Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-03-23

| Now you see it and now you don't.
It used to be asked, What shall we do
| when the war breaks the country ups Now
| the question is, What shall we do when the
blizzard breaks the country up2~
General Sherman. when asked his opinion
of General Badeaus attack upon the Grant
| family, said he was sure of one thing, that
| Badeau did not write the Grant letter to
Badeau.
It is now thought that Mr.. Vanderbilt's
$4,000 astronomical director" may be
| admitted to this country as " teacher"
There is need enough of teachers of his
kind here.
It is declared that the literary people of
| Chicago are divided into three hostile camps
over the question how Goethe's name should
be pronounced One fractio< says it should
rhyme with tteeth"; another maintains that
it should rhyme with "dirty," while still
| another asserts that it should rhyme with
| EIGHTY"
There is a queer old fellow in Boston who
| has devoted years of time and fortune in
money to the collection of elaborate statistics
which go to show that the more dogs there
| are in community the more wicked the
people of the community are. Those who
don't like dogs will agree with the oonclu.
| sions of the old man.
The age of miracles is not past It is for
ever here. Professor Elisha Gray, of Ohica-
go, announces that he has perfected device
which he calls telautograph. AS the word
denotes, this invention enables man to re-
produce his own writing at great distance
| from the scene of his pen manipulations. It
has been held by scientists for some time
past that electricity had it in it's power to ef-
feet this result, and Professor Gray now
claims that his device will enable man to
send message much more conveniently and
clearly than by the telephone
There is one man in this country who, if
| he lives, is determined to have funeral SER
non to suit himself Mr. Pridgins, an old
preacher at High Shoals, Georgia, has de-
cided to preach his own funeral sermon, and
has set the day the second Sunday in April.
| He has o7dered his son to make him a coffin,
which he directs must be perfectly plain and
| locked with a paddock. The coffin will be
| placed by his side in the church, and there,
in the presence of his friends and family,
| who are requested to wear mourning. he will
tell of his life and pay suitable tribute to his
own memory.
Some enterprising young women are max
ing stir ia Chicago. At the hospitals in
that city there are ''internes," or young doe
tors, who stay inside and perfect their studies
by practice under older eyes on the patients.
There are also 'Eexternes," who may go out
side. At the County hospital twelve "in-
ternes" are allowed. During nine months
these students practice medicine hourly; dur
ing nine other months surgery. At the end
the ''internes" are given certificate of this
experience-a valuable one, as the hospital il
always full of patients. Four new "internes'
are about to enter the service at the hospital
and four alternates stand ready to serve
These places are won by competition, and one
woman has secured place in each phalanx-
inferno and alternate. One of the male ap
pointees has declined to serve, and there
promises soon to be three women on the stat
of internes. Against this result the nedica
corps is said to be striving with the board
of county commissioners.
The Supreme court of Colorado makes tn
interesting and important announcement tina