The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-17
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 The new apple steamers" from Bos- ton to Hull (the English Hull) and Lon- don are to have capacity of 10000 bar rels apiece
 The Canadian revenue department has been examining commercial lemon extracts, and finds out of 11O samples seventy-eight contained less than 1 per cent. of lemon oil, the essential flavor ing extract.
 When the wireless telegraphy stations in the south of Ireland and at Cape Breton, Canada, are completed it will be possible to send wireless messages across the Atlantic, said MT. Marconi at Liverpool the other day.
 Tn a half decade (1S99-19O4) the year. ly output of our factory products in- creased 30 per cent, and the capital in- vested in the factories 41 per cent. At the close of 1904 the American capital so invested was $12,68s, ,2e5,673.
 Leghorn had foreign trade (exports and imports) last year of s27,2S4677, but Leghorn's imports from this country fell off nearly $53OoOO. Year before last Leghorn took about $SO0OOO worth more of American tobacco than last year. Whats the explanation of that?
 Comparatively few persons know that ringing bell ruins it. That is, a bell has definite length of life, and after --so many blows will break. 960-pound bell, struck blows of ITS foot pounds of force, broke after il, LOGO blows. A 4,0OO- pound bell broke after 1S,OOO blows of $50 foot pounds force.
 Mice are employed to give warnings of danger on submarine boats. Should there be the least leakage of naphtha the mice give warning by incessant squeaks, as they have a great dislike for the odor of that liquid. In the British navy an allowance is made for Feeding the mice on submarine boats.
 New York is the second great seaport of the world. In 1903 over 9,OOO,OO0 tons of imports and S7OOOOO tons of exports were cleared through New York harbor London Is the greatest seaport, exceed Ing New York in imports, though not in exports Antwerp and Hamburg are third and fourth, respectively.
 Cecil Rhodes was once considered q crank. When MT. Rhodes made his first appearance in the Cape Parlia- ment he could talk of nothing but his great idea of a transcontintental rail- way, and with the aid of a specially prepared map he sought to interest his fellow members in the colossal scheme Most of them thought him a bore and some openly called him a crank.
 Professor Goldwin Smith some time ago formally willed his brain to Cornell university. Some remarkable brains have been sold, not given. An English. man has disposed of his to an American university for $1O0OO. He is a man ot little education, and for many years worked as a coal miner He has a mar Kellous memory, especially for dates and is now earning good salary or the music hall stage.
 According to Paris newspaper ar Austrian chemist, Dr. Hans Kuzel. has perfected a new incandescent lamI which Is made of flaments composed ot cheap materials possessing great dur ability. It is claimed that this fila ment will stand use for $500 hours ot lighting at a stretch, and it is asserted that only one quarter of the current required by the ordinary electric lamr with an incandescent wire filament i: needed.
 New York will presently build a state prison on the Hudson south of Pough. keepsie, to take the place of the fam. cus Sing Sing prison The Sun says ''sing Sing prison is one of the oldest