Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-23
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1 WOEu.
Some think that the action of the East
ern Trunk Line association concerning
fares to and from Chicago next year was an
| experiment to try the temper of the pub
ho. If 1t was IL was a very successful ex-
pertinent. 1t has severely tried the tenn
per of the public.
A student In Kansas college sent let
ter to the Hutchinson News the other day
In which he spelled "esten" with two ts
This was away out in uncultured Kansas,
but Yale junior wrote a few lines for the
JOURNAL AND COURIER last week contain
| ing the curious word "scomadated."
A bill has been introduced In the Gsor-
gia legislature to allow State banks to Is
sue notes, as soon as congress has repealed
the prohibitory tax. The bill provides
that the banks shall deposit as collateral
with the State treasurer State and munich
pal bonds to an amount equaling the cir
culstion, and that the State indorss the
notes.
In Russia blscksmiths have tried horse
shoes of aluminium. They have shod
horses with one aluminium shoe and three
of iron. The aluminium has stood It best,
has lasted longer and has protected the
foot in better shape. 1t weighs only one
quarter as much as the iron shoe. Alumni
mum shoes may work very well with the
pneumatic tire.
A new way of meeting college expenses
Is opened to impecunious students by the
new Chicago university, that of running
one of the 1000 preambulating chairs at
the worlds fair. They can chose between
81 per day and 10 per nt.of their receipts
or certain percentage of their daily re-
ceipts. The charge for single chair by
the day will be Sc.
It ia an interesting fact that the great
Suez canal. on which floats the merchant
ships of all the nations of the earth, Is yet
the avenue for the transportation of a
smaller amount of freight by 1000, 600
tons than is carried annually through the
little Ssult st. Mary's canal, which affords
waterway between Michigan and the
Province of Ontario.
A writer in an engineering journal ar
gues that the increased cost of electric
motors over steam locomotives twill be q
most serious obstacle to the utilization of
electricity for steam railroad trains" He
gives the cost of ], 200 horsepower Loco
motive at $4,000, and that of a 1900
horss-p power boiler and generator with an
electric motor of 1,400 horse power at
$s1, 900, and concludes from these figures
that 1t will be long time before electricity
supersedes steam. But we must have them
even If they do come high.
The Emperor of AMMAN, who has been
mentioned so often in the foreign papers
recently, has now two hundred wives, each
of whom, with her servants, lives in a
house in the palace garden, which is sur
rounded by a great wall. The Empress
mother alone has palace at her disposal.
The wives are divided into nine classes,
one class outrsnking another. When one
Of these women dies her body is lowered
over the palace walls by ropes, and is
buried outside, as no corpse may be carried
through the palace gate, not even that of
dead Emperor. After the death of his
His Majesty the widows may, If they de-
sire, marry again, but they usually remain
single and guard the Imperial grave.