Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-21

to marry an untitled doctor of medicine.
In reply to an intimate friend who asked
her recently how she could marry man
OF such low rank, when so many princely
suitors were at her disposal, she said: 'sI
prefer to marry man without name,
rather than a name without man.
1t took something to feed the Grand
Army men in Boston last week. During
the four days, when 1000 men were in
camp, 10000 Aoaves of bread, 10, 900
doughnuts, 10000 pounds of ham, 10000
pounds of corned beef, $1,000 pounds of
tongue, 300 barrels of baked beans. 10000
eggs, $50 barrels of potatoes, 90, 900 pounds
of coffee and two chests of tea were con-
sumed. Three hundred and twenty gal
Ions of coffee were required for each
meal.
The report of the interstate commerce
commission gives 704, 743 as the number of
men employed in the railroad industry of
the country. It would therefore appear
that 100000 persons, or nearly one
twentieth of the whole population of the
country, are dependentnpon railroad oper-
ations for livelihood. Another interest
ing fact brought out in this report is that
the number of employees per 100 miles of
road is only 459, while in England ], ,748
men were required in 1883 for every 100
| miles of line.
An Episcopal clergyman of Indiana tells
this as a true story: Recently one of the
prominent members. of his parish died.
After the funeral the widow found great
comfort in telling her neighbors about the
many virtues of her late husband, even
mentioning that he took the greatest de-
light in playing cards as an innocent past
time. She must have been thinking of him
| as he appeared in his customary attitude"
for she said: "Jacob looked SO well when
they opened the coffin at the church. He
had not changed one particle. There was,
oh, such heavenly expression on his face.
He locked just as though he held four
| kings.
A Pittsburg doctor has something inter
| esting to say about electricity: Little is
| known of its nature or action yet, but this
| physician gives from his own practice an
example of cure wrought speedily by
the mysterious element A man who had
! fallen heavily, with his whole weight on
one hand, came to the doctors Office in in
tense pain. Agreeing to the suggestion
that electricity be applied, he received an
intermittent current in the injured MEM
Der, and within short while could move
the fingers without pain, although before
the hand had been swollen to twice its
usual size. The swelling was steadily re-
duced and permanent cure affected. The
theory as stated by the physician is that
| up to certain point electricity acts with,
not contrary to, the natural forces, and is
disposed to disintegrate and dispel what
| ever abnormal matter it encounters in the
human system.
i The new law regulating the work Of
unions in Russian factories is not SO strin-
gent as the old law was. According to the
latter children below the age of twelve
years were not allowed to work at all, but
the new law allows the children of ten and
twelve years old to be employed in facto.
ries. Children between the ages of twelve
and fifteen years were allowed to work only
eight hours daily and then only for foul
hours at time. The new law allows then
to be employed six hours at time and in
some instances even six hours in the night
or even on Sundays and holidays. Womer
and girls between the ages of fifteen and
| oil
between 0 o'clock in the evening and
o'clock in the morning; now they may b.
employed at night work. Thus the new
law is more favorable for the employer
and less protective for the minors and fac
tory women.
, The Nicaragua canal enterprise show
J healthy signs of life and progress. Tn
. seven great dredges, with fifteen lighters
besides large quantity of tools and ma
: chinery appertaining thereto, which wer
supplied by an American company an,
did most of the excavation on that sectio
Y of the Panama canal beginning at Colon o
: Aspinwall, have been sold to the Nicara
T qua Canal company, and will be at ono
y transferred to Greytown and put at wor
: there ON the canal under the person,
: supervision of Chief Engineer Menoca
The harbor of Greytown has been improve
SO that large ships can now cross the ba
!, and lie in safety where none but those {
very light draft could enter. Some mile
of railroad have been built, as well as ho
pitfalls, storehouses and other necessar
structures. The line of the canal has bee
:, marked out, the sites of the locks fxet
2 and some excavation has been done.
:. company of San Francisco capitalist
which has had it's engineers examinir
: the route for the western end of the C
nal, is prepared to contract for the po
= tion of it between Lake Nicaragua and Il
Pacific.