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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
A ROPEFUL OUTLOOK.

The English investors in the Argentine
Republic are very busy in wondering and
figuring how their investments will turn out.
There is no doubt that the country is In q
bad way, and yet there is good reason to be-
lieve that eventually it will work out all
right. Great and real progress has been
made in the co:intry in other matters than in.
creasing the debt. In 1877 the value of the
exports to Great Britain alone was more than
$S,000,000 Now the value of the exports
amounts to more than $4,000 to that
country, more than $27, ,000,O 900 to France,
more than $13,000.000 to Germany, more
than SIG, ,00O, 900 to Belgium and less than
$1,000, 900 to the United States. A dozen
lines of steamships connect the capital with
Europe In 1878 there were open for traffic
less than fifteen hundred miles of railroai.
Now there are 1000 miles, with 8. 200 miles in
construction, the average cost per mile hav'
ing been $50, 900. Ten years ago there were
5000 miles of telegraph in operation. Now
there are not far from 81, 900 miles. Although
only one per cent. of the soil is under Guilt
vation, the value of the harvest alone Is es
tima.ed at more than 500. .000, 900 in gold
The increase in agricultural value has been
extraordinary, due for the most part to the
application of machinery in the cultivation
of the fertile pampas. The cattle industry
has been developed with rapidity, chiefly By
Eoglish capital. the total value of horned
cattle. horses and sheep being not far a
present from $400, 10000
OF course the, Englshmen are going to ge
their money back IL they can. They prac
tically own the whole country now, and the,
will make 1t pay If anybody eau. With I
stable government and safety for the worker
the country will probably soon be on tn
road to financial wealth.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
JOY.

Traveller lin Boston)-I want to take the
next train to Albany. Ticket Agent-Sorry,
sir; but we can't spare it.-Pock.
Joy travels alone and makes short calls;
grief brings along a large family and stops
all summer.-Ashland Press.
Matters are evened up pretty we'll in this
world. The father tans the son, and the sun
tans the charlottesville Breeze.
Obi George, papa is unchsining the dog"
'It's all right. He used to be my dog.
gave him to the dealer to sell to your papa.-
Boston Courier.
In the Park.-First French maid-Littls
Harry seems very fond of you, Julie. Second
French maid-Yes, the dear little boyi He
takes after his father.-Muasey's Weekly.
Chicago has musical prodigy who plays
improvement on the one who plays when
other people want to sleep.-Yonkers States.
man.
The Pullman porters are paid from $S to
SIS monthly. But think of the magnificent
quarters that are furnished them gratis by
travelers.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Mr.. Van Esten Crying to conceal q yawn).
"Where did you say you were going this
summerF Miss Msrigold (who has seen his
struggle) "Ar. Van Etten, 1 am having
just as hard time as you are, and 1 should
feel indebted if yon would yawn for me
also."
Chestly (of the Yale crew In crush on the
pier at Ooney Island)-How the deuce dc
the women get through SO welll They jam
med me against the rails like crowd o.
freshmen in q cane rushi Yardly (his com
| mercial friend) )-They have been in training
at tbs bargain counters.-The Epoch.
Mira. Fletcher-You, Sam, don't for to 8,
an make any noise round desc air premises
| yo' poor ole fader's sick In bed wild dat ner
| vousnous prostrations."
Sam-What fotched It on, muddefi
Mrs. Fletcher-He done gone aud loses q
cents on dem races to-day.-Epoch.
Job was patient man according to tn,
trials he had to contend with, but satan was
little tardy in inventing the fountain pen
| The history of the man of Uz might hsv,
had a very different termination had hi
| satanic majesty been little more forward II
| the launching of his growing provocative or
a suffering world.-Boston Transcript.
81 like that young Mr.. Freshlsigh, Aman
da. He was graduated this year. was b,
noii" "Yes, pa. l sm glad you like him
| for think he is real smart" "He is rea
emart. He came to me a. my Office yester
day and said that IS he expected to ge
through his vacation in September he wantet
| to 60 into business; and what do you sup'
pose he offered to dot" "What,par 'Said
| II I'd make him full partner in the busi
ness he'd marry you."-Harper's Bazaar.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
Ki..ed the se.ro-eaak.,

Aihaeo khe Nesr0
1t is hardly safe TO kiss 8 woman In the
dark unless Jon are absolutely sure of her
identity. Because he "took chances" q
Louisville young man recently lost fsncee.
feS nights ago he called on the young lady
and entered the psrlOr. There was no light
In the hall or In the room. In q short time
he heard his girl coming down the steps.
He stepped out into the hall. and ss she
reached the bottom of the stairs he inclosed
her In his arms and imprinted q long, lnger-
ing kiss upon her ruby lips. Releasing her,
he struck q match and lit the gas, then turn
ing to snatch another kiss he was horrihed to
zee before him the black cook. he gave her
q dollar not to say anything, but the story
WAS too good keep and she told IL. 1t passed
from one person to another until 10 was
known to all his friends, and his NE is any
thing but happy one. particularly ss the
lady of his choice Is wavering In her original
intention Of marrying him.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
Rxpert ON Beauty.

There is a great deal of sham, writes Eu-
gene Field, in all the show of affection that
has been going on at Berlin between the EN-
peror William aud his uncle, the Prince of
Wales. II is pretty well known that the two
have an iii opinion of one another. Wales
hates Berlin because he regards 1t as a vul-
carly democratic town, and he has always
locked upon William as a boor. As for the
young Emperor he has been taught by Bis
marck to regard England as a nonsensical
little patch wholly unworthy of considers-
ton, and he has been heard to remark that
the Prince of Wales was simply petit
maitre and hsneur-
Wales was accompanied to Berlin by his
second son, Prince George. After they had
| been there two days the son broke out sud-
| denly one day with "Fathsr, have have you
seen pretty girl since yOu came hereE"
"Thats n curious question, replied Wales.
1 "How came you to ssktr
"Well, fancied you'd be on the lookout, =
said George, land wish you'd tell me II
you see one, for I've got tired of hunting fol
thsm. Your judgmen: in that direction viii
do well enopRh for me-"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The English are after our gold. They
called for 50, SOC. 900 yesterday.
The intelligent compositor and the lynx
eyed proof-reader are not respecters of per-
sons. The Eglish bishop of st. Asaph has
just been made to refer to his younger and
mssher days" What his reverence really
said was, "my younger and rasher days"
A new prophet has arisen and he fortells
doleful things. He predicts revolution all
over Europe, and a social upheaval, followed
by war lasting from 1905 to 1916. in the
United States. But antedating that event
there will be great earthquake and tidal
wave that will submerge the Atlantic coast
from New Orleans to New York. All the
great seaboard cities will be inRulfed. Let
it come. It is too hot to worry about 1t.
Woman crops out now in all kinds of
ways. Dunkirk, New York, has veteran of
the war in the person of a woman, Mrs. VIM.
Sinfeld, to whom congress has just granted
| pension of $15a month. By special per-
mission she enlisted with her husband in
company E, seventy second regiment, New
York volunteers, and was in the battles of
Williamsburg. Seven Pines, Beach Orchard,
the second battle of Malvern Hill, the second
battle of Bull Run, the battle of Chantilly,
Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville and Gettys
burg.
An invention by which writing can bt
transferred from paper to iron Is the work o.
Boston man, who has invented hard inl
with which he writes (backwardD upon ordi
nary paper. That paper is placed in mold
melted iron is poured in, and when the hard
ened iron is removed 1t is found that, Will
the heat burned away the paper, 1t did no
affect the ink, but left the impression of tn
writing nodded into the iron. This discov
cry was made by noticing one day that th
printing on an ordinary handbill that
accident had fallen into the mold was fsintl
transferred in this way.
New York is really a cosmopolitan cit,
While only two per cent. of the populatio
of London is foreign-born, the percentage
New York already ia eighty, and this gre
proportion is increasing every year. In IL.
New York contained one Protestant churt
to every 2,0O0 people; in 1880 one to 800
in 1883 one to 1000. Up town In certa
!. wards, where the best showing was mad
there was in 1888 but one church for so
people, although the proportion Of saloo
to the population was as one to 125. T
total population Of the city reached nearly
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
SHOWER OF BRIMsrONR.
Tt Fell on q Bald Head and Caused
Fun and Trouble.

From the Philadeiphia Pressl
"a funny thing happened on North Side
car the other night" said . gentleman at the
Union League club the other evening. "I
was detained little late at my office, and
took trail car out home. Well, across the
way from me. in the corner, sat fat, bald
headed man. He was awfully bald, too,
his pate as bare and shiny as billiard ball.
'tHe had his hat in his lap: and was putting
like porpoise from the heat. Il was Just
getting dark, and the conductor came In
to light the lamps. The car was crowded,
and he worked himself gradually up the
aisle to where the fat man sat. The obess
party couldn't move. He was wedged into
his place like q sardine In q box, and the
conductor had to lean over him. He opened
the lamp case, turned up the wick, and ex.
tracted from his pocket one of those eight
day sulphur matches. the sort that bubble
and boil for two minutes before they give {
clear flame, you know.
"Well, he Lit the match, and, hanging or
to strap, balanced himself and looked into
the lamp. The sulphur on the match wa.
plenteous and bubbled in the fame like q
kettle. Then all of sudden burning drop
of the molten stuff fell With q precision di.
rectly the fat mans head.
"He gave a whoop like an Indian, grabbed
his bald pate, and jumped into the air,
treading on peoples toes, upsetting the lady
next to him, and nesrly turning the conduc-
tor someresult. 1 suppose 1t wasn't funny
to him, but it was to the rest of us, and we
howled. That made the fat man msdder than
ever. He turned on the conductor:
"You blitheriDg idiot, what are
you trying to do; make a bonfire, ehf'
"The conductor begged his pardon, but the
old fellow was warm clear to his heels. BE
wanted to fight, but the conductor wouldn't.
Then he turned on the passengers:
"'I can lick any idiot that laughed at that
fool trick, !" he remarked wrathily. You're a
parcel of simpering imbeciles. You'd think
it was funny If there was a shower Of brim-
stone come down and burn up the town,
wouldn't your
"But nobody answered except by grin,
aud the fat man, discovering that he had run
past his street about four blocks, got of,
cursing the conductor and rubbing his glis.
tening pate, on which a bright red mark al
big as a quarter marked the location of the
falling sulphur"
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
A MIGRATION OF TOADs.
millions OF Them start from Whining
ton on n Journey Northward.

Millions OF Tnem Skhrt Efo" bhmtn&.
ton on n Journey Northward.
From the Wilmington Gazette and Buletin.l
without bugle call or drum beat to am
nounce the arrival of the hour for a general
advance, the millions of little toads that
have been so conspicuous for their numbers
in this city several days started on 3 journey
north yesterday afternoon. Soon after the
heavy shower had ceased the toads, by the
hundreds, thousands, and millions, started
on a hop, skip, and jump. and the many in
terested spectators at once observed that the
migratory movement. was In the direction of
the north. The toads had been keeping close
to the river for several days, and the num-
bers that covered the banks for miles Is be-
yond the power Of calculation. The tiny
creatures seemed gifted with intelligence,
and il was noticed that, unless headed of
they never Lost any ground by retracing their
hops.
The livelieet soene wa on Market street.
Tens of thousands of the toads came up from
the river or hoped west along the railroad
to the roadway crossing the tracks and ad-
vanced like an army MP Market street. The
crossing at the Market street toll gate:
was black with them, and hundreds lost
their lives beneath the wheel of passing
trains.
The railroad proved an almost insurmount
able barrier, as they were unable to jumI
over the rails, bat they followed along unit
they came to the jumping-over place. Man!
succeeded In getting over the first rail, onl!
to be made prisoners between the two rails
| but 10 due course of time they succeeded II
1 getting out and then continued on north
| About dusk last evening they were crossing
the canal, where they had Temporarily
halted, ostensibly for rest and refreshments
| A curious feature In connection with the sad
| den emigration was the fact that the toad
made use of public highways, including th'
alleys. Very few of them were found Il
yards. Their movement was regular an,
we'll defined, and they kept ct It with
i steadiness that was surprising.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01

You reason that your own Temperature IA
ninety-eight degrees, while everything that
this scorching air has touched must be mn 10
one hundred and ten degrees at least. So.
having first obtained q fresh wet cloth for
your forehead, You spread yourself out 10
cover as much OF the mattress as possible,
and subside into psrspiring inaction. Very
likely you fall once more into an uneasy
sleep.
With such exercises as these the long
night passes at last, and you actually vel
come the return of the burning dsy. But
you 60 out into IL with Q sense of having
less of bodily strength to meet its terrors
with than You had the day before. You
feel that If you could rest at night you might
stand the heat, perheps, but ss IL is can you
endure iti People begin - fsll around you
with insulation. The papers hsrs f.s-
umns long OF people struck down B.
heat, with display heads that add q new
ror 10 the situation. Whatever of evil
distress there 10 in this world, how the NJ
papers do a2gravate IL. If you did no.
know 90 many people were dying of sun
stroke In the town, perhaps yon would not
speculate quite 90 actively as TO whether your
turn were coming next. But the thing be-
gins to strike right about you. Nothing
more terrible than 20 sec one you love stag
ger and fall before your eyes, within doors,
succumbing, right after one of these terrible
ulSutrt 70 slc l1flhao1er ail rcTfh0i1E Au11-
ence of the unceAsipg heat. Your senses
seem 10 weaken at lsst. Your brain be-
comes dull and unfeeling. You are con-
| scious of a steadily diminishing force. and
feel with a kind of thick witted desperation
that Jon must die before long.
You resort to the one half refreshing
thing that Is left to y0u-a bath You enter
the bath room In the old, listless way. Ri
sing from II, you seem to experisnce q new
sensation of GOODNESS. You have taken q
bath every day for q fortnight, but you have
experienced no such sensation as this before.
Whist does Il meant Is IL the reaction that
precedes COLLAPSED Has your time comet
You put on your clothes hastily and 20 out;
they are insnficient-you wish you had An
overcoat. You pass ont into the street.
There are excited and joyfal people on the
sidewalk, daucing aud embracing one anoth-
er. You look dszed and bewildered. "The
wavsl The Manitoba wave has comet" they
exclaim.
II is true; you perceive that, while you
We q in the bath, the wind has shifted, and,
instead of blowing In a steady swell from
the southwest, it IL coming in quick, cold
gusts from the north northwest. From the
bottom OF your heart Jon invoke heavens
blessings on Manitoba. IL seems like q ia
bled place; nobody ever went to Manitoba,
and you never saw anybody that came from
there. But this cold wind Is something real
and delicious. You are a new man, you run
and get an overcoat, and brace yourself up
with q meal of roast beef, with q cup of cof-
fee-for days you have hated the sight of
food-snd in twenty four hours You are
growing about the chilly westhsr and that
everlasting cold wind from the northwest.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
million and half. and yet the Protestant
church numbered only about 10O, 900 MEM

million and half. and yet the Protestant
church numbered only about 100, 900 mem-
bers.
The burglar will have to bestir himself
now. The latest invention In door locks In
one which cannot be opened from the out
side by pliers or a skeleton key If 1t is locked
on the inside, and for this reason LIS especial.
ly valuable for hotel rooms and inside doors
of buildings generally. It has double bolts,
one above the other. The lower one is used
to lock the door from the outside. Its key
hole does not 60 clear through the lock,
neither does the keyhole of the bolt that
locks the door from the inside. When the
door is locked on the inside there Is no
means of reaching the key or the keyhole of
This lock is being extensively used on the
| Pacific coast in all new hotels.
Concerning the much discussed question
as to the rapidity with which locomotive
can run, come interesting official figures
have been given by Mr.. Stretton, an eminent
| English engineer, showing briefly that the
highest speed ever accurately taken was
with Bristol and Exeter broad gauge en-
gine, having nine foot wheels, and which
was, as long ago as 1858, officially timed at q
speed of just over eighty miles an hour for a
short distance, this occurring in the case of
falling gradient and with light load. He
alec distinctly asserts that this speed is the
maximum that can possibly be obtained
with locomotives of the present type. the
the cause of this being, he declares, that at
such speed as that the resistance of the
air, the back pressure in the cylinders, and
the friction altogether have become SO great
that they absorb the whole power of the en-
gine, while the pressure on the wrong side Of
the piston becomes greatly increased by the
fact that the exhaust steam cannot be got out
of the cylinders fast enough.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-01
sHaMs AT THE HOSPITAL.
/ Would he Patients who Are Lookini
for q Place 20 Live In.

Would he Patients who Are Looking
for n Place 10 Live In.
CFsom the Philadelphia Pressl
They had flake" or "shsm patient" in
the Philadelphia hospital recently, but the
doctors and Nurse John McCsnn were too
sharp for him aud thus declined to give him
what be was after-free board and lodging
for week.
His name was Patrick Kelly and he was
about forty years old, and such dilapidated
specimen o. humanity the Pennsylvania hos
pitsl, noted for such sights as it is, had not
seen for many day. His clothes were In
/ tatters and he needed a bath the worst way.
He walked into the receiving ward about
aud informed the nurse that he had hurt hi
arm.
"when did you do itf' asked the nurse.
yesterday"
"Are You suref
"Well, think 1t was to-day"
| "You're certain, are youf"
mo, 1t was day before yesterday"
"Hurts you, does iti"
yes" said the man with q groan. "a
| want to stay here Sill it's we'll. I've get NJ
| home.
| DR.. Downs was called down and examined
| the mans arm, but found there was nothing
| the matter with 1t.
81 guess will have to give you ether, said
Il the doctor.
l "Your arm will have to come Of"
| "Oh, no, doctor desri All want is q
bandsge."
'The doctor laughed and the nurse twisted
| q bandage around the fellows arm.
"Are you theft" the man was asked.
l Eyes. am, and it takes q smart man to bs
l q thief"
Il charity on account of having q broken arm
| A few days ago the ambulance brought ir
| a man who lay on his back grosning "a
/ though his last hour had come. He claimed
to have been hurt in the back, and every
| time he was touched he would give q
howl of anguish. He was examined and
| nothing was found the matter with him.
1 "Well, john" said the doctor. "ths
man is in bad way; does he want to stay
iui"
"Yes, DOCTOR" broke in the patient. ''l
have no placs to 60"
"All right, poor man; Wen FIX mp and give
| you the best of care. John, get the instru'
ments ready.
"What's thaif' asked the would be pa
tient.
"That's all right" said John. .we ar
going To cut you open aud take out q piece o
your liver. You've got an abscess on IT,"
:. The man got a Whit of the ether and tha
was enough.
"Pve gos no abscess," he shrieked, gettinl
mp from the cot, although the minute befor
he had declared he could not move, and viii
that he snstched MP his coat and hat stalke'
out of the ward amid the laughter OF the doc
tors and the rurses. Fakes are common q
the Pennsylvania, but they never foil III
| doctors
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Its Pscuiiarisies Graphically De-
rienee.
lFrcm the Boston Transcript.
No one who has not been through such o
heated season as they have had iu the west
can quite understand what it means. Hap
PLY, we have no such desert heats here.
They do not have them In the southern
states-at any rate. not in the eastern south
ern states. Il is only In the west and south.
west that those torrid simoons Of tempera-
ture come.
Over a dry land, itself heated to q high
| temperature, blows wind from q still drier
| and hotter desert land. Hour after hour,
| day after day, that steady, scorching wind
comes down from the parched western
plains. 1t seems TO strike the face In sting
| ing particles as II IL were hot blizzard.
The sun devours one from above, the air
| bites hotly as it passes. and the ground sends
| mp reflected rays of heat that seem to prod
| ones flesh as ii they were pitch forks in the
| hands of those little imps of an overheated
| future. There is no relief from IL; the sur
i sets In sea or molten copper every night
1t rises from like reservoir of heat In ths
i morning, and rides on through unclouded
csloric effulgence all day. You do not dare
Il to look toward IL; it seems as IL IL were com
ing down TO eat you up. You stagger along
through the street, with O wet cloth In youI
hat, shivering with heat. Yes, gentle reader
shivering with heat. Perhaps you never did
that in New England; perhaps you never
heard Of such q thing before. But IL you
were on great western plain In one of thess
heated spells you would soon learn just whal
&c means to have q sensation of tremor, 90.
companied by q sudden Development o
goose flesh, creep along your akin under thil
horrible access of furious heat. When 4
comes you wonder whether you are actually
beginning to parboil-and you stagger on.
The nights are, il anything, worse thai
the days. You fear to court sleep total,
J uncovered, and drag the sheet listlessly owe
| your sprawling form. Too much. Il In i'm
| possible to endure IL. You worry youreel
iuto q kind of feverish sleep, and wake NJ
again perspiring heavily. You get mp AM
look out Of the window. The large star
look cool enough and have an air Of mock
ing you. The hot wind soughs steadil
. along from the same scalding southwester
quarter. II will not let anything cool of
even under the cool stsrs. Possibly th
= mere look of these, however, refreshes Jon
= little, and you steal back to bed. You fe'
the mattress hot to your touch ~ you Il
down upon 1t, and you vary the istles
: sweltering mopotony of the night by bound
Q ing around from one part Of the bed to a
o other, seeking q cool spot. Presently yc
q conclude that the yart of the bed where yc
4 have been lying awhile Ia cooler than ar
d other-that you can actually cool ID of Q Il
o tie with your body BY lying still. Why nc