Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-12

never paid one cent to dressmaker or
milliner, nor has any one else done so for
me. Every dress, hat and bonnet I wear
is made and trimmed by my own hands.
We must be doing pretty well in bust
ness way when the Englishmen fear us.
The London Financial News, referring to
the decline of British trade in the Pacific
on account of the worthlessness of the
cheap good ssent out from England, says:
''Tons upon tons of knives find their way
from Sheffield every year, any of which
would bend at the sight of ripe banana.
Somehow or other the Americans have
maintained better standard in this and
most other articles of commerce, so that
their commercial name is good in that part
of the world" And again: ''The Yankee
trader shrewdly kept up a fairly honest
standard of excellence, aud has walked off
with the major portion of the important
trade of the Pacific"
1t used to be thought that Woman was
something like bird, and that she pecked
at food rather than ate it. But times have
changed. A correspondent at Saratoga
the other day noticed the dinner order of
a modest and fragile-looking little woman
in one of the big hotels. 1t comprised the
following articles: . Little Neck CLANS,
turtle soup, blueish, roast beef, cold
boned capon, fricasseed chicken, lobster
salad, stuffed green peppers, boiled new
potatoes, string beans, green peas, New
England pudding, cake, wine jelly, ice
cream, assorted fruits, nuts, raisins and
coffee. And he adds that she partook
more or less of all these dishes. Her hus-
band tasted of little soup, had bit of
roast beef with mashed potato, and some
crackers and cheese. :. - ---.Is.. "a.
Brunton VS.. Maple & Co. presents an
interesting case just decided. Mrs. Brun-
ton had Persian carpet for which her
husband had paid Ell 900. Wishing it
cleaned, she sent it to Mr.. Maple, who
keeps a eat furnishing establishment,
and he agreed to clean it, the
value of the carpet and its
careful treatment being impressed upon
him fully by Mrs. Brunton. Maple gave
it to a cleaner named Anderson, and he in
turn sent it to a man who lived in two
rooms with his wife and four children and
vho was to receive S12.50 for cleaning it,
Maple charging Mrs. Brunton 10 per cent.
on that price. Ireland cleaned the carpet
with benzine. Then he hung it up to dry,
and one of his children accidentally set it
on fire and it was burned. The jury gave
Mrs. Bunton e1 900.
The white caps of New Mexico continue
so audacious that Governor Prince has is
sued proclamation calling upon them to
disband. He declares that if they do not
do SO he will order out the territorial
militia, and if necessary, call upon the
United States troops. This band of regu-
lators style themselves knights of labor,
and have organized lodges throughout the
San Miguel country, until they now have
membership of 800. They have with
out any legal cause destroyed hundreds
of miles of fences, turned herds of cattle
loose, burned thousands of tons of hay
and- destroyed other property, while
several men who have opposed them have
been seriously wounded by some unseen
assassin or mysteriously disappeared.
The new English census will not be as
inquisitorial as the one that has Just been
taken in this country. The questions to
be asked are those in regard to the name,
sex, age, profession or occupation, condi-
tion as to marriage, relation to head of
family and birth place of every person who
abode in any house on the night of the
census day, showing also whether any
such person was blind or deaf and dumb
or imbecile or lunatic. The only new
question to be put is one recommended by
the census committee-namely, where the
occupier is in occupation of less than five
rooms, as to the number of rooms occupied
by him. One particular that was asked
for at the last census and is now omitted,
in accordance with the committees recon-
mendation, is the crank" of each person.