Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-24

decided that grocers may weigh paper
with tea, coffee, sugar and such commod-
tiles without being guilty of fraud upon
the purchaser.
| It is related that the concerns which
make newspaper clipping business, have
notified Theodore Parker, Izaak Walton
and Jane Austen, through the publishers
of their works, that they would for a
proper compensation, send them notices of
their new books, clipped from the news
papers.
The legal status of the bicycle is fast be-
coming established. In an English court
lately, in the case of a bicycle stolen from
a wsyside inn, Judge Lushington said that
the innkeeper was bound to take care of
the goods of travellers, and that goods"
included bicycles. The juryg gave verdict
of about $75 for the owner of the bicycle,
and the judge approved the verdict.
Il. A. Taylor, commissioner of railroads,
has filed a special report on the debts of
the Pacific roads. He proposes plan for
extending the payment for hundred
years, interest at 2 per cent, and portion
of the debt to the United States to be paid
each year. Mr.. Taylor gives as the reason
why this should be done that sit is useless
for the government to insist on terms of
settlement that the railroad companies will
not agree to-" If this is true it would be
just as well to hand over the government
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Bishop John Fl. Vincent, of the Meth
odist Church, has suggested the novel ex-
pertinent of a comparative study of re-
ligions through direct, practical exposi
ton of the beliefs of different
denominations by competent ecclesiastics,
each one to have equal facilities as to
time and manner of address and to select
whatever arguments may please the
speaker best. DIR. Vincent hopes to have
an inter-religious conference of this kind
meet at Buffalo, and expects to get Roman
Catholic priest to explain his beliefs, Uni
tartan minister to give his reasons for his
faith, and 80 on in regard to other denomi
nations.
A Hebrew, DR.. Theodore Kohn, or, as
he once was, "Cohen," has been made the
Roman Catholic archbishop of Olmutz, the
principal see of Austria, which for cent
uries has been occupied by archdukes and
princes or by members of the noblest fam
lilies. DR.. Kohn is the son of a Jewish
couple of Moravia and was brought up in
the orthodox faith. He was converted in
grammar school in Strassnitz and at
tracted attention by treatises on ecclesiasti
cal law. The archbishop of Furstenberg
appointed him professor of economical law
in Olmutz, and through various stages of
promotion he has reached to the see,
which has hereditary right to cardinals
hat, its occupant always being proposed by
the Austrisn emperor.
There has been much complaint that the
exhibit of road construction at the worlds
fair was to be made practically valueless,
because, as has been alleged, the numerous
features which go to make up this exhibit
were to be separated and shown in half
dozen different buildings. This would
have been a serious misfortune, and was
grievously disappointing to the friends of
good roads, who hoped to have great OBJ
ject lesson for the instruction of the thou
sands of road makers who would go to
Chicago from all parts of the country.
Wiser counsels have evidently prevailed,
for now it is announced that there will be
a mile or so of road in actual construction,
workmen being engaged at various points
along its whole extent in putting into
shape all the various constructions that
have been found to give good results as
roadbeds.
At recent meeting of the French Acad-
eny of Sciences in Paris M. Stanislaus
Meunier suggested, by means of an ingen-
ious experiment, a solution of the problem
of Schiaparelli's double canals in Mars.
He drew series of black lines on pol
ished metallic surface to represent the
surface of the planet Mars as seen by US.
A ray of light was then directed on to
this rough map, while above it at dis
tancs of fraction of an inch was held
piece of transparent muslin stretched on
frame. Immediately all the dark lines
became doubled, the shadow of each line
having been thrown on to the muslin film.
In NJ. Meunier's opinion this was an ex-
PLANTATION of the canal phenomenon.
The suns rays impinging on the sur
face of Mars are unequslly refec ted.
If the Martian atmosphereis is clear, nothing
particular happens. IL, on the other
hand, the atmosphere contains layer of
fog at the suitable height and of a suitable
character, the contrast between land and
water is intensified, and the result, to an
eye placed in prolongation of the reflected
rays, is duplicate image of the less re-
hscting surface. Professor Schispsrelli
has observed a certain amount of "nebu-
losity" in regions where canals duplicate
themselves; and also that the conjugate
canals are not always parallel or double
throughout their length-phenomens which
may be explained, according to M. Meu-
nier, by variations in the height and thick
nasa of the Marian olouds