The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-27

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 A New Jersey minister advises the women of his congregation to join the gynnastic classes established by him. | and thus to acquire "a good figure, a graceful figure and an elastic step"
 Iron has long been considered the in- dicator of business, and therefore it is cheering to read that ninety-five per cent. of the blast furnace capacity of the great United States Steel Corpora ton Is in operation, and it is expected that the output of pig iron for October will be very large
 The Peruvian government is planning the utilization of the electric power possibilities provided by Lake Tlticaca. This lake contains over 0OOO0 900 hectoliters of water, with potential energy of 21,OOOOOO horse power It would cost 4O,OOO,OOO Peruvian dollars to erect the plant, but the profits would be incalculable especially from the working of rich mines heretofore galueless because of the lack of power.
 YTtY. I.9,kI, to {., i, tr st 5n creasing. There were fewer births this year than last in every district but two, including one where the population is growing at the rate of 5000 annually. One district, notwithstanding the in crease of population, snows a decrease of 400 births when compared with those two years ago. There is the same de- crease in the birth rate throughout the whole of France, and the statistics for the last few years would indicate that the Trace suicide" will still go on.
 There are some smart business men in Germany. Consul Harris (Chem- nitz) hears that there are now in Brazil 15O large business establishments own- ed and managed by Germans, that they have about $125,ooo,OOO of capital be- hind them, and that they handle fully one-third of the coffee export trade Apart from this" he writes, 'it is es- timated that $10,0OO,O0O of German money has recenly been invested in Brazil in weaving and spinning mills tobacco factories, and brick yards"
 record time for converting grain into bread has been established by a Canadian farmer. Wheat which was in the sheaf at o'clock in the afternoon was made into scenes before o'clock When operations began a wagon stood in the barn with about half load of grain in the sheaf. Beside it was a thraIsher connected with this was a gasoline engine. The engine was start ed the sheaves were fed into the tfrasher and the grain was deposited in a bin. The power was then transfer red to the cleaner and the work of changing the newly thrashed wheat into flour was quickly carried through.
 A St. Louis man who accompanied ex-Mayor Francis on his medal-dis- trlbuting tour in Europe, in describing their interviews with European mon- archs, says The only sovereign who asked us to sit down in his presence was Leopold, of Belgium He is a lordly old fellow more than six feet tall He said we Americans must not believe all we read in the newspapers about his cruelty to the blacks in the Congo country As I am a southerner l sympathized with Leopold's troubles and trbulations with niggers King Leopold highly complimented Us as a nation; and l guess he meant 1t, too, for he has great many friends in America. He said he had just received a letter from Thomas F. Walsh, of Washington, who has interested him in some very profitable undertakings. The king asked us why more Americans go- ing abroad do not land at Antwerp, for he said the Belgians are always glad to welcome your countrymen. mo- ticed that Leopold has immensely long finger nails. When he shook hands with us he offered us only two fingers. l don't know whether this is a royal custom or whether he was afraid of breaking his nails
 Flatter-It takes a great deal of money to move the crops.