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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04

brilliant light, the soldiers of the opposing
army were struck blind with the glare, and
the emperor way victorious.

brilliant light, the soldiers Of the opposing
army were struck blind with the glare, and
the emperor way victorious.
The dependent pension bill passed by the
senate ia = well constructed measure. All
necessary safeguards have been imposed.
The applicant must have seen three months
service, been honorably discharged, be sub
isct to mental or physical debility, not the
result of his vices, sufficient to incapacitate
him from earning living, and be destitute
of property which would support him. In
case of these conditions he Is to receive
twelve dollars per month from the date of
filing his application while the disability
exists and no longer. Dependent parents,
widows or children receive the pension at the
death of the veteran, without regard to the
cause of his death, minor children receive
four dollars per month instead Of two dollars,
and helpless minors receive aid through life.
Chicago has seven medical colleges and is
said to turn out more doctors in year than
any city in the world. Says the Herald Of
that city: It Is now as easy to enter most of
our medical colleges as to secure the position
of conductor on a street car. Many of their
students have had so little training in
schools that they do not know how to study
or to profit much by the Lectures they listen
to. The feeling Is general that the standard
of medical education should be elevated.
Students should have knowledge of natu-
raj philosophy, botany. inorganic chemistry
1E H.
commence to study medicine. If they are
ignorant Of these branches they are not pre-
pared to study medicine as science, though
they may learn it as an art.
The crown princess of Denmark brought
to the queen of Sweden during her recent
visit to Copenhagen, a present after that
good old lady's own heart. Il is text
album, containing the queens favorite verses
from the Old and New Testament scriptures,
illuminated In fifteenth century style by the
princess own hand. Each page has differ
ent design on it, and so careful and elaborate
is the execution that it has taken her royal
highness years to accomplish the work. The
binding is of embossed leather, with tho
arms of Sweden surrounded by q pattern
specially chosen by the princess, and the
book is mounted in silver. The queen, who
has been in poor health and spirits all the
winter, was exceedingly delighted with this
beautiful-and, to her taste, specially con-
genial-souvenir; and. indeed, its artistic
merits are of very high order, apart from
it's value as the expression of kind and
amiable feeling.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04
Pictured on Marble.

Colonel A. G. Hswley, formerly adjutant
general of Minnesota, has in his possession,
says the Denver Rocky Mountain News, very
curious piece of stone. 1t is aslab of Mexican
marble about two feet long and a foot wide,
bearing upon Its face beautiful mountain
landscape which had in some strange way
been pictured there by natives. The picture
is mountain river, which winds along at the
foot of some high and rocky cliffs. Above
the cliffs are precipitous mountains, clothed
half way to the top with pine trees and stunt
ed shrubs. Ia one place there are little rapids
In the river and in another place its surface
becomes still and smooth as q mirror. The
outlines of the mountains and cliffs, and even
of the verdure upon the rocks, Ia distinctly
ehadowed In the still water The simmer of
the sun on the surface of the river and the
white spray of the lapids are plainly brought
out A big pine tree stands on top of the
cliff, and ia SO perfect in detail that its roots,
clinping in the clefts of rock, can be seen.
When the sun shines on the marble and
brings out the coloIs the picture looks as If
an artist had painted it upon the stone, but
in the Raslight or electric light the coiors dis
appear.
The curiosity was given to Colonel Hswley
| by Mayor Knappen, who owns the quarry in
New Mexico where it was found. Major KNAPP
pen is authority for the statement that the
picture in the marble ia an exact reproduce
| tion of the scenery on the side of the valley
opposite where the quarry ia located. The
mountain peaks in the background of the
| landscape are the sentinels of the Guadaloupe
| range and the river which mirrors the beauty
of the scenery In the Rio Penasis. One of the
marble men working in the quarry climbed
| half way up the mountain side one day to
prospect for onyx and noticed the rough slab
Of marble, which was lying with the surface
exposed. He examined ii closely to discover
| It's quality and saw the picture on itspmottled
surface. It was roughly polished and the
picture became more distinct. Major KNAPP
pen brought the slab to Chicago and took 1t
to marble hnisher. who ground of one-eight
Of an inch of its surface and polished it as
smooth as possible. This last polishing
brought ont the details of the picture.
Colonel Hawley explains the existence of
the picture In the stone, bat his explanation
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04

il almost O. much of curiosity as the stone
itself. He says the river and cliffs and noun
tains must have been photographed on the
marble when It was in q plastic condition by
the action of the suns rays. Apparently,
however, the picture is result of singu-
lar arrangement of the notifies In the marble
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04
A mad Painters Brush.

Correspondence of the Philapelphia Times.l
Among the many places of interest in
Brussels, the quaint old capital of Belgium,
not the least in Importance is an ancient
mansion in the suburbs of the city on the
Rue Vautier, near the Station da Luxem-
bourg. Here lived and died man who, but
for his eccsntricities, would have been one
of the foremost artists of the century.
Born in 1906, dying in 1855, the career of
Wiertz is full of instructive lessons to the
thougntful student. No artist of his day
was more highly gifted or. indeed, were
there many of equal merit. He possessed
that rare faoulty-of which Michael Angelo
is perhaps the greatest illustration-of being
able to portray muscular power in repose and
yet 30 realistically that you almost expect to
see it moving itself upon the canvas. Ange-
los statue of Moses, where the herculean
muscles of the great law-giver seem instinct
with life and power, is perhaps the best type
of this gift in art.
Wiertz, however, was unfortunate in pos
sessing an unbalanced mind, and all his life
was spent on the border-land of insanity.
That weird, uncanny, unwholesome strain
that we see illustrated in Edgar Allan Poe
and of which there is JUS. suspicion in
Hawthorne-colored all his life and confined
his genius to narrow limits. Of suspicious
snd jealous temperament, an early failure to
have MS pictures accorded prominent place
in the Paris salons caused rupture with the
artistic world of his day and made him mis-
anthropical and morose. From that day he
would neither have anything to do with it,
nor would he sell or exhibit his paintings.
He changed his mansion into great studio,
and there for forty years toiled with his
brush, producing the strange works which at
once illustrate his genius and his insanity.
After his death the mansion was purchased
by the city and to-day Is one of it's sights
under the name of "Musee Wiertz."
1t is we'll worth q visit as melancholy
monument of wasted genius. A very long
and lofty room on the ground foor-once the
| drawing room of the mansion-contains his
paintings. As you enter you at once face a
huge canvas some twenty feet high by
| ten broad, illustrating "Polythemus devour-
ing the comrades of Ulysses" and entitled
"One of the Great of Earth" This repre-
sents Ulysses and his companions surprised
by the Cyclops as they were eating by a
: small camp FIRE. They are fleeing In every
direction. The giant has sprung upon thsm.
Bending over, he has seized one poor wretch
| and ia crushing him between his teeth, his
enormous foot is pressing down upon a SEQ
ond, while his right hand is stretched ont
after third All these faces, a. we'll aa hia
own, are turned towards the spectators. Ii
those faces the artist has depicted the awful
and horrible emotions of their soul. The
giants face is lust, passion and beastiality
incarnated; while the terror, agony and de.
spair Of the others beggar description. And
yet the genius Of the artist triumph over ths
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04
DIFFERENT.

When you play with some people, poker
altogether ceases to be game of chance
Somerville Journal.
The difference between a liar and hypo-
critic is that the liar Is not always incurable.
Washington Star.
Occasionally you will find repentance with
q bowed head, but with q nose that is still
turned up.-Atchison Globe.
Botanically the onion belongs to the lily
family. The lily family, though, has long.
ceased to have anything to do with it,
Life.
Policeman-"Hey therel What are you
pounding that pavement for.' Trsmp-"Me
family's a-starvin' and Ohm rappin' for assis-
tance."-American Grocer.
McCormick-t'I want two poached eggs on
toast" Waiter-'sYes, sir" "And be sure
and have them fresh laid" eyes, sir; I'll
have 'em laid on the toast, sir."-Yonkers
Statesman.
Graves-"I see they propose to tax BACH
year" Merriman-"Well, as they are not
married men they can afford to pay it,
Lowell Citizen.
A shower of worms fell on the capitol
grounds at Washington the other day. Gem
eral Greely of the weather bureau must have
been laboring under the delusion that the
president was preparing to 60 fishing In
stead of duck hunting Norristown Herald.
Emma-"Were you at the thester the
other night to see the new trsgedy3 You
ought to see how beautifully the heroine
falls when she faints!" Linda-"No, but I
must 90. had NO idea I could learn any
thing there, or should have been there be-
| fore. ."-Fliegende Blatter.
Little Viola-"Mamma, won't 90 tum up
an sit wild me till dit asleep!" Mamma
| "Mamms's busy darling, and can't come now.
Run back to bee, my pet; the angels are with
you" Viola-sDat's wat 90 said before,
mamma, but de angels didn't show up an rs
Lonesome. The Bostonian.
A woman is naturally suspicious of every
body when going on journey. She is i'm
pressed with the belief that everyone is try
ing to mislead and deceive her; and as for
her baggage, bless you! She is like the ele-
phant, who is never happy unless his trunk
IL right before his eyes.-Boston Transcript
Fweddie-"Miss Clara, what does your pa
think about my paying you 30 much atten-
tion." Miss Clsra-"I guess he thinks you
are doing the best you can." Fweddie-
"What makes you think that, Miss ClaraF'
Miss Clara-"Why, he said that WAS all you
| were capable of paying. g."-Kearney Enter
prise.
"You are an authority on feats of strength,
believe" remarked q stranger to the sport
ing editor.
The latter bowed and replied;
"What can ! do for youW
"I wish you would toll me which Ia the
| stronger, the female shoplifter or the woman
who holds up trains'-Aunsey's Weekly.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04
RKFoRm IN RHODE ISLAND

REFORM IN RHODE ISLAND.
The new ballot reform law has been tested
in Rhode Island and found to work we'll.
There was need there of such q law. The
day before the election the Providence Jour
nal published canvass by wards of the pur-
ohasable voters, showing that they ranged
from 100 in some wards to 900 in others,
making total for the city of 8, 100, or about
one-sixth of the entire vote of the city. This
sixth, the Journal said, can be bought for
prices ranging from 50 to $40 vote, for
orally under the lead of liquor dealers
and other keepers of low resorts. "With
money enough in energetic hands and
known places" said the journal. "under
the direction of both parties, $500
voters can be Influenced to stand steadily at
With the aid of $15, 600 or $40, 900, almost
any man. not violently obnoxious, can be
elected to particular position in this city.
Tho purchasable elements holds tho balance
of power, and whichever way it goes the tide
is Irresistible. This has been demonstrated
time and again at elections just before the
war and since."
This before the election. The day after 1t
the Journal said: There never has been 90
orderly and every way respectable an election
in Rhode Island. and the largeness of
the vote without any great interest
to call out the people indicates
the appreciation of the benefits of the i'm
proved system. The vote brokers were con-
spicuous by their absence from the polls OF
their impotence, and whatever ''deals" had
been made in private, there was no public
demonstration of corruption such as had
been too often Witnessed. 1t is fair to pre-
sumo that the election was one of the most
honest and a. we'll as the most orderly and
respectable ever held in Rhode Island, and
tho citizens can congratulate themselves that
the result has been q fair expression of pub
lie opinion.
Good enough. A law that will make such
q change as this is worth having.
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Br13 6nnl

A0Ve X StetS0l
KID GLOVES
FOR EASTER.
Of course you will need a pair
of Kid Gloves for Easter. Our
importations are all in and we
can simply say that the styles,
colors and qualities excel any
assortment ever shown in this
city. We can fit you in a and
S button Gloves; 8, IL, IS, 20
and "a button Mousquetaires, in
Suede and Glace finish. Also the
popular Biarritz Gloves in Suede
and Glaze; prices are 48c, CSC,
7oc, $I.oo, las, 1888, 1.5o,
$I.75, 200, 2.25, 2.88, $50 pair.
Novelties in Handkerchiefs
just received, at sc, sc, 12Hc,
I7c and 25c each Many of the
styles are confined to us and can
not be found in other stores:
Cloak Department.
This department is crowded
with the latest styles of Ladies',
Misses and Children's garments.
Our Special Bargains are:
Ladies Cloth Capes at $I.48
and $I.e8.
Ladies Jersey Jackets at $2.e8,
$3.5 1893 and 500.
Ladies Cloth Jackets, revere
fronts, at 5000 and $50.
Ladies Connemaras, 5000 to
$3.50, in plain colors, Plaids
and Stripes.
Ladies Wraps at $500, 1000
and $12.5o.
Ladies' Black Silk Capes,
handsomely trimmed with deep
silk fringe, at $3.50, $50 1000.
Misses and Children's Come
maras, Peasants Gretchens,
Refers and Jackets, from $1.5o
to $Io each.
Lace Department.
Another lot just received of
those Black Russian Drapery
Nets at 25c per yard.
All Silk Drapery Nets, in
handsome designs. at 75c, ST.,
$1.25 and $50 per yard.
Novelties in Jewelry and
Dress Trimmings. Perfumeries
and Soaps, in great assortment,
at the lowest prices.
NoTIcE.-As our store will be
closed all day Friday, April 4th,
we shall hold our Bargain Sale
Thursday, April sd. You will
find something way under price
in every department. Open
Thursday evening until 9 o'clock
HOWE & STETSON,
Insurance Building,
886-888 Chapel Street.
New Haven. Conn.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04

A few such days as yesterday will do
much to reconcile those who cannot go to
FLORIDA or the Bermudas,
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The Coming Mining Center OF tha
New SOUTH

The Coming Mining Center OF the
New South.
The stories of KanEas City, Omaha and
other western prodigies are as nothing COM
pared with those that tell of the history Of
the growth os Chattanooga, Tenn, Birmlng-
ham, Annison, Fort Payne, Ala, and Dsni-
son, Texas.
With the two last cities Mr.. W. P. Rice
has had much to do with their wonderful
development, and now supported by a syn
dictate of New England capitalists and five
million dollars, this gentleman has become
interested in the future of Cardiff, in Tenn.
Located in the very heart of the mineral
wealth of the south on the Cincinnati South
ern railroad and the beautiful Tennessee river,
where agriculture is wonderfully successful,
Cardiff has advantages that cannot be gain
sayed.
Here is the Cardiff Coal and Iron compa-
ny's fifty thousand acre property, of which
three Thousand acres of town sise land are
to be sold Tuesday. April 90, on which to
build the new city. Streets, broad and
beautiful, have been laid out and graded.
The great sale of this town site and manu-
featuring plant, ETC., will open up the largest
mining, numbering and agricultural district
of the south. The iron and coal operation
are not experimental, as the Rosne Iron
company have been actively engaged here for
we'll as the manufactured product has been
shipped to Cincinnati and Pittsburg, finding
an always ready market in successful COM
against Pennsylvania.
The title of this property il absolutely in
dsfeasible, having been examined and passed
upon by the best legal talent in the country.
Professor G.. w. West, the great mineral ex-
pert of Birmingham, pronounces the iron
and coal some Of the richest veins in the
south. The Typographical survey was under
the direction of Chief Engineer Otto Some,
simultaneously with scientific survey by
the eminent geologist, A. G. Gill. These
gentlemen unhesitatingly pronounced the
Cardiff property the colorado of the south.
The company has been most rigid in its
instructions to it's agents to exercise the most
scrupulous fairness in their transactions. and
has exhibited such abundant pecuniary re-
source as to attract the good will and conf
dence of every body concerned, thus escaping
a class of dangers which have too often
wrecked southern undertakings.
| Southern, as actively as northern and
western people, are interested in the enter.
prise, and there are no more cordial well
wishers to it than the old Inhabitants of the
! region.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04
EDITORIAL MOTIFS.

A few such days as yesterday will do
much to reconcile those who cannot go to
Florida or the Bermudas.
The woman reporter who is trying to get
admission to the press gallery OF tho House
of Commons mas got so far along as state
msnt by the speaker that there is no law to
prevent her being admitted there. It was
coupled, however, with the remark that as
there was also no law to admit her there 1t
might be just as we'll to let things stand as
they are for the present.
Woman. may fear mouse, but she can do
what she wants to. A Pittsburg dentist
tells about patient whose courage he dis
trusted, and after several vain attempts to
extract double tooth he gave it up, telling
her he was afraid of fracturing her jaw. She
turned a flashing eye on him and asked for
the forceps, grasped the ugly molar herself
and had i. out with one tug.
DR.. Luderitz has recently made number
of observations on the destructive power of
coffee upon the various microbes. He found
that the organisms of all died in longer or
shorter period. In one series of experiments
anthrax bsoilh were destroyed In three hours,
anthrax spores in for weeks, cholera bacilli
in four hours, and the streptococcus of cry
sipelas In one day. Good and bad coffee
produced precisely similar effects. He be-
Ieves that the antiseptic effect of coffee does
not depend on its caffeine, but on the en-
pyreumatic oils developed by roasting.
A new decoration is announced by the en-
peror of Japan In celebration of Emperor
Jimmu's coronation $50 years ago, the dis.
tinguishing feature of which is the kinshi,
or golden fshhswk or kite device. The
legend Is to the effect that during Empero,
Jimmu's conquest of eastern Japan, when
his fortunes were at low sbb and he had
sustained several successive defeats, the sky
one day became suddenly darkened, hail fel
and tobi of golden hue settled on the en-
psror's crossbow. Thef bird threw off
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CUT FROM
SOAP
BRIDGEPoRT, Conn.
Probate Court, District of New Haven, IS.

Probate Court, District Of New Haven, IS.
New Haven. April Cd, 1890. T
TsTATE of EDWARD w. BAGON, late OF
Ia Oakland, Cal, owning property in said dis
trict deceased.
Upon the application of Henry B. Sargent. pray
ing that an instrument in writing purporting to be
an eYempli6ed copy of the last will and testament
Of said deceased may be approved, allowed and
admitted to probate, as per application on file more
ORDEREDIThat said application be heard and
determined at Probate court to be held at New
Haven, in said district, on the 10th day OF April,
A. d. 1890, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and
that notice be given OF the pendency Of said appl-
cation and the time and place of hearing thereon
by publishing the same three times in some news
paper having circulation in said district.
epa A, HEAT0N ROBERTSON, Judge.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-23
The state COMMITTEES,

The annual and duly expected midsummer
rumor in the field Of municipal politics has
made its appearance. and it Is to the effect
that the Democratic State Committee will,
at its meeting in August, expcl from mem
borship upon it the representatives of ono
faction of the local Democratic party. No
particular reason IS given for such an act,
but n variety of reasons exist why the State
Committee will pursue no such course and
they are worth roCltng.
In the first place, the Democratic State
Committee has nothing to do with any local
differences which may exist among the DEM
ocrats OF New York city Such powers as it
possesses are delegated by the State Con-
vention, which creates it. And as State Con-
vcntioEs are not called TO make, and are not
empowered to mako, municipal nominations,
or to Interfere with them in any way after
having been made, the State Committee.
the agent and instrument Of the State
Convention, has no such power either. All
that it has to do with is the State ticket
and tho State Legislature.
In the second place, even apart from the
questions ofjurisdiction, or party advantage,
the State Committee has no power to expel
any one. thereby DISTINGUISHING u district.
State Committeeman are chosen by the votes
Of the delegates in a Democratic Convention
from each of the Congress districts in the
State. They are irremovable. Each COM
mittceman represents one district, his own.
As that district could not choose a member
for another district neither can its member
vote to displace Il member already chosen.
No one understanding the functions or
power of a State Committeeman or tho
method OF his election would claim that 1t
had. But, flHally. ard in tho third
place, still stronger reason than
any Of those named exists why tho
midsummer political rumOr Of 1890 is an alb
surdty This ia a year Of Democratic union
not OF iGctonal strife. Tho keynote
sounded by Governor HILL in Indianapolis
OF a united front against the common en-
envy is the accepted watchword OF Demo-
Gratis cvcrywhere. The old battle for tho
constitutional rights and liberties Of tho peo-
pie mcnaced anew by the provisions of the
centraiIing Force bill, finds all Democrats
agreed and harmonious. The issue raised in
Washington by the Republicans in favor of
the measure strikes at the worry essence Of
American Democracy, and makes inevitable
n contest upon this line at the approaching
election which will turn
largely upon the result Of the appeal of the
Democrats 10 the voters of the country.