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Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
WALKING IN PALESTINE.
Dr. Talmege Has Tried It and Says
 It Not Good.


 "In travelling along the roads of Pales- tine," says Rev. T. De Witt Talmage in Frank Leslie's Monthly, 'T am impressed as I could not otherwise have been with the fact that Christ for the most part went afoot We find him occasionally on n boat, and once riding in triumphal pro cession, as it is sometimes called, although it seems to me that the hosannas of the crowd could not have made a ride on a stubborn, unimpressive and funny crea- ture like that which battered with him in to Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But we are made to understand that gene rally he walked. How much that means l only those know who have gone over the | distances traversed by Christ. We are ac- customed to read that Bethany is two | miles from Jerusalem. Well, any man in l ordinary health can walk two miles with | out fatigue, but not more than one man | out of thousand can walk from Bethany | to Jerusalem without exhaustion. It is over the Mount of Olives, and you must climb up among the rolling stones and de- | scend where exertion is necessary to keep | you from falling prostrate. I, who am ac- | customed to walk ten or twelve miles with out lassitude, tried part of this road over | the Mount of Olives and confess I would not want to try it often, such demand does it make upon one's physical energies. Yet Christ walked it twice a day, in the morn ing from Bethany to Jersusalem and in the | evening from Jerusalem to Bethany. Like wise it seemed a small thing that Christ walked from Nazareth to Jerusalem, but it takes us four days of hard horseback rid ing, sometimes on trot and sometimes on l a gallop, to do it this week. The way is mountainous in the extreme. To those who went to the Tip Top House. or Mount Washington, before the railroad was laid, I will say that this journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem is like seven sucl American journeys. So, all up and dowI and across and recrossing Palestine Jesu
 walked. Herod rode. Ahsb rode. Sala din rode. Solomon rode. Antony rode
 But Jesus walked. With swollen ankle
 and sore muscles of the legs, and bruise'
 heel and stiff joints, and panting lungs am
 faint head, along the roads and wher
 there were no roads at all, Jesus walked.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
POINTS ON swIMHING.
Here's a Fancy Method by Which
 Great Speed Can BsAttained.


 have devoted my life to the problem of swimming, and am sgotistical enough ts,think that can give some points as to the best methods of swimming, writes Gus Sundstrom in the New York Mail and Express. One of the most important strokes, either in fancy swimming or rac- ing, is the American overland side stroke, which invented. It is really the fastest stroke that can be used. It is quite differ 1 ent from tho English overland stroke, and ditional speed that is obtained. English | swimmers bury themselves deeply in the water, and sink from one to two yards | under the surface in bringing the hand over, which retards their progress through the water.
 | To use my stroke, lie in the water or the right side at an angle of about thirty degrees The water covers the right eye | while the left eye, the nose and the mouth are out of the water. The body is pro pelled through the water by the legs and feet, and in this stroke the ankles ar, strongly brought into use.
 The force is obtained from the instep o the right foot and sole of the left. The leg are brought up and placed in position ik the letter V, and when the kick is mad they are brought quickly together, tn right foot being twisted to bring the in step against the water. After the kick i made, and while the legs are being brough up again, the right hand, which is extend ed beyond the head like Q cut-water, i brought down to the hip. When this han' is going up again the left hand is carries over the head and right shoulder, dippe' into the water and used as a paddle. Tn right arm is used to steady the body, am force is attained by the left arm and th legs. When the left arm is coming dow the kick is made. In learning this strok first of all learn the motions; speed can b worked up afterwards. From thirty-eigh to forty-fve strokes a minute is a high rat | of speed to be attained.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
How olothespins Are made.

From the New York Telegram.l
 If there is one article that is an absolute necessity to housekeeper it is a clothes pin, and the following facts in regard to that useful article are interesting:
 tClothespins," said dealer, Care made in the lumber regions of Michigan end Yer mont. They are usually of white ash but we have them of beach, birch and maple. The wood is taken to the factory in logs, and cut into lengths of thirty-one inches by circular saws. These are then cut into blocks which are reduced to sticks, then placed under another saw and reduced tc clothespin lengths. Next the turner takes a hand at them, and from him they go tc the slatting machine. They are placed 1T troughs by the operator, the machine pick ing them up and slatting them. Then the, arc placed in a revolving pipe drier, going thence to the polishing cylinder. Each piI | passes- through eight hands.
 "A single plant consists of board saw gang splitter, gang chuncker, turning lathe drying house and polisher, and costs iron | SIG, ,000 to $19,000. The little blocks O wood, 5a inches long, are placed on al endless belt, which feeds the blocks auto matically into the lathe. As the lathe
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12

DAN kAE SIs FLANs
 Everybody is interested in the financial legislation which congress will undoubted- ly undertake at this session, and the belief is not general that it will be of the right kind. Indeed, there is well defined fear that it may be of decidedly harmful kind. Already several astonishing bills have been introduced, and some also that merit the attention of those who believe in sound money. One of these is the bill prepared by Banker St. John of New York Its essential feature is the substitution of one kind of paper money, and that new kind, for all the forms now in circulation. It provides that as fast as national bank notes are surrendered to the treasury for cancellation, and as fast as outstanding gold and silver certificates and other United States notes come in, the secretary shall issue like sums of legal tender notes based on 40 per cent. coin reserve. This reserve, it is important to note, is to con- sist of both silver and gold, either in equal proportions of each or at least with no greater proportion of silver. It is to be held for the redemption of the notes, though these, of course, will, in the aggre- gate, be two and one-half times the value of the coins held. At the same time the hints are to be thrown open to the free coinage of the standard gold and silver, allowing owners of bullion to receive the proposed new notes at coinage value in- stead of coin, but not allowing them to demand thereafter either uncoined gold or uncoined silver except at the secre- tary's discretion and on the secretary's terms. The most essential feature of this plan is, obviously, the issue of a new kind of paper money, and the only kind to be allowed, on 40 per cent. double reserves of gold and silver.
 The system of note issue by the Bank of France is very much like this. It has worked excellently there.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
CERTAINLY.

He-May I be one of your Christmas presentsl She-Oh, certainly; but I al- ways get tired of them by the first of the next year.-Judge.
 sIt is curious" said the tree-calf book to the Russia-leather volume, ''that you and should bring up here together" ''Whyr' Because we were not bound the same way when we started. ."-The Herald.
 At Philadelphia.-M Walnutt-Here comes MT. Bronston behind us. Who is he, anywayl Why does he never allude to his familyl Miss Spruce-Why, he never had any! He's from New York.-Life.
 After four thousand years of repose the mummies of Egypt are being ground up into paint and possibly are now painting the towns red. It's always the way. Your quiet fellows are the worst when they do break out. Philadelphia Times.
 A Commonplace Attraction.-Seedyi in dividual-stExcuse me, sir, but won't you give mo fifty cents! I am starving" Citi- zen-s'For how longf' Seedy Individual 1.-Two days" Citizen-"Nonsensel Can sec Succi for Q quarterl"-Amsrican Grocer.
 MT. Bingo (suspiciously)-Tommy, who were those two boys saw fighting in the next alley this mornings Tommy-One of them was Willie Slimson. NIT. .Bingo-And who was the othera Tommy-He got licked. guess you don't want to know his name.-New York Sun.
 Husband hastily)-Here comes Miss Mullins, Fife; put all your presents away. Wife-No, I want her to see how generous you are. Husband-But most of them are things gave her when was engaged to her, and got back when it was broken of.-Munsey's Weekly.
 Behind with his rent.-Editor 0o poet) -sWhat is your addressf" Poet-''That depends on you" Editor-"How so!" Poet-''f you take this poem, my address will remain 1894 East Nine Hundred and Forty-second street; if you don't take it, won't have any address. Life. q can give you gas if you are afraid the pain will be too great to endure" said a dentist to an elderly colored woman who had come to have several teeth extracted. ''No, sah, no, sah!" she said, shaking her head emphatically; you don't gib me no gas an hab me git up out'n dat cheer an walk home dead; no, sab! reads the news- papers. "-Housekeepers' Weekly. | 'No, I can't see any fun in playing on words," said the man in the big mnckin- tosh gloomily. "A pun once cost me S100, 000." ''How was itf' "You needn't gather round me. It isn't much of story, | 4 fat old aunt had come to visit us. They | told me to go in the parlor and pay my respects. l was very smart young man I went in and told her in cheery ff-hand way that I had come in to make my obeisance to my obese aunt. That's al theIe is of it." "But how about the s100, OOOr' ''She left it to her other nephew. I-Chicago Tribune.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12

turned the pin is taken automatically from the spindle and placed on a turntable and carried to circular saw. which whittles out the slat into pin. IL is then fin ished and thrown out of the turntable by the same appliance that puts the pins on the table.
 Falling, they are caught in basket ol barrel, and are taken to the drying houss to remain twelve hours or until dry. The polishing cylinder holds from twenty tc forty bushels. This Is run at a slow speed about thirty turns a minute, and by sim, pie friction and contact they become pol ished. They are sold to the trade at ( little over S1 bushel, and packed ir boxes of four to the bushel. The industry is an increasing one, and almost S1 ,OO0,. 900 worth of pins were manufactured in 1SSQ r
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Mir. H. B. Green, of the Yale Divinity School, has placed with Judd for sale few copies of a book which will please all low CTS of botany. Its title is ''Wild Flowers of the White Mountains" and it contains nicely prepared and arranged specimens of these flowers, which were picked chiefly on Mount Washington. Each specimen has it's common and its Latin name under it. The collection is very complete and interesting one. There are only twenty five copies of this book of flowers, and the price of each is fifty cents.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
lr1y Goods.
Howe & StetsOl.
 LAST AND BEST!

MONDAY. Dec. 8.-We open our Santa Claus Room with it's final exhibition of Xmas wares. ("Pity 'tis, lis true" Aren't you sorry? We are. You will here find a better assortment than ever before of things, both useful. ornamental and reasonable i'll price, and less gimcra * stuff that costs much money and lasts but an hour. We are bound to have this Xmas Sale pleasant memory for all purchasers. and have made special exertions to this end. We have been very for tunate in closing out balance this years largest importation of French and German Dolls, at ridiculous'y low price, for the express purpose of offering unheard~of valuesin fine, high grade Dolls at soc, o5, $I,oo, $I.I5, I.25, 1.5o, 2.25 and 3.o8 each. Don't buy a Doll until you have seen these beauties.
 We also have the exclusive sale of a magnificent line of the much sought for Indian Baskets, made for us by tribe of Indians not on the warpath. These baskets are very useful and durable and fairly blaze in their brilliant colorings. They comprise small Fancy Baskets, Work Baskets. etc, up to hampers, and prices range from SC to $2.oo each. Japanese Baskets and German Baskets, all styles and grades A full line of Mclaughlin Bros. Games, the best of all game makers. We buy direct from the best Woodenwarc manu- lecturers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Children's Desks, Chairs, Shelves, Wag- ons, Carts, etc, etc. Dolls Bureaus, Doll Chairs, Tables, Wash Sets, etc., etc, all of which are to be sold at the lowest popular prices.
 Framed Pictures. including some genuine water colors, at specially attractive prices.
 Please remember that we open Monday, December 8th, our Xmas Room for the last and best Exposition.
 |HoWe&Stetson, Insurance Building,
 886-888 Chapel Street,. New Haven, Conn.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
Home of Santa Claus
Basement

Basement. Thousands this year will be enthusiastic over the marvellous display and low prices of our Christmas goods. Months have been spent in hopes of making this the most superb department in the state; how far we have succeeded can be better judged by our patrons, who can always rely on polite attention and @ kind welcome.
 Tin toys from 1c upwards. Iron toys from 10c upwards. Wooden toys from 5c upwards. Games from 5c upwards. Books from Dc upwards. New game, Tiddle-dy Winks, 5c upwards. Dolls from 5c upwards. Dolls gloves and stockings SC pair. Wagons Rocking-horses Carts Tool Chests Sleds Drums
 Blackboards Tea Sets
 Children's Desks, Small Chairs
 great value Cutting Tables Wheelbarrows Lap Boards Iron Trains Iron Hose Carts Iron Fire Engines.
 For the Holidays. $6.89 for an English Decorated Dinner Set Q12 pieces). It is nevertheless for us to say tulS ls great Vdlue $t0. 50 for an English extra fine Decorated Dinner Set Q12 pieces.)
 Actual value $13.50. $14.75 for Q12 pieces) Parisian Granite Decorated Dinner Set.
 A beauty for the money. $18.98 for 130-piece Parisian Granite Dec orated Dinner Set.
 Actually worth $25 00. This ware is just shade heavier than China, which makes it more durable. s3.49 for 56-piece English Decorated Tea Sets. Would be cheap at $4. 75. $298 for 10-piece Decorated Toilet Set. This is @ lot we bought much under price.
 79c for Decorated Jardiniers. Worth $1 .25. Gents Smoking Sets and Pipes. From 5c to $500. A marvellous display. PLUSH JEWEL BOXES,
 PLUSH TOILET CASES,
 PLUSH WORK BOXES,
 PLUSH MANICURE SETS. All at figures that will sell them quick. GB Return railroad fare paid to all oui of town customers who purchase Ter Dollars worth of goods from us.
 CHAPEL STREET, New Haven, Ct.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
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Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If Parnell can keep up the fight as he has begun it he may win yet. Irishmen, and Englishmen too, like good fighter.
 Providence has decided against the over head trolly system for electric street cars, Such facts as these indicate that it is best to go carefully in New Haven.
 There are now sixty steamers plying on the Amazon, and nearly all of them belong to British capitalists. The people of the United States will have to pass few more resolutions declaring that something ought to be done to get the South American trade for this country.
 Edison is quiet, but he is busy. He is now trying to solve the problem of obtain ing electricity direct without the aid of other motive power. He has succeeded in getting some electricity direct from coal, but it has no force to speak of. There are in Europe more than 24, 900, 900 men capable of bearing arms, accord ing to M. Gervias, a French authority. Oi these Germany has 5000, ,0O0, France A., 300, ,000, Austria Hungary 1,sO0,O00, Italy 100000, England 800, 900, Russia 6,0OO,. 900, and the other European states 4,000, GOO. Of this number nearly one-half art | trained soldiers.
 People, young or old, are not alwayl impressed with good counsel. A Nev York lady who had told her little girl tha God was with her anywhere, in dayligh and darkness, when she did right ant when she did wrong, etc., was struck witl the thought that she might have overdon the matter when she heard the little thinl say to her pet dog in harrassed tone "Go home, Spot, go home. It's bad enougl to have God tagging after me withou you"
 Dr. J. R. Goffe of New York, who ha been in Berlin for some time investigatin
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
ITS SAID

The worlds memory is short. We take this op- portunity to again say that c. O. TAYLOR Old Bourbon and Pure Rye Whistles are the best on earth for the money, Sold only in bottles by Grocers and Druggists everywhere. See that the proprietors firm name is on striplabel over cork, CHESTER H. GRAVES SONS.
 Unbranded cases sent when 90 ordered. 1t
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
TITS SAID

..A watched pot never boIls'' The old maxim will apply to teakettle, but man who doesn't watch his business will never get up much steam If you want good and pure whisky buy the 0. O. Taylor old Bourbon or Pure Rye, sold in bot ties ONLY by Druggists and Grocers every where. Unbranded cases when wanted of the sole proprietors, CHESTER II. GRAVES & SONS, whose firm name signature is over the esnrk in aach hot-ie
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
THE EDITOR

Of western newspaper uses a self-cocking six shooter for a paper weight. We treat our pat rons fairly and have no use for firearms If you need for sickness or convival use a pure stimu lant, buy from your grocer or druggist the G. O. Taylor old Bourbon or Pure Rye whiskies, and see that the proprietor's autograph signature CHESTER H. GRAVES SONS. is over the cork in each bottle. Unbranded cases sent on request.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CrTY, 10 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
Committee on Streets.

Committee on Streets. YJyHE Committee on Streets will meet in rooms 10 and H. City Hall Friday, December 12, 1890, at pm, when the following matters will be considered:
 extension of Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets.
 Petition of the N Y., N. H. and H. R. R. Co. for the recision of the layout of the extension of Union avenue from Carlisle to Spring street.
 Communication from the Board of Public present style of paving streets by top dressing or hardening and the substitution of a more dura- ble style of street paving. All persons interested in the foregoing are warned to be present and be heard theron, Attest: JAMES B. MARTIN, d1l St Assistant City Clerk.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12
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Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-12

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4rt1 Goods.
MclltylG,
 Mcguire X C0. Fancy Ware and Glass
 Ware.
BASEMENT.

BASEMENT. 10c for oil and cruet bottles, decorated cheap at 19c. 5c for engraved tumbler, heavy glass. A bargain. 39c for fancy decorated Bread and Milk Sets. 25c for (our own importation) Moustache Cup and Saucer. Worth soc. 25c for fine Glass Rose Jars. 25c for Amber and Blue Water Pitchers 10c for fancy Vases. 10c for extra heavy Ink Stsads. 10c for Bisque Figures. 5c for Children's A, B, 0 Plates. & 10c for Decorated Dinner Plates 10c for Majolica Cream Pitchers. Full line of fine cups and saucers by the dozen or separate. Also magnificent dis play of Bisque Figures and Fancy Vases from 50c to $7.00. CrOckery and Fancy Glass
 Ware
 Basement. Inspection of our stock will reveals. the fact that bargains were never so plenty as in o,1r Roaarnapt
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
BANKER ST. JOHNS PLAN.

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If Parnell can keep up the fight as he has begun it he may win yet. Irishmen, and Englishmen too, like good fighter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-14
C0RA0P0LIS Is CRAZY.

More Bonus Paid Than Would Have Bought
Land Two or Three Times Over a Month
Ago-A New Well in the Charters Field.
The enthusiastic driller who puts glrdle
around oil territory, if not in 40 minutes or
in a week or two, flies off the handle, con-
demns it and indicates some other spot, COM
ing back perhaps to the condemned territory
and rehabilitating it within month, has
been working Coraopolis this week, and the
price of property has gone out of sight.
The Ferree well was not drilled in at noon
yesterday, but the village was still swarm
ing with oil smellers and men rushing
hither and thither with surveying instru-
ments sighting up this ditch and down that,
and there has been more excitement since Sat
urday than ever known before in the place
since the Millerite scare IN 1886 The Guffys,
the Gaileys and other operators are making
the mud fly. and municipal grievances are for
the time being forgotten. The cause of all the
excitement is the result of an accident. The
drillers on the Ferree well having made their
calculations from data taken from the boring of
a well on Neville Island had about decided
that the Ferree well was dry when the jars
broke. During their efforts to get the tools
out they thought they discovered grease signs
After the well was cleaned they decided to
smite the rock few more times for variation.
They did SO and the oil began to squirt. Had
there been no accident the well would have
been dismantled.
Since then Harry Boyd, who had bought an
acre and half on the hill and had put small
building on it at a total cost. ground and
building, of $500, was offered s., 20U for it and
let it go. Dan Gold, one of the drillers, owned
81 acres on the road leading to Ewing's mill,
and he sold the supposed oil under it for S., 500,
retaining the land. Alfred McCabe got $500
bonus and gets one-eighth of what oil may be
found for piece of ground that he offered to
sell outright three years ago for $3.50. A. w.
Mcdonald was offered $500 bonus by a com
pany that wanted to bore in his stable
yard. Mr.. Mcdonald says it will
take $1,000 to come in. A farm
on the top of the hill that was sold by man
named Smith for S65 an acre. has beer leased
on a bonus $50 an acre and one-eighth of the
oil. There is scarcely anyone in the neghbor-
hood who owns piece of land that hasn't had
an offer.
In the CHARTERS field the Fortwangler No.
was showing yesterday for IS barrels. No. L
on the same farm. was making q barrels an
hour. Mr.. Stewart, the man who drilled the
Arbuckle gusher, is interested with the
Gutfys in this farm.