Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-05

one of Gladstone's own elections his friend
: Ire said to have expended $240, 900 in hi
= behalf. An average English election cost
$25. 900.
8 A Chinese sect believes that women BY
. embracing vsgetarianism will become men
on the judgment day. In this country
there is large scot of women who are do
ing their best to become men before the
judgment day. "They've got 'em on"
: The bicycle is finding new uses. Two
, members of the bicycle club of Granada,
Spain, have met in knife duel, which is
probably the first duel ever fought on
wheels. Accompanied by their seconds
they wheeled out some distance on the
road to Malaga, to a secluded spot. There
posted 700 feet apart, at a sign they wheel
ed for each other, each directing his wheel
with the left hand and brandishing in the
right that terrible knife of Spain, the
'navaja." At the first clash Perez pierced
the left arm of Moreno, but at the third
encounter Mereno thrust his knife into
Perez's left breast. In few minutes the
latter died of internal hemorrhage.
New York city can be congratulated on
the fact that taxes are not oppressive there.
The report Of the Finance committee of
the board of aldermen on the tax levy of
the present year fixes the rate of taxation
at 1.S5 per cent, which is below the low
rate of last year, and the lowest in thirty
years. This is, of course, due to the in
crease in the valuation of property, which
amounts to more than s42 900, 900. The
valuation is conside rably more than three
times as great as it was thirty years ago.
There Is no very material increase in the
final estimate of expenses for the current
year over those of last year. The total is
less than $36, 900, 900. of which 50, 600, 900
is provided by the General Fund.
Here's new wrinkle. A home for young
men of good family but limited means
was recently opened at SS East Third |
street, Cincinnati, by E. P. Brad
street as a memorial to his mother, Anna |
Bradstreet, who died when he was child. |
The old-fashioned, roomy house has been |
tastefully furnished and fitted up with /
every homelike convenience. II will ac-
commodate thirteen young men, whose
clothes will be mended and whose comfort
will be looked after generally by the
motherly English woman who has been
secured as matron. Mr.. and Mrs. Brad
street will occupy suite Of rooms in the
house in pursuance of the indiyiduslistic
idea in benevolent works and Of the com
mand to "briDg the homeless into your
own homes" If tho work prospers ampler
accommodations will be provided.
Colonel John Sobieski, tho candidate of
the Prohibition party for governor of Mis-
souri,, is said 10 be direct descendant Of
the famous King John Sobieski Of Poland,
the deliverer of Vienna. Tho Colonel, who
was tho son Of Count John Sobieski and IL
a count himself by right of inheritance.
was born in Warsaw In 1912. His father
and uncle took part In the uprising against
Russia in 1S47. The uncle was killed In
battle. while the Colonel's father was shot
for treason. The Countess left Poland
with her little son John and settled in
England, where she died in 1854. When
only fourteen years old the boy came to
America and enlisted in the Army of the
Potomac. In 1855 he entered the service
of the Emperor Maximilisn In Mexico.
Upon his return to the United States he
settled in Minnesota and soon became a
member of the Legislature. He has lived
in Missouri since 1882. The Colonel is a
large, handsome man, with well-cut feat
ures and heavy mustache.
While Chicago is busy getting ready to
plunder the world next year shop-hfting
mas become such a nuisance in st. Louis !
hat well-known firms have adopted the a.,
plan of keeping gallery containing the .
of offenders. To this collec-
ion trusted employees have access, and they :
ire expected to keep a sharp lookout for +,
he originals of the picutures and see that :
hey are arrested if an attempt is :
made TO carry off goods. The gallery also :,
contains likenesses of women of society
Who are politely known as 'kleptomsniacs"
md who have to be dealt with tactfuily.
THE number of women afflicted with this ,
unfortunate malady in st. Louis" says
police officer of that city, "reaches we'll up
INTO the hundreds. Scarcely day passes 8
without an atte npt on the part of klepto- b
maniacs to purloin articles of value from
some of the large dry-goods or millinery +
houses in the city. They usually seize ?
upon lace handkerchiefs, bits of ribbon, d
ace patterns, fancy articles, ornaments (
and the like, and seldom purloin anything r
that cannot easily be secreted in the folds '
Of their dresses, tucked away in their cor c
sage, or concealed in the hand Frequent
y the stolen articles are of little or no y
value, but as a general rule the costliest '
bits of lace or fabrics are the things that !
happen to strike their fancyn