The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-13
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A swimming glove made of rubber has been invented by German. In-f stead of keeping the fingers closed when giving the stroke away from the head, the swimmer vii! spread them out, and the intervening web will aid him in making more powerful stroke.
 A PROTEST.
 They've changed the names of lots of
 things. and yet. 'twixt me and you Our aches and pains behave themselves,
 just like they used to do. They sound more interestin', but if sin-
 pie truth wero told,
 La grippe" was just as hard to bear as an oId-fashioned cold.
 They tell you about ptomaines and bac- teria and the like, E... And there isn't any tellin' what new tangled. names they'll strike, And when sprained my ankle an they
 had me lyin' fiat, felt right glad because they had no fancy name for that. Washington Star.
 Germany has a city situated in the Black Forest containing about seven thousand inhabitants which gets along without paying any taxes, all munich pal expenses being provided for by the yearly net revenue of the public prop- erty. This consists of six thousand acres of forest, managed under the best forestry methods. and the annual re- turn from 1t. pretty regular in amount, 1 is sufficient to meet all requirements. When a tree is cut down one or more are planted, and the yield Is conse7 quently undininishing. No tree is cut till it is of growth to yield the maxi mum profit. This pays all the city's expenses. with surplus.
 ON THE FIELD OF MANASSAS.
 By order of Major General Corbin, all officers will appear at the formal seven o'clock dinner in dress uniforms during | the manoeuyres at Manassas. Ladies will be present at every dinner, and 1t is expected to make these affairs social- I ly brilliant, after the style of European manoeuvres. Scores of society women have arranged to visit the camp Washington Dispatch. The slaughter on Manassas field, 'Tis said, was something awful, As Captain Cupid charged and wheeled land line and staff men swerved and reeled-
 Now can such things be lawful? Arrayed for battle. corbin-wise,
 Each soldier faced his duty
 Tn full dress coats and full dress ties, And full dress talk with smiling eyes, i But what are these 'gainst beauty? Down charged the social legions there,
 With dainty ribbons flying. \ With charming grace, with traces fair, With killing glances ev'rywhere
 Ho, Red Cross! To the dSing No quarter gave the victors then,
 No quarter asked the beaten; IBut, tete-a-tete, like soldier men, sI They faced annihilation when
 The ices thus were eaten.
 IThe losses on that awful day I To contemplate distresses-
 From hearts that owned the victors'
 sway
 ITo buttons brass and ribbons gay N And even curling tresses.
 The slaughter at Manassas then
 Was really quite alarming,
 But when the girls said, Come again!m I rTst,.o +ad y11 5oPoa4ad man
 Agreed that it was charming.
 Indianapolis News. I Old-tinlers boast that Bret Harte lonce taught school at Tuttletown, Cal, land in that way acquired knowledge of the localities in the vicinity that he af- lterward worked into his writings, Mark Twain was a clerk In the only store in town at the same time. The town itself is small village, nestling at the foot of hill, which is verita- ble quarry of gold. Nearly all of this hill is owned by James Gillis, the orig. final Truthful James," and is covered by parties working small pocket mines lon shares" s.a.
 He Was Belted-Nell-So she actual, refused Lord Nokash!
 Belle-We1l, no; believe her fathel ldid the refusing for her.
 Nell--And he was a "belted earl" too
 Belle-I don't know that he was unti The interviewed her father. Then he go lit, all right, ,--Catholic Standard. . According to M Neymarch, the sta I tistician, the number of French citizen
 possessing estates of a realizable casl value exceeding two million pounds i under thirty, while those possessing es ltates over five hundred thousant pounds but under two million pounds il | value is about one hundred. Betweel five hundred sad six hundred person
 possess fortunes averaging from tw | hundred thousand to four hundre, thousand pounds. Some four thousan, persons in France possess fortunes be tween one hundred thousand and unde 1.-two hundred thousand pounds. Abou lfifteen thousand French are million
 aires" as the word is understood f France, namely, possessing over fort n thousand and up to ninety-nine thou . sand pounds. Going lower down tn a scale, it is estimated that 262,O0 % Frenchmen possess a capital of betwee % two and four thousand pounds, an \ ,54S, 900 hold between four hundred an