Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-06-13

England, and when his kennelman wishes to
quiet the occupant Of certain apartment he
goes to the telephone in his own room and
reads the riot act to that particular dog, for
in every kennel is telephone device which
enables him to make his voice heard by the
troublesome canine.
The sales of Dresden china at the works in
Meissen last year amounted to $475, 900, the
greatest sum ever realized In angle year.
There ia Saxon tradition that the financial
condition of the Meissen works Is political
barometer. In 1870, for instance, the re-
ceipts were only about $4,000. In 1907 they
sank from 500, 600 to $45,0oo, to rise again
in 1916 to $4,000. At the approach of the
revolution of 1S4S.49 and of the Austro-
Prussian and the Franco. Prussian wars the
receipts fell off still more perceptibly.
By the agreement of the conference CONS
mittee on the pension bill it ID settled that
ne service pension bill will be passed at this
session. The house has accepted the confer
ence committees report, which drops that
provision upon which the house had insisted
for peneioning all surviving soldiers and
sailors of the late war as they attain the age
of sixty years, and retains the senate pro-
visien for pensiening all disabled veterans,
whether their disability was incurred in the
service OF not. It does not differ greatly
from the dependent pension bill vetoed by
President Cleveland. The estim ated addition
to the annual pension expenditure is about
forty million dollars.
II what is said about the eucalyptus tree is
true it has it's uses. 1t ia asserted that no
worm or insect is ever found upon the euca-
lyptus tree, or In the earth where the roots
penetrate. A row of trees planted through
an orchard or vineyard will cause insects,
worms, end caterpillars to vacate that re-
gion. Two branches of the eucalyptus used
in the rooms OF windows, or as decorations
in dwelling rooms, wifi cause mosquitoes,
and when the leaves are placed beneath
carpet around the border of the room when
the carpet is laid. Ia an insurance against the
moth, and branches placed beneath the bed
pillows a protection against fsas.
War is costly business. Edward Atkin-
son says in the Forum: It may be assumed
that at a minimum the cost Of suppressing
the rebellion was $4,000, 100000 1t was,
therefore, s1,1a5, 100000 year for seven
years. It has been held that the maximum
product of each person occupied for gain in
1880 could not have exceeded $500 worth;
labor and capital were at least one-third
more effective during and since 1880 than
during the period of war and RECONSTRUCT
tion. If, then, we value one mans labor
from 1861 to 1868 inclusive at $500 year,
the work Of war required the unremitting
labor of 2,270, 900 men for seven years, either
in two armies or in sustaining them. At $4O0
each, an estimate probably nearer to the
mark at that time, the measure would be
the constant work Of 1887, 500 men each
year for seven years. The average population
of that period was 35, ,0OO,Oo of whom not
over one in five could be considered an able
bodied man of arms-bsaring age. The cost
of liberty, therefore, consisted in actual
arduous work at the risk of life for seven
years of one man of arms-bearing age in
every three.