Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-18

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drinking. twill probably go slow.
In the address which theex-C -Confederatel
of the South have issued for 9 monument
to Jefferson Davis they describe the dead
Confederate president as having "the in
effable valor and devotion of the most
heroic soldier the world has ever seen"
The temperance movement In Great
Britain is receiving powerful impetus in
the highest social quarters. The Duke of
Devonshire has promised to support the
Duke of Westminster in his effort to es-
tablish a licensing reform association, the
aim of which shall be the gradual suppress
sion of the licenses of publioans, which
are at present far beyond any supposed
necessities of the people.
Some three or four months ago Baron
Hirsch distributed all his earnings on the
turf for the previous year, amounting
to $40, 900. among deserving English char
tiles. He has since accumulated fresh
profits from the races won by his horses,
| and he intimates that q further sum of
500. 900 will be available for charitable
purposes at the beginning of 1893. Some
people wouldn't think such money was
good enough to give away, but as the num-
Der of these is limited the baron will have
no difficulty in difposing of 1t.
Grain gambling" is the latest vice to de-
velop in India, and the police of Bombay
and Calcutta are just now vigorously at
work prosecuting rain gamblers In the
local courts in an endeavor to show that
the law includes this form of gambling.
In Calcutta the ''outft" of the rain gamb-
Here into a small tank, four feet square
and six inches deep, an ordinary spout dis
charges rain water from the roof of three
story building. In gambling with this ap-
paratus bets are made at the beginning of
the rainy season as to whether or not the
tank will overflow at given shower, to the
extent the rain will overflow 1t when the
water sheets come down in proper tropical
style. 1t is alleged that on busy days in
the bazaar several lskhs of rupees change
hands.
The Worlds fair is making building
boom in Chicago. The building permits
issued during the last three months in
clude SO blocks of stores, 423 stores and
dwellings, 2, Ala dwellings, 76 factories and
warehouses, 12 churches, 65 public and Of
fee buildings, 1872 barns and stables, 2S
miscellaneous, and 4s1 for Easements and
other buildings. 1t ia expected that the
work of the next three months will swell
the construction total of the year to $780,
100000. This is equal the amount that is
estimated to have been borrowed for re-
building after the great fire. 1t represents |
q building expenditure of about S4S for |
every man, woman and child in the city |
aud suburbs, or the investment of not far |
from 5 per cent. of the total real and per-
sonal wealth of the city. When the great
show is over rents in Chicago will probably
be cheaper for awhile.
Here is John Tyndalrs prediction as to
the future of Niagara: At the rate of ex-
cavation assigned to it by Sir Charles Lyen
namely, q foot q year-fve thousand
years or 80 will carry the Horseshoe Fall
far higher than Goat Island. As the gorge
recedes 1t will drain. as it has hitherto
done, the banks right and left of 1t, thus
leaving nearly level terrace between Goat
Island and the edge OF the gorge. Higher |
up it will totally drain the American
branch of the river, the channel of which,
in due time, will become cultivsble land. |
The American Fall will then be transform
ed into dry precipice, forming a simple
continuation of the cliffy boundary of the
Niagara gorge. At the place occupied by
the fall at this moment we shall have the |
gorge enclosing a right angle, q second
whirlpool being the consequence. To
those who visit Niagara few millenniums
hence leave the veriication of this pre-
diction. All that can be said is that if the |
causes now in action continue to act it will |
prove itself literally true.
A book upon "The Future of Science"
by Ernest Rsnan, written in 184S, has now
been published. 1t has an extraordinary
preroration to the God of his youth, IS
follows: Formerly Thou didst listen to |
me; hoped some day to see Thy face, for |
heard Thee answer my voice. And 1 |
have seen Thy temple crumble away stone |
by stone; the sanctuary has NO longer an |
echo, and. instead of an altar ornamented
with lights and flowers, have seen before
me an altar of brass against which prayer,
severe, unadorned. without images, with |
out tabernacle, blood stained by fatality,
skaters itself. Is it my faultl Is 1t |
Thinea Ali how willingly would beat |
my breast if could hope to hear that be- |
loved voice which formerly made me
tremble. But no, there is only infe1ible
nature. When 1 search Thy fatherly eye
I find only the orbit of the infinite, empty |
and baseless; when search Thy celestial |
brow I dash myself against vault of |
brass which coldly sends back my love. |
Farewell, then, God of my youth |
Perhaps wilt Thou be the God of my
deathbed. Farewell; although Thou hast