Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-04

What's In these namesi The retiring
Austrian ambassador at Berlin is Count
Szechenyi and his successor is Count
Szogyenyi.
Louis Xavier. the Psrisisn sculptor, has
been telling st. Louis reporter that the
feet of American women are too small.
Notice that it was not a Chicago reporter.
Read the communication from Mr.. John
A. Damn printed on this page. He has been
buried by the Register in what it eu-
phoniously calls its "amen corner" but he
refuses to lie there.
A little New York boy after hard even
ing's work trying to make a list of the
three hundred and sixty-five most notable
persons in the world gave up the task and
tossed his list to his mamma. He had got
as far as this: "Jesus," Christopher Co.
lumbus," Papa"
A San Francisco firm is about to attempt
the revival of whaling in the Antartic
ocean, which has not been carried on for
as many as twenty-five years. A quarter
of a century ago the catches of sperm and
right whales used to be excellent there, and
many of the whslers are now of opinion
that the southern seas will again afford q
profitable field for operations.
The St. Louis Democrat tells how to keep
a gun from rusting. Have ring of zinc
soldered round the barrel, or, if it is not
convenient to do this, have long strip of
zinc soldered out of sight underneath the
barrel. The galvanic action which is ex-
cited between the zinc and the iron effect
ually prevents the oxidation of either
metal, and as long as the zinc remains In
contact with the iron not particle of rust
will appear on either the inside or outside
of the barrel.
The relative area of woodland in the
various countries of Europe is as follows:
Forests occupy 80 Z per cent. of the total
area of Sweden, 38.9 per cent. of Russia,
80. 8 of Austria, % 4 OF Hungary, 25 of
| Germany, "a 5 of Norway, 10 9 of SerSia,
10 u of Belgium, 1S of Switzerland, 17.7
of France, II of Spain, Is of Roumania,
49, of Greece, 1873 Of Italy, Z of Holland,
5.3 of Portugal, As of Denmark and of
Great Britain and Ireland. AS to the
United States, the figure is 10 per cent. of
the total area, and the actual extent or the
forest land is equal to fifteen times the
area of Pennsylvania.
A farmer of Pennington, California, has
been experimenting for come time with
traction engines. He has big ranch, and
during the past season did all his plough
ing with the engine. running 1t night and
day with three shifts of men. After the
grain was thrashed he had sc, 900 sacks of
grain to haul to the railroad for shipment
to Stockton, distance of seventeen miles,
at an expense of 81. 10 per ton. Instead of
loading up his wagons, hauling to the
station, and unloading into cars, he simply
hitched nine wagons to his engines, loaded
up in the field, and hauled along the road
to Stockton, requiring Ave hours for the
trip, the only expense of hauling the
forty-two tons being the wages of three
men and the coal used.
Walrus skins are sometimes treated by
the San Francisco tanners. The hides are
of immense size, weighing as much as seven
hundred pounds and measuring eight feet
by fourteen. The first experiment with
these skins was made about twelve years
ago, but at first there was no market for
them when tanned. Local silversmiths,
however, found them an excellent substi-
tute for the old-style emery-wheel, and be-
gan to use them to polish silverware and
to Surface" precious stones. The price OF
the skin advanced until it reached IS q
pound. Whalers were commissioned to
secure the green hides, and with competi'
ton the price fell to So pound. The
process of tanning Is the came as that used
for ordinary leather, save that the walrus
hides are laid away for six months out OF
the twelve, and it takes five years to com
plete the process of curing. The average
run of the hides in thickness is from thres
to four inches when green. Wnen tanned
| thew run from two to three iuches in thick