Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-22
NEW HAVEN, CONN. SATURDAY MORNING, %,

squeezing the women have endured. Lesi
scientific observers have been both sur
prised and pleased by this quality Of
Woman.
The wearing of fur by human beings
makes millions of animals die. During
last year nearly elk millions of skins were
imported into England. Of Australian
opossum there were 2, 1854, 900; of muskrat
1896, GOO; skunk, 554,O 900; raccoon, 549,.
100; fur seals, 1876, 700; bear, IL, 700; beaver,
II 1000; chinchilla, 7,70O, and otter, 1900
Governor Fuller of Vermont very prop.
erly recommends to the legislature modi.
fcation of the severe sentences passed up.
on number of liquor sellers under the
prohibitory law of that State by which
they have practically been condemned to
life imprisonment. As will be remembered,
certain violators Of the law were found
guilty on innumerable counts and SEN
fenced to terms of confinement greatly in
excess of the probable remainder of their
days.
When in the Congregational council DR..
Daniel Merriman of Massachusetts, pre-
sented the report of the committee on
marriage and divorce, he said that instead
of the church fostering the family and
home, it was in reality fostering in it's
many organizations bodies which could not
but detract from the family and home.
"Better marriage laws were needed, and
the youth should be instructed in the
meaning of marriage. One hours plain
talk with young people about to be mar
ried was worth dozen perfunctory calls" ;"
The Office doesn't have to seek the man
to any great extent in France. The Pre-
feet of the Seine had recently 1,071 Offices
at his disposal, all Of a minor Importance,
and for these Offices he had over &C. 900
applicants. The Offices were mostly as
supernumerary clerks, porters. local Gus
toms collectors, tobacco shopkeepers, and
even chief funeral mutes and cemetery
rangers. There was only one Office that
lacked candidate. That was the Office of
teacher of manual labor in the elementary
schools, There was no aspirant for this
situation.
Electricity has always had something to
do with weddings, according to an old
theory, but it figured very conspicuously
at recent Baltimore wedding. The bride
and groom stood in front of a screen of
foliage in which glittered electric birds and
butterflies, while little sparks of electric
light came and went like frefies. Rice and
what seemed to be snow flakes were scat
tered by an electric fan. When the guests
entered the dining room electricity rang
bells and played music boxes and at the
end of the first course the same agency
flashed out the words "Good luck" over
the heads Of the bride and groom, and
what had been given to the bride as an Or
namental hairpin proved to be also an cleo
trical device that flashed into light and
surrounded her head with halo.
1t was in mission Sunday school where
the teachers were young and pretty girls
from the Back Bay, Gays the Mahogany
Tree, and the pupils little children from
the colored district. It WAS the last day
before the summer vacation, and the
teacher was distributing the Unite boxes"
She noticed t1st one small child looked
very much detected, and she bent down to
hear the objection which she felt was
there to the Unite box" The little one
lisped that they had just filled one mite
box. "I know" said the teacher; ssbut,
see, this is new one for the vacation.
See what a pretty one it is, and I want to
see who will save the most pennies for the
poor little heathen that do not have any
Sunday-school." The little one did not
look encouraged. She held the box away
from her with evident dislike, and finally
with tears in her eyes confessed: "Mrs.
O'Flanagan, who lives in our alley, is get
TIM divorce, and promised to give her
all my pennies to help"
Professor Schribaux, of the National
College of Agriculture in France, has re-
Gently devised very simple, cheap and
successful method by which he has been
able to preserve potatoes in edible condi-
ton for over year and half. This pro-
Gees has been adopted by the French gov
erpment to preserve potatoes for the army.
The method of preservation consists in
plunging the tubers, before storing them
away, for ten hours in 2 per cent. solu-
ton of commercial sulphuric acid in water
two parts of acid to one hundred parts
of water. The acid penetrates the eyes to
depth of about one-fortieth of an inch
two millimeters), which serves to destroy
their sprouting power; it does not have
any appreciable effect on the skin of the
potatoes. After remaining in the liquid
ten hours the tubers must be thoroughly
dried before storing away. The same
liquid may be used any number of times
with equally good results.