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Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31
AT THE MERCANTILE

President David H. Clark of the Mer- camille club said yesterday afternoon that the Mercantile club will keep open house from p. m. until Il p. m.; refreshments by Deibel. Special preparations will be made to provide for an unusually large at tendance of guests.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31
THE FAT WOMEN.

Manager Ufner with his seven fat women and the two headed girl, Millie Christine, is drawing large crowds every afternoon and evening to the hall formerly occupied by the free public library on Chapel street.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31
NEW HAVEN BICYCLE CLUB.

A reception and smoker" will be held at the club house on Olive street to-mor- row. Friends of the club from Hartford, Meriden and Bridgeport are expected and the occasion will be one of great interest to the members of the club and their friends.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31
VIM. NEELY X co.

NEW HAVEN, Wednesday, Dec s1, 1890 Weather To-Day- Fur, easte1rLy. aOznas.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31

The Rovers Bicycle club VIII Keep open house" on New Years day at their rooms on Elm street. Friday evening the club will hold reception and sssmoker,n at which literary and musical exercises will form an important feature. At the same time the presents from the Christmas tree will be distributed among the members
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-31
THE PosToFFIcF TOMORROW.

New Years day the postofice and branch ct Fair Haven will close at 12 o'clock noon, except the stamp window at main office, which will remain open until 1 o'clock p. m.
 Carriers will make but one trip, leaving the office at o'clock 8. m. after arrival of western mail.
 Corridor open all day as usual.
 Carriers window will not be open in the evening.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-07
VglstGFs Unabridged Dictionary
FOR ONLY 5000.

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Mass. have so long held, by the copy.
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sbe work, is broken at last by the ex-
niration of the copyright, and the work
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me sewing machine that sold at from
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/ his work has sold at $12, an outrageous
nrice considering the cost.
There are already several reprints of
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lone. we think, is the LOOMS & Co. 3
Chicago edition. 1t is the same size as
the Merriam edition, is printed on little
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subscriber of this paper for only So. 1t
/ well bound in sheep like the Merriam
edition, but contains no illustrations. 1t
makes book LIKE inches, is 5 inches
thick and contains 1881 pages, set in fine
type. We have only been able to get a
small number of copies at this shipment,
and first come will be first served.
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The dictionary, which will be promptly
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The Chinese Shoemaker.

There are shoemakers and shoemakers
in town, but about the most unique among
them all is the Chinese cobbler who
makes and mends the soles and uppers
for the business men of Chinatown.
Formerly most of the shoes worn by
the Cinnamon came from China, or at
least from San Francisco. Lately, how
ever, local industry has been established,
and despite the fact that many Cinnamon
are falling into the habit of wearing the
barbarous foot gear of the Caucasian, it
is f1ourishing.
To the average person the shoes worn
by the Chinese are very clumsy affairs.
John himself does not think so, and he
backs up his opinions in good hard cash.
He has to pay pretty well, too, for his
footgear. There are, of course, several
kinds of footgear, of varying qualities.
The shoemaker of Chinatown makes for
the humble employee in the laundry a
shoe with rather coarse cloth uppers.
The sole is made of heavy felt, carefully
sewed in layers until it becomes an inch
and more thick
This he covers with thick white sub
stance resembling paint, the merit of
which is to be found in the fact that it
repels water and makes the shoe look
quite spick and span for a time. For
this shoe he charges from So to 50. On
other shoes leather soles are placed.
Leather is more used here than in China
for the making of these shoes, for leather
is scarce in the Flowery Kingdom, and
felt instead is used.
The rich merchants of Chinatown and
the dudes. of whom there are not few,
go in for some very gaudy foot apparel
sometimes The uppers of some of these
shoes are very loud indeed. They are of
the finest sort of silk or of satin, and
embroidered in the best style known to
Chinese ingenuity. These shoes may
cost from $12 to SIS, and are seen every
day. In comparison to the prices charged
for shoes those asked by the Chinese
shoemakers for slippers are very low.
The latter are often novelties in their
way, being made of woven straw or
bamboo, with fiat soles and without
heels.
In front. between the woven straw or
bamboo, strips of different colorcd paper
are placed, giving rather a peculiar and
not disagreeable effect. The slippers are
very light and easy to the foot, and are
very cheap. 1t is but truth to say, how
ever, that the commonplace American
shoe is driving the Asiatic article to the
wall, and shoes made in Lynn are finding
favor with John almost as frequently as
those made on the banks of the Hoang
Ho. The more orthodox of the Chinese
still stick to their sabots, as they do to
their queue, but they are becoming a
minority. - New York Mail and Express.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-07

trees, rocks, landscapes were all blended
together in an undistinguishable mass.
1t seemed an age, but it was in fact but
q very few moments, until my speed began
to decrease The momentum was speeding
me out onto the g mesa Qndian for val
ley). / saw my cabin close by, but
having no pole, l could not stop, so dis
engaged my feet from my snowshoes and
rolled into a drift, let the shoes go on.
| found them next day nearly mile
from there.
If | should live thousand years /
would never forget that wild night ride
nor the indescribable feeling of excite
ment, fear, and pleasure as l plunged
madly down the narrow path from old
Storm Mountain.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-08-07
Remarkable Tree.

Growing near the baths of Alliaz, in
the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, almost
within a stones throw of the most popu-
lar hotel, 4,500 feet above the level Of
the sea- stands the most remarkable tree
in the world. The trunk of the tree is
10 metres, or little over 80 feet, at the
base. At about two yards above the
ground it puts out on the south side
seven offshoots. Bent and gnarled at the
bottom, these side-trunks soon straighen
themselves up and rise perpendicular and
parallel to the main stem. This feature
is not, perhaps, wholly unparalleled, but
another most curious fact is that the two
largest of the side-trunks are connected
with the principal stem by sub-quad-
rangular braces resembling girders.
These beams have probably been formed
by anastomosing of branches, which,
although common enough among anglo
sperms, has never been reported before in
a confer (thc remarkable tree in question
being fir). The places where the side
girders enter the main trunk is so
smoothly barked over as to make it i'm
possible to ascertain the manner in which
nature formed the remarkable union. The
adaptation by which limb, originally
destined to grow free and bear foliage,
has been converted into living stick of
timber is a strange one, affording a new
illustration Of the power of nature to fit
itself to any and all circumstances. ~ New
York Telegram.
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Copper Jewelry of the Aborigines.

Copper jewelry was made and liked by
the Indians of this country. DIR. Charles
C. Abbott, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, spoke Of this in an address not
long ago. He referred to the fact that
the earliest European visitors mentioned
the use of copper by the natives. The
Indian women Of the Southern Atlantic
coast. Captain John Smith said, had cop
per pendants, and the Mangoaks beauti-
fed "their houses with great plates
thereof" The Virginia Indians value
copper and have a custom of throwing
pieces into the river when passing their
burying ground. A common ornament
of the person was "a broad piece of cop
per. Similar references occur in the
records of the early settlers of New Eng
land. In the St. Lawrence Valley, Cham
plain met an Indian who "drew from his
bag piece Of copper the length of foot,
which he gave me; the same was very
handsome and very pure, giving me to
understand that he had quantity of it
where he had taken this, which was on
the border Of a river near a great lake. p"
The early records invariably refer to its
uses for ornament, but the copper objects
found in graves and village sites along
the Northern Atlantic coast are all, ex-
cept few beads, useful objects, such as
spear heads, arrow points, or cells The
Keystone.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1890.
TWELVE PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign-An official statement was made in the
House of Commons that the acts of the French
in Newfoundland were justified - An attempt
was made TO blow up with dynamite the famous
monastery La Grande Chartreuse. - The Dill
for tunnel under the English Channel was de-
feated in the House of Commons. - The Duke
and Duchess of Connaught left Montreal for the
Cascapeda fishing grounds. - Dissenslons eX-
isl in the British Cabinet over the claims Of the
Pubicans and Irish Land Purchase bills.
Congress branches in session. 60 The
Senate: Messrs. Sherman and Hiscock spoke IN
support of the Jones Silver bill. - The House
The modified Republican Caucus bill was dis
cussed the Pacific Railroads Committee reported
4 funding bill. - In Committee The Senate
Finance Committee made some progress on the
Tariff bill - Republican House 0ucus was
held on the Lodge and Roweu Federal Election
bills
Domestio.-The negro conference was con-
tinued at Lake Mohonk. - Fifteen deaths
were reported as the result of the storm at Brad
shaw, Neb. - Chauncey NJ. Dcpew spoke on
the Worlds Fair in the Chicago Auditorium.
- Governor Hill signed, among other meas
ures the Jones Gas bill. which contained clause
preventing consumers in Brooklyn from securing
cheap gas - The American Home Missionary
Society closed it's sessions at Saratoga - The
cadets .practised with the seacOast battery az
West Point - Speaker Reed renominated
for Congress in the Ist District of Maine.
City and Suburban. The temperature reached
g2 degrees in the street and So at the Signal
Service station; many prostrations from the heat
n severe wind storm late at night cooled the
atmosphere flying sign seriously injured a civil
engineer - The meeting Of the Masonic Grand
Lodge closed. - Colonel A. ID. Baird appointed
Postmaster Of Brooklyn. - The appropriation
Tor the Board of Excise was cut down more than
81, 900. - The nurserymen's convention elected
officers. - The Scotch cutter Minerva WAS
victor in the 4O-foot class, in the spring races
OF the Seawauhaka Corlnthian Yacht Club. =-
Winners at Morris Park: Dr. lIasbrouck, TaraGon,
Ambulance Cleaning. Torchlight and Daisy
Woodruff - Stocks quiet, but materially
higher on improved prospects of silver imitation
The closing was strong at nearly the highest
points.
The Weather.-Forecast for to-day Partly
,loudy, with rain Slight thermal changes Ten
perature Yesterday Highest, 90 degrees; lowest,
so; average, 20 l-2.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

These sensational disclosures, while prac-
ticallv disposing of the whole matter as
Mexican invention, have served the useful
purpose of warning Americans against lntrlgueS
for extension of territory IN the southwest
That is not the direction in which an enlarge
ment of American jurisdiction is desirable
Even if it were possible TO purchase Lower
California or the Northern States OF Mexico
the National welfare would not be promoted
bv the annexation of Spanish American states
either there or in the West Indies The Ma
tionaI domain is large enough to satisfy the
patriotic aspirations Of the most eiiusive
American lingo. If it is ever to be EXTENDED
the northern rather than the southern frontier
is the one to be changed. To the north lies a
nonulation that would readily be asSImllated,
and IFS interests are bound up with those OF
tbe American Union. When the Canadian
Provinces of their own accord and without
solicitation or compulson apply for ahnexa-
tion with the privilege of complete legislative
autonomy il will he time for Americans to con-
slider the expcdiency of enlarging their DOMAIN.
In the southwest additional territory is not
wanted on any terms
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

calling and increases their sense OF reSpohSi
biltv. A commonplace illness in when re-
coverv is a foregone conclusion does hou III
.orost them. 1t is only the surgical operations
and the critical cases of typhoid fever ana
,,roumonia that fully command their sym
n,thies. In such instances the sick-room has
ror them its Measurable excitement. There is
struggle for life in which they have 10 beaI
an important part If death DC cohquereu
,bev have a share in the physicians triumph.
Nurses naturally refer with feeling "i pro-
fessonal pride to their most serious encounters
with disease They readily form the habit OF
regarding their patients, not as suffering
human beings but in the abstract as medical
cases with complications and peculiarlties
more or less interesting from the professional
point of view. So it comes to pass that after
a few years of general practice ambitious
nurses are specialists, commanding advanced
rates of compensation for their services IN TAX
inc care of the insane or Of patients suffering
from malignant diseases.
There is perhaps only one department OF
nurses work to which inadequate attention is
paid at the training schools. This is pracucaI
instruction in cooking and the preparation OF
the patients diet. ordinarily the tr'iiieu
nurse knows how to do everything for the SICK
except to tempt the languid appetite with deli-
cate and wholesome cooking. In wealthy
houses this knowledge is not requisite, but
often the "good plain cook" in the kitchen
needs to be reinforced by dcxterity and refine
ment of skill on the part of the nurse. 1t may
not always be possible for nurses to acquire
this art in the training schools, but courses OF
instruction are always open to them III the
cooking schools A trained nurse ought to be
4 good cook and to take professional pride IN
boinp one.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
4 FILIBUSTFRTSG CANARD.

Revised reports Of the flibustering con
epracy in Lower California tend to discrcdit
the whole affair as Mexican canard. 1t is
now intimated that the president Of the Mex
lean Land and Colonization Company made
use Of several American agents with view 10
misleading the authorities of both countries
temporarily and Of finally invoking the inter
vention Of the British Government and sccur-
ing the annexation of the peninsula To Eng
land, The conspiracy, i'll word, was to be
nominally American but in reality dellb-
crate attempt 10 establish an English pro-
tectorate over the peninsula. This version
casts suspicion upon the affair as sensational
hoax, brought into use for political ends in
Mexico. Ii is simply incredible that group
of CalfOrnans were drawn into plot for the
establishment of an English protectorate. The
English manager of the Land and Colonization
Company would clearly have been insane if
he had imagined that the British Crown would
lend any support to flibustering scheme for
extending dominion in that quarter. The an
nexation of Lower California As English terri
tory would inevitably be followed by war, not
only between Great Britain and Mexico, but
between Great Britain and the United States
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
TRAINED NURSES.

A characteristic feature of the annual com
mcnccment season Is the graduation oi hun
drcdS Of nurses from the training schools and
hospitals. There is hardly "A well equipped
hospital in any large American city where tho
training Of nurses is not Systematically con
Quoted. The graduates readily find employ
mcnt at rcmuncrative rates OF compensation,
and their services are every year in greater
demand, notwithstanding the increased mum
her of trained nurses. The main cauSe of
their success in replacing the old fashioned
garrrlous nurses is the habit which they ac-
qlire in the training SCI hOO Of following in
structions without questioning and OF holding
their tongues in the sick room. The old-timc
nurse was the family physicians sharpeSt and
most unreasonable critic, substituting crotchctS
of her own for the prescribed treatment, I'M
pairing the confidence of the household in the
medical advice, and eXhauSting the patient
with garrulOuS conversation. The educated
nurse has been under rigid discipline, and it
has enforced habits of subordination and self
restraint She has also learned the art of nurs-
ing in hospitals where it is taught with con-
summate skill The old fashioned nurse, who
has worked out system for herself, and like
Mrs. Camp is over fond of talking about it,
has already ceased 10 be her competitor, at
least in American cities.
There is perhaps an increasing tendency on
the part of trained nurses 10 contract pro-
fessional ain and to interest themselves chiefly
in critical cases. The consciousness that the
issues of life and death depend in very serious
illness upon scientific nursing rather than upon
medical opinion exalts the dignity OF their
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
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BrOApwAY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the Ar
BROTHERHOOD PARK-4-BasebalL
CaeINO-s-The Brazilian.
EDE% ACSEE-Wax TableauA
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-s-Martha
UAMMERsTEIN'S OPERA HOC SE-s-The BLACK hus'Sr
LENOX I.YCEUM-S:l5- Concert
LYCEUM THEArRE-s:l5-Ths Private secretary
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-s3e-Beauh hrun"'A
NEW POLO GROUEDs-s- Baseball.
STANDARD THEATRE-sl5-Noney MAu'
STAR THEATRE-s-The Shatchen
TERRACHGARDEN-s Venetian Nights
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New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

The Harvard students body show praise
worthy spirit in dcnouncng the conduct OF those
of their number who committed the acts OF van
,Lalism on Saturday night That their resolutions
were not mere matter OF form is clear from the
fnct that they started a subscription to repair
the damage done to the statue Of the founder OF
the college and TO the Memorial Chapel IL Is
also 10 he noted that they resolved to make ar
ransencnts for the regulation OF celebrations IN
the future Regulation OF celebrations seems
10 bc sadly needed in Cambridge.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
ALUMINIUM COINAGE.
From The Norwich Bulletin.

FROM Tic NOrWltN bUItIiU
Tho springfield Union suggests that the % nuv.
erumcnt call in the scent niokels aud SUBSTITUTE
oluminum Aluminium costs dbout the same rs
nickel IL is cleaner and lighter. as well ~ pretuer
and lis use i'm thl, way would also serve as sort
M ntro1uctiOn of the metal 10 the people, VINO wou!i
inns become accustomed 10 II. and be gwen chance
~ learn its qualities and characteristics The su5'
ceston is a good one.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
PERFECT ENCYCLOPAEDIA IN ITS WAY.

Prom TTlc VVUTT
The Tribune Almanac Is complete epitome OF AZ
no,ble events that have transpred. IL gives all the
mor' nj tforms and the election returns. IN state ana
ccen,r raj results in the past Taken altogether, IT'S
an cncyclopacda of useful knowledge for the student
~ American political and social history Considering
Tho nrice asked for it rs ccnsl, It's astonishing now
nuch nseful information can be obtained for such
M
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

A bill is at present under discussion in the
French Chamber Of Deputies which will have. if
il passes. an important bearing on the future
,eIa,ions between masters and workmen. Its OBJ
,.ct is 10 prevent employers from combining to
nloco their men under the ban for belonging 70
a labor association. The essential clause, which
has already been adopted 10y a large majority.
,mnoses penalty of three months imprisonment.
in addition 70 fine on any master or overseer
who either threatens to dismiss or refuses to en-
ploy a man because he belongs 70 a labor union.
II associations of this kind do not flourish undet
such conditions MS these the French workingmen
will have only themselves 70 blame.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

Persons going ont Of torn for the summer can
hare the Daily and Sunday Tribune mailed to
them for 81 per month, or $3.50 for three
months. TroreIlers IN Europe can receicc Ihe
Tribune during their absence for $l.GJ per-
month, foreign postage paid, or Sl.4o Jor hFce
months The address of the paper can be
changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
STILL. EIIl-SlIED.

From The Boston Herald.
y B.-The proposed reduction OF liarvards coursc
refers not 10 the course Iowed IN the Varsity race,
but the course Of study. IL seems necessary 20 S,
thi much in order To convince the popular mind tlst
there is something besides athletics IN our 0o'ee's
rlnNN
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

The Massachusetts Legislators seem To have found
the new temperance laws irksome in their personal
application. Mr.. Edrcdgc, of Chcopee, has in
troduced a bill providing that anybody found
drunk in public place and not making q disturb
ancc shall bc escorted home or otherwise taken
care of until he has recovered from intoNication
II, however, he should repeat the indScretion
within a year. hc is TO be sentenced 10 imprson-
mcnt for not less than ninety days more than
two years The Boston newspapers are sugee,t ting
that an annual drunk day be- set apart for pub
lie Observance If the local Democratic workers "
are consulted, strong consensus of opinion will
probably be found in favor Of election day.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
DEFIANCE FROM THE wHIsKEY STATE.

From The Louisville COurier-JournaL
Bat Congress will never take 10 drinking M Wates.
whatever Mr. Reed may do in behalf Of the tempeEaA9s
cause.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06
NOT UTTERLY soRDID.
From The Boston Journal.


The Tribune's Fresh Air Fund eloquent reiua-
ton OF this charge (that the press Is aosorpeu -
material aNairs We trust that IL may long conInoe
ts work OF unselfsh and effective philanthropy smosS
the poor and distressed Of the metropolis,
New-York tribune., 1890-06-06

Our Washington news this morning is de-
voted almost exclusively to silver, which was
under discussion III both branches OF COngr, s..
In the senate two notable speeches were made
by Mr. IIiscock and Mr. sherman. Both sen
ators favored the Finance Committees meas
ure and set forth their views with lucidily
and force. The prospects OF effective legisla-
ton on the subject of silver are now believed
10 be brighter than at any time heretofore
since the pending agitation Of the question be-
gan.