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Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
WANTED.

Bilkins-I know what I want" Filkins Then you must know 8 great deal.- Somerville Journal.
 The court-Would you believe this man on oath! Paddy O'Rally-Not unless he swore he wor lyin', yer honor.-Life.
 First hurglar-The newspaper says we missed S25, ,000 in that safe we cracked last night. Second burglars-That shows how valuable newspapers are. We'll go and get it to o-night.-Epoch.
 s'Could you not, if you tried, grant me place in that icy heart of yoursi"
 "My heart may be of ice, as you say, MT. Shopley. But, all the same, I am not in the cold storage business. s."-Indianapo lis Journal.
 What he Wanted to Know.-Mrs Slim son-Willie, what did you say to the kind lady next door when she gave you the piece of pie?
 Willie-I asked if that was the last piece she had.-Brooklyn Life.
 "And mo-" said the lady patient, "after I have detailed all my troubles, do you not pity mel"
 ''On the contrary" answered the physi- elan, "I envy you. To go through that you must have the constitution of horse" Philadelphia Times.
 HOW your Wlle.
 "Well, really, I cannot tell you; I haven't met her lately" "Havent met her latelys"
 'ENo. You see, we are in different sets. She's Montmorenci and I am only a Smith. ."-New York Press.
 He (angrily)-You have encouraged me all summer-in fact, you have given me every reason to believe that you loved me and now you throw me over with mere word. think your treatment shameful
 She-I knew you would. I told mamma so the evening you and l were intro duced.
 Amy-Wby so sad, Edithl Edith (rec- tors daughter(-Oh, poor pa! He never has any luck! They talked of trying him for heresy, you know, and the church was getting more and more crowded every Sun day. Now it turns out that it wasn't her esy at all-and here we are poor ever!- Boston Beacon. Messenger boy Gin Chicago)-Is this MT. Calumet's housea Well, the tailor sent me around with this coat to have him try it on.
 Servant-Mr. Calumet is not in the city. Messenger boy-When will he be back {. Servant-I don't know. He's gone up on the oof.-Clothier. q understand that you are paying so me considerable attention to skin-graft- ing, doctor" ''So am." "Must have some trouble occasionally in l obtaining material, do you not2" "Not bit. My brother runs barber shop. p."-Indianapolis Journal. "We had mon key at our house for a | pet. but pa gave him away, an I'm awful sorry," said Jimmy to his friend.
 "Did you love the monkeyi" asked his companion.
 ''No,' said Jimmy, "but the monkey used to get blamed for everything that went wrong, and now I do."-Lamonl | Patriot
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
The Good old Days a Humbug.


 "I guess these farmers who are grooming about the wrongs they have to put up with, to say nothing of low prices and high taxes, and who long for the good old times, be- fore railroad monopolies ground them, and every mans hand was not raised against them, don't remember much about the good old times" said a well-known Orange county farmer who has lived in tha, county over 75 years and owned farm for CO.,
 ''I can remember when we used to haul our grain, butter, pork eggs, and everything else we had to sell all the way to Newburg, taking one day to go and another day to come home. We generally got 15 cents 6 br1shei for soats ind I6 cents a pound for butter. Anything like 75 cents bushel for wheat was a fancy price. If we got 6 or 8 cents dozen for eggs we thought we were doing well. Nice corn-fed pork dressed, we carted to market for $2 hun dred. The butter we put on the market in those days was the genuine Orange county article, yellow as god, and as hard as a walnut. I have sold tubful after tubful of the choicest butter for 10 cents a pound, that would net me 75 cents if had it to sell now.
 "That was before the Erie railway came through here and put us up to selling our milk instead of making it into butter. We didn't have and me-preserved eggs to sell in those days, either. As for taxes. paid $10O on my farm of 100 acres when I was getting 10 cents for my butter. On the same farm now I pay less than $50. and I sell my entire dairy of milk for what would be more than three times 10 cents pound for butter tell you there is good deal of humbug in this referring to the good old days as being the golden age of farming. They were nothing of the sort"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
FISHING FOR SHARKS.
After a Good-Sfzed one is Hooked the
 Angler Soon Needs Help.

After a Good-Sfzed one is Hooked the
 Angler Soon Needs Help.
 Arrived at the grounds the boat comes to anchor in water not very deep. The floats are adjusted so that the hook will hang about six inches from the bottom. The menhaden are cut in two, as the blood very quickly attracts the sharks, and care fully placed upon the hooks, the point of each being well covered. The end of the line is made fast to something in the boat; and the sharking begins.
 If one is SO fortunate as to have anchored near a school of sharks much activity is soon noticed among the boats, says the Youths Companion. They begin to bob up and down or to move of in the slow and heavy manner which indicates that there is large fish at the hook. Allow the shark to have his own way, and to play with the hook for few mo- ments in order that you may be sure that he has had time to get the bleeding fish well into his mouth. Then give 6 strong jerk.
 If you have hooked him you will soon know it, for lively scene will follow. The shark is very gamy fish, and expresses very vigorously his dislike of changing his element. If he is of good size, from four to six feet long, it would probably be im- possible for you to get hin in alone, and you will be very glad of one or two more pairs of hands to take hold with you; and
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16

if now it should chance, as it not infre- quently does, that one or two of your com panions should almost at the same moment hook fish, there will be seen about as much life, not to say excitement and confusion, on board as one often wit nesses.
 The water foams about the boats. Lines are intertsngled, fishermen slip and fall in their efforts to board the sharks, and the sharks that may be in already flap about and snap their rows of white teeth together in way very suggestive Of lost leg should you happen to fall overheard I once knew of a shark, snapping at his captor, to take off the heel of his boot. A thump on the head with a belsying pin or large club is all that will bring the shark to terms
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
The Fascination of KiplIns.

MT. Edmund Gosse contributes to the October Century critical esasy on Rud- yard Kipling, from the introduction of which we take the following: 'I cannot pretend to be indifferent to the charm of what Mir. Kipling writes. From the first moment of my acquaintance with it it has held me fast. It excites, disturbs and at- tracts me; l cannot throw of its disouiet- ing influence. I admit all that is to be said in it's disfavor. I force myself to see that its occasional cynicism is irritating and strikes false note. I acknowledge the broken and jagged style, the noisy newspaper hustle of the little peremptory sentences. the cheap irony of the satires on society. Often-but this is chiefly in the earlier stories-I am aware that there IS good deal too much of the rattle of the piano at some cafe concert. But when all this is said what does it amount tot What but an acknowledgment of the crudity of strong and rapidly develop ing young nature: You cannot expect a creamy smoothness while the act of yinous fermentation is proceeding.
 Wit will shine
 Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. A noble error, and but seldom made,
 When poets are by too much force betrayal: Thy generous fruits though gather'd ere their Stm show a quckness. and maturing time
 But mellows what we write To the dull sweets of
 rime.
 'In the following pages I shall try to explain why the sense of these shortcom- ings is Altogether buried for me iu delight ed sympathy and breatlliess curiosity. Afr. kipling does not provoke a critical suspen- sion of judgment. He is vehement and sweeps us away with hiu; he plays upon a strange and seductive pipe and we follow him like children. As write these sen- tences f,el how futile is this attempt to analyze his gifts, and how greatly I should prefer to throw this paper to the winds and listen to the magician himself. I want more and more, like Oliver Twist. I want all those other sturies:' I wish to wander down all those by-paths that we have seen disappear in the brushwood. If one lay very still and low by the watch fire, in the hollow of Ortheris' grea;cost. one might learn more and more of the inextinguishable sorrows of Mulvaney. One might be told more of what han pened, out of the moonlight, in the blackness of Amir Dath's Gully. I want to know how the palanquin came into Dearsley's possession, and what became of hheni Singh, and whether the seal cutter did really die in the House of Suddhoo. I want to know who it is who dances the Halli Hukk, and how, and why and where. I want to know what happened at Jagadhri, when the Death Bull was painted. I want to know all the things that Mir. Kipling does not like to tell-to see the devils of the east 'rioting as the stallions riot in spring. It is the strength of this new stOTy-teiler that he re-awakens in us the primitive emotions of curiosity, mystery and romance in action. He is the master of "A new kind of terrible and enchanting peepshow, and we crowd around him begging for just one more lnol, |"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
GRATEFUL-C COMFORTING. EppS'S Cocoa.
BREAKFAST.

srBy thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nu- triton, and by @ careful application of the fine properties of well selected Cocoa Mir Eppe has provided our breakfast tables with dellcateiy havored beverage which. may save us many heavy doctors bills. IL is by the malicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may b-a gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well for tined with pure blood and a property nourished frame."-Civn Service Gazette
 Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half pound tins, by Grocers, labeled thus:
 JAMES EPPS & CO, Homeopathic Chsmists
 dSI ued6th1y Ioudon Fnol.na
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
treasury funds are to be established, in- cluding national food and clothing fund.

ciuulng natlonaI food and clothing fund.
 Death has reaped notable harvest this
 year. Among his eminent victims since
 January 1 are King Kalakaua, Secretary
 Windom, Bradlaugh. Meissonier, Admiral
 Porter, General Sherman, General John
 ston, Von Moltke, Sir John Macdonald,
 Hannibal Hamlin, P. T. Barnum, Law renee Barrett, Kinglake, Tossing and Ban croft, James Russell Lowell, Balmaceda, Boulanger, William Henry Smith and Parnell.
 There are ingenious people in the world. An inventor recently wrote to a western Presbyterian Sunday school offering to sell or rent a new development of the slot machine. It bore the legend: ''Drop a nickel in the slot, and see heretic get kicked out;" and in accordance with this statement, the inventor said that nickel would cause picture of a Presbyterian church to appear, from which presently man, presumably heretic, would emerge as though vigorously ejected.
 In boring artesiap wells, on the Pacific coast great depths are reached before striking water. At Jaral and Monclara the wells are 1 ,536 and 1 ,2S0 feet in depth. The supply is inexhaustible, but the water has to be pumped. In Texas water has been struck at 2,031 feet at Haskell, 1870 at Longfelder and 1,60S at Spoford The water is good, but it did not flow in Aug ust In the California desert water was struck in one well at depth of 1, 400 feet and another at $50 feet, but it was brack- ish.
 A few days ago lot of bright silver dol lars bearing dates from 1893 to 1880 were sent to the Economy bank in Pennsylya- mia, and they have history. When Father Rapp was the patriarch of Economy there appeared-this was in 1S30-a man who styled himself Count Leo Pioli He brought with him thirty German follow CTS, and the whole party were received into the society. Pioli was plausible scamp, with a talent for intrigue, and he soon had the good brethren by the ears. One day he demanded for himself and his clique half of the society's funds. To get rid of the fellow Father Rapp turned over to him S100, ,000, and Pioli took himself off with the money and set up rival society at Phillips burg. This came to grief, and when the funds of the colonists ran low Pioli planned a raid on the treasures of Economy Some body warned the good Father Rapp, who, with the nine trustees, buried the wealth of the society. The raiders came, but only to be routed by women of the settlement The money recently deposited in the Econ the place of concealment of which is known only to the trustees of to-day, who in turn will disclose the secret to their suc- cessors
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16

said Boseome, "but I'm doin' what the superintendent told me to do, and you bet I'm goin' to obey orders. Stiggen's Cross ing!"
 The conductor pulled the bell-rope and the train slowed up
 Anything wrong with the train ,conduc- tori" asked Boscome, anxiously.
 "Yes. The air brakes on fire. You run back there about rod and you'll find a bucket of water beside the track Bring it it to me-"
 As the train started up again the con- ductor shouted to Boscome, who was trying to catch up:
 Next time you get on a train you do what the conductor tells you to. Quit running after me: you can't catch the limited. Tramp back and report to the superintend- dent"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
Probate Court, District of New Haven, ss. !

Probate Court, District of New Haven, ss. |
 New Haven, Oct. IA, 1891. UPSTATE Of MARY ABIGAIL CARPENTER, TI late of New Haven, in said district, de- ceased. @ @z E4
 Upon the application of John Miles Carpenter. praying that an instrument in writing purpcrt. ting to be tho last will and testament of said deceased may be proved, approved, al lowed lowed and i admitted & to probate as per apph' l. ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at Probate court to be held at New Haven. in said district, on the Fist day of and that notice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon by publishing the same three times In some newspaper having e circulation in said district. A. HEATON ROBERTSON, ,o153 Judge of said Court.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
Ttcb and SaIt Rheum,

y1Jo all affiicted with the itch, salt rheum or
 any skin disease that scales and drops oil and then scales again, etc., make salve which n as harmless as butter, that will heal the dis essed parts in from 2 to 10 V eeks, no matter how ione standing or what remedies you have tried, and build new skin as healthy as new born babes, the disease never to return again Nc, sold to druggists. To be had only rom '. (ior maiD for . { e. fer. jyls lys
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
Afraid of the Baptists.

"Uncle" Jason is negro preacher who, in his way, is as original as Sam Jones. He recently preached sermon in which he said that during trance he was taken to heaven, and while there he saw the Metho- dists, the Presbyterians and the Episcopa- Hans "way of to one side"
 "And whar wur de Baptis'!" asked a brother in the congregation.
 "Dey was rite at de t'rone," said Uncle Jason.
 "How dey cum dare?"
 'Well, de lawd say de Baptis' am such unreliable raskals, he had to keep 'em wha' he kin git his hands on 'emI"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
9r1J 6unds.
 Howe & StetSOl. GOOD NEWS
 -FOR-- SHREWD BUYERS.

300 dozen Ladies' Winter Weight 5 thread Indelible Fast Black Cotton Hose at 25c per pair. The greatest value ever shown by us.
 75 pairs California San Joa- quin 11-4 White Wool Blan- kets at $4.75 per pair: Bor- ders are red, electric blue, pink and gold.
 I case (3o pairs) California Diamond Valley A" 11-4 White Wool Blankets at S7 per pair. Cannot be matched in city. Borders are pink, blue and gold.
 10 pieces Ecroyd's Black Silk Warp Henriettas at $1 per yard. This is the regular SI.25 number.
 IS pieces Cancels Hair Plaid Dress Goods, 37 inches wide, at 19c per yard. These goods are actually worth ,3oc.
 GOO Stamped Art Squares at 12aC each. Have never been sold for less than l8c.
 Ladies Jackets, Cleopatra Capes, Military Newmarkets, Paletots and Box Coats in great assortment. Special bar gains for this week in Fur trimmed Shawl Collar Jackets at $7.5O, $1O and $11.50.
 Extra drive in Children's Gretchens, from 4 to 2 years, at $2.S9 each. We think it hard to find better garments $4.oo.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Woman is surely marching on, and not very slowly, either. Society women are acting as wine agents in Philadelphia.
 A virginian has written book to prove that the negro cannot enter heaven as the equal of the white man. It is safe to say that no negroes who enter heaven will be the equals of the man who wrote that book, but they will be his superiors.
 One of the Alliance members of con- gress has bill already prepared providing for the issue of two billions of legal tender paper dollars and free coinage of gold and silver, ,and each dollar is to be interchange able with every other dollar at par; and further to help the people, three great
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
Raisce1 e1Ia1nen11s.
GREAT REDUCTION.

We offer at retail fifty Plush and Rattan Chairs, slightly shopworn, at 50 per cent. less than regular prices. Also a large line of beautiful Chairs uphol- stered in Plush, Broca- telle, Tapestry, in all the latest shades and finish.
 Divans, Sofas, Dining Chairs. Tables in Oak, Mahogany and Rattan.
 Call and make your se- lection at once. ..F
 New Haven Rattan Co.,,
 kk2 State Street.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
District of New Haven, ss Probate Court,

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 October IA, 1891. UPSTATE of MORRIS EHRLICH, Late of New Upon the application of Bernard B. Savage of New Haven, said Morris Ehrlich having been ad judged an insolvent debtor; &
 ORDERED-That the 17th day of October 1891, at ten o'clock forenoon, be, and the same is hereby assigned for hearing on the appoint. ment of trustee and that all persons in, n. they see cause, and be heard thereon, this court directs that this order be published three times in a newspaper having @ circulation in said pro bate district, before said time assigned for said hearing. A. HEAToN ROBERTSON,
 o15 aT Judge.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
CALIFORNIA, TEXAS AND MEyIco

Semi-monthly arties, personally conducted combining comfort, low rates, quick time Pull RIER, New England Agent Southern Pacific Company, t87 Washinston Street, Boston MasS
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16

District of New Haven, Trobaie Court,
 October 1s. IS8l-
 UPSTATE of WILLIAM A. RRDC ZHcTT, late of fl North Haven. in sasd district. deceasod.
 The Court of Probate for thC district Uf New Haven hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement Those who neglect i0 present their accounts, properly attested- within said time will be de- barred 6 recovery. All persons indehted to said estate are requested 10 make immediate pay Inent to GrDRGE W SMITH
 nI5 a I~ Adfaiuisa rEasr.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
BASEMENT.

Tin Ware, Wooden Ware, Glass
 Ware and Crockery,
 AT DISSOLUTION PRICES. Beautiful Dinner Sets sacrificed. Framed Artoes and Choice Pictures with Easels, sacrificed. Lamps and Vases sacrificed. Cups and Saucers sacrificed. 20 sets Encyclopedia Britannica sacri- feed.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-16
A1fsee11anenus.
@tsee11a11en11s. Optical Goods Toilet Sundries.

Field Glasses, Spyglasses. COlOred Spectacles and Eye glasses. | COmpasses, BarOmeters and Thermometers. Pocket Flasks, Drinking Cups and Picnic Sets.
 Pocket Air Pillows.
 Medicine Cases, filled or emp ty. !
 Hair, Cloth, Tooth, Nail and Bath Brushes.
 English, French and Ameri- can Soaps.
 Choice Perfumes, COlOgnes and Bay Rum.
 Manicure Goods.
 Toilet Powders, Puffs and Cosmetics, of every description.
 Bath SpOnges and Towels. -- Our Stock and Prices
 Will Bear Comp mparison.
 E. L. WASHBURN, 04 Church 8 GA Center sits BICYCLESl Why buy cheaply made Bicycles when Columbia and Hartford safeties can be bought on install nents. Think 1t over. NEW HAVEN CYCLE CO.,, 51s STATE STR EFT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-27
6SSORTING MAILS At SEA.


The practice of asserting mails in transit,
which has long been employed on railway trains
to the great advantage of the public, has lately
been applied TO certain of the mail-carying
steamers. and the results thus far have been
gratifying in the extreme. We do not know
to whom the credit of originating the idea be-
longs, or how long it was under consideration
before being put into practice; but it is unde-
niably a good idea and one that is thoroughly
practicable. The first steamer on which mall
clerks did their work at sea was the Havel,
which arrived here early in April Since then
more than 100000 ordinary and some 1000
registered letters have been handled at sea, so
that on the arrival of the steamers the mails
are ready to be distributed at once in this city
and to be sent out to the various points Tor
which bags have been made up. The saving
of time thus accomplished is considerable, ana
there is no longer the rush that formerly FOL
lowed the arrival of every mail steamer, with
the necessary accompaniment of working over
hours by the employees of the postofiice.
The arrangement between the United States
and Germany is reciprocal one, our mails
being assorted on the western voyages ana
those for Germany on the eastern. Many peo-
pie are no doubt wondering why similar ar
rangement cannot be made with Great Britain
and why all ocean mails cannot be handled IN
the same way. The answer is that the English
mails are assorted on the trains between Queens
town and London, and that any arrangement
with that country must be one-sded affair.
At the same time, it is obvious that England
would have something to gain by such an ar
rangement, since it would not then be neces-
sary to send all the mails to one central point
for distribution. Our own gain would be by far
the greater, and we can think Of no reason why
this country should not pursue the same policy
ON the English vessels as on those which fly
the German flag. No one who understands the
amount of time saved by the asserting of mails
on railway trains would now think of reverting
to the old custom. The same principle governs
both cases, and we hope to see it applied in
short. time to all steamships which carry the
transatlantic mailbags.