Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-21

Pity the unfortunates who had to talk
politics yesterday.
Training for prize fight and training
for contest in political convention are
both hard work. And both are prelimina-
ry to knockout.
There are some very hopeful people in
this world. New York has a city improve
ment society which proposes to try to reform
the manners of the hackmen.
1t has long been supposed that mosqui-
toes must be of some use. 1t is asserted
now from Havana that mosquitoes have a
use, for If they inoculate any one after bit
ing a yellow fever patient the disease which
follows is SO mild that fatal results are
rare.
So great have been the crowds that have
visited Whittier's grave since his burial
that it has been necessary to put a special
guard around the lot. Every visitor wants
to carry away leaf or a flower as a me-
mento, and, If this were allowed, the grave
would be entirely stripped of everything of
the kind. The first Sunday between 1,700
and ], 800 persons on foot and $50 teams
visited the grave.
Agricultural depression and shrinksge in
land values have of late years been greater
in Great Britain than in this country. At
a recent farmers meeting in Maidstone,
Surrey, Mr.. ]. HarbridRe reported num-
ber of actual sales as compared with sales
and offers on the same property in past
years. One farm that was sold twenty
years ago for 5000, 900 sold within the last
four months for 10000. Another owner
refused an offer of $4,000 twenty years
ago, and within the last year sold for
So, 500.
The most ingenious of all recent inven-
tions is that produced by patient Ger
man. He has made a mechanical boy
which will, by simply winding up. walk
up hill and down dale regardless of the con-
dition of the roads. and will push a load of
passengers or freight. The figure is five
feet in height and is dressed in a shirt and
trousers, and csn push a weight of $50
pounds at speed of q fast walker. At
present it makes rather too much noise,
and in this heightens its resemblance to the
human boy.
Scientists have measured the thickness
of the envelope of soapy water inclosing
the air of the bubble whsn it becomes SO
thin as to produce rainbow tints. At the
appearance of the shade of violet it was
one-fourth the thickness of the length of
an ordinary violet wave of light-1-60, 900
of an inch-thus making the thickness
equal to 1-240, 900 of an inch. AS the bub-
BILE continued to expand a black patch
formed adjacent to the pipe from which
the bubble was being blown and the thick
ness of such patch has been found to be
only lao of the thickness of the violet sec
ton, o. about II ,000, 900 of an inch.
A liquor dealer who opened place foI
business in Columbia, Missouri, recently,
started out with q determination to justify
and dignity his bu,iness and lift 1t from
the level usually assigned to it. He issued
a notice with this head line: -'Know all
men by these presents" He announced
thst he had 'sno desire to sell to minors,
drunkards or the destitute" that any
"wife with a drunkard for a husband" or
any person with friend unfortunately
was requested to notify him OF
the fact, and the persons described wonld
be excluded from his place of business
He believed "there are gentlem en- of honor
and werkmen who can afford it, who want
to drink" and he wanted to do business,
strictly legitimate business, with them.
An encouraging view of the situation IL
Virginia is given by Frank A. Haywood,
editor of Southern Progress. Mr.. Haywood
points out that since the adoption of the
Mckinley law there had been erected in
Virginia many factories. "For instance,
said Mr.. Haywood, 1--WE have $50 mills
saving North Carolina pine, employing
$1,000 men. Free lumber would close
these mills. We have in the first six
months of this year opened 1872 mines,
every one of them dependent upon the pro-
tective tariff Since the Mckinley tariff
went into effect four knitting mills have
been erected in Norfolk, employing 500
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