Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-22

from ''soroefs of the liver"
Mrs. Julia PhiniIy, formerly a slave,
died in Atlanta last week and left property
valued at $50, 900 to Marion Phinizy, son
of her old master. It would be more in
teresting if Marion needed the money, but
he doesn't. -z--.-E.--z-i
Upon analysis, Professor Virchow finds
that the Russian "Hungerbrod," the bread
eaten by the peasantry in the famine
stricken districts of Russia, is much more
nutritious than the rye bread made in
Germany. The latter, according to an
analysis of bread baked In Berlin, contains
but 04 per cent. of slbumen and 0. 48
per cent. of fat, while the "Hungerbrod"
of Russia contains 11.79 per cent. of albu-
men and $40 of fat.
A matchmaker in Newcastle, England,
recently completed set of three gold shirt
studs, the second of which contains q
watch having dial which is only three
sixteenths of an inch in diameter. The
three studs, placed in shirt front ARE con-
nected from behind by delicate silver
tube containing winding and setting
mechanism. To wind the watch 1t is
necessary to turn the upper stud, and to
adjust the hands the lower stud is turned.
The Southern Pacific Railroad company,
after spending thousands of dollars to
secure a water supply in the Colorado
desert, has struck a flow at Walters, at q
depth of 4S3 feet, that yields 5000 gallons
an hour. Walters is in the very heart Of
the desert, nearly 200 feet below sea level,
and where there is now nothing but a
sandy waste, dotted with cactus and
gressewood. If wells can be put down
with equal success in other places this
desert waste may all be utilized by means
of irrigation.
How soon we are forgottenl The large
picture of General Boulanger on horseback
reviewing the French army, painted by
Dsbat-Ponson, has been on exhibition in
several large cities of Belgium and Holland,
and results show how little people care for
the brave general, once such conspicuous
and sensational figure. In Holland the
exhibitors lost nearly So, 900. In Brussels
it was thought chit" would be made by
exhibiting the picture on the anniversary
Of Boulspger's death. The total receipts
were so centimesl
A London clergyman has been much i'm
pressed by tho sizs of Mr.. Gould's fortune.
He told his congregation that it the late
millionsire's money were in fye-pound
notes they would stretch from London to
Moscow. Or if it were in sovereigns they
would make column seventy three miles
high. The queerest calculation of all
changed the fortune into shillings, aud the
clergyman showed that 1t would take near
ly 240 years, working night and day, to
give away one shilling to each person, at
the rate of ten pereons each minute.
Chicago is spelled in various ways by
residents of this country, but now that the
world outside is becoming acquainted with
the great western metropolis, marvellous
spell of orthogrsphy has been inaugurated.
In asserting the letters from various parts
of the world 1877 different ways of spelling
the name have been found, among them
"Jagjago," "Hipaho," "Jajigo," "Shec-
chago," "Hizago," "Chachicho," and
scholarly resident of Finland indulges in
"Zizazo." A collection of addresses is to
be kept for exhibition at the worlds fair.
The latest balloon warranted to 60 in
any desired direction ia the invention of
Carl Theodor Geissler, Hamburg gar
dener. Experts have made favorable re-
ports concerning it, several patents have
been granted for it's new devices and the
aeronautic department of the army has
had it under inspection. In form it re-
sembles a torpedo, the object being to
enable it to overcome more easily the re-
! sistance of the air. The balloon ia not
enveloped in a net, but its folds are sewn
into the case, so that If a rupture should
occur at any point, not q large hole but
only rent from one fold to another
would follow and the gas would escape
quite gradually. The car hangs by ropes,
fastened by loops to the lower
folds of the case. It Is as long as the
balloon itself, and has winged screw in
front and a rudder behind. The screw is
driven by petroleum motor of aluminium,
weighing only 1870 kilogrammes, makes
1000 revolutions minute, and moves the
balloon forward. The rise and fall can be
regulated by a sliding weight and by a
ring which enoircles the case, and on the
surface of which the air exerts greater or
less pressure, according to the horizontal
or oblique position Of the balloon. A
large balloon on this model would cost
about $4,000.