Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-15
NEW HAVEN CONN. TUESDAY MORNING,

soldier ought to be able to do in full march
ing order, Lieutenant Baker, an English
officer, recently marched thirty five miles
inside twelve hours. He carried q full
valise, Martini Henry rifle, and seventy
rounds of ball ammunition-the amount
carried by soldier in the feld-and the
total was weighed before starting at sixty
pounds.
Honest toll has its reward. Arthur
White, of st. Louis, has gained local
celebrity as ''the boy plunger." He began
betting last spring with an investment of
$40. Within few weeks he had S25, 900
and was the owner of the California horse
Tim Murphy. Before the season was over
he had increased his winnings to $50, 900
and now has stable of eight horses. He
ia twenty three years old, but veteran in
his knowledge of horsefesh.
An ingenious chap has invented some
thing which he thinks will do away with
the careless switchmsn. He incloses q
railroad switch in an iron cage. The
switchman who is to throw the switch
from the main line to a siding must enter
this cage and throwing the switch locks
him in. The door can be unlocked only
when the switch is thrown back, and thus,
says the inventor, If the switchman de-
rails a train he is there in the cage to an
swer for it.
People who live in the country are apt to
be lonesome. An interesting effort to de-
crease the lonesomeness of country life is
to be made in Michigan town. The
farmers living within a radius of three
miles or 80 of the central village of the
town have combined and established tel
egraph line connecting all their homes
with the village postofiee, at a total ex-
pense of only 5000. A small and inexpen-
sive instrument is placed in each house
and in the postofice. 30 that communion
tion between all the families on the circuit
is possible at any time with all the attend
ant advantages.
There is such thing as faithful service,
and there is also, occasionally, apprecia-
ton of it. Colonel NJ. Richards Muckle
recently completed term of fifty years.
service in the Philadelphia Ledger's count
ing room, and the anniversary was made
the occasion of q reception given by the
owners of the paper, to which were invited
all connected with the paper and many
distinguished guests from outside. Mr..
Muckle was presented by the owners of
the paper with silver punch bowl, on
which were inscribed these words: can
thony J. Drexel and George W. Childs to
Mark Richards Muckle. Greeting after
fifty years. faithful service, steadfast 10y
atty, unbroken trust. unyielding integrity"
1t is not difficult to forecast the future of
the Jewess in authorship, according to the
Jewish Progress. "She is partaker in
the new education; she enters all the pro-
fessions; she shares the ripest culture of
the time; she responds to every movement
that leads to honest, helpful living. Her
work in literature will follow the bent of
her tastes and capacities, and will not be
30 much question of her ancestral reli-
gion. Her womanhood and womanliness
will guide her right, and as the religious
instincts of the Jewess are innate, and her
domestic qualities strong, one may expect
her to champion all that is pure, and
sweet, and wholesome. She will be
enthu siastic and resolute, but however
positive her convictions, she will not be
less feminine in their utterances. Her
ideals will be those of her age and her in
spiration the never ending, ever-varyipg
drama of humanity"