Show IN answer to three correspondents on the subject we will santo that had har bisou or morion died before alie electoral college met yesterday that body would have elected othora if harrison WAS to die now and the ath of march morton would first qualify as and in mediately become president if both were to die before tho ath of march the president pro tern of fihs ihs senate ingalla would become president until a new election should be held next november aud the successful candidate qualified if II imson and morton were to die after they had been inaugurated and selected a cabinet hie secretary of state would become dant for the full term with the succession to the secretary of the treasury and down through the cabinet TALK about the benefits of advertising 1 down in florida not long aso a family lost a child which they supposed had strayed away froin home and yot lost after searching in vain for oliree days the frantic parents put an advertis luent in the nearest newspaper imagine tho surprise of the parents upon going to the door next nio to see a monster alligator upon alie doorstep where he had disgorged dis gorged the child alive and then died himself the advertisement cost them but twenty five cents and it gave them back their darling child they sold the alligator hide for five dollars and the are showing the child in all tha dime museums of the land at fifty dollars per week does advertising pay A connecticut man has invented a device which hd calls a toot ometer bv which the whist lings of engines are recorded by it one may easily ascertain whether the engineer of a locomotive has sounded hia whistle properly at the different crossings and localities along his run where tho regulations require tha same every irregular whistle is also recorded as for cattle on the track etc the instrument is handed to the engineer beet for his trip and when trip is completed the record is read off at the office such a record ie often important in case of a suit in court for damages for not giving the usual warn in by the whistle etc ENGLAND needs no bulwarks bulwa no bovers along her steeps sang the poet tout for all that she is preparing to insure peace by making ready for war abo lias now a monster gun making at the woolwich arsenal it is a ton gun machinery to lilt it on cari rages will cost the projectile which it will ba able to send fifteen miles will weigh pounds and it will take about five minutes to load and fire A hostile heet would find a warm reception with a few such guns scattered along the beast hundred weight of wheat exported by the united states the past year tho price of wheat at home is regulated bv what the surplus will bring abroad so eliat it can be readily peen that alie farmer can have no protection on his wheat yet when he comes to buy what he wants lie pay just what the monopolists to charge him because they are able to secure protection through lie tariff AN affidavit produced in the united states senate sets forth that alia proa postmaster general pays seamstresses 1 centa a dozen for making cotton avirta and that by working fifteen hours a day a woman can make half a dozen how many dozen shirts does a campaign contribution depre LAST year there wera divorces granted in france the demand B wera largely made by the fivos and those who had been married from five to ten years were the most numerous in seeking release from matrimonial bonds there were two divorces granted of couples who bad celebrated their golden weddings AT the close of the war public debt waa 70 to each inhabitant this has been reduced to less than 13 one fifth of what it was twenty years ago and president cleveland retires in march with the sweet satisfaction of knowing that ha haa caused most of the reduction A at lancaster Lanc aeter pa was en atred by a thief who cleaned out tha family bardar and left a note reading thanks for the slim lunch aba missive was on a linen collar baat aed to a alick one end of which was inserted in a loaf of bread IT Is stated by tha medical eavies that the united states government haspard ha more boasy in the of the diseases of hogs than it has for all the diseases affecting the human race A statistician figures up that england has caused the death of people and has wrought worth of destruction it took a german to dish up such figures ADVICES from honolulu state that the volcano of khavta on ono of the sandwich islands and which has been dormant since march haa broken oat again mr bla ma ha is in washington to build him a house tha general impression waa that ho went there to do cabinetwork THE next congress will stand ben ate republicans 38 democrats sa house democrats la marriage marria gB A failure the young man cried it is eoma people have said ie marriage failure the girl sighed if eo then I 1 never shall wed then spoke the husband faithful and kind the father of three little elves As he kissed his wife thus marriage find Is jut whytt you ake ja marriage a failure he asked of a man in a furniture store not much ho replied every cradle is sold and ive ordered a car load more |