The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-11

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 The Chequers inn at slapstones, near OsmotherIy, boasts of a fire, which for more than a century has never been allowed to go out. The place is quaint little building, to which many visitors resort on account of its never extinguished fire and the turf cakes baked upon it's hearth. It has been in the occupation of one family for over one funrded years.
 Dr. F. H. Baker, superintendent of the National Geological Park, will be in charge of the aviary at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. He has announced that the exhibition of birds will be the larg- est and most comprehensive ever at tempted, and the big cage for flying specimens, now building at the fair grounds, will be two hundred feet long, sixty feet wide, and seventy feet high.
 Some people know how to heap coals of fire. with vivid recollection of a warm reception given to me on the 18th of April. 1861, by people of Baltimore take pleasure in inclosing my check for S100. which please place in your relief fund" Such was the letter addressed to Mayor McLane by Edward F. Jones of Binghamton. New York, colonel of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment, which was stoned as it passed through Baltimore.
 The Iron Age, sitting down the tes- timony of experts recently given before a Congress committee, figures it out that we are carrying only nine per cent. of our own trade in our own ships and wants to know what we would do in case the war gets strenuous, other powers are involved and nobody has any ships to sell The Iron Age thinks that not since the Revolution has ocean shipbuilding in this country been fin such condition of absolutely arrested development"
 A project is on foot in Alexandria for restoring the Sphinx, near the Great Pyramid of GhizeEa, to it's original coll dition. Thick layers of soil completely cover the head of the monument, while the lower parts are greatly obscured by accumulations of sand. It is proposed to clear all these accumulationns away and to clean the head completely. It is hoped that when the work has been completed the Sphinx will once more appear. if not in it's first freshness, at least in the grandeur of it's original proportions.
 The English papers tell the following story which illustrates the intrepidity of the late Admiral Keppel and the disci- pline he maintained aboard his ship: His ship. the Raleigh, was in dannger of sinking, and he had to run her into a French port. As she entered the har- bor French vessel fired salute. The Raleigh was fast sinking, but Sir Henry literally stuck to his guns and returned the salute with the water rushing in at the portholes, the sailors manning their guns and firing till the ammunition above water was exhausted.
 Henry F. Seawell was Republican, Populist candidate for lieutenant gov ernor of North Carolina in 1900. In the course of the campaign he visited the town of Shelby, where he addressed a meeting, scoring the Democratic party vigorously. A good many of his hear CTS were Democrats, and they resented this line of talk. Some of them pelted the orator with eggs of great antiquity, fifteen of the missiles striking him. Seawell brought suit against rail- TodQ tUIllpdIly UecauS6 US SJaJlOH agent end other employees were among the egg throwers. The case was decided in his favor, but was appealed. Now the Su- prel1,e corut, which is composed of Dem ocratic judges has affirmed verdict awarding plaintiff $4,50O damages.
 Though Japan is the latest country to enter the circle of world powers, her emperor surpasses all sovereigns in the length of his pedigree, according to the London Chronicle. He is the 122d mem her in direct. unbrolzen descent. of his family who has sat on the throne of Japan. The founder of his house was in Japsnese legend, goddess of the sun, and contemporary with Nebuchadnez- gar 666 years before the Christian era On the other hand the Romanoffs have been royal only since 1901. when they succeeded to the sovereignty of the then extinct house of Rurik. As for other