The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-14

Republican keep one of Its eagle eyes on the staying powers of the legisla- ture of Connecticut.
 Formosa is exporting to the United States six times the amount of its pur- ehases of American goods. The United States takes more than half of the For mosan products not sent to Japan. largely oolong teas, of which $1,O00,O00 worth year comes to us as tea from China.
 Special Agent Crist of the Bureau of Manufactures says that South Africa offers good field for the sale of Amer ican mining machinery. Catalogues are useless. Statesmen are necessary. The district buys about S95,OOO,OOO worth of electrical and mechanical mining ma chinery and other equipment yearly,
 There are still some scotchmen who regard the union of their country with England as a mistake. A notable ex- ample is the Earl of Stair, who re- gently refused to attend a dinner cele- brating the bicentenary of the union. In public speech some time previous ly his Lordship deprecated the teaching in Scottish schools of the earlier his- tory of England
 On one point the Turkish censor of the drama is inflexible-there shall be no murder committed on the stage. This is in order to prevent corruption by evil example. Consequently the dramatic effect of many plays is some what marred by the manner in which principals destined to be murdered are rushed off the stage, and, after receiv- ing the fatal thrust out of sight of the audience, stagger back from the wings to sing their death songs.
 Emil Reich writes to the New York Times: I do not believe in peace con- gresses. I believe, after thirty-five years of study of the past and observa- tion of the present, that conflict made us, conflict keeps us going, and without conflict the great question of nations can never be solved. Shakespeares are made by the destruction of armadas, and not by universities, lecture rooms and public libraries. The father of Sophocles was Salamis. General dis armament means general stagnation and degeneration.
 l Italy has produced new cereal for bread-making purposes that is attract ing a good deal of popular attention. A public test was made the other day at Mesbrino of baking bread from flour of the new grain, which is named Olco Cairo, and has been developed by a priest of the name of Candeo. The bread was pronounced to be palatable, light, and, mixed with one-third of wheaton flour, is declared to make a sustaining food at very low price. Be- sides this, the inventor" says that it's general use would do away with the pellagra in Italy.
 The most terrible epltaph in the world is believed to be the one on the stone which was set up a few years ago in the cemetery of Debrescin, East ern Hungary: Here rest in the Lord Joseph Moritz, ST., who died in his sixty-second year. He was shot by his son. Frau Joseph Moritz, ST, who died in her forty-seventh year. She was shot by her daughter. Elizabeth Nor ltz. who died by her own hand in her seventeenth year, after shooting her mother Joseph Moritz who died in prison, aged twenty-seven. He had shot his father. May eternal mercy have pity on their poor sinful souls. l" This grim memorial was erected by a local literary association. It is said that the last of the ill-fated family left $7.50O for the purpose.