Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-18
NEW HAVEN, CONN. MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST IS, 1890
buildings, and 301 have thus been taken in the meantime This is good showing.

buildings, and 301 have thus been taken in the meantime. This is a good showing.
 An English court has just decided that a wife married in Japan after the fashion of that country is a legal wife in England, on the ground that "Japan has long been recognized as civilized country" A pre- vious decision in a case where the wife was Hottentot and was married after the Hottentot fashion had upset the union on the ground that the Hottentots were heath ems and polygamists, and did not know what marriage, in the civilized sense, meant.
 There is mourning in Vermont over the decadence of ssthe old stock" The Bur lington Free Press says: ''The Yankees of earlier days obeyed the divine command to increase and multiply. Then the hills and valleys of Vermont were peopled with those of the same race. Now the native born family of half a. dozen children in Vermont is considered noteworthy affair, and families numbering ten or dozen children, once no uncommon thing, are now so rare as to be altogether unknown in many sections. In the light of these facts brought out by the census of 1890 must we conclude that the race of native vermonters is dying out It certainly looks that way"
 The Bavarian forests have been partly devastated by peculiar insect, ''the nun, y so-called because it spins itself into a cocoon. This develops worm that kills the trees outright, not for the season, but for good A general war has been organ ized against it. Hundreds of people are employed in gathering the eggs, tarring the trees, squashing the worms, pouring lime solutions and those of vitriol on them, and catching the moth. A Bavarian dep uty has invented brilliant electric light that attracts the moths, and, under it, a funnel into which they are drawn by an air draft, and then killed with acid. This costs one thousand dollars, but is very successful.
 Western papers are repeating story to the effect that on the hillock where Gen | eral Custer fell now grows plant never seen before-a curious plant with tall, slender leaves, curved in the exact form oi
 sabre, with edges so sharp as to infiict
 keen wounds upon unwary hands, and those who pluck it once soon drop it, SC
 strangely cold and clammy are its leaves.
 It bears golden-h ued, heart-shaped bios som, and in the center is one small spot of
 brilliant red, like drop of blood. The
 Indians regard it with a superstitious awe. | They call it ''Custer's heart," and cannot be induced to touch it, claiming that the
 blossom crushed in the hand leaves 2
 blood-red stain impossible to remove. This
 is pretty, but cold-blooded correspondent | of ''The Toledo Blade" declares there i.
 not a word of truth in it.
 | England isn't afraid of granting sub
 sidies when they will do good. The Eng fish newspapers announce that the Elm
 press of India, the first of the three new
 steamships for the subsidized British lint
 across the Pacific, will be launched on tn, Both instant at Barrow, and be ready fol service about November 1st. The Empress
 of Japan and the Empress of China, tn
 other vessels, will be ready about Januar.
 1st and March 1st, respectively. The es
 timated aggregate cost of the three ship
 is not far from s3,OOO,O The annua
 mail subsidy which this line receives Ii
 s30O, ,0OO, and in addition the new ship
 will have about $25, ,O0O year apiece, O
 more, from the British admirality. Tn
 total subsidy, then, will be about s375,
 900, or some 12t per cent. on the cost 0
 the three new steamers.