Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-08
NHEF HAVEN. CONN. MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY S. 1892

pilot good paging infidels to any spot from
 Dan to Beershsba. And the discussions
 around the hotel tables, in which Moses,
 Jacob, Pharaoh, Paul, John and other fig
 ures of sacred history form the chief sta
 ples of conversation, are said to resemble
 very much those of minister's weekly
 meeting.
 Minnesota furnished 1S,5 three years
 men in the war and she has 10, ,s73 men on
 the pension roll. The District of Colum-
 bia beats this record, in that she furnished
 only g, ,543 three years' men and has 6, 132
 men on the pension rolls. Oregon fur nished 1,773 three years men, and 2,263 soldiers from that state draw pension. This record is surpassed in Kansas, which supplied 16, ,6A three years men and has on the pension rolls 29,421. California leads all the other states in this direction, however; she furnished 3,697 three years men, and has S,004 drawing a pension. The only explanation of this excess of pensioners over the number of three years men enlisted is that vast number of men enlisted just before the close of the war and saw but little service
 Judge Wheeler of the United States Cir cult court is inclined to think that corsets are clothes. In recent decision he re- marked: In this case the question is whether the article, cotton corsets, is prop erly classified as wearing apparel. In point of fact it is 8 waist in which are in serted wha1ebones or steels for the support of the body, also for the support of the clothing. If you were to ask anybody who did not care anything about the matter in any way, but who knew, whether that was an article of wearing apperal or clothing, whether it is mechanical contrivance, rather think they would say it was part of the clothing; that it answers the pur- poses of waist. think it is clothing; I am not, however, 80 very confident about it. The finding may be affirmed.
 Occasionally diary is "kept." The oldest diary in the world, according to Japanese paper, is that of the HoLaka family, landed proprietors in the Province of Koschin. The diary has been conscien- tiously kept by the various heads of the family for more than three centuries. It was begun at the time of the fall of the Takedas, who were masters of Kaschin under Yoritomo, the great Japanese ruler. The pages of the ancient books fail to show that the HoEskas were especially dis tinguished either for intellect or prowess. There is no doubt, however, that they were conscientious in the discharge of their duties, and lived the peaceful lives of Japanese gentlemen. The state of the weather was naturally a matter of great importance to them, and each day they chronicled it's condition. But the books have other entries as we'll. A short time ago dispute over precedence took place between two branches of the same family in Kaschin, each claiming to be the original line. The contestants ap- pealed to the Hozaka diary and found the record of dinner given several hundred years ago by the head of the family to the founder of the side line. The record even contained the name of the dishes eaten at the dinner, and effectually settled the dis pute The various volumes of the diary now fill eight chests, and form the chief treasures of the wealthy Hozaka family.