The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-13

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 The imperial canal in China is .he longest ia the world and connects no fewer than forty-one cities in the course of its Soo miles.
 
 A new tribe was recently discovered in India in which contagious diseases arc combated by killing those who are attscked.
 The sardine famine off the coast of Brittany. which has extended oye" sev- eral years, promises to be reis.na by lruaual catches ta's year.
 For the first time since American oc- cupation the United States leads this year in the amount of merchandise sent into the Philippine Islands.
 'There are fifteen symptoms of drunkenness, X said medical witness in an English police court. The judge hastily fined the defendant s5 and call ed for the next case
 Five Wellesley girls are running a ranch in the West this summer. They are all wealthy, and their scale of op- erations is expensive, as the venture was made for pleasure alone.
 One of the effects of the war in the East is to put up the price of eamphor. camphor trees grow we'll only in Japan, and 50 many men are with the colors that the industry is being neglected.
 Oklahoma is now the greatest broom -.espA- producing district in the United States, this year exceeding in amount of production both Kansas and Illinois. It IS estimated that 25,ooO tons of broom corn will be raised in Oklahoma west of the Rock Island railroad.
 Canada is making up her trade sta- tlstics for the fiscal year 1s03-4. Again the commerce across the border shows an increase. Our sales to our neigh. bors rose from $129SO1,S47 in 1902 to $13T, ,605,1 ,195 in 1903. The business of last year raises the figures to $15O,S26515, a highly satisfactory increase so far as the United States is concerned.
 The death of the son of the author Of David Harum'' serves to call public attention to the fact that the royalties on that book have amounted to about $150,OOo. This big profit on few dol lars worth of pens, ink and paper which the author used in producing the story is quite enough to set scores of others at work on the same sort of un- dertaking.
 The hardest fare that six young men and a boy of fifteen kept alive on was the daily menu of the Windover's sur- vivors, who were cast up on the Irish coast near Kilsegg. They lived for six teen days on stewed rope yarn, without a crumb of anything else to help digest 1t, except water, and though 1t made ; tlCIlA A54Ll1Cy hCpI c@4AFCEO1k IL CtIlu ulu not waste away very much.
 Tn number of the leading stores of Edinburgh and Glasgow there is a mo- tice: Americans not served here." Yankee shoppers used to cause the pro- prietors and their assistants to turn their shops topsy- y-turvy until they look sd like ruinmage sale (bargain coun- ter not in it), and then would elevate their noses and ''guess we'll try some where eIse.' Hence the notice.
 Paris used to be called unhealthful for horses, but in recent years the con- ditions have been improved. During the hot weather in July the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pro vided the cafes and restaurants with free wooden buckets on condition that they would supply cabmen with water for their animals. Most of the proprie- tors of these places accepted the offer.