Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-28

1t has evidently got firm hold upon him
A Missouri man has a chicken with (
hawks head. This is truly remsrkabl,
freak. Hawks with chickens heads ar,
common.
Sentiment is not yet extinct. A wooder
toy horse, and broken at that, but once thu
plaything of Napoleon Bonaparte, was re
Gently sold for 1 1000 francs.
1t has been thought that Man could dc
more work than Woman, but Mrs. Emma
Drew of South Norridgewock, Maine, runs
a small farm. keeps horse and cow. raises
butter for market, cares for her five chill
dren, does her own housework and also
teaches a school of seventeen children five
days in the week.
1t is related that when the late P. S.
Gilmore brought an italian opera chorus
on the stage at the Boston peace jubilee,
one of the critics complained of him for
being sensational in introducing them in
costume "He should have seen them out
of costume" said Gilmore, very quietly,
land he would have readily understood
the reason for my action"
Lightning does occasionally strike twice
in the same place. John Shsvor, 10 years
old, has been twice struck by lightning
this season at his home in Schenectady.
The first shock was in August and did him
no great harm, though it left red circle
as large as half dollar on his right cheek.
The second was on Saturday night and
killed him instantly. When struck he was
sitting at the same place as when he re-
ceived the first shock last summer.
Mr.. George Westinghouse, jr., tells the
Railroad Gazette that with d perfect brake
acting upon all of the wheels of an express
train running at ninety miles An hour, at
the end of ten seconds the train would
still be moving at little over sixty miles
an hour and would have travelled q dis
tance of about 1 ,130 feet. In Mr.. WestinR-
houses opinion there are many places where
electrical power will proftably supplant
steam, but the great expense involved will
be a serious obstacle to the utilization of
electricity for moving standard railroad
trains
The membership of the Grand Army OF
the Republic when the last report was
made was 407, ISL, no less than "a, 40l
members being added during the year.
The losses by death were ,4O4, but nearly
go, 900 dropped out of the order, more
than 13, 900 being delinquents and 34,367
being suspended for non-payment of
dues. The Indications are that the order
has about reached its maximum member
ship and that this may be maintained for
a few years, when a rapid decrease will
begin. The greater number of members
are now between As and 55 years of age,
and ten years will surely deplete the
ranks.
Some people have time to "6gger."
One of them says that in New
York 100000 or 100000 people
daily do more or less walking on
the streets, and that on an average six
grains of leather is worn from the shoes of
each. This would make about 2,344
pounds of shoe leather to add to the debris
of the great metropolis. Then he says fur
ther: If the particles which go to make up
this amount could be restored to their
original condition they would form
leather strap an inch wide and ten miles
long. In the course of year the material
would suffice for an inch-wide strap long
enough to reach from New York to Liver
pool. For leather in the form of boot
soles the public pays 60 cents pound; SO
the amount daily lost in New York is
something like 81 400, or over $500, 900 a
year.