Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-22

lilies in New Haven who can prove by
their landlords records that they haven't
paid any rent for long time.
The telephone between New York and
Chicago, If worked to its fullest capacity,
would earn $14, 900 a week. The ordinary
tariff is SO for FIVE minutes conversation,
and you may talk as fast as you please.
The line is nearly twice as long as any
heretofore in regular use, and nearly
100000 pounds of copper wire were
used in its construction. A whisper can
be successfully sent over it.
Things are worth what they bring. The
first coin to be used under the law passed
at the last session of congress providing
for FIVE million souvenir half dollars for
been sold for $40, 900 while enormous sums
have been offered for the 4O0th, the 1492d
and the 1S92d to be issued. It is thought
thstnot one of these coins will ever get into
circulation, so great is the demand from
those who wish to obtain possession of
tnem as souvenirs.
Here's an addition to the list of ques-
tions for debating societies. The Rev. Mr..
Mcbride, Methodist minister of Tennes-
see, was recently director of a national
bank which held some whiskey as security
for loans. So charges against him were
laid before the conference on the ground
that he was aiding and sbetting the sale of
intoxicating liquors But after scratching
its head over the question, so to speak, the
conference decided that any action in the
case would be inadvisable.
DR.. Ogle has given some interesting tes-
timony before the Royal Labor commits
sion in London as to the habit of marriage
in the upper and lower classes in England.
For instance, out of !, 900 miners 704 wed
when they are under %, and 1863 under 81;
while in the professional and independent
classes the corresponding proportions are
151 and z. OF miners wives 430 per
thousand marry under 81, as against 1877
of the wealthier classes. Early marriages
among the poor mean large families; but
this, according to DR.. Ogle, is counter
balanced partially by the enormous NOR
tslity among the children. With view of
showing the relation between these deaths
and the drunken habits of lower-class Eng
lish women the doctor said he found that
of about 1000 children a year who die of
suffocation in bed, three times as many
cases occur on Saturday night as on any
other evening in the week.
Every winter the orange-growers of Riv-
ersids, California, have made it practice
on cool nights to light tar pots in their
groves so as to make dense smoke and
keep the temperature above freezing.
This peculiar remedy does not always save
the trees. Only last Christmas they were
80 generally frozen during cold snap that
the growers sustained loss estimated at
81, 10000 One of them has recently in
vented a heating apparatus which will pre-
vent the freezing of fruit even when the
temperature falls as low as eighteen or
twenty degrees and remains there for sew
ralshours. Briefly described, the inven-
ton consists of hundred-gsllon iron cafk
filled with oil, on each acre, from which
two pipes run along between the rows
of trees, with half a dozen elbows to
the acre, twenty feet apart, over which
are placed fiat sheet-iron pans, into
which oil spstters and burns as it vspor-
ICES. Burning at the rate of one gallon
per burner every hour, an intensely hot
flame is made, which arises several feet
aud creates also dense smoke which acts
as smudge. The cost of the plant is
about s25 per acre, and the oil should not
cost over 81 an acre In the coolest winter.
1t is believed that this method will
eventually be largely used. not only for
citrus orchards, but also in growing winter
vegetables wherever there is danger of
frost.