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Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
K knee-Baggfng Trousers. From the Hahardashar1


 Why do trousers always bag at the knee:" is question which, during the past century, has been asked only less ire questly than its companion query, "What will prevent them from bagging:" Ever since long trousers took the place of knick- erbockers these questions have agitated fashionable society and caused unlimited mental anguish both to the aforesaid society and to the tailor's honorable pro- fessfon.
 Long trousers, or pantaloons, as they were originally called, came into use among sailors st as early a date as ITO. The bold mariners, becoming wearied of having their calves frozen by the piping breezes, devised long trousers, and have adhered to them ever since, keeping so much slack in the legs that the wind can not come within several inches of the nau- tical shins- Soilors don't complain of baggy trousers, they prefer them that way. The French were the first to adopt the long pantaloons, and the soldiers of Napoleon fought their battles in white trousers. which, in Meissonier's paintings, are represented as never bagging In America knee brooches were worn until as late as 1S20-
 As soon as the long trousers became 6 fixture, the complaint of bsggy knees arose. It was Daniel Webster who said, in conversation with John c. Calhoun: "I have seen my choicest hopes wrecked and swept away; l have seen great measures which l supported defeated and over thrown; have seen wrong and injustice triumph over 8 nations will, but never, sir, never have been so deeply moved as by my failure to keep these trousers from bagging at the knees," And Calhoun answered: 'T can sympsthize with you, Mir. WebsterI" During the fifty years which have elapsed since Webster's time remedies innumerab!e have been proposed and tested for this all-pervsding evil, but no successful antedote seems to have been discovered. Every imaginable device has been tried. Stretchers have been patented and other instruments placed upon the market, but trousers still continue to bag at the knees.
 Perhaps Chicago tailor has correct ideas on the difficulty He says: ''As long as human anatomy remains as it now is, SO long will trousers bag at the knees They cannot do anything else. Get rid of projecting knee-pans, and the trousers will cease to bag, but not before"
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
FRAMED.

Old Hardfeature (on the marriage tour) Do you like tunnels, darling?
 The Darling-Yes; if you must kiss me, I don't want to see you!-Epoch.
 Justice-Explain how your neighbours chickens came to be found in your coop2
 Brer Coon-Yo' honor, dem hins went in dat yer coop of der own accord; an de do blew shut.-Brooklyn Life.
 "You're awfully proud" said the roos- ter to his wife, 'just because you've laid an egg. What would you say if I told you of a man, madame, man who laid the foundation of that church over the way?"
 Artist-rm thoroughly disheartened, old fellow. A burglar broke in last night.
 Friend-Hushl And stole that painting you had spent 80 much time oni
 Artist-No; he left it and took the frame.-Town Topics.
 "You have so much address can hard ly be expected to compete with you," said the letter to the envelope.
 "Now, don't get excited, :" replied the en- velope, "because you know you can't con- tain yourself. ."-Brooklyn Life.
 Jenkins (examining the pedigree which Snobson has just manufactured)-" -"So this is your family tree, is it? And what is that big gap in the middle?'
 Snobson-sThat, er-well-er-oh, that is the flood.-Rschester Taiisman.
 "Dear me-" said the summer girl.
 s'What's the matter!" inquired her mo ther.
 'Oh, nothing-only haven't heard any one call me dear in so long that l thought would call myself dear. ."-Brooklyn Life. A very old man once went to the king of Sparta and lamented over the degeneracy of the times. The king replied: "What you say is undoubtedly true, for I remem- Der that, when I was boy, heard my father say that when he was a boy he heard my grandmother say the same thing"
 Timmy-Your papa goes out every | night and comes home drunk. Jimmy-So does yours. Timmy-Who told you. Jimmy-My papa. Who told you about l mine? Timmy-My papa. Come on and let's play marbles.-Epoch. q don't know what Smith does with l his money"
 "No?"
 t'No. don't. Yesterday he was short and he is short again to-day" | 'sDid he want to borrow from you?" l "No, hang it, I wanted to borrow from him. ."-New York Press.
 "How are you getting on with the pi ano9" ask Alphonso of his best beloved Matilda "Oh, very we'll; can see great progress in my work" "How it thatp 'Well, the family that lived next doc, moved away within week after I began l to practice. The next people stayed g month, the next ten weeks, and the family there now have remained nearly si1 | months "-New York Weekly.
 Fogg Cat the summer hoteD-By the way did you hear the news about Brownrige l and his wife?
 Chorus-No! What is its
 Fogg-Nothing, only they've separated
 Divers Voices-I always thought ther, was something wrong there; I'm not sur prised bit; never could bear him; sh, was always such disagreeable creature you know, etc., etc.
 Fogg-Yes, they separated just aftel lunch; he went out to get his tennis shoel and she went up stairs after her parasol Dreadful, isn't ita-Washington Star.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
9g11a1a6ano
Committee on Streets.

TNHE Committee on Streets will meet in rooms
 1 10 and II, City Hall. Friday, August q, 1881. al pm, when the following matters Will be considered:
 Recommendation Of His Honor the Mayor that Washington street between Liberty street and Congress avenue and connecting streets near tke connections be graded
 Recommendations Of the Board of Public Works for the paving Of Admiral street between Dtxwen avenue and Canal street and for the pn- wing of Ashmun street.
 Petition Of F. E. Bradley for vitriaed brick pavement instead Of granite blocks on York street between Elm and Chapel
 Communicaiions de repair Of pavement on Hlllhouse avenue.
 Communications de hardening of Prout street where not already paved Petition of Dean Cobb ei al to name a new street from Foote 10 Henry streets between Dtxwel avenue and Orchard street, Townsend street.
 Petition Of A TfAyer el al. for rescrtanE of curb on west side Of Dwight street between whAlley avenue and Kim street Petition of John Gilbert et al for croSsRAIE on Whalley avenue between Garden md Orchard streets.
 Petition Of Fred Meyer ei al for concrete walks on both sides of Barclay street between Frank and Adeiipe streets Petition Of Patrick Murphy et al fer coBcreie walk north side of Clay street between James and Lloyd streets- Petition of raul A skin ei al for relay of walks and ressittnE curhs Wooster street, both sides. between Olive and State streets. Accommodation of Board Of Public Works for relay of walks and reseiiing curbs fRhere necessAry) on State street. east side, between Grand avenue and Wall street, and west side be- tween Kim and Wall streets. and Eim street. north side between Orange and State streets
 AiSesis JAMES E MARTIN. Assistant City Clerk
 Per order, LYMAN IL JOHNSON Ruea q Chairman.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21

Albany is this: Every dollar, whether pa. per or coin, issued or stamped by the gen eral government, should always and every. where be as good as any other dollar. am one of those that believe that these men from your shops, these farmers remote from money centers, have the largest interest of all people in the world in having dollar that is worth one hun dred cents every day in the year, and only such. If by any chance we should fall into condition where one dollar is not so good as another, I venture the assertion that the poorer dollar will do its first CT rand in paying some poor laborer for his work. Therefore, in the conduct of our public affairs, feel pledged for one that all the influence of the government should be on the side of giving the people only good money, and just as much of that kind as we can get.
 E. c. Allen, who has just died at the age of forty-two in Augusta, Maine, is speci- men of what can be done in this country. A farmers boy with no educational ad- vantages, at sixteen he began his business career as an advertiser of books and novel, ties, publishing a small monthly for gra- tuitous distribution among his patrons. His little venture was so bright that it soon developed into the Peoples Literary Com panion, with an immense circulation. He originated the scheme of giving a picture to each subscriber, and there was hardly a farmhouse in New England which did not have one of these pictures. Then he pub lished an original serial story entitled Gillian Ainsley," which took like wild fire, and before a year his magazine had the enormous circulation of a million and half copies. Before he attain ed his majority he had made money enough to erect large building in Angus ta for his business. A few years later he was compelled to erect a still larger build ing. Some idea of the magnitude of his business may be gained from the fact that for the past twelve years he paid for post age more than s100,000 year, although during the same time he sent nearly all his large orders for books, albums, etc., by express. One year he sent by mail more than 1,60O tons of matter and paid in postage $144, 1000. Among the books pub lished by him were parallel Bible, "The Universe" Daughters of America" and lives of Garfield, Blaine, Cleveland and many presidents of the United States. His fortune is estimated at nearly a million.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
cETrINC THETR EYES OPEN.

GETTING THEIR EYES OPEN.
 Those who know much about the far mers of this country-how sensible and practical they are-win not be surprised by the call which has been sent out from St. Louis for a convention to protest against the effort of ''scheming politicians and designing demagogues" to control the alliance for their personal and selfish pur- poses The conservative members of the order have aroused at last to appreciate the gravity of the situation and are determined to wrest the organization from those who have sought to make it a voting force for their own ends. There have been indica- tions hitherto that some comprehensive ac- tion like this would soon be manifest. "This meeting," in the language of the summons, twill be a protest on the part of the lovers of the constitution of the alli- ance against seeing that organization pros tituted by body of men who have no in terest in farming and whose love for the organization is limited by the amount of personal gain they can get out of it."
 This seems to mean business. If the politicians are to run the alliance the con- servative farmers wish to retire and they propose to make vigorous protest against the usurpers before they yield their mem
 bership. The St. Louis meeting will utter the demand of the real farmers in the
 order that it's original purposes be maintained. The revulsion of sentiment
 against the sub-treasury plan is recognized in the call and the meeting next month | undoubtedly will take strong ground in opposition to it. The alliance leaders who
 have the convention in charge see that the
 time has come when the unpopular scheme ! must be 1epudiated.
 This is encouraging, but it is just what might have been expected. The farmers of the United States do their own thinking,
 and it is pretty sound thinking, too. They can be trusted not to go far wrong long.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
Care of HIllsfdes.

ICorrespondence Country Gentleman.l
 To prevent hillsides from washing, first plough lengthwise with the hill and never up and down. By so doing, each furrow, to certain degree and for long time, acts as a sort of dam, and holds the heavy rains back from washing. Next, be sure to plant with the drills running lengthwise of hill, and you thus make your crop and its roots acts as 6 solid turn-water. Then the constant cultivation you give the crop has tendency to make sort of valley be- tween the drills, which holds the water back, whereas if your rows run up and down the hillside, each forms . perfect
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
COMPRESSED AIR,

COMF1tESSED AlH.
 Compressed air as a motive power is again looking up, especially since it has been found that enormous gains in power are made by heating the air just before using. Compressed air has always found more acceptance in Europe than in this country. In Paris, for instance, com pressed air, delivered extensively in all parts of the city, is largely used in the gen. eration of electricity. Another valuable use to which it is put is for refrigeration, the sudden expansion of the air on it's re- lease having the effect of greatly lowering the temperature in room, 80 that where ever compressed air motors are used re- frigeration can be obtained without extra expense. In Paris it is proposed to uti- lize the service in this way by the con- struction of great cooling chambers, where provisions enough to supply the city during a six months siege can be kept at temperature below freezing.
 In Chester, England, there is a tramway run by compressed air, the cars carrying only fifty cubic feet each, since the reser- voirs are recharged from the mains with out stopping, the fresh supply being taken up in manner similar to that in which locomotives on certain railroads take up water from track tanks. It is believed that the expensive cable system could thus be easily transformed for operation by compressed air. It is proposed to utilize the force of Niagara by developing com pressed air and transmitting it, to the ex- tent of 50, 0,000-horse power, distance of twenty miles, in two pipes of twenty-six inches diameter each.
 Perhaps compressed air will yet attain the importance as motive power which it once seemed certain of. It is asserted that with the improvements which have been made in methods of compression, etc., it is now remarkably eheep and eff fcient.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
No. 200

water drain for the heavy showers to i'll up, and the water will rush down hill, gull lying out your land badly. More than this, if one will take the trouble to run several furrows with the plough length wise of the hill between every tenth row of plants, and not disturb it in c1ltivating, he will find he has perfect stop-wster, and his hillside will be preserved from gull lies and washing badly.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
9r1y 6nnds.
-4-s
 2Egs Howe & StGtSOl. ODDS AND ENDS.

We are bound to close out odds and ends before inven- tory, August 28 We submit a few values:
 35 dozen Ladies' Ribbed Vests at SC each.
 Odd lots Ladies' Fancy Hose (about 20 dozens) in full reg ular goods, at I2Hc per pair, usual 25c goods.
 Ladies Black Silk Plated Hose, 35c per pair, our regu- lar soc quality.
 54 pairs Drab Corsets, all in IS size, at 25c per pair; bal ance left from best 75c corset.
 A line of White Nainsook Cheeks at Ioc per yard, re- duced from 12Hc.
 IS inch all linen Brown Crash o3lc yard, 20 inch do. Sc yard just # our usual price.
 Lot of No. I Ribbons at Sc a piece of 10 yards.
 Black Embroidered Hem stitched Flounces, 45 in. wide, 38c, 45c, soc and Goo per yd i; reduced from 75c, ooc, $I.oo and $1.25.
 White Embroidered Lawn Ties SC and 1oc each, marked down from 12H Hc and 25c.
 All Linen Embroidered Handkerchiefs, subject to man. ufacturers' imperfections, 4 for 25c; perfect goods, worth from 25 to soc each.
 Ladies' Silk Waists at $2.5o, $3.75, $5.oo; former prices were $3 S9, $o.5o and $7.5o.
 All wool Printed French Challies, 32c per yard, reduced from Goo.
 Best quality Gents Scotch Cheviot Negligee Shirts e8c each, marked down from $I. SO.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
EDITORIAL NOTES

Water is scarce in Chicago, but the sup ply of whisky is still large.
 It is related that minister of the Cum braes, two insignificant little islands in the mouth of the Clyde, prays as follows: 70 Lord, bless and be gracious to the greater and the lesser Cumbraes, and in thy mercy do not forget the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland"
 Companies have been formed recently in England that for moderate premiums issues policies of insurance against loss or damage by burglary or house breaking Now what is wanted is an insurance com pany which will issue policies against loss or damage by getting married.
 Occasionally an innocent man is hung, even in these days of legal ingenuity and procrastination. John Marion in 1889 was hung at Beatrice, Nebraska, for the mur- der of Tom Cameron ten years previously. Marion died protesting his innocence and asserting that he would be so proved with in five years. Two years only have passed and the man for whose murder Marion was executed has been found alive and well down in Mexico. But Marion cannot even be apologized to.
 A recent investigation made by the Michigan Labor bureau shows that out of s,s3s workmen employed in twenty-five cities and villages of that State, there were 1 1,O46 foreigners who, when they came to this country, brought money with them aggregating $176, ,354, which gives an aver age of $16S. 57 for each person. It was also shown that the property now owned by 3,293 working men of foreign birth was $2, ,693, ,61O, which gives an average of SS17.9S. The total increase in property over the total amount brought was ,5s7 per cent. No objection to such immigrants as these.
 President Harrison's speeches are models of their kind. Perhaps the most import ant and significant part of his speech ct
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
9r1J Guuds.

Mcintyre, 1 Mcguire l X to. | AUGUST PleK|Nes | BELOW COST.
 DRY GOODS,
 KITCHEN FURNISHINGS.
 India Pongees, the best styles sold this season, Old ,sgs price, Nsx sls price,
 Best quality Outing Flannels, choice Old price, New price, 124c. Sc. 200 Fancy Chenille Door Mats, good styles, Old price, New price, 48c. only 29c. 100 White Crochet Bedspreads, Old pa1iice, pai, NeW price, 2 cases Langdon Bleached Cotton in short Old price, New price, 10c. 74c. 8 pieces "A inch Black Faille Franchise, extra quality, Old price, New price, $1.374. $1.O0. All remnants of dress goods, Old price, Hundred cents on the 5. New price, About soc on the 5. 15O Ladies' Scissors, Old price, New price, 10c. 5c. Ladies' Curling Irons, patent filters, Old ia1 price, New p price, Tray Cloths, Splashers and Stand Covers, stamped, Old price, NeW price, Ladies' H. S. Initial Silk Handkerchiefs, beautiful quality, Old price, New price, 39c. 25c. Gents 2 inch H. S. Initial Handkerchiefs, white, Old price, New price, 1Sc. 125c. Lace Caps, all styles, Old price, New price, $900. BOG. Full line all wool 37 inch Suitings, : Old price, New price, 50c 39c. New assortment of Fall novelties in Knick- erbocker and Homespun effects, Value, Price, 75c, 5Oc 50 dozen Mems Tecks and Four in- Hands, latest designs, Value, Price, 75c. soc.
 6a dozen Mems Tecks, choice styles, Value, Price, soc. 25c 100 Gloria Umbrellas, with natural and silver handles, Value, Price, $1.624. $1.25. Mcintyre,
 Mcguire & Co.
 CHAPEL STREET,
 New Haven, 0t-
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CTTY, 15 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, s FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21

We cannot accept anonymous or return reject cd communications. In all cases the name Of the writer will be required, not for publication, but guarantee of good faith.
 Situations, Wants, Rents and other small ad- vertfsements One Cent a Word each inser- ton. Five cents 8 word for a full week (seven times). fnch), one insertion $1 20; each subsequent fn- sertion 10 cents; one week $3.20; one month $10.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse; 15 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 25 cents each. Local notices 20 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be unobjec- tionablel, and their contracts la not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Yearly advertisements at the following rates: One square, one year, $40; two squares, one year, $70; three squares one year, $100. tracts covering considerable length of time or . large space.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
4umrna1 aud Gumrier.

The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
 lished in Connecticut.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
NEW HAVEN POSToFFIGE. Opening and Closing of Mails.
Money Orders, Registered Letters, etc.
Vol. LlX.

Office Houri-Aprl to November 1, am s5s pm November 1 to April I, 7:3o am te Vestibue open for the accommodation of thu holders of lock boxes From March to Novem Der 1, from am to 12 midnight; from Noyem Der to March l, from 5:30 am. to 12 midnight Sunday nights from to Ii pm.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21

Water is scarce in Chicago, but the sup ply of whisky is still large.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21

President Harrison's speeches are models of their kind. Perhaps the most import ant and significant part of his speech at
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-12

scribing Mr.. Norcross' personal appearance,
and he may have made a mistake in identi-
flying the man who rushed past him up the
steps, clearing two stairs at every Jump.
Many of his acquaintances spoke of him
as a smooth-faced man. His parents, how
ever, state that two months ago he let his
beard grow, and when he went from home
last week the lower part of his face was
concealed by heavy growth of hair.
Al Former schoolmate Knows Him.
A dispatch from New York SAYS: Will
lam D. Southworth, the alleged accomplice
of the bomb-thrower in Russell Sage's Office,
has been pronounced sane by the physicians
at Bellevue Hospital He will be dis
charged from the institution tomorrow and
will probably be put under arrest by the
police.
Another telegram from New York saws:
The man who threw the bomb at Rus
sell Sage has at last been identi-
fed, seemingly beyond all doubt, as
Henry L. Norcross, a well-known
Boston note broker. After the identifca-
tion to day in Boston bv his tailor and par
ents of the buttons and remnants of cloth
ing found after the explosion make the
chain of evidence complete, re-
porter persuaded H. NJ. Howes, a former
schoolmate of Norcross, to come to
this city tonight and examine the bomb
thrower's head at the morgue. Mr.. Howes
arrived at 9 o'clock He was met at the
Grand Central station and taken to the
morgue. He positively identified the head
as that of his former schoolmste, Henry L.
Norcross.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-12
FUNDS FRITTERED AWAY.
ALL RUSSIA Is NOW A SETTLING MASS
OF DIsCONTENT.

The Half Hearted Measures of the Govern
ment Increasing the Distress-Money
Diverted to War Purposes-NobIes W ont
Pay Their Bills to Tradesmen.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec 10.-Matters here
are drifting from bad to worse. The whole
energy of the Department of Finance seems
centered in manipulating funds on the Ber-
lin and Paris exchanges. Despite the gold
imports the Imperial Bank return does not
show an increase. There is nothing to show
whether the gold is locked in the war chest
or what has become of it.
All classes are discouraged because of the
half-heartedness of the measures taken by
the Government to cope with the famine
difficulties. The consequences of the famine
are only beginning to be realized. Mer-
chants complain that the prohibitions
of grain exports have locked up capital, and
there is no circulation of money. The mobiles
are unable to collect their revenues, and,
therefore, decline to pay what they owe
shopkeepers. The cessation of court fes-
tivities causes dire distress to small trades
men.
The famine funds have been frittered
away by local authorities The grand
remedial measures exist only on paper.
Complaints of enormous expenditures
on the army and navy have
been taken advantage OF by those
unfriendly to the Government. The whole
Empire appears to be seething mass of dis
content. Rev. NJ. Francis. the pastor of the
British and American church, in an inter-
view after his tour of the famine districts,
said he believed that the full horrors Of the
atf1lction were yet to be described.