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A Series of sc1entific Meetings.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Washington, D. C., is getting to be more and more great city for conventions. This is especially true as to those of a scientific sort. Official notices are out for a series of meetings, beginning with the American Microscopic society, that met August Il and 12, followed by the asso- citation of state agricultural colleges and experiment stations, a conference of Amer | ican chemists and another of economic en- | tomologists. All these have been held in l the spacious rooms of the Columbian uni versity. In the same place to-day will be- l gin the annual sessions of that great l and popular assembly whose long l name, "The American Association for the Advancement of Science, " ought to be shortened. The retiring pre- sident, Prof. G. L. Goodale of Cambridge, Mass, will give the annual address to night. General sessions will be held daily at 10 6. m., after which the eight special sections will meet in different rooms to hear scientific papers and transact busi- ness peculiar to their several departments. After the adjournment of the A. A. A. S., will come the annual meeting of the Geo logical Society of America, August 24 and 25; followed by the great International Congress of Geologists, from August 25th to September 3. In connection with the gathering of these renowned and learned bodies many agreeable social features have been arranged for by the citi zens of Washington. Severa remarkable scientific excursions are planned to be made after the final adjournment The most notable of these is grand west. ern excursion, covering more than 6,00( miles in length, traversing 39 degrees 1T longitude, and crossing twenty or mor' States and territories, besides portion O Canada. All the various excursions AT, available to members of the various scien tifo societies, and will be under the direc tion of competent geologists. The pub lished programs mention the names of nu merous foreigners of distinction who ar to read papers or make addresses. Takel all in all, this will undoubtedly be tn most extraordinary series of scien tif meetings ever held in this country.
 H, c. H.
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The announcement that public senti- ment in Germany is demanding change from the German characters to the Roman in the magazines, books and newspapers published in that country will be cheering to those who have had their eyes injured by the old letters.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

They tell big stories about California fruit, but California is also ''some pump kins" on wheat. One wheat field in that State covers 572 square miles, or about 100000 acres. The yield is an average of fifteen bushels, or nearly 3,0O0,0O0 for the whole.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-19

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 16 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAMh TERMS BY MAIL.
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COMMUNICATIONS.
More Room Wanted,


 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 There are about three or four thousand dissatisfied individuals living on the line of the West Haven horse railroad in the city limits. Dissatisfied, yes, and mad. And the one reason is because they cannot ride on the horse cars without hanging on, as if by their teeth. It is simply an inn possibility for person to get onto car Sundays, and week days nearly as bad. Now, it is an outrage on the people that live on the line to have the dust and racket of the bowling mobs these hot nights, un- til 12 o'clock sometimes, and think that If you or your family wished to go to town, or come from town, it would be almost an impossibility to use the cars.
 It is an open violation of contract and charter by the road in not supplying the wants of and accommodating the people. When the cold season is here, then the company is mighty glad to take our nickels, for we, the people, in the city linn it's keep them from starving for ten long months and the other two months they snub us and make us walk, rain or shine. Now, MT. Editor, lend us your printing l machine and help us out. Get the ball rolling and we will keep her rolling until we get legislature, then we can fix 'em. We want those West Haven officers tc | know that they cannot use our streets 1T | front of our houses for their own persona benefit. We would be greatly obliged tc the press of the city if it would take thii matter in hand and make it so hot that w could be accommodated with comfortsbl, transportation. G. A. WHITMoRE.
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4umrma1 aud Gumrier.

The Oldest Daily Paper Pulp
 ished in Connecticut.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-19

A novel plan for extinguishing a church debt has been hit upon in Melbourne. The committee-or vestry, as the case may be-divide the total debt among them selves and each man insures his life for the amount that falls to his share. The poli- cies are transferred to the church, and the annual payments on them are made out of the collections. Then, of course, as the members of the committee "drop off, the sums insured on their lives drop in, and later, when the last committeeman is dead the last installment of the church debt is paid. The plan has the merit-if merit it be-of throwing the whole of the responsi- l bility for the continuance of the indebted. ness upon providence.
 | It is estimated that the treasure lyine idle in India in the shape of hoarde o'
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MOSQUITOES.
MELILOTOS
BLAINE.

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 TIDE AND RAIL.
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Some curious measures have come up in the State legislatures during the past few months, and the Georgia legislature, which is still in session, is evidently determined not to be behind the rest in this respect. It has just introduced bill providing for visions the Georgia man of thirty who has not yet found wife will be taxed $25, that sum to be increased by a like amount for every five years of bachelorhood. At this rate the man who persists in keeping his neck out of the matrimonial yoke un- til he is sixty would have to pay about $2OO year for his single .blessedness.
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Rather than agifate Mr.. Sars6eld FUR
Their in his weak state I agreed to this,
and promised, for the Bythesea police,
that we would not interfere with Corne-
lis for the present. He should touch his
coin and go; but We would not lose sight
of him, and when he least anticipated
capture, when all his fears of molestation
we're lulleS< he must be arrested hlmselI
and his papers seized by q sudden oe-
scent.
It was so arranged. The blinds were
manipulated as directed, and no watch
kept on the Esplanade to see whether
Cornelis came in person to see the SIG.
nal. At shutdown Fawcett, the friend o.
the family, went to the north end Of the
beach with the gold which had been
brought down from London by N OF
Mr.. Sarsfeld's clerks, in obedience to
telegraphic instruction.
There were the rows Of disused bath
ing machines. The key was in the place
indicated. To unlock the paddock, de:
post the gold, relock the machine and
replace the key took little time, and the
coast was left clear for Cornelis to carry
off his plumber.
Not quite clear, however. Hasnip and
another detective in plain clothes watched
all night from the very next machine, IN
which eye-holes had been bored and IN
which they spent the night. Their in.
structions were to observe who removed
the money, to follow him at a distance,
but without creating suspicion, to mark
him down and never leave him till 1t was
safe, having regard to Mr.. Sarsteld's
Bcruples, to run him in.
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BOO"
II oI1As MIDsUMMB.

~ b9tndle oow's music was drowsy and dun.
The dew Of this grass wet her tail,
- Robin Ada!rd drove her up to the st1e,
WHARF GAry, the mi1kmaid, With mischtovoua
rrfle,
Gas waiting and watching with patience thu
while,
With her brown curly bead In the pau.
Ehs clouds and the darkness Of night had just
The sun arose, big, round, and red,
~ Robin Adair reached the stile with the COW,
Ind wondered just when, just where, and Just
how,
Ee had ever seen Mary so pretty ss now,
With the bright shining pail on ber head.
Amoment he wondered, q moment he paused,
His heart beat a quickstep or two,
When he saw to his sorrow her rosy Lips pout,
md heard the deep mutt'rings Of sobs coming
out
from the dear little heart he was thinking
about.
As he waded the grass, wet with dew.
With q hop, skip, and Jump Robin mounted the
To learn, If he could, what it meant, q"
RhenM Mary confessed, between sobs, then and
there,
That her hope and ambition was Brindle to
scare,
But the pesky old handle" bad caught in he,
hair,
30 she could not say boo worth q cent.
CHICAGO, Ill.
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The Weight Of a "Grain."

The smallest measure of weight in use,
the grain, has its name from being orig
inaIly the weight of q grain Of wheat.
A statute passed in England in 1855,
ordained that thirty-two grains of wheat,
taken from the middle of the ear, or
head, and we'll dried, should make a
pennyweight, twenty of which should
make an ounce, while twelve ounce
were to make a pound. The pound,
therefore consisted then of 1850 grains.
Some centuries later the pennyweight
was divided into t%wenty-four grains,
which make the troy pound, as now
used, $3.50 grains. The penneweight
was the exact weight of the old silver
penny.-&. Louis Republic.
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second snake bravely, and, tossing 1t
about her neck, lets its head slide down
to a level with her waist. The lower
part of its body encloses her shapely
throat in a qu~eer-looking coil, and, start
ing forward, the trainer cries:
"Never let them get around the neck
like that" Meanwhile he breaks the
coil with a single gesture. MIR: Burns
explains that in this way snake charmers
are sometimes choked to death by their
pets. The girl listens with her eyes
opened very wide. -.
Standing in the corner is a cage OF
iguanas, leathery-skinned lizards, so des-
titute of motion as to appear stuffed.
Some, however, have crawled up against
the sides of the cage and cling there,
staring aimlessly from fshy eyes. The
trainer jumps in and, tearing them OIL
begins to throw them to the bottom
of the cage. In an instant all within
is whirring confusion. Dozens OF the
creatures are swapping at the trainers
shoes and trousers, while others chew at
their brethren with equal enthusiasm.
Mr.. Burns quickly jumps out, but one OF
the lizards gets through the door with
him and scampers across the room In
truant delight. The girl scamples to
chair, holding the snake above her head.
81 am not afraid of snakes" she cries,
ssbut T don't like that thing"
After a struggle behind a barrel Mr..
Burns grips the iguana behind the neck
and losses it, still clinging to a piece
torn from his coat sleeve, among It's kin
in the cage. It's arrival causes a fresh
tumult, and while this is euelling itself,
Mr.. Burns gets another snake from the
box, one of those whose belligerence was
so pronounced at the beginning of the
lesson.
The disturbances about it have by no
means improved this serpent's temper,
and, as the trainer, with q sure grip be-
hind the snakes head, sways it slowly to
and fro, it opens its jaws to their fullest
extent, and, Kissing, seems ready to
strike at whatever comes within Its
reach.
snow, this snake isn't honestly ugly
remarks Mr.. Burns, land you needn't
shrink away. Hes hungry, that's ALL
but if I fed him and then handled him
he would die. Now, this is the way to
quiet these fellows"
The quoting process seems to lie simply
in forcing the python to cut all kinds Of
figures in the air. The motions OF the
trainer are all made with wonderful
quickness. He watches constantly the
snakes head, which his hand, rapidly
sliding about behind it, keeps in con-
slant agitation. "This gives him some
thing else than biting to think about"
Mr.. Burns explains, and suddenly stops.
He has done enough. The snake lies in
his hands as placid as ore could wish,
and now he coils it in all shapes about
him, but with no more displays of fierce
ness on it part.
When the novice, who has watched
the performance with deep interest, is
asked to handle this snake, she refuses
to touch it until a rubber band has
fastened its jaws together. This acci'
IDENTIFY slips off, and thenceforth she be.
HAYES 30 gingely with the python that
her teacher looks on in disgust.
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SNAKE CHARMING.
A NEW YORK ANIMAL DEALERS
PECULIAR OCCUPATION.
Training Young Women to Handle
Big Snakes With Impunity-A
Pupils Practice With Pyth-
ons and Anacondas.

Burns, the animal dealer in Roosevelt
street, sells snakes, and hes in his second
story a fine collection of them. He also
trains young women to the business. He
has several applications a week during
the summer, and almost as many during
the winter. He will tell you that the
dullest of those who graduate from his
school get their diplomas after a two
weeks course of an hour a day, that
many need only a half a dozen lessons,
and that one or two have become pro-
6cient after one lesson. The young wo-
men who apply at this school are work
ing girls who have got tired of standing
behind counters or otherwise getting a
living at the expense Of long hours Of
toll. They have seen snake charmers
and they are dazzled by the costume and
the great applause. Most of these girls
have a morbid love of notoriety and of
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RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.

The Evening Post is doing splendid ser
vice in calling attention, by diagrams and
the reports Of special investigations to the
proximity in this city Of saloons and public
schools. There is a law forbidding the loca-
ton of a saloon in the Immediate vicinity
of a school. Yet in one case, Grammar
School No. %, al 97 Greenwich street, there
are twenty saloons within 200 feet and TWEEN.
ty-fve within a block and q hall. Cases
nearly as bad are numerous. It Is impossible
in many, probably In most cases for the
growing boys and girls to 60 to school u
this city without running q gauntletof sa-
looms.
This is one Of those things that would
strike us all as an incredible outrage were
we not so familiar with such tales in connec-
ton with the drink evil. And yet this con.
dition has prevailed for years, and the Chris
tian conscience in this city has grown SEEM
ingly torpid on the subject. There is no
agitation over 1t, no excitement, ho rsvoltoe
outraged public sentiment, no thunder and
lightning from the pulpits on Fifth avenu
or anywhere else hardly. The actions OF the
Excise Commissioners are outrageous; butte
all the outrages perpetrated, the placid In;
difference Of these churchly communities 10
the most incredible. There ought to be an
uprising Of such intensity that all ordinary
political issues would be lost sight OF until
these dens Of iniquity were cleaned away not
only from the schools hntfrom tina homes OF
the public .-Neu York Voice.
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A Rush for Dangerous Occupations,

A Rush Tor dangerous occupations.
One of the curious features OF modern
life is the extent to which the most haz-
ardous trades are oyerrun by applicants
for work. The electric light companies
never find any difficulty in obtaining
all the linemen they need, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the dangers OF that kind
of business have been demonstrated times
without number. The men who work in
factories where wall paper is made fire.
ouently Joke one another over the tradition
that a mans life, in this trade, Is short
ened ten years. -.
A similar belief is prevalent in factories
where leather papers are made, and
among men who have to handle them
and whose lungs are said to become i'm
ueded by inhalihg the dust arising from
such papers. In certain other factories
where brass ornaments and fittings are
made. the air is laden with very fine
brazen particles, which are, when inhaled,
~especiaily irritating to the lungs. But
one of the most singular advertised calls
for employees that was ever printed ap-
peared recently in a Connecticut news
paper, signed by a firm engaged In the
business of building towers.
It called for applicants only among
those who are young strong and courage
GUS, and closed by saying: "We warn
all seekers for this job that it is OF the
most dangerous nature, and that few
men continpe in it more than. a few
years. In fact, it's almost certain death
to the workman who follows this occu-
patton Med Age,
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stWhy, he's not poisonous" exclaimed

"Why, he's not poisonous, exclaimed
Mr.. Burns; sand if you are bitten it's
no worse than the prick of a needle. But
wait a minute and III get you something
easier"
Whereat he dives into an inner room
and returns with the young anaconda,
darker than the pythons and looking
sleepy enough. He gives it to the novice,
who receives it with confidence, letting
the other snake slide to the floor with an
expression of relief.
The first thing that the anaconda does
is to slowly and gracefully wind itself
into a tight, bullying bracelet about the
girls wrist.
"That's the way with those anacon-
das," slowly remarks Mr.. Burns, land
you want to look out for it, too. They're
Just about ten times as bad as the
pythons in tying themselves about any
one, and if that fellow had got around
your neck as the second snake did, it
wouldn't have been so easy to get him
off," The he unwinds the snaky knot,
and tells the girl to keep the anaconda's
coils apart with both hands.
Suddenly, while his back is turned,
the pupil shrieks out: "He's bit me-"
and Mr.. Burns, slowly wheeling around,
c%heerfully remarks: 81 knew he would.
That's what I got him out for" The
snake at the first opportunity had slipped
his head from the girls fingers, and like
lightning fixed his teeth in the back of
her right hand. She stands there now
holding him tight and with a helpless,
miserable look on her face.
"Now, don't let co." says Mr.. Burns,
soothingly. 1.-THE last girl I had bitten
did that, and talked away to come back
no more. Like all beginners, you were
afraid of the snakes teeth, and if this
hadn't happened here you would never
have been good for much until it
occurred in a performance, where you
would have been we'll broken up. 1t isn't
going to kill you, and some day you will
find it a good bit of business to do in
the show. Does it hurt much now,
reaily2"
With some confusion, but with more
color in her face than it possessed a
moment before, the girl confesses that
she feels hardly any pain from the
wound. Mr.. Burns makes her han die
the snake a few moments longer and then
gives her a short rest, while he pours
British oil upon the snake bite. Then
he sets her at work again, teaching her
this time how to take a stubborn snake
from the box and subdue it herself, how
to follow che head of another on the
floor until the proper time comes to grip
it with her hand, and then, observing
unmistakable signs of fatigue in the
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TIE British Medical Journal throws

TIE British Medical Journal throws
more light on the mysteries of jam.
making. An inquiring stranger, it
says, who was being shown over a
British wine mandatory, was struck
by several high mounds Of crimson
dust. These he was told were the
refuse Of the wine presses In which
the juice Of raspberries, %currants, and
other fruit used in the business was
extracted for making wine. As it is
seldom that anything is wasted In an
English factory, an inquiry was made
as to the form in which these mounds
Of dust would re-enter the market;
the visitor was promptly told that it
was disposed of to lawmakers to give
the appearance Of fruit to the pulp OF
turnip, vegetable, apple, or what not,
which forms the basis Of the confec-
ton. It would seem that almost
anything will do to make jam OF, as
the chemist can produce a flavor to
initiate every kind Of fruit. 1t is
commonly supposed that orange-peel
is picked up in the streets wherewitb
to make marmalade. Probably this
is a SANDER on the preserve maker;
but, according to the report of a case
heard this year in a metropolitan po-
lice court, rotten oranges in the con-
dition Of a "black pulpy substance"
and quite unfit to eat," as the in
spector very ~sapiently remarked, are
considered by the owners Of the fruit
as good enough to be chopped up for
marmalade." Oranges for this excel
lent substitute for butter at break
fast" it was shown, cost only n
dollar a box, whereas fruit for eating
costs three dollars. A disquieting
fact, indeed.
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TEMPERANCE.
MY STORY, MARMs

MY STORY MARM9 u
~ .r m.r,, Wan ,o.Tr $50.
ny not mf,ch to saw. AA no
ou5 youu caneu year ago anu then agaih
Io-99ay,
NO neeo oL MoIas - sen YOU mar"' ior your
Syes soaiu
now mucn Sne eeITSstlaIe sause nas uoanes
tot NY ca - Att i"nne-
A naor 600 NO hadn't Ao,,r to mato . hatch
Of brad -
neriess To he'd.
Now look at the Iarder. marm-there,s sugar.
-four and tea: :,
And that is what the temperancs cause has
dome for John and me. ~
The pail that holds the buster John used to
fill with beer;
Dos months tbs and q wear: z 9 : , ~"
u. navs his dshts ;srefro,g md wall &c INV
ne p msn 5 u be~ oe 4an anu "el a. -
And that Is what the temperance esnse has
done for John and me.
He. used to sneak, along the streets. feeling SO
mean and low.
to know:
But now he looks them in the face and steps
off bold and free:
And this is what the temperance cause has
done for John and me,
A year ago these little bows went strollinc
through the streets, 800
With scarcely clothing on. their backs and