Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-03

The good citizens of New Haven, and the bad ones too, were busy yesterday in ex- plaining the election to themselves and each other It isn't often that election in New Haven furnishes so much that is really worth talking about.
 Chairman Daley of the Republican town committee was warmly congratulated on the result of his labors Tuesday. He deserves all the praise he has received, for he did a great deal of skillful and effective work. He is a good political manager.
 The cost of cremation in Italy is very small the entire expense at the handsome marble crematory at Milan being $19. In this crematory the flames come in direct con- tact with the body and the reduction takes only two hours. The walls of the crematory bear fine medallion of Albert Kellar, who gave the structure to the city, and many small tablets, some of them with the names of persons whose ashes repose in the niches behind, and some, marked stassegnato," the names of persons still living who wish to be cremated and have selected their crypts. According to the latest official statement published by the authorities of Russia, there are in that country not less than fourteen thousand square miles of oil-producing land, but of this vast territory the field at Baku is the only one worked, and even this covers only the limited space of some three and one half square miles. The output is enormous, and ths fact is stated by one who witnessed the opening of we'll in that locality that column of oil spurted to height of 100 feet, carrying great stones with it, the flow con- ] tinuing until large lake of petroleum was l formed. The product is refined on the spot, ! the residue being used as fuel for steamers ! and railways.
 ! A correspondent of a western paper asserts | that there is no surer way of predicting change in the weather than by observing the ! habits of the snail. They do not drink, but 1 imbibe moisture during rain and exude it I afterward The animal is never seen abroad ] except before rain. The tree snail, as it is ! called two days before rain will climb up \ the stems of plants, and, if the rain is going | to be hard and long one, will get on ths | sheltered side of leaf, but if short rain on l the outside Then there are other species l that before rain are yellow, after blue. In ] other snails deep indeRtatiens, beginning at l the head between the horns and ending with l the juncture of the tail, appear few days | before & storm
 | The reports that displaced postmasters at
 many country offices were boycotting their | successors to cause reduction of their sala- ries were at first hardly believed, but num- 1 Der of we'll authenticated cases have been cited where many members of the communi- l ty engaged in this contemptible trick at l great inconvenience to themselves to 'vin- dicate'' the busted official. At a village call
 ed Spruce Creek, in Pennsylvania, woman
 succeeded the Republican postmaster, and he has induced number of his partisans to have their mail matter collected by private carrier and deposited in the postal cars or carried to a neighboring postofhce, so that 1 the salary of the postmistress, which is based
 on the number of stamps cancelled, shall be reduced.
 The amount of power wasted by shaftiag being out of line, of insufficient size and inn
 perfectly coupled, says the Industrial Ameri-
 can, can hardly be estimated. Great as is l this loss, that from badly laced, crooked, stiff
 and generally outrageous belting is but little 1 less. In some establishments belt facing 1 of sufficient size for the main belt of the
 tablishment is considered plenty good enough | to lace three-inch belt with and is used ac-
 cordingly. A punch large enough to make
 holes for the biggest lacing is, of course,
 necessary, and it has the advantage of an
 swering for all sizes of belt. The apparent
 advantage of having but one size in a large
 establishment is captivating. The result in
 belt efficiency, however, is something which
 would astonish the counting hoase if it could
 understand the figures.
 A decided departure from the practice
 hitherto followed in the construction of cleo 1 tric engines for working tramways has been
 introduced in an electrical locomotive which
 has been built for the North Metropolitan
 Tramway company, London. Instead of the electric motor being fixture and having