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Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
THE PURL1C SCHOOLS.

We noted the other day that teacher of wide experience, who has also been a successful school superintendent, says that the public school children spend two thirds of their time putting into more complicated shape things which they know perfectly well already. One of New York's commissioners of education has made the discovery that large numbers of the pupils of this State are woefully de- ficient in many of the "common branch es." He finds that hundreds and thou sands of the public school scholars cannot properly write simple English, and that they know next to nothing about some of the common things of life, and the condition of affairs in this coun- try, highly important for future citizens to understand. He finds that one pupil is sadly deficient in one branch and another in another branch, but that no efforts are made, or can be made under the present system, to secure dividual deficiency, whole grades being compelled to advance in a body, even if dozens of individual members fall by the intellectual roadside.
 There is too much truth in these criti- cisms. Of course perfection cannot be expected of the public school system, but it has become altogether too complicated, ornamental, generally hifalutin, and inefh- cient. It is true, as many employers of young women right here in New Haven know, that the graduates of our public schools are, as rule, deficient in just the things they ought to know and which they should have been taught. They can't spell we'll, they are not quick or accurate at common figuring" and they know very little about speaking or writing the English Ian. guage. There are, of course, some who in spite of the system, manage to get f fair education, but they are the exceptions There are many "educators" connected with the public school systems, and few educated.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
EXPERIENCE.

The trouble with April has been an attack of spring -hslt.-Lowell Courier.
 Experience has black eyes and is 6 very lame cripple.-Gslveston News.
 A fellow can't get pull unless he has some push about him.-Binghamton Re- publican.
 It isn't much trouble for a man to make his mark in politics-the trouble is in re- moving it.-Columbus Post.
 The pelican is one of the few animals that are justified in biting of more than they can Washington Star.
 Mrs. Grumps Cooking over the new housel-What in the world is this vast attic forf MT. Grumps-It is to hold the things that you buy and can't use.-New York Weekly
 From the French.-Poultry dealer How did you like the goose's liver you had yesterdsyi Young housekeeper-It was very nice indeed. I want another one but from the same goose remember.-TeIas Siftings.
 "No, as you say, Mir. Gray Is not very nice appearing man, but he is a man of ssnse and his conversation is improving. |" ''His conversation improyingi Why, didn't know there was anything the mat ter with it."-Boston Transcript
 A Poor Beginning-Young Mobiles (to his future mamma in in-lsw)-Photogrsph of good-looking when you were young-I-I mean you must have been-shem-quit young when you were good-looking.- Drake's Magazine.
 Visitor-What bright eyes you have, my little man. You get plenty of sleep, I pre- sumei Little Man--Yes'm Mamma makes me go to bed every night at o'clock. Visitor So you will keep healthyf Little Man Nom. So she can mend my p2nts-Street & Smiths Good News.
 "How much Arthur seems to think of your "Yesr' "Why. yes. See all those papers he has sent you to keep you in formed on the topics of the day" "H'm. All those papers are marked copies con- taining the details of ice cream poison ings all through the countryI"-Boston News.
 Although I look healthy" said a gentle man, ''I live in constant fear of death s Flows thatT' "well, what with dis essed meat, typhus microbes in the city water, and the deadly trolley cars, 6 man good old age as they did in war time."- Buffalo Courier.
 Jsmison, after prolonged sitting at the club, has arrived at the foot of the steps leading to his front door and is preparing to make the ascent. when two of the firm by whom he is employed ss bookkeeper stop in some sstonishment on the other side of the street. "Whyl what is Jami- son doing thereI" eIclaims the elder. "He seems to be working on 6 trial balance, {" says the other, thoughtfully.-Boston Post.
 A Washington man has a bright young ster who succeeded recently in getting even with his father in 8 very telling though unconscious manner. His father was reproving the little fellows table manners. Don't do that" said he, GOT we'll have to call you little pig" The warning seemed to be lost, for the fault was repeated. ''Do you know what pig isr was the inquiry, pat in solemn man. ner. "Yes, sir" "Whst is iti" "A pig is 6 hogs little boy" The lesson in etiquette was suspended.-wsshington | Star.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
MedlcaI Actuary. U. s. Compound Oxygen Co.,, Room fl, Insurance Building, S9o Chapel Street, NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Dogs.

Dogs.
 A TRENTON is called to the law concerning eral statutes of Connecticut, Isss
 Section 3716. Every owner or keeper of dog, fore the first day of May, cause said dog to be registered, numbered, described and licensed for one year in the town clerks office in the town wherein said dog is owned or kept, and shall keep around his neck collar, distinctly marked with it's owner name and it's registered number, and shall pay to said town clerk for license the sum of one dollar and fifteen cents for each male or spayed dog and six dollars and fifteen cents for each unspayed female dog. keeper of dog not duly licensed, shall forth with cause said dog to be registered, numbered, described and licensed, until the first day of the ensuing May, in the manner and upon the terms and conditions prescribed in Section 3746. Sec. 3749. Any dog not licensed and collared as provided in this chapter, may be lawfully presenting satisfactory proof thereof to either Of the selectmen, shall be paid bounty of one dol Sec. 3750. Town clerks shall issue licenses as herein before provided and receive the money therefor and after deducting fifteen cents for each dog so licensed and numbered, shall pay the same to the treasurer of the town within thirty days thereafter.
 Sec s5 A9y person owning i3g or aha keeping ments of this chapter. shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more than grand jurors, constables and all prosecuting officers to diligently inquire after and prosecute any violation or this chapter.
 Sec. 3753. Every owner, keeper or harborer of any dog shall kill said dog or muzzle the same to the acceptance of the selectmen of the town wherein such dog Is owned or kept from the first day of May in each year until such time as said selectmen shall order said muzzle removed: Any person violating this section shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or impris- oned not more than thirty days, or both. New Haven, May, 1892
 ALFRED W. FORBES,
 HORACE H. STRONG,
 HENRY HILLMAN,
 JOEL F. GILBERT, }Selectmen.
 JOHN GARRITY,
 JOHN I. GOODRICH,
 JOHN T. POHLMAN,
 Signed by JOSEPH F. MCPARTLAND, ap3O 3t Clerk.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
4nmrna1 aud Courier.
The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
 lished in Connecticut.
AN INTERESTING REVELATION.

AN INTERESTING REVELATION.
 People have got into the habit of talking loosely about the large number of purchas- able votes in Rhode Island. The talk was especially loose and conspicuous just be- fore and just after the last election there. The conservative old Providence Journal thinks it abont time the facts were known and the exaggeration checked. Therefore it has carefully ascertained, from variety of sources which are thoroughly reliable though necessarily not specifically men tionable, that the number of purchasable voters in Rhode Island at the present time is 4,945. These are distributed, uneven ly, among all the towns and cities of the State. In one of them the number is as large as 1000. but in none of the others does it exceed $50, and from that it runs down as low as ten in three instances. In the country towns. however, the proportion of purchasable vote to the total vote is in many cases very large; in one of them, indeed, all but ten of the total number of voters are returned as purchasable. By the latter form is meant the vote that can be bought at the ordinary prices of the vote market, say, $2 to $5 a head as de- termined by the degree of competition between the parties and the skill of the agents in driving bargain. Of course if the prices offered should for any reason be advanced above the usually compara- lively low rates there is no knowing how large the purehasable vote might become.
 AS there are 69, ,4S1 votes on the lists in Rhode Island it will be seen that about 2 per cent. of the whole are in the market. This is quite enongh, but it shows the situation to be less evil than has generally been thought. The Journals investiga- tion of this matter is 8 novel and interest ing piece of work. It has probably got at the facts. We suppose there are people in Connecticut who could tell how many votes are purchasable in this State.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03

letters descanting on the Celestial joy" of those who can 'tpour out their souls to
 each other;;" spoke of woman as Ca help. mate to man, not 8 toy for an hour," and frequently wrote, ooh, Janel" After two years he broke of the acquaintance, and
 later wrote to the lady's solicitors: of you have letter of mine wherein direct
 marriage is stated, irrespective of my pc
 sition or her position, am willing to see
 further, but you have not" However,
 following the judges instruction, the jury
 gave the lady s1O0 damages.
 The French ministry of war has been engaged for more than year in making experiments in the preservation of meat. The experiments have resulted in the dis covery that frozen meat can be kept for eight months without any change in it's appearance or powers of nourishment. The meat can be carried also on the rail
 roads for four days without detriment, even in the hottest summer weather. In all probability, however, the frozen meat WILL uOt pe ubtQ III tue nslu tO duI SEedt extent, as the difficulties of transporting it to widely separated armies would be al- most insurmountable. But the French government intends to provide its forts
 with large quantities of it. Great freezing chambers are to be placed as soon as pos sible within the forts of Paris and other important places of defense. These cham
 bers will be kept filled in days of peace, so
 that in case of sudden declaration of war
 the garrisons will be provided with food.
 In the French budget of 1S93-'94 an ap-
 propriation of 46,0oO,000 francs will be
 asked for, according to the military jour
 nal, for the purpose of carrying out the
 plans of the ministry of war. Other Euro
 pean countries will adopt the same plans,
 in all probability, so that lack of garrison
 food will not cause such terrible sufferings
 in future wars as it has done in those past.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
Just As If She Always Carried a Shoe

Just As IT She Always Carried e Shoe.
 From the Portland Adrertiserl
 A Portland lady was yesterday observed walking down Congress and Middle streets with a shoe in her hand. As the shoe was not wrapped up and as the old lady car ried it with much nonchalance, some little attention was attracted. As matter of fact 1t was a case of sbsentmindedness She went into 6 shoe store, laid down her wallet, rather long and large one, and looked at some footwear. When she went out she took up shoe instead of her wallet, and carried 1t in the manner de- scribed above, being much astonished, when she made her next purchase, to find that her wallet had changed to & shoe.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
EIsgsSs7sy EsXs1SYszsEA zlg3EZisYZksls{fie!|

It cures Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Group, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages and a sure relief in advanced stages Use at once. Sold by dealers everywhere Large bottles 50 cents and S1 .O0. f20 eod&eow
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
How Many

people know that the products of THE YALE & TOWNE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY include, not only the celebrated YALE LOCK, ill over three hundred different styles, but the STANDARD" Door Locks, Padlocks, Cabinet Locks, Art Hardware Gin brass, bronze and iron) and every variety of artis- tic metal work? Ask for YALE.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03

It is probable that mail matter will be carried between the worlds fair grounds and Chicago in pneumatic tubes.
 Score another for the American woman. One of the most successful milliners in Paris, the home of fashion, is Baltimore woman.
 A new weekly paper in pure Hebrew has been founded in New York city. There have been three or four attempts to estab- fish papers in New York in the Hebrew language, but all have failed.
 The withdrawal of deposits in Canadian savings banks at the rapid rate of $100, ,00O month is 8 very suggestive sign of the steady decline in the industrial and agri- cultural prosperity of our northern neigh bors.
 The fastest time in which a train has been known to travel a mile is 49 seconds and fraction. To accomplish the same distance the fastest bicyclist who has hith- erto ridden took 29 minutes, or over three times as long. An ice yacht has travelled mile in 1 minute and 10 seconds, a run ming horse in minute and 351 seconds, a torpedo boat in minute and 90 seconds, a steam yacht in minutes and 12 seconds and fraction, and a skater on ice, with a favorable wind behind him, in 3 minutes and 12 seconds and rather a larger frac. tion.
 A free country has Its advantages. Prince Khilkoff, Russian " "Stundist," oI dissenter, who distributed his large estates | among poor peasants and led @ life oi poverty and toll for ten years in the gov l ernment of Kharkoff, has been arrested and banished to Transcaucssia, without trial or inquiry, by order of the minister of the interior on the suggestion of M Pobiedonestsef. His offense is that during public discussion between Russian pries and some peasant non-conformists he tool the part of the latter, replying to th' priests objections by quoting texts iron the gospels.
 A majority of the experts in Europ seem to be agreed that line-of- battle ship are likely to play a more important part i, the next naval war than cruisers. Tn latter class of vessels are beginning to b regarded chiefly as au1iliaries to the frs
 fighting line. although their usefulness il many way is by no means overlooked This is the opinion, at least, of the Britisl Admiralty. and at the dinner of the Britis naval architects in london the other nigh Lord George Hamilton announced semi
 officially that the new shipbuilding pro
 eramme would include. large proportio
 of great battle-ships. In this respee
 Great Britian is only following the exam
 ple set by France and Russia.
 A fudge at Leeds, England, has decide
 that Ca promise of marriage may be mad
 by other ways than by words-by a shai
 of the hand, for example, or wink of th
 eve, or a thousand other nodes"
 young woman had drawing master wh
 gave her every reason to believe that | loved hsr-shost of ss2ing e. He wro'
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
NOTHING PROBATIONARY
Vol. LX.

NOIHlNG MUhE E1MfUhlANI l ITO the world, than the best and most reliable l Steam Boiler, with the greatest economy of any kind of fuel. The Bridgeport Boiler an order for one of their one hundred horse power Lowe Boilers with all improvements, from a large concern who had put in one of these boilers of seventy-f1ve horse power, and employed one ot the best experts to test it other expert tests, and also to ascertain the facts in regard to any derogatory statements against it before adopting it exclusively, and found their test and boiler, exceeded the M previous records and the best results ever oo- tained and the derogatory statements false. Therefore they adopted the Lowe Boiler with all Improvements and replaced their two kinds of leading Water Tube Boilers with two seventy two inch Lowe Boilers and now order the fourth boiler as above, after several years experience with the first. The first Lowe Boiler made has done over twenty four years work without any cost for repairs, and is still in under the pres sure it started with and carriesas good an nspec- tors certificate. Hundreds of Lowe boilers have as good pro rata record. The users have from one to thirty of these boilers, and from one to twenty-four years experience, with fewer cases of unsatisfactory results from causes over which we had no control, than any otder boiler.
 Send for printed information on boilers to above address ap26 cod i'm
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
Itch and Salt Rheum.

Itch and Salt Rheum.
 TyO all afflicted with the Itch, salt rheum or l any skin disease thai scales and drops of and then scales again, etc, make Salve which Is as harmless as butter, that will heal the dis eased parts in from 10 10 wecEs no matter how long standing or what remedies you have tired, and build a new skin as healthy a new born babeNs the disease never 10 return again Not sold to drurgistS To be had only from F PETRR. East Haven. Conn. $i % and ioc stan for maiD fnr . or far vis aE't
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
2ruuistu116, SC.

D. M. WEIGH & SON
 OFFER 25 bbls Fancy New Baking Beans at only 7c qt. 4 qts for 25c.
 Pineapples. Pineapples. nice Pineapples for 25c. 2extra large Pineapples for 25c Fancy Evaporated ApricOts
 at only 10c lb Fancy Evaporated Peaches
 at only 10c lb Fancy Lemons at only 10c doz
 Fancy Oranges 25c, BOG and 35c dog. READ r; csaaA READ: p,,.+a. READ; ,l.;,. r. duced to 26c lb; lbs for .00 A good table Butter at 24c lb. Good Butter at 20c lb.
 Eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Every Egg warranted, at only 17c dog. 1000 bu Fancy Potatoes soc bushel. How those Ham Rolls sell. No bone, all meat, sugar cured, at only 12c per lb. Once tried, al- ways used. Many other grand bargains. D. M. WEIGH & SON, 28 and 80 Congress Avenue.
 Branch Grand Avenue.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03

The withdrawal of deposits in Canadian savings banks at the rapid rate of s100, ,0OO month is a very suggestive sign of the steady decline in the industrial and agri- cultural prosperity of our northern neigh bors
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03

On Monday at 69c; Tues day 59c; Wednesday 49c; Thursday 39c; Friday 29c; Saturday 19c.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
CORR KsPONDENCR.

Periander's Meandering-From Am coma 10 Brindisi-Brindisi Needs a Long Rest-East Indian Sailors Milan. and Bolog nia-A Chance for an American Millionaire.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is probable that mail matter will be carried between the worlds fair grounds and Chicago in pneumatic tubes.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03

A new weekly paper in pure Hebrew has been founded in New York city. There have been three or four attempts to estab- fish papers in New York in the Hebrew language, but all have failed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

Why Anthracite IL Becoming Popular.
The demand for anthracite has been
subject to very considerable fluctua-
tons, the trade depending upon the gen.
eral prosperity of the country, as all
other industries must do; but its growth
has on the whole been remarkably
steady, for it has been promoted by
three great causes whose combined ac-
ton has been increasingly increasing
the necessity for this fuel, These are
the increase in population, the decrease
in the wood supply and the decrease in
freight rates.
Of course these causes affect the trade
in bituuinous coal as we'll, and the com.
parative cheapness of that coal causes
its production to grow more rapidly than
the production of anthracite; but the
latter is so much the better domestic
fuel, and so much to be preferred for all
uses where the smoke and dirt that are
caused by the burning of bituminous
coal are Objectionable, that the growth
of the anthracite trade is likely to be
seriously checked only when its increas,
ing cost makes it too much an article of
luxury to be generally used.-Joseph S.
Harris in Forum.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Quinine Is Very Cheap Now.

Perhaps no drug known to medicine
is more generally used than quinine,
and certainly none presents such a wide
difference in price as the quinine sold
six years ago and that sold now. AT
that time nearly all the cinchona bark,
from which it is extracted, was brought
from South America, subject to heavy
import duty. But the duty was taken
off, and this marked the first big de-
cline in price. Before that time it sold
for about one dollar an ounce.
Shortly after this English capitalists
concluded that the bark could be grown
in India as we'll as in South America,
and large plantations were purchased.
The climate and soil suited admirably
and by scientific culture the yield was
greatly increased. From India the bark
is largely shipped to England and the
quinine extracted, being sent here in
crystals. Philadelphia Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an
East India missionary the formula of a
simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all
throat and Lung Affections, also posi-
tive and radical cure for Nervous Debli-
ty and all Nervous Complaints, after hav-
ing tested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases. has felt it his dut Y
to make it known TO his suffering fellows
Actuated by this motive and a desire &c
relieve human suffering, l will send free
of charge, to all who desire it, this rec
ipe, in German, French or English
with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing will
stamp, naming this paper, w. A. MOVES
500 Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
The Future of the Cowboy.

know that the cowboys unique posi-
ton among Americans is jeopardized in
n thousand ways. Towns are growing
mp on their pasture lands; irrigation
schemes Of a dozen sorts threaten to
turn bunchgrass scenery into farmland
views; farmers are pre-empting valleys
and the sides of waterways, and the day
is not far distant when stock raising
must be done mainly in small herds,
with winter corrals, and then the cow
boys day will end. Even now his con-
dition disappoints those who knew him
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 49, 1892

only half dozen years ago, His breed
seems to have deteriorated, and his
ranks are filling with men who work
for wages" rather than for love of the
free life and bold ccmpaniouship that
once tempted men into that calling,
Splendid Cheyenne saddles are less
and less numerous In the outfits; tho
distinctive hat that made its way up
from Mexico may or may not be worn;
all the civil authorities in nearly all the
towns in the grazing country forbid the
wearing of side arms; nobody "shoots
up" those towns any more, Tho fact is
the old simon pure cowboy days are
gone already, and when the barber Des-
tiny again has vacant chair and calls
out "next" the cowboy will himself dis
appear.-Julian Ralph in Harper's
Weekly,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

A new explosive called nitrojute is the
discovery of a German scientist. The
explosive can be prepared in the usual
way by treating one part by weight of
the jute with fifteen times its weight of
mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids.
1t is light brown in appearance and is
insoluble in water, ether, benzine or
alcohol, while it explodes by percussion,
like gun cotton. New York Journal.
Costiveness is the primary cause Of
much disease, DR.. Henry Bakers Man
drake Bitters will permanently cure cos
tiveness. Every bottle warranted.