Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-29
NEW HAVEN CONN. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 49, 1892

Europe. Italy has twenty-five crematories,
several of them portable affairs that
are taken from place to place ss re-
quired. Germany opened three new ones
last year, and in France during the same
year 3,4l bodies were incineratsd, the
second big crematory in the cemetery of
Pere Ia Chaise, Paris, having 20 be enlarg-
ed, 30 popular is this mode of aisposing of
the dead becoming there.
According to the editor of the Troy Kan-
sas) Chief, the fgrandfather's hat" has
been much misrepresented. "We saw
Martin Van Buren, in 1s43," says this old
Kansas campaigner," and his hat came
near filing the specifications of this pic
ture, but even that was not such a mon
strosity. We saw old Tippecanoe in 1910,
and stuck as closely to him as boys to a
circus bsnd-wagon, and took his dimen-
sions from crown to toe. We believe We
should know him If we saw him to-day.
The hat he wore was shaped much like the
plug hat of to-dAy-that is, 1t was regu-
lar cylinder, without any bulge or bell
crown, but not as high as . plug hat; rath-
or q half plug. The hat was made of some
light material, colored black; either of the
palm leaf or Panama order, or some light
woven fabric, the weather being very
warm
Contrary to popular opinion, says
western shoe dealer, "the female descend
ants of the Puritans have smaller feet than
those of the Cavaliers. We manufacture
ladies' shoes almost exclusively. We sell
most small shoes in the Northeast, most
large ones In the Southwest, in Arkansas,
New Mexico and Texas. The Carolinas,
Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas and Nebras-
ka also order q good many large sizes.
Ohio, Virginia. Kentucky, Maryland, In
diana, Illinois. Iowa and Missouri buy
medium sizes. The retail trade of large
cities requires more small sizes in proper
ton than does that of the smaller cities
and villages. Still there Is great differ
ence in cities. Boston is pre-eminently
the city of small footed women. Next In
Louisville, New Orleans, New York and
Denver. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Pittsburg and Salt Lake City may be
classed as big-footed."
There will be some very interesting
sights at the great fair in Chicago. Those
who have been charged with the prepara-
ton of the Turkish exhibit are making
very extensive preparations to have 1t of
superior merit and interest. They will
charter a large ship to transport the ex-
hibit. They will bring over four hundred
native Turks arrayed in their national cos
tunes. They will reproduce at Chicago
street in Constantinople with all its pecu-
liar crookedness and nsrrowness and its
interesting bazsrs and restaurants. The
bazsrs will be filled with articles of Turkish
manufacture. The expedition to Chicago
will start from Constantinople and will call
at all Turkish ports for reinforcements and
articles to be placed on exhibition. Adri-
annapolis and Philoppolis have caught the
fever and will do quite as much as the
capital to make the Turkish exhibit sue
cess. The exhibit will include reproduc
ton in miniature of the Mosque of st. So
phia. This has never been reproduced in
any Christian country and for its repro
duction at Chicago special permission of
the Sultan had to be obtained.