The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-17


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 Miss Abbie Taggart, of California, has killed seven bears and mountain lion,
 The Persians say: "9e who wishes to become wealthy in a year risks get %'es hanged in six months" But the
 Han who first said that didn't know
 1t Wall street, the Equitable,
 luncey M. Depew, etc., etc.
 he following remarks on Tennyson
 Ire recently handed in on an examin-
 Ion paper by schoolboy in an Eng
 
 3glyson was a celebrated poet, and he wrote a lot of beautiful pomes with long hair: His greatest pone is called The Idle King He was made lord, but he was good man and wrote many pads"
 There is railroad over the Egyptian desert which runs for forty-five miles )i1 a straight line, but this is beaten by Dne in Australia. The railroad from Nyngan to Bourke, in New South Wales, runs over plain quite level for I26 miles in a mathematically straight line. There is hardly an embankment, not curve, and only three very slight elevations.
 Poor Russia. The latest horror of war for Russia will be a famine in the central, eastern and northern portions, s.S;sf- .s;srs .ar Ngo surpass the famines of 1891 and 1897 4S1e failure of the crops is accentuated by the fact that all the able-bodied men have been summoned ] to 2in. the reserves. leaving women, children and aged men to starve with . out chance of help.
 The old adage There is nothing new under the sum- is now applied to the Panama canal. Study of the fishes liv- Ing on the two sides of the isthmus has led to the conclusion that in the Miocene epoch nature had canal there from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and that the continuity of the land between the two continents was interrupted dur ing a large part of the Tertiary age, Miocene.
 The long contention over a site at Indianapolis for the monument to Ben jarnin Harrison has at last been settled, and the statue will be placed at the south front of the new federal build ing in accordance with the request of the monument commission. The archi- tect refused to give the statue a place pn the grounds, alleging that the base was out of harmony with the architec- ture of the building. Secretary Shaw has informed the commission that the statue may be placed at the south front, and the commission will now proceed with it's plans and put up the statue at once.
 As England is a nation of tea drink CTS some vigorous words on the tea habit lately spoken by Dr. John H. Clarke, a London physician, have at- tracted much attention. Ut would al- Y most seenn," said Dr. Clarke, that the human animal is determined to assert his superiority over all the rest of the creation by the ingenuity he displays in discovering or manufacturing poi sons for himself. The great majority of mankind are the slaves to one or more poison habits. Of these habits the tea habit is one of the most subtle, insinuating and injurious"
 It is related that before Willard Fill more was elected to the vice-presidency of the United States he was head of the law firm of Fillmore, Hall & Havens, of Buffalo It was one of the leading law firms of the State. He was the defend Rnt's attorney in certain action in Buff falo. At the opening of the trial of the case the plaintiffs attorney stated to the jury that he would have to depend entirsly upon the justice of his clients rase, as the defendant had sought and -,obtained the aid and counsel of one of the ablest firms of lawyers in western New York, and he might say he had opposed to him the right bower of the legal profession. What does he mean by that?" said Mir. Fillmore. MT. Ha- vens replied, "He means you" "Yes,