The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-30

MeteorologlcaI experiments with balloon at Geneva showed that there was a regular diminution of tempera- ture for every one hundred yards of ascent.
 The Countess of Carlisle is said to be the most radical woman in the British Isles, not only on the drink question. but in other things. She would like to abolish all titles of nobility. and if her husband and relatives did not insist up- on her using the title, which is very old, it is said she would have dropped it long ago. Lady Carlisle has succeeded Lady Henry Somerset as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Great Britain.
 Many members have entered the House total abstainers, and have emerged from it total wrecks." So said a teetotal member of the parliament of Victoria at a. recent temperance gather ing in Melbourne. and now there is clamor for the abolition Of the Parlia- mentary bar. But that institution has survived several similar crusades. A member of the refreshment rooms committee has pointed out that the pro- to balance accounts. and if it were abolished the committee would have to ask the house for enlarged grant.
 The Charleston News and Courier often says right things between election times For instance: we must not measure our conduct in South Carolina by the conduct of the mob in Della ware. We would not be judged in oth- CT things by the Delaware standard, and we must not excuse our criminal tendencies by the disposition of the Delaware people to indulge in violence in such cases as that which resulted in the burning of negro at the stake. We do not divorce our wives and hus- bands in South Carolina because this crime runs mad in Delaware; why should we burn negroes in South Car olina because they burn them in Dela- ware?"
 The output of gold from the Witwa- tersrand gold fields in April last was 227,S71 ounces, against 119,58S ounces in April, 1902, and 46O349 ounces in 1899. before the Boer war had disorganized the industry. But the April output was not much below that of 1897. when 2S5.- 69S ounces were produced. The rate of production is. very rapidly increasing. promising an early restoration of the ante-be1lum output. The entire pro- duct since 1SS7-S has aggregated a5,572,- 576 ounces worth about $21 an ounce. The want of native labor is the only obstacle to the full operation of the mines. Many of the Kaffirs got rich during the war, and many more got eln- \ployment in various new lines of indus try. such as railroad building.
 Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, l is one Of the most accomplished 1in- guists of the senate. A Norwegian by birth, he speaks that language perfect ". He also speaks Swedish, Danish, German. and of course. English. He has 8 very good understanding of French Senator Nelson, from the age if twelve years, was brought up in Min
 esota, where g. mixed population of
 orwegians, Swedish, Danish and Ger
 ans gave him splendid opportunity y5 acquire their languages, and being at all times studious, he lost no chance to add to his knowledge. Nothing pleases Senator Nelson better than occasionally he can speak the first language he ever abeard, but his intense &nerieanism is hown by the fact that the language of Es home is English. That has always Sen the language of the Nelson home.
 Assassination tempered by abdication
 klch has been the fate of most Bal
 rulers. Since the Balkan peoples Iwere einancipated King Otho of Greece, Prince Cuza of Roumania, Prince Alex lander of Bulgaria, Prince Alexander Karageorgevitch and King Milan of |Servia have been forced to abdicate, while Prince Danilo of Montenegro, Prince Michael, King Alexander and | ueen Draga of Servia, as we'll as Kara ! eorfie. the Servian liberator, have l
 len murdered. Tn addition attempts |
 bre made on the lives of the late | Queen Analia and King George of |
 reece, a IS we'll as or the late King Mi
 of Servia. Out of the sixteen Ball.
 n rulers who have held sway during