Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-27

wheel through portion of France when
up came storm of lain. The storm
struck him Just as he started to coast
down nicely graded hill some five miles
long. He proceeded on his journey and all
the way down that hill it rained on his
hind wheel, while the front wheel ran
along in the dry.
This is expected to be an eventful week
for the sugar trusts. From the very be-
ginning of the organization the stockhold-
ers have been kept in almost complete ig-
norance of the condition and value of their
property, and as .one important conse-
auence the certificates have alternately
risen and fallen in market price on the
slightest rumors and to an extent that
makes them far from desirable as per-
manent investment. 1t is believed that the
real condition of the trust will now be
made known, but it is not safe to bet on it.
In a Chicago jewelers. window there was
recently placed large sheet of white
paper on which were several hundred dia-
monds varying in size from the most
minute stones to those the size of o pea.
Above them was card announcing that
his choice of the lot would be presented to
the man making the nearest estimate of
the number of diamonds on the paper. 1t
looked SO easy that hundreds stopped
every day to count the stones, though very
few guesses were registered. The catch
II. E. ! @lo rr1it on
| brilliantly that by the time the counter
had half completed his task the whole col
lection became amass of glittering colors,
thus making it an utter impossibility to
| to complete the count.
The burial of the telephone wires of
Berlin, begun last year, is just completed.
The system, already perhaps the most ex-
tended in the world, is thus provided with
| the s1neans of unhindered Development.
| The tubes employed have an internal avail
able diameter of from twenty to forty GEN.
timetres, SO that the larger ones will hold
ninety cables, each of which is made up of
twenty-eight wires. The tubesrun between
all the central stations and also from every
station to suitable points for distribution
overhead The system is thus capable of
indefinite extension, but now embraces
thirty four kilometres of tubing, of which
about ten are double, with parallel tubes;
| 522 man-holes allow access to the tubes at
convenient intervals for repairs or for the
addition of such new wires as may be from
! time to time required
| Heinrich Heine's sister, Frau Charlotte
Embden, who has just celebrated her
ninetieth birthday, has put to rest finally
the perennial reports that hereto unpub-
lished writings of the poet would be laid
before the literary world shortly. my
brother deposited with my mother" Frau
Embden said, ga package of his manu-.
scripts which were lost in the great Ham
burg fire, although risked my life. to save
them. My daughter, the Princess dells
Recca, has described in her book at length
these lost manuscripts. Also the continu
alton of the Rabbi of Bachrach, wal
buried and the loss was never made good
by my brother. 1t is mistake of misin'
formed biographers to say that single
page of Henry's unpublished manuscript
is in our hands of any ones else" Fra,
Embden expressed great delight in tn
fact that since the expiration of the copy
right on Heine's works nine different edi
tions, with total of 100, 900 volumes, hat
| appeared.