Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-05-06

good thing for ''drug stores"
| The Register wants more light on the school
| question. So do others. Let us have no
more unnecessary and suspicious secrecy in
the proceedings of the Board of Educa-
| ton.
The wild West produces some astounding
stories, but nothing more amazing has lately
come from that region than the story that
an expert tested 523 gas meters in Chicago
and found five which did not register too
| fast. +-------==----- ----e-----r.s
Competition in business has taken queer
| turn at Poughkeepsie, New York. The lead
| ing booksellers there have been selling the
leading magazines for less and less, until
now the Century is sold for five cents a
copy.
: Guy Min, a Chinanan in San Francisco,
| has something to say concerning what he
calls the Inconsistency of Americans in send
ing money and missionaries to China to pre-
pare people for heaven and then refuse to let
these same people live in the United States.
But Guy Min is nothing but Chinaman
| and can't be expected to see things as they
are.
Colored men have done well in Philadel-
phia. Robert Puevis is worth S150,000.
| William Still has cleared 5000, 900 selling
| coal. Isaac G. Wears, once poor barber,
has money to the amount of $50 ,000. John
Mckee is real estate dealer worth $500, 900.
| The widow of Henry Jones has 100000,
xUh har hnS c1a
| Thomas Boiling, -four merchant, is rich.
So is William g. Harvey, and several more
colored men in the Quaker city are well to
do.
A German engineer is reported to have
made an important discovery in aeronautics,
by which he is enabled to condense or ex-
pand the gas in balloon. The agent he
employs is compressed carbonic acid, with
the help of which, he says, he is able to as
cend or descend at pleasure. This vertical
movement would put it in the power of an
aeronaut to go mp OF down until he finds a
current of air moving in the horizontal di-
rection he wishes. Should all this prove
true, says Iron, the discovery would be an
important one for military operations, be-
to reach the enemy's territory and ascend or
descend without requiring fresh supply of
gas.
AT the County Antrim assizes a prisoner
charged with a criminal offence was seized
with a severe epileptic fit. The judge said:
''It is considered as established by law that a
jury sworn and charged with prisoner, even
in capital case, may be discharged by the
judge at the trial without giving verdict, if
necessity for such discharge is made evil
dent to his mind" The prisoner was accord
ingly allowed to go to his home, the judge
simply asking that someone enter into recog-
nizances to see that the man twill, in theory,
enter into bail for trial" The Medical
Times, while recognizing the justice of this
decision, marks it as forming an awkward
precedent, for no disease is SO easily and fire.
quently feigned as epilepsy: aud in none is
there more difficulty in detecting or demon
strating fraud.
Prison Superintendent Baker has given
the New York Assembly some interesting
facts concerning what it will cost to keep
convicts at work, now that the contract labor
system has been abolished. There are still
375 idle convicts in the Auburn prison
awaiting the means to set them at work 1t
will require an appropriation of 5000, 1000 for
the current fiscal year. Already 5000, 900
has been appropriated to carry on the cloth
ing industry at Clinton and boot and shoe
making at Auburn on State account, and
there is an unexpended balance of over $8O,-
900 to be used up in the same way This
will make more than $760,000 required to
keep the convicts at work until September
80. No provision has yet been made for the
employment during the fiscal year following
that date For this Mr.. Bakers estimate
made some time ago was more than $1,1O0,-
OOO
The current number of Rradstreet's has an
interesting article on ten years results of va
rious investments. One of the conclusions
reached is that the stocks of thirteen LEADING
railroads have been and are, notwithstanding
certain sharp fluctuations, a very good in
vestment The railroads named are the
Pennsylvania, New York Central, Lake
Shore, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy, Rock Island Chicago
and Alton, Illinois Central, ST. Paul (pre-
ferred stocks), Chicago and Northwestern
(preferred), Central Pacific, and the Union
Pacific, The average ANNUAL diyidend of