Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-24
PEnsoNAx NOTES.

Returned From she Bermudas-A Com.
 plimentary Banquet-A Physlclan's
 C0mmenss-A Coming New Cafe-A
 Pasvorss Vivid lllustration-A Yale
 Athletes Push and Enterprise in Far
 OM Seattle.
 Attorney J. P. Goodhart and his wife and child returned Saturday from the Bermudas. Mrs. Goodhart is feeling much improved in health. Charles Munson, formerly of this city but now purser on the steamer Cienfu- egos, plying between New York and the Bermudas, will be the guest of Mir. Goodhart for . few days. @~
 William N. Butrick's, for long time cor respondent and collector for F. 8. Bradley & Co.,, is to engage in the photograph business in this city, and some of his friends gave him complimentary banquet ct Prokasky's Saturday evening In testimony of friendship and good wishes. Among those present be- sides Mr. Butricks were John w. Townsend, w. s. Clarke, W. w. Buckingham, Lyron Clarke, N. Fl. Cox, George Fl. Roberts, Ar thur H. Jackson, William E. Beeoher, Minott E. Chatfeld and James R. Lyons.
 A. 0. Trager will, ,now that the Quinnipiae club has taken new quarters, commence soon tho alterations and changes he proposes to make in the building lately occupied by the club He has not decided yet upon the plan in general, having various details to decide upon, but proposes to establish a first class cafe with all the accompaniments to the same.
 Dr. Smith of Pearl street, speaking of diphtheria and the cases in this city, said in response to interrogations that physicians enjoy no special immunity from the disease; nor are they free from liability to contract it. There is no talisman that the physician can employ to prevent catching the disease. 1 Still, as Q rule, there is not as much danger to the physician in such cases, or to the oc- casional visitor to house where the disease exists as is commonly thought. The real l source of danger Is breathing the air direct from the throat of the diphtheria patient. He himself had thus caught the diseaae from | patient ten or eleven years ago, and was laid up for some time with the infection. Of course those who are much in the room with tho patient are liable to the oontagion. Rev. Dr. NcChesney in his morning ser- mon yesterday powerfully illustrated one leading thought of his discourse. He was speaking of weak. feeble and luke-warm Christians. He spoke of the sun and moon hearers by the astronomical facts of interest he gave concerning these l1minaries, and then compared the active, vigorous, live Christion to the sun and the weak Christian to the moon. The one gave forth light and heat; the other shone feebly and with bar rowed light. He applied the obvious lessor of the oscasion with his accustomed vi9or.
 One of Yale's former boating men, who was one of the winning varsity crews . few years ago, is making hit out in far of Seattle. Soon after graduating he deter
 mined to take Horace Greely's advice ant
 Ego west" He didn't mind matters nor stop at any half way place, but went way out to Seattle. Here he viewed the ground
 and took observations, noted how the tide O progress was moving and ivested some of hii shining gold and crisp greenbaoks to thu
 amount of thousands of dollars. He had nt
 packers except his own muscle, pluck ant sagacity. Friends in this city hear that for
 tune is favoring him and that from all in dications he has taken that tide in his in dividual affairs that leads on to fortune, a his investments, chiefly in real estate, are al "panning out" finely.
 Lucius Futile, the newly appointed gen eral manager of the Consolidated road, Ii son-in-law of Mir. George Fl. Martin, Nor wich, Conn.,, gentleman.
 The Putnam Patriot says: Mrs. Mary Am Smith of Norwich spent some ten week
 with her son, MT. D. Smith of this place Although ninety-two years old, she is full O life, eats her meals regularly with a relisl and sleeps the sleep of the just, getting vel recuperated to keep up her active ways O life. As she had to keep her hands busy she set to work on bedquilt and completed one with 1,080 pieces while with her sol
 here. She went on Tuesday to visit
 daughter in Providence. Pretty good for a, almost centenarian.