Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-10-18


twelve pages with advertisements of real
estate to be sold at auction for the non-
payment of taxes. What has become of the
boomi
A test Of metal railroad ties will soon be
made in Chicago. 1t is predicted that
metal ties will be used before long on all
railroads in the country. Beyond their
technical value, these ties suggest the possi-
bility that our American forests may be
saved from total destruction.
The superintendent of the census makes
the interesting announcement that he is go
ing to try to obtain complete and accurate
statistics of all the religious bodies, big and
little, in the country. The points he means
to cover are the number of organizations or
societies, the number Of church edi6ces and
their seating capacity, the value of church
property and the number Of commandments.
The strike of the Scottish school boys
which began in Hawick has spread to Glas-
VOW, Govan, Greenock, Port Glasgow, and
other places in the west of Scotland, and
also into Ayrshire and about Aberdeen. The
boys have formed rsgul ar labor.like parades,
with banners and cries for "shorter hours"
The strike has also spread into England. The
other day 100 malcontents pa raded the streets
of Barnet, demanding abolition of the cane,
less hours in school, less parsing, and no homo
lessons"
A curious case has come up in the courts
OF Vienna. It is that of a young lady who has
brought suit for q pension because she has
been dismissed from the ballet of the Vienna
opera for the reason, as it is alleged, that she
is growing old and has lost her personal
charms. A correspondent explains this ex-
traordinary action by the statement that on
no stage in the world has the corps de ballet
attained such pre-eminence for youth and
beauty as the court opera In Vienna, where
little freedom of demeanor and an ocea-
sional stumble are winked at, but where a
ballet dancer above all must be young and
attractive.
The commission appointed at the recent
session of the New Hampshire legislature to
examine and ascertain the feasibility of the
purchase by the State Of the whole or any
portion of the timber lands upon the hills
and mountains of the State, near summer
| resorts or bordering upon the principal
sources OF the water supplies needed fo1
manufacturing purposes, with view to pre-
serving the same as public lands and parks,
and report their finding to the next session
of the legislature, have arranged for the
hearings on tho subject next month. Con
neeticut might well follow the example o.
New Hampshire in this matter.
The order from the treasury abolishing tht
stamps on opium boxes, issued last year, hal
been productive of much harm in San Fran.
cisco. The stock Of smuggled opium haI
vastly increased, large stocks having beer
brought in from Mexico, from British Colum
bia and other places to which 1t had bee,
smuggled while the st amp restriction wa
still in force in California. Fully million
dollars worth Of the drug has been sold Ii
San Francisco within the last eight months
and the smugglers have out the price dow
below what the legitimately imported artl
Gle can be proftably sold for. The cellecto
of the port declares that stamp SO wei
made that 1t cannot be connterfeited shoul
be put on again at once.
The Forth bridge is a very impressive al