Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-15
NEW HAVEN, CONN, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST Is, 1890

loose as an experiment at Victoria, and ON
the United States side of Puget Sound,
have increased enormously. Forest and
Stream expects them to overrun the coun-
try, working on this way, if they stand
the climate and the States will legally pro-
tect them.
The marshal of Mstislavl, Russia, in
imitation of the governor of Odessa, has
issued proclamation ordering that cap
ital punishment shall be publicly inflicted
upon all Jews who do not show proper
respect to Christians. If Jewish children
continue noisy in the streets the synagogue
trustees shall be fogged in the market
place.
The electric light is being turned to very
artistic use by a prominent wall paper
manufacturer of New York city. The
dark, clear-cut shadows caused by the play
of the electric light among the foliage of
trees have often been remarked, and the
gentleman in question has been for some
time making, by means of photography,
series of records of the beautiful effects,
which he intends to use in connection with
his business. The collection is valuable
| one, and some of the designs which have
already been made from it are of excep-
| tional merit.
They are having hard time out in
| Washington, Kansas, over meteor. 1t
fell on Miss Kelsey's farm, and hired
man named January, who saw it fall, dug
| it out. He thought meteors profitable
crop, bought it from Miss Kelsey's agent
| for $25, and sold it to the State university
for 5000. Miss Kelsey was away from
home when the thing was sold, and now
comes back and claims that her agent had
no right to dispose of it. She proposes if
necessary to bring suit for it on the
| ground that in Kansas meteors come prop
erly under the general head of farm pro-
| ducts
| In his recent address at the Berlin Med
ical congress DR.. Robert Koch, the emf
nent bacteriologist, aroused much interest
| by the announcement that the near future
might witness the development of a meth
cd for the prevention and cure of pulmon-
ary consumption. AS reported by the
Medical Record, DIR. Koch said that ''he
not only succeeded in comforting upon
guinea pigs, which are known to be pecu-
liarly susceptible to tuberculosis, perfect
immunity against the disease, but had also
discovered means of averting the growth
and multiplication of tubercle bacilh after
| fhnoculation." The promise implied in
these words is of startling Importance to
the world.
| Senator Hoar wants it understood that
he doesn't 'sroll in wealth." He writes to
Pennsylvania editor who charged him
with being rich that he never inherited
any wealth and never had any. He owns,
he says, the house he lives in and the four
acres of land it stands on, few vacant
lots and his library. All the income
producing property he has or ever had
yields him less than 81 800 a year. Al
Washington he and his wife have lived fol
twenty years in boarding houses, never
having felt rich enough to hire a house of
their own. 'sThe chief carnal luxury of
my life," adds the senator, apropos of q
remark of the Pennsylvania Journalist
about terrapin, !" is in breakfasting ever,
Sunday morning with an orthodox friend
lady who has rare gift for making fish
balls and coffee"
Usurers called ''Kulaks" abound in Rus.
sia, aud they ruin many of the Russian
peasants. Reports from Orel and Kharkov
show that agriculture in both these gov
ernments has dwindled down to mini
mum on account of these Kulaks. The best
and most active peasants, having been
robbed of their land, have emigrated either
as new settlers on the government lands in
the Caucasus or are seeking work as day
laborers elsewhere. Their fields, now in
the possession of their robbers, cannot
even be farmed out, for all the business en-.
terprise of the peasants remaining seems to
have been checked. With those peasants
the question is not how to enlarge their
activity, but how to hold their own against
the Kulaks. 1t was discovered, moreover,
that bankers of good standing helped the
Kulaks in their nefarious enterprise. Two
banks in Orel advanced money to Kulaks
at forty-eight per cent interest, which the
latter lent to the peasants at three or foul
times that rate. In the government OF
Kharkov S64 ,531 acres of land, more thar
half of the entire agricultural area, ar,
mortgaged to Kulaks. Thus it appears thai
the system of robbing the peasants wa'
promoted in the highest financial circle;
for many years.