Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-09-01

biggest firm of ice dealers at Hallowell, Me-,
and bargained for their largest house, 10,-
900 tons, at 1.5O per ton, closed the trade,
returned home and has sold the same to a
Brooklyn ice company for $3.50 per ton.
Things sometimes get mixed in this
world. A Kentuckian in Buffalo has dis
covered there the firm of Irish & English.
What is considered especially remarkable
about this firm is that Mr.. English is an
Irishman and Mr. Irish is an Englishman.
The gentleman from Kentucky has SO far
been unable to obtain the views of Mr..
Irish and Mr.. English as to what should
be done for Ireland.
A pocket telephone has been introduced
based is that electric belts are found every
where and there is no reason why they
should not be used for teephoring as well.
The pocket telephone is to b onnected to
the bell wires of hotels and hospitals as
well as private houses, and it is claimed
that people will be able to speak to distant
places by simply taking their telephone out
of their pockets as they would their watch.
A French doctor has been giving some
advice to persons who are unable to give
up the pernicious habit of taking a book
to bed with them and reading themselves
to sleep. In the first place, he says, they
should every evening bathe their eyes
with salt water-not salt enough to be
painful, however. The reading should moi
be done in reclining position, but sitting
up, as reading on ones back is hurtful te
the sight almost as much as a feeble light
which should be carefully avoided.
Woman continues to make herself mani
fest. Kingston, N. Y, has a remarkable
woman among its inhabitants. She ii
| Mrs. Deborah Powers, one hundred
years old, the head of several business
concerns and the possessor of aboutS3, 900,
600. Since 1928 she has managed an oil
cloth manufactory started by her husband
In addition she is the senior partner in th'
banking firm of d. Powers & Sons, a
Lansingburg. She has founded and en-
dowed an old ladies' home. All her facul
| ties remain unimpaired except her sight
which is slightly affected. She passed
her one-hundredth birthday last week.
The new Bermuda cable may prove use
full in ways other than were commonl.
expected, as, for instance, in the announce
ment of storm movements in the vicinit,
of the Bermuda coast. A few days since
dispatch by the way of the new line men
toned the passage of an Atlantic tempes
apparently to the northeast of the islands
the barometer at St. David's falling on tina
day as low as 90. 12 inches, and even lowe
the next morning. Three days later Lon
don dispatches announced the arrival of ;
storm, probably the one observed at Ber
muda, on the west Irish coast, the baron
eter there falling to the low point previ
| ously attaineda st. David's.
No wonder money is inclined to be tight
there was an unbroken excess of export
of merchandise. In the four months be
tween March and August there has been al
unbroken excess of imports, rising from
over Ss,O00,000 in April to over s23, 900,
600 in July. Thus for the entire year end
ing with July there was an excess of eS
ports of nearly $50, 100000, whereas in tn
last four months there is an excess of i'm
ports of nearly s66, 100000. Not onl
comparatively, but absolutely there ha
been a striking increase in our imports
The total imports of merchandise hav
exceeded 0,00O, 900 in each of the las
four months, rising in July to S17 500, ,O0t
What this means is best indicated by con
parison with the fact that July, 1889,
the only other month for five years &
least in which the imports reached $40
OO0. 600.