Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-05-10

vania, Ohio and Illinois rank after New York
There we're made in this country last year
3, III, 800, 952 cigars, about forty for every
pound of tobacco used. About Sc, ,OO0, 900
were imported, thus making q total of about
$3.50, 900, 900, or 60 for every man, woman
and child in the United States, and $50 for
every man over twenty-ons years of age.
The late DR.. Gross, who ordered his body
cremated, had long been an advocate of crema
ton He once said: ''If people could see
the human body after the process of decom-
position sets in, which is rs soon as the vital
spark ceases to exist, they would not want to
be buried; they would be in favor of crema-
tlon Burying the human body, think, is
horrible thing. Why, if people knew what
physicians know, what they have learned in
the d1ssecting room, they would look upon
burning the human body as beautiful art in
comparison. with burying it.
At recent meeting of the California Acad-
emy of Sciences DR.. 81. W. Harknsss exhibi-
ted two specimens of truf1e found In Cali
fornia, one white and the other brown.
The light brown ones were dug mp by DIR.
Harkins under the native oak trees at depth
of from one to three inches beneath the soil
at Mount Tamalpais and Taylor's Mills, Ma
rion County; also just outside the Universi-
ty grounds at Berkeley, and in still greater
quantities in the mountainous district adjoin-
ing Santa Cruz. Externally they are smooth,
ight-brown in color and at this season have
matured to about the size of walnut. They
are q true truffie, and edible. The white va
riety is only found below the California lau-
rel or bay trees (umbrelluraria Californica).
These are irregular in form, outwsrdly
smooth, and about the same size.
The great strike at Fall River, Massachu-
sets, is said to be virtually over, and it has
not paid the strikers, for those of them who
60 to work now will have to accept the man
ufacturers' terms. The strike has cost the
operatives, in the loss of wages, over $500
600, and much suffering has come to many
who were dependent on their earnings. It
has been serious blow to the general busi-
ness interests of Fall River, and the only
good result obtained is a curtailment of the
production for the nRrket-anout 275, 900
pieces of print oloth-during the time of the
strike. There will probably be no more pay
ments made from the union treasury and it |
is probable that those who are able to obtain |
Jobs will return to work on Monday. Several
Of the mills have taken advantage of the |
strike to put in ring spinning for making |
warp, which will shut of seme of the strik- |
ers from work, as their work was entirely on |
mules, which had previously produced the
warp.
DR.. Norman Kerr's recent book, ''The
yet the author begins by refer
ring to some of the popular errors of tseto-
;allers, and advises them to lay aside some of
heir habituAl arguments. These errors are
hat the brain is hardened by alcohol, that
she red blood corpuEcles are changed by it,
hat in all circumstances all doses of Ii are
poisonous, that all drinks containing even
'he smallest proportions of alcohol are evil,
md that alcohol does not exist in nature. DR.
Kerr does not regard ginger beer as an intoxi-
,ant, in spite of its being fermentsd liquor
md ''beer, but he does consider any drink
containing more than 1.5 per cent. of alcohol
equal to per cent. of proof spirit-in-
ioxicating. Cider, perry, pale ale, beer and
,larets are intoxicating driAks. In giving |
he testimony of physiology the Doctor re-
'utes the current opinion that Intoxicating |
isod. His computation that 40, 600 persons
lie annually in the United Kingdom from the
direct, and nearly double that number from |
The indirect, effects of intempsrance is be- |
ieved to be correct.