Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-10

which enables the possessor to send ga
cloud of binding dust" into the eyes of
foe at a distance of twelve feet. Good,
but suppose a foe had a few Gatling
guns. The users of dust guns would have
trouble in getting within twelve feet of
the users of Gatling guns.
A new vaccination law is in operation
in Italy, which requires that every child
shall be vaccinated before 1t is six months
old, and again at eight, or at any time
whenever the sanitary authority deems 1t
necessary to promote individual and pub
lie safety. Those who are not vaccinated
and revaocinated according to the require
ments of the law are excluded from
schools, factories, workshops, benevolent
institutions, etc. Provision is also made
for the cultivation and supply of both ami
NAL and human lymph.
Ideas rule the world. 1t is related that
one of the merchants of Denver, who con-
ducts large dry goods house, goes on the
theory that many people who have griev-
snce are made happy when they get some
body discharged. So he keeps in his em
ploy a young man whose sole duty is to
keep out of sight except when he is called
in to act the part of scapegoat and be
"fred" In the presence of some offended
customer. In case the customer asserts
that this wss not the clerk who sold the
goods the explanation is that this is the
man responsible for that department.
1t takes Yankee to see the commercial
advantages of any situation. They are
telling of an enterprising one who lives on
the borders of Mexico, and who has built
himself henhouse, with yard attached,
80 contrived that the place where he feeds
his hens is in Mexico and the place where
their nests are is in the United States. He
feeds his poultry on cheap Mexican food,
and as they cross the border and lay their
eggs in the United States he escapes the
payment of the five cents dozen tax laid
on imported eggs. Thus far none of his
hens have been arrested for smuggling.
The national committees will, it is said,
direct their attention very closely to carry
ing about sixty congressional districts,
where the incumbent holds his seat, by
majority of less than 1000. Never before
have there been so many narrow margins.
Forty-two Democrats and fifteen Republi
cans were elected by less than 1000
plurality and twenty-eigh of them by less
than 500. Under the new apportionment
the 53rd congress will have 356 representa-
tives, an increase of twenty-four. The
present congress stands: Democrats 2S5,
Republicans 81, Farmers Alliance 10.
The combined majority over the Republi-
cans is thus 155. The Republicans must
gain about ninety seats in order to have a
sure majority in the next house.
Judge John w. Barr of Louisville, pre-
siding in the United States district court
for the district of Kentucky, has just de-
cided in the negative the question wheth-
or a man on tIisl for crime can show in
his own defense that another person, now
deceased, had confessed that he was the
guilty party. The case was that of apost-
master who had been found guilty of tax
ing money from registered letter, and in
the course of the trial he offered evidence
to prove that another person had admitted
taking money from such letters In the
same postoffce and had killed himself the
day after making the confession Judge
Barr said that he had not found any au-
thority in either English or American re-
ports where such evidence had been al
lowed in a criminal case.
Perhaps they don't want Colonel Inger-
soil up above or down below. he is grow
ing younger. A correspondent says of
him: His round, full head is now nearly
bald. The hair that remains is snow
white and closely cropped. His round.
full face was smooth-shaven and with
scarcely line or a wrinkle. His forehead
was broad and full. His eyes are keen
blue-gray, with twinkle in their depths
of the latent humor always underlying
nearly everything the Colonel says. His
nose is prominent and straight. His
mouth is fine in its lines and small His
chin is round, pronounced and very strong
in it's contour. He is as smooth-shsven
and as fresh-colored as an English country
squire. He has the high color of a man
| of health ard the unmistsksble air of sue
cess which always goes with men who &C
| complish something in this world. When
| 1 saw him the other morning he was
dressed in dark frock suit, with q great
bunch of pink and white sweet-peas in his
| buttonhole.