The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-16

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 The Chicago News pertinently asks: Why not take up subscription for the flood sufferers in Wall street?
 The peon child of Mexico may now pass from his letters to the highest di- ploma entirely at government expense, and the government hopes shortly to make education compulsory.
 c. l. Dietrich, United States senator from Nebraska, has returned from a four months visit in that territory, and he discourages the idea that Alaska has wonderful agricultural possibilities. He says that the costly experiments of the government at Sitka have not estab- lished any facts about the agricultural possibilities of the territory that have not been known for fifty years.
 The Lewis and Clark fair, planned to be held in Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 1905, is to commemorate the centennial of the crossing of the con- tinent by the explorers whom Jefferson induced to undertake the difficult task soon after the completion of his bar gain for the Louisiana territory. They went up the Missouri river, crossed the Rocky Mountains and followed down the course of the Columbia river to the Pacific.
 The Irish Anti Emigration Society of Dublin Is at work in this country. It is enlisting the aid of several Irish organ izations over here, particularly the An- cient Order of Hibernians, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the United Irish League. The first effort to be made by this organization is to stop prepaid passages from Ireland to Amer ica. The society advises the Irish peo- ple s<-emain at home. You may con sider your lot hard and laborious," says the circular, .'but the devil you know Is ' { tf
 less to be dreaded than the devil you don't know" "T.
 The i6ea of connecting Berlin with the Tsaltic by means of a canal and at the same time to turn the capital city into a seaport, into which even the largess class of ocean steamers may enter with perfect ease. is being seriously consid- cred in Germany. The chief argument back of the proposed canal is the danger which threatens Germany through the commercial activity of America. It is proposed to introduce bill into the na- tional legislature tot provide for the construction of a, canal from Berlin to Stettin as first step in making a route to the sea.
 Some days before the recent solar eclipse occurred the mayor of Shanghai issued a proclamation. the purport ot which was that all citizens should dc their utmost to appease the heavenly powers while the phenomenon was in force. The proclamation began as fol- lows: "On the first day of the third moon of the second year of the reign oi the Emperor Kouang Sou. great dog will begin to devour the sum- Enigmat. ic this statement seems to us, but ir China it is we'll understood, as is proved by the fact that on the day of the eclipse large crowds gathered in vari. ous places. and by threats and shouts did their best to prevent the ravenous dog from devouring the sacred sin.
 The following is attributed by an English newspaper to public school boy: King Henry the Eighth was the greatest Widower that ever lived He was born at Anno Domini in the year 1066. He had five hundred and ten wives, besides children. The first was beheaded and afterwards executed. The second was revoked. She never smiled again, but she said the word Calais would be found written on her heart after her death. The greatest man ir this reign was Lord Sir Garnet Wolsey He was surnamed the Boy Bachelor, being born at the age of fifteen unmar. ried. He after said had he served his wife as diligently as he served. the Kins she would not have deprived him of his gray hairs. In this reign the Bible wa: translated into Latin by Titus Oates who was ordered by the King to bt chained up in the church for greater security. It was also in this reign that the Duke of Wellington discovered America and invented. curfew bell te prevent fires, most of the houses being built of timber. Henry the Eighth wa. succeeded on the throne by his great. grandmother the beautiful and accom-. plished Mary Queen of Scots, some. times known as The Lady of the Lake, or Lay of the Last Minstrel He ,die6 in bed in the last year of his age.''