Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-16
TELEGRAPHIO JOTTINas.
Grandma Garfield is growing weaker

Grandma Garfield is growing weaker and
 it is thought she can live but a few days.
 V. B. Horton, ex-member of Congress,
 died at Pomeroy, O., Saturday, aged eighty i've He was the father-in-law of General John Pope.
 George Walker, late United States consul
 general at Paris, died of pneumonia at his
 residence in Washington yesterday afternoon,
 aged sixty-three.
 Captain Uberweg of the steamer Switzer-
 land, which arrived yesterday at New York,
 reports the Nantucket lightship as adrift
 from her moorings.
 While hunting at Rambouillete Saturday
 General Bruger was severely wounded in the
 hip by the accidental discharge of keepers
 gun. President Carnot was one of the hunt
 ing party.
 Joseph Borx, one of the crew of the tug
 Confidence, was drowned in the upper har-
 bor at Boston yesterday morning. He was
 about twenty-three years of age, single and
 residence unknown.
 At the state Hospital For the Insane. At the Midd1etown Insane hospital there are thirteen hundred lunatics, representing race, color and previous condition of mental selidity.
 Although at present the number of females is about one hundred greater than the num-
 Der of males, yet it is a noticeable fact that since the opening of the institution in 1869 the masculine quota of patients has outnum- bered that of the other sex by over three hundred According to the arithmetic of the official statistician at the hospital the insanity of 4.48 per cent. of the total number of inmates b as been caused by love sickness Over one- third of the women who have been admitted have been house. wives, while farming is the occupation that claims the largest number of insane men. One matrimonial fact connected with the Nutmeg lunatics is suggestive, and that is that the hospital contains a considerably larger number of single than married males, while the reverse is true in case of the wo- men.
 To satisfy the gastronomie demands of the | inmates an enormous supply of food is re- ! quired. For instance, on Christmas day five | hundred pounds of poultry and six barrels of l flour were converted into chicken pie to be ! greedily devoured. Three hundred pounds of sugar and two hundred pounds of butter are frequently consumed ln day. When | eggs the breakfast bill of fare three l thousand of them will hardly satiate the ! aggregate appetite of the intellectual unfortu l mates. A large percentage of the vegetables ! and dairy produce consumed by the patients | is furnished fresh from the large farm con- ! nected with the institution. The hospital contains patient who hasn't spoken word for twelve years except one morning when he oiled up his vocal appa 1 ratus enough to make the piscatorial obserya- tion to an attendant, "I guess I'll throw my bait over the other side of the boat" There are several inmates whose will power has all most entirely vanished. You can stand them up in a corner with their faces to the wall and they will remain for hours without nov ! ing muscle. They are fed by having in- \ serted into their stomachs long rubber tubes,
 through which gruel is poured. Occasionally | a patient is found who will go for years with out manifesting the slightest desire for food, but all at once his truant appetite will return
 and he will eat enough to square up back ac- l nnnntS