The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-07

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 There were 1,OS4,7S7 deaths from plague in India during 1904. The figure for 1905 also probably comes near l. 100000
 Owing to an error in calculation ma le in 1920, the height of every Alpine summit, says the Alpine Post, will have to be written down by about ten feet.
 A bill has been introduced in con- gress that directs the duty on compos- ing or linotype machines be repealed, and that duty of 10 per centum ad valoren be submitted therefor.
 The Chinese empress has commanded the vlceroys to submit reports of the numbers and nationality of the mis- sionaries in their jurisdiction, and also ito send in descriptions of their church. es and other property.
 committee this week at Tokio dele gate representing the government, said that Japan expected to increase the ton mage of her navy to 100000 tons by the end of the fiscal year of 19O7-OS
 Queen Margherita, of Italy, has writ ten a play which is to be produced shortly with Mime. Duse in the leading part. It is understood that the work ( viii deal w4Atth phases in the life of King Humbert, Margherita's late husband.
 The provisional French commercial returns, just published, show a total of 9,435, 100000 francs against S,95S ,OOO,- 900 francs in 1904. Imports increased 29 per cent. to 4,673, 100000 francs, and exports increased S.2 per cent, to 4,S61- ooo,OOO francs.
 Senator Cullom of Illinois is in a very feeble condition, and not likely to be able to do much more work in the sen- ate. Should he retire next year, at the end of tsis present term MT. Lodge of Massachusetts, will naturally succeed him as chairman of the committee on foreign relations.
 The United States government has commissioned pr. David Starr Jordan and Professor Charles H. Gilbert, head of the department of zoology of the Stanford university, to conduct an in- vestigation of the fish and fisheries of Japan and the island of Sakhalln dur, ing the coming summer.
 The Zurich papers are discussing a great scheme proposed by Swiss en- gineer to unite Switzerland with the North sea and the Mediterranean by two great canal systems. The first sys- tenn would connect Lake Constance with Rotterdam by means of the Rhine, and the second would join Lake Como and the Mediterranean by means of the River Pc.
 Former Mayor Jam@s D. Phelan of San Francisco has offered a prize of $500 for the best oil painting portray ing the first hoisting of the American flag at San Francisco, July g, 1S46. This competition is to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the notable event in California history. Additional prizes of s1OO and $50 are offered for the second and third best pictures.
 AtSthe morning service Sunday S43 new members were received into Caval- " Methodist church In upper New York city These accessions put this church at the head of American Meth odism in point of membership. For many years the Hanson Place church in Brooklyn has been at the head. Cal vary has now 2,45O members, or about one hundred more than the Brooklyn church.
 William S. Cook, the oldest initiated Odd Fellow in California, died recently, apparently in great poverty, and his lodge buried him. He was even in arrears for several months rent for a shabby room where he had lodged for thirty years. The public administra- tors search of safe deposit vaults how ever, revealed that Cook was miser