Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-29
Personal.

FeT8On3As
 Mir. Sperry, of Sperry & Barnes, is back from his European trip.
 MT. A. E. Hull, a merchant of Southing. ton, has gone on western trip, expecting to stop some time in Dakota.
 Mrs. Silas Catlin and her two daughters of Bethlehem, Conn.,, are the guests of Prof Leete while on visit to the City of Films.
 It was not Robert Miller, clerk at Belle dock, who was arrested for gambling Sunday name.
 MT. c. W. Haynes, 8 Hartford business man for years, now retires from business and goes to- Colorado for the benefit of his health which is impaired. <S
 Professor Edward Leopold, the fancy bicy cle rider of this city, leaves next Monday with the New York Star combination for an engagement of thirty-three weeks. Louis Veil, son of the well known Chapel street restaurateur, and Miss Rosenthal, step-daughter of Maier Zunder, were formal ly engaged to be married Sunday evening. Miles J. Peck of this city, for many years steward of the Continental, will shortly go West and enter into business. MT. L. H. Berkely will probably succeed MT. Peck as steward of that boat.
 John Luddington, father of President Lud- I dington of the Good Samaritana, returned home from Great Harrington, Mass, yester- | day, where he has been visiting his parents | for the past week.
 Mir. J. Gardner Clark yesterday bought a one-sixteenth interest in the schooner John M. Brown. The interest purchased had be- l 1ongsd to the insolvent estate of MT. Dexter Alden and was bought for Mrs Dexter Alden. The price paid for the equity was $164.62.
 Mr. Herbert c. Warren, of McAlister &
 Warren, has returned from his business trip
 to Dakota on account of the death of his
 partner, Mr. McAlister, and publishes card elsewhere that Mr. McAlister's death will
 cause no change for the present in the busi- ness of the firm.
 l Detective Brewers great pumpkin was on
 exhibition yesterday at Downs City Hall
 dining rooms and attracted much atteqsaiion,
 but sturdy Hamden farmer boldly assert
 cd, after taking squint at it, that it was a squask of the California Champion variety. I However, the farmer admitted that it was ''no chicken"
 The late Buckland w. Bull, of Hartford, was gentleman or scnolarlY taSJee. lie was fitted for college, but did not enter, and took l 8 special course of lectures under Professor Silliman at New Haven, and afterwards went to Germany where he was the frgt American admitted to the laboratory of Pro- ! lessor Liebig at Giessn. He became an ex- I cellent chemist. Many of his analyses were I published in German scientific papers and l some were printed in this country. Professor F. B. Dexter of Yale in his val- uable paper on Crown Names in Connecti-
 cut" says that of one hundred names given l by public authority before the Declaration of Independence, at 1esst ifty-seven were taken direct from British sources, seventeen came 1 from peculiarities of location, eight from the Bible and only three from names of promi- nent early settlers and founders. He calls attention to the fact that, while Massachu- setts has towns like Hull, Reading and Man chester, named to commemorate the victories of the Parliament in England, Connecticut has none such. This omission was studied, he thinks, and indicated a different attitude of the State toward England from that of Massachusetts,.
 Tornzel the trIla remedy for Nasal Cafarrh