about seven hundred pounds day, is in operation there. Never before ir this country, says Consul Merrill "have the inhabitants used ice or seen it, ir fact. The demand is at present limited but is steadily increasing. The wate, used in Jerusalem is rain water, from cisterns, and the ice is like crystal. Nc natural ice is brought to this country The demand for ice was first made by the hospitals. The hotels soon after began it's use, and now nearly all the foreign residents and many of ths wealthy native families are consum ers.''