Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-06-26

EDr,ronxAL NOTES.

Chicago, asserts that her silence ia more ter
rible than her speech. It is to be hoped that
Lucy will be as terrible as she can be for the
remainder of her earthly life.
It is announced that Mrs. Langtry and
Frederick Gebhardt are to be married in
September. Inasmuch as the lady is still
the wife of one Mr.. Langtry, and will re-
naaih SO until. the California courts finish her
divorce aaroceedings, it would seem as If
there was'al zoe previousness about this an
nouncement.
The intense heat Is retardlng General
Sheridan's recovery to saeh an extent that
his physicians are considering the expediency
of removing him at once from Washington
to more favorable locality. TIE general
appears to have overcome his physical
troubles; but this new enemy, in his w9&k-
ened condition, threatens q new danger.
If the man who plants tree is public
benefactor, how much more do we became
his debtor when he beautifes his city house
with vines and Towering shrubsi It is one of
the privileges of the rich TO embellish their
surroundings, and it is one of the ehief pleas
ures of the public to enjoy the effects they
produce, under natures refreshing and inn
pulsive guidance.
The understanding is that certain precau-
tiens are required by law to be observed in
the sale of poisons. And yet If anyone de-
string to commit suicide has ever found diff
Guilty in obtaining ''Rough on Rats" the fact
has not been noted. Indeed, "Rough on
Rats has become almost the general means
adopted by people tired of this world, and
ready to risk the next, for carrying out their
purpose.
Captain G. H.Gregory was the only and
and white oak planking of the unfinished
frigate New York at the Navy Yard on May
81. Most people believed that he got great
| bargain for ten dollars. but he has had to de-
posit four hundred dollars as a guarantee
/ that he will have every timber taken away
| by October 1, and 1t will cost him at least
| two thousand dollars to do the work.
"No man ever made fortune as pbysi-
| clan. mean no one ever paid his expenses
and laid by at interest enough to live on
through the practice of medicine" This is
the Judgment of DR.. B. Joy Jeffries as given
in mis- recent annual address before the Mas
saohusetts Medical society. In making the
choice of profession the young men who
are just stepping out Of college viii do well
to make note of this, particularly if they
are seeking gold rather than glory.
at is an interesting fact" says Brad
streets, "that thus far in the current year the
amount of new railroad mileage built in the
United States has been only trife less than
in 1885,, when the total for the twelve months
was the largest ever reached. The Railway
Age of Chicago in its issue of last week
brings down the figures to the first of June,
| according to which 2,271 miles of track were
laid in the first Eve months of 1883, as
against 2, ,351 miles in the same five months
of 1887, being difference of only eighty
miles"
General w. G. Dsrling of the Ohio Histor-
| ical society has been asking the governors of
certain States why they have no motto. The
| Governor of New Hampshire doesn't know.
| and has no means of finding out. The Gov
ernor of North Caroline says that his State
illustrates her ideas by actions rather than
| words. The Governor of Texas says that
the Lone Star State has no formal motto, but
acts on the adags: "Be sure you're right;
! then go ahead" On the whole, the States
| without notices agree with the Governor of
North Carolina in their view of the matter.
A remarkable little weatherwise plant is
now said to be on exhibition at the jubilee
flower show just opened in Vienna. 40
cording to the account supplied by the pro-
prietor of this natural curiosity, 1t belongs to
the family of the sensitive plants, but is SO
extremely meteorometric that 1t not only
moves if touched, but will close its leaves
forty eight hours in advance of any change
| in the weather. It seems, moreover, to be
the most catholic of barometers, for it FORE
tells not only rain and wind storms, and s'set
| fair" but earthquakes and other subterra-
mean movements.
Woman suffragists, says the Hartford Post,
are very much disappointed at the absence of
| the plank they urged upon the Republican
| convention from its platform. They lay
claims to the accomplishment of nearly all
the reforms that have taken effect in the past
thirty years, and cannot appreciate the neg
lect of the convention. The truth is, we more
| than suspect, that woman suffrage was mere
ly incidental to the anti-slavery agitation and
| tolerated good humoredly rather than en-
| dorsed. As to the claim that Abby Kelly
Foster laid the foundations of the Republican
party, 1t is enough to make her husband,
Stephen S. Foster, turn in his grave. He al