Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-05-26

with no other tools or materials than two
needles, a spool Of thread, newspaper and
some rye straw, says the Horoloeical Review.
The wheels, staffs and pinions are all made
of the rye straw, which, it is well known, is
quite course and tough. It runs six hours
without winding, and keeps good time. 1t
is now in possession of the prefect of Karius,
who considers 1t the greatest marvel of the
nineteenth century.
The bishop of Liverpool Il apparently not
in entire agreement with some of the direc-
tors of societies for the care of young wo-
men. At meeting of the Liverpool Rescue
society he said: "I do not quite agree with
the White Cross and other societies which
look upon all young women as lambs and
angels, and all young men as ravening wolves
going about seeking whom they can devour.
think human nature is the same in females
as 1t is in males, and that young women are
often as prone, unless there is good prin-
ciple In them, to run into sin as young men.
We must look at the matter in commen-
sense manner" Bold Bishop.
"
ed in Bangor, Maine, for lee. She was built
in Germany twenty-five years ago, is about
three hundred tons burden and seems but a
coekle shell alongside the big three and four
stickers of American build, but the captain
declares that she has been all over the world.
The captain purchases three hundred tons of
ice, pays for It, and then with his crew of
IL
loupe. He disposes of about one-third of
the luxury to native dealers and the wine-
drinking creoles and planters for three cents
per pound, or sixty dollars per ton. Then
the skipper sails for Antigua, and here there
is an Ice company which purchases of him
regularly, and when the brown-skinned gal
lants and girls of this burg sip their wine,
iced with the Maine product, it costs ten
cents per pound, or two hundred dollars per
ton.
1t seems that the government entomolo-
gists are sometimes useful. For several
years the orange orchards in California suf-
fered from the ravages of detestable little
creature known as the scale insect, which de,
stroyed thousands of trees, and seemed GER
tain to make the profitable cultivation of
oranges impossible on the Pacific coast. The
entomologists investigated the case. They
learned that an Australian insect, small
kind Of lady bug, styled by nsturalists Ve-
dalia Cardinals, was the natural enemy of
scale insects in Australia, and they brought
over few and turned them loose in Califor-
mia. The enterprising strangers found their
new home congenial, and went about their
duty of destroying the scale insects with
briskness and success. They have in one
year exterminatsd the scale insects in oon-
siderable districts, and have saved the orange
orchards.
Sometimes royal people are much like other
people. The German Empress loves little
children. She never fails to notice every one
she eees, and will often stop in her walks
and speak to them. Even grubbiness will
not deter her from taking particularly fine
baby in her arms. though, of course, she pre-
fers them clean. In return, children, who
always know their friends by instinct, are at
tracted to the empress, and the following little
incident, which occurred lately, illustrates
this: A gentlemen who passed daily between
and o'clock along the road that leads
from Berlin to Charlottenburg noticed a little
girl always standing at the corner of the
Hardenburg Strasse, and at last he asked her
why she did it. "Because Of the Empress
Frederick" she answered. While the EN-
press was in Berlin, she drove every day
when it was fine toward Charlottenburg with
her daughters, and at the Htppodrome they
got out of the carriage and walked. Her
Majesty noticed the little girl always waiting
at the same place, and invariably nodded
kindly In acknowledgment of her courtesy,
whereupon the child went home beamipg,