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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
SIGHTS A DIVER SEES.
Lovers Billing and Cooling at tn
Bottom of the River.

Bottom OF the River.
Old Ned Barron, one of the best veteran
New York divers, narrated the following
pathetic reminiscence to Chicago Times
man: ga few seasons ago was sent for to
come on and try to recover the bodies of q
young man and a young woman who had
been drowned in the lake off Milwaukee.
"With party of friends they had been
enjoying sail on little yacht. A sudden
equal came up and the vessel was capsized.
The young man was good swimmer and
tried hard to save the girl, but, crazed with
terror, she clung to him and hampered his
efforts until he became exhausted, and both
sank together in full view of the others of
the party, all of whom had gained hold on
the bottom of the boat and were soon res
cued.
"The drowned couple were to have been
married that very week-in fact they were
They were we'll to do, nice people, and the
whole story made me awful sad. 80 that I
really wished I hadn't been told it ALL
"Well, went down and walked around
the bottom of that part of the lake for al
most three days. Towards sunset of the
third day, had almost given up work for
the day, and had come up around the end
of big ledge of rock, when found them.
"The weather had been fine, the sun
bright, aud the still water was unusually
clear. I was about forty feet below the sur
face; the rock was probably one hundred
feet in length, sixty feet wide, and the outer
edge was rough and jagged. Well, the two
of them were just like sitting down together
on the end of the jagged rock, on which the
lady's dress had caught and held them fast.
She leaned up against his chest, with one
arm around his neck, and her long, beautiful
light hair hung over her neck and shoulders.
"He was holding her tightly with one arm
around her waist, while the other was
stretched out as if grasping for something.
Their eyes were wide open and they both
looked as natural and perfect as life. Both
were handsome and we'll dressed. His gold
watch chain cleaned in the light and the di-
amond of her engagement ring spsrkled like
fire.
"I guess l must have stood there admirirg
of them fully ten minutes. Why, it seemed
almost as if they were alive, and felt al
most as if ashamed of intruding on their
love scene of "billing and coofng." My
| heart beat like steam force pump, and 1t
| Just ached I tell you. But I came to my
senses and walked up, disentangled heI
dress, put my arm around them, pulled the
| signal rope. and we we're drawn up all to
| gether. When We got ashore with the bod
les it nigh broke my tough old heart to see
| and hear them go on. l can't stand those
things as l used to once"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
DOES DAKOTA NEED HELP,

Are the people of Dakota starving or freez-
ing, or are they nots If they are, generous
people who are not starving or freezing
would like to know in order to feed and
warm them. But who can tella The other
day Chicago paper announced a begging
committee from South Dakota, and added
that the people out in Dakota in a dozen
counties duly mentioned, are really suffer-
ing; actually freezing and starving to death.
But here comes the Canton (Dakota) Advo-
vocate and vigorously asserts that such para
graphs are started by the ''eastern press" to
hurt Dakota-to stop people from leaving
the East and going to the West. They ''are
lies of the most malicious and contemplate
character, sent out for the express purpose of
retarding immigration, and of bringing into
disrepute the fairest and most fertile portion
of Uncle Sans domain" And again: "They
are lies of the vilest sort, and they can be
published but for one purpose, viz, to injure
South Dakota" And still further: But
all that has been said or done to injure our
State. the fact remains that South Dakota is
one Of the grandest, richest and best States
In the Union; the fact remains that she can
hold out inducements to immigration such az
no other State can offer, and this is probably
one Of the chief reasons for the dastardly war
the eastern press is waging upon her.
South Dakota asks no aims of Illinois or any
other State in the Union. South Dakota ia
superior to Illinois in nearly every important
particular.
And the Advocate goes on to show that
the starving counties named, actually pro
duced, last year, over seven million bushels
of wheat, three million bushels of oats, and
corresponding yield of potatoes; and the
editor declares that, even if there were any
truth in the Chicago journals paragraph
South Dakota il abundantly able to take care
Of all her sufferers, without asking or accept
ing outside help.
And 80 forth and 20 on. Which is which
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
RICYOLING AND BOWLEGS.
Does Riding the Wheel Tend to Cause
DeformIIy in Mani

can observer on the streets of Washing.
ington," says correspondent of the Post,
sis struck with the extraordinary number OF
young men aud youths who are bow legged.
or have legs inclined to be bowed, with the
toes of the feet turned in more or less. The
fact can be verified any day by whomsoever
chooses to look.
"Now, what causes this prevailing quasi
deformity? Does baseball have anything to
do with its Or is it consequence of be-
striding and driving the bicycles 1 incline
to think that the explanation is chiefly, if
not altogether, found in the bicycle. The
cavalryman, as rule, is bow legged, with
toes inturned, and the wheelman, like the
horseman, assumes conditions that tend to
throw out the knees and turn In the toes, 1t,
indeed, the wheelman, in propelling his ma
chine, does not more fully than the equss.
trian subject his lower extremities to exer-
cises that curve them thus?
Now, if it be true that habitual riding on
the bicycle ia giving US generation of bow
legged young men and young women, will 1t
not be we'll for all to seriously consider
whether it be worth while to incur such re-
suites Occasional bicycling, as occasional
horse riding, may not bow the legs and turn
in the toes, and the bicycle itself may, per-
haps, be so constructed as to avoid the ten
denotes now considered; but 1t is not very
desirable to sacrifice grace, shape and SYM
metry to any mode or fashion of locomo'
tiou."
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21

plain severity seems to reflect the the owners
personality: On entering, the visitor finds
himself in large, airy room, in which ts the
old-time high mantlepiece and spacious back
log fireplace. This room serves the squire "a
his bedroom and Office. Its furniture consists
Of an old-fashioned four-poster bed with bed
ding piled upon it to such height that man
with legs of ordinary length would have to
use stepladder to get into it, q number OF
split-bottom chairs,a ''grandfather's"clock In
one corner, and several Well-worn law books
upon the mantlepiece.
The squire talks entertainingly, and his
native shrewdness gives brightness and orr
ginality to his conversation. He is an excep-
ton to the old adage of the unappreciative
Aberdeen, not alone because of his record,
for Mr.. Beasley attends to the ordinary duties
incumbent upon justices Of the peace. He
has held his Office for the past nineteen years
without at any time having to undergo the
chances of reelection or defeat. The consti-
tuition of this state provides that Justice of
the peace shall hold his Office during the term
for which he has been elected, or until his sue
cessor is elected and qualified. No one ever
'squire's position, that gentleman has never
seen fit to present himself for reelection, but
has held on up to the present time, and will
probably die In harness.
There can be no reflection upon the
'squire's marriages, and even their despatch
can prove no legal AFFECTION. They are all
valid, and just as good for practical purposes
as if performed by an archbishop. This point
was settled to the satisfaction of runaway
couple some time ago, when then supreme
court of this state decided that squire Beas-
ley's marriage should stand. He does not re-
quire persons to produce license before unit
ing them in marriage, but dispenses altogeth-
or with that document 30 necessary to candi-
dates for matrimonial bliss in other places.
Squire Beasley does not see why license
should have to be obtained by persons wish
ing to marry any more than by persons wish
ing to enter into any other sort of contract;
that persons going before an authorized Off
Ger and declaring their intention thereafter to
live together as man and wife are as validly
married as though they had first procured a
license. Upon being asked what fee he usual
ly received for marrying, he stated that he
got every price from "thsnk ye" up to $50.
"You know" said he, "when poor cou-
pie apply to me havn't the heart to'ask them
for anything, but when couple come to me
from the Blue Grass region. of Kentucky,
where they raise fast horses and have good
bank account, I make them come down hand
somely."
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
DIABETIS.
"a EAST l7rH st.,
NEW YoRY. lima y. 1h66.

NEssRs. CASE BRoTHlRs:
Gents-I dssirs TO add my testimony In favsf Of
your "Tonica water" - an Invaluable tonic, spo-
troubles. For ssveref years I hays been under
treatment BY various physicians without bensnt,
and without any decided conclusion ~ 70 the true
nature Of my disease, until about six months Snce
on being attached with vomiting. vertigo and sx-
treme prostration, test then made By Dr.. II. Hol-
brook Curtis showed my ailmsat 70 bs melitus dia-
bsts., twsnty-nve ers sugar 70 the o., specific
quarts daily. Iimmediatsly adopted diabetic diet
and the use OF various spsciAcs. experienced no
Improvement, and after spending much Of my time
on my back with extreme weakness for nve months
my attention was called BY friend to the cure Of
Q similar case by the use of Tonica Water, who,
among other things, said it Is worth gold dollar
for every drop Of the diabistc." Az experiment,
immediatsly ordered . dozen quart bottles Of
Tonica and commenced its use by half-glasg doses
before each meal and at bed time, the benefits
from which were immediate In Increased strength
and, d,appstte. and by the time had used ono dozen
bottles resumed ordinary exercise without t.
tigue, and new, after six weeks, and on further
tests, nnd reduction In sugar OF twenty per cent.
and urine reduced to about onshalf, with strength
restored bowels regulated, thirst satised, and ali
mending the use Of sinple remedy from which
have experienced 20 much coed In such brief psried
OF time, and the use Of which propose to resume
and continue II found necessary. am under IN
engagement for the summer At the Townsend Cot
s:ns coPS q che Hs.sa N.~ ''a vi"
W* WI. kof Z. koArEE.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21

wishes to reach an extreme age. Robust
and delicate people, the temperate and the
intemperate. the heavy eaters and the light
taters, the men of intellect and the men who
have lived by their muscle, the smokers and
the non-smokers, the meat eaters and the
vegetarians, those who, exercise and those
who don't, are all represented among the
old-timers.
The growing proportion of losses in recent
years in Massachusetts, savings banks has
raised question there, which is also peril
nent in other States, as to whether 1t is not
becoming necessary to narrow still further
the already rather narrow range of invest
ment allowed to savings bank directors.
These officers seem to be showing an in
creased disposition of late to loan on per-
sonal security without collateral, and the in
crease of losses simultaneously with the prao-
tice of this habit is suggestive of needed re-
form. The New York law prohibits the in
vestment of such deposits in personal loans
unsecured by collateral. A similar statute
In every State would seem desirable.
Some people are in no hurry. In 1857
William Parker. Liverpool sailor, aged
twenty-six, accompanied by his young wife
and two children, took passage on the packet
ship William and Mary, bound for Montreal.
A short time after the vessel left the Mersey,
Parker, who was on the spar deck. leaning
over the rail, lost his balance and tumbled
into the sea. Parker was swept astern and
given up for lost. Tho widow continued on
her voyage, finally settling down In the viein-
ity of Montreal, and, soon finding an adj
mirer, married again. The second marriage
was disturbed the other day by the sudden
appearance of Parker, who, 1t seems, had
been picked up by Portuguese merchant
man bound for South America, and arriving
in that country, resolved to seek his fortune
before joining his family.
The gun with which the Russian army is
to be supplied is the invention of two French
officers born at Corsica and is distinguished
by extraordinary simplicity. A soldier of
the most ordinary intelligence can learn to
handle 1t in an hour. It Is of small caliber,
like the Lebel gun used by the French, and
has all the Lebel's good qualities. Il has q
smaller cartridge, SO that its trajectory is
almost horizontal and not parabolio. The
mechanism of the Lebel gun is somewhat
complicated, which is the only thing which
can be said against it. The new gun is loaded
in almost the same way as the old Gras gun.
The German government, which ia on the.
point of abandoning the Mauser gun for the
much superior Nannlicher, indirectly made
propositions to the inventors of the Russian
gun, but the latter, from patriotic reasons,
declined to negotiate.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
KIDNEY DISORDER.

HouII MANcnEsrER, Conn.,, July =, 1887.
xensrs. CASE BRoruHRs:
0enslemsn-I know not how to adequately ex-
prsss ny gratitude for the benefits received from
the uss Of Highland Tonica Water. In Juno, 1855.
was confined to my bed with tumor In the re-
Gioa Of the Kidneys; u gathered and discharged
very weak condition. Not getting any relief from
the ordinary treatnens was prevailed upon 20
Of more than years time, can but express the
satifaction y has Eiyan me, IN relieving my KID
nsyn cleansing my blood, and toning up. my gen
oueh trial 10 be appreciated, remain,
.5..s FkiNoIs aRIswoLD.
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No. as

stolen from" left 1t in the usual place
on the step and went back into the house
toawait the approach of the thief. Ten
minutes later, having heard no sound of
any one approaching, he looked out and
was dumbfounded to find the paper missing.
He laid q similar trap next morning, and
sat in the parlor window to watch. The
carrier had not been gone two minutes be-
fore big Newfoundland dog trotted into
his dooryard, took the paper in his mouth
and ran off. The gentleman followed the
dog around the corner and saw three boys
meet the animal there, take the paper, and
direct the dog to another dooryard. After
collecting the papers the boys took them
home to their mother, had the creases
ironed out, and sold them on the streets
doWnfnwn
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
RELIEVED OF GRAVEL


hoLvokks Aass, DocemDer ~, looS.
os.ts-I write 70 cay that q is nov three years
10 was sone time IN june, being out OF sorts with
out moving exactly what the trouble was, com
menCod using the Water. Some time In August
begAn 10 sxperience severe pains at times. The
Afoacm were sudden and continued for several
until March following, when I was spontaneously
relieved Of stone (calculus). During the last
three months Of this time had the doctor several
enes. have continued the use Of the Water
nave been very much beneftted BY it. Have beon
troubled with catarrh all my life, but fnd myself
much relieved OF this trouble since using the Wa
ter. 1ince voiding the stone have had no aim.
Guilty from gravel; W wife has also been relieved
OF chronic trouble (conatipation) while using the
water. feel that the water has been Of more
benent TO mo than any Of the Saratoga Waters, Of
which have used considerable In previous years,
both at tho springs and at homo. I have recon-
mended II 70 my friends and shall continue to do
=, because believe there IL good In It, You ct
liberty 70 use my experience In any way to benefit
humanity. Yours respectfully,
CHARLES II. RICHARDS,
or Richards q Thayer.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Winter ct last, that Is, If It is not summer
this morning.
The Worlds fair scheme is making pro-
gress. 1t is high time If anything is to be
done before 1892.
Since March l, 1878, 300, ,727, 900 ounces Of
silver, costing $685., ,995, 107 has been coined
into 349, ,938, ,00rs silver dollars. giving the
government profit of nearly $62, 100000.
The cooperative society of Philadelphia,
which once had $500 members and eight
stores and did a business of $4,000 week,
has closed up the one solitary grocery store
still remaining. It Is strange that co-opera-
ton doesn't work any better in this country.
Does anybody in the United States now
believe that voting is free and fair in Floida,
in Mississippi or in any other southern states
Nobody in the South believes 1t of course.
The New Orleans States frankly tells how 1t
is in Mississippi: The people of Mississippi
do not steal or rob ballot-boxes, as General
Chalmers has charged, but they do suppress
the negro vote, and this fact they make no
effort to conceal. The attempt to
enforce the fifteenth amendment in the South
failed, and the federal election law, If it is
enacted by congress, will also fail of Its pur-
pose.
An examination of the textiles from the
German peat-fnds Of the northern bronze
period has enabled Herr Buschan to distin-
guish the fibers of the stuff and to show that
at . period Of great remotensss wool and
fax, hut not hemp, were made into webs.
The folk of the lake dwellings could manu-
faeturs hSx into coarse lace nets, mats and
even embroidery. Herr Buschan holds 1t
proved by the instruments discovered that
they could knit and weave in the Neolithic
period, whom mighty mammoths were roam
ing over Europe and when England harbored
the musk OK and grizzly bear.
| "A well known scientist has just published
. book on old age, giving the results of in.
formation received concerning nearly nine
hundred persons who had attained the age o1
fourscore years or more. The deductions
made from the statistics obtained are Of nj
| special use to the young man or woman wht
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21

Contracting Agent Smith, of the Omaha
railroad, claims to have discovered the plan
by which gang of boy paper thieves have
been so successfully operating in upper
town. Annoyed by the repeated loss of his
Pioneer Press, which the carrier was ae-
customed to leave on the doorstep Of his
residence on Walnut street, Mr.. Smith re-
Gently arose in time to get the paper when
the carrier arrived. He marked it on the
inside with blue pencil: "This paper was
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21

33WRsT 9TH ST.,
NEW YoRx, March 8, 1857.
NKssRs. CASE BRorHrRs:
0snts-Pieass send me another case of hftesn
bottles Tonica Water. Having experienced great
benefit from its use last summer n the relief Of
dabetis msllitus and feeling 90 well, did not
tinue il use during the winter months, but now,
With the apprsaoh q .prinS. ! a fselinE l some
tnrn Of the old disorder. and believing In the
tive properties OF Tonica water, and considering
OF the year to get its beneficial effects will re-
sumo its use again with confidence in the results,
Respectfully yours,
WIN. L. MCAFEE.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-02-21
BRIGMT,s DISEASE.

- ~~~~---~~-
NJ Dear sir-Eightesn months since I was
forced to leave my buainess by reason Of an In:
named state OF the Kidneys, and the trouble had
bssn neglected 20 long IL had assumed very az
grsvstsd form before sought medical assistancs
Only one physician gave me much encourage
msnt; and advised by him I made use, among
sshsr rsnsdIes, OF your "Tonics Wstsr." Gem, en-
usder his Instruction still continue TO use n, hav
Ing, think, used over eight hundred bottles.
For several months there was but little. II any,
Improvement: but after using IL six or seven
months : fevorable change occurred and the case
Sosmed from minute 70 minute to Improve.
BY reason OF unwarranted exposure relapse
occurred during last July which very naturally ,
Sarded my recovery. When convalescence com.
msnced had for some months preceding walked
net ever six or seven rods from the door, and that
but twice; and there was hardly enough of myself
left TO cast shadow. Now, without dimculty,
have walked three or four miles In day, and nay
Weisht 10 greater than II averages.
have given you this brief statement. and We be-
lleve that your Water has done much In bringing
about pleasant state of Affairs In my case
Very respectfully yours,
DWIGHT BIDWELL.
P.s-should you wish to refer anyone to me, I
should be happy to see them.
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E. L. WASHBURN.
Notice to Contractors.

CITY ENoINEER's oFF1cE, No. n CITY HALL.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. IL, 1880:
CEAhED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- ONCE until 1880 p. m. March bth, 1880:
blocks blue stone, castings granite catch ba.
sin stone and vitrided pipe required by the Board
Blank forms Of proposal, and any Information
concerning plans, Specifications bonds &C., Will be
No propossl viii be received after the time spe-
cied and all proposals. not on the lanksfurnished
or not properly ffled out will be rejected
The right toreject any or all bids Is reserved
By order Of the Board Of Public Works.
ALBERT B. HILL,
flo 81 City Engineer.
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BosroN, August II, 1885.
Meelrs, Gaze BRoTHERs, Manchester, Conn.
0entiemen-I consider your Tonica Water n5th-
Ia INV cass doscn or two botties Of tho Water
entirely cured me Of Irritation and other bladder
troubles.
A tonic consider II household necessity, and
! shali nevor lose an opportunity to recommend It
70 my friends. Yours truly,
Travelling Agent Erie Dispatch Line.
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AMvIILE. N. O., December IS, 1883.
MnssRs. CASE BRorHERs:
aent'emen-I have kept fairly well for tho past
year and . half, and since giving Tonica Water q
fair and full tent, and from which I received 10
much benefit. But since leaving New York, and
under mixed diet, ind some Of the old symptoms
returning, such a. Increased activity Of the kid
neys and thirst but yet NO increase of gravity,
tests keeping about 1850. am glad to hear Of your
have doubt win also meet with great success.
remain Yours very respectfully,
WIN. L. McAFEE.
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PARTICULAR VALUE.

One lot of 1900 yards very
fine, splendidly made Satines, in
good dress styles of figures, at
14Hc per yard. These Satines
are better quality, style and fin
ish than many that are sold at 25c