Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-04
NEW HAVEN, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1892.

is an encourager of cholera, but during
the prevalence of the cholera scare in Ger
many the army has been permitted to in
dulge temporarily in liquor as preventive
| of the disease. AS each soldier was al
lowed only three quarters of cent day
with which to purchase ardent spirits it is
! not probable that the test was very satis-
factory.
It appears that our "Chinese walr'
| doesn't entirely shut US out from foreign
markets. A Cincinnati firm has Just se-
cured contract from large English con-
| Germ for lac, 900 pounds of machine made
pulleys and hangers. The contract was
awarded after close competition with sever
al large concerns, most of which were Eng
lish, on the basis of the design, durability
and strength of the goods.
The engraver at the mint has several OBJ
jections to the design for the souvenir half
dollar. First he says there are too many
objects in it, and that when reduced so as
to go on half-dollar they will be con-
fused. Then the relief is higher than the
milled edge, and, therefore, the coins can
not be stacked in piles. For the same
reason it will be difficult to strike them off
rapidly. BE sums it up by saying that the
proposed half dollar has been treated as q
model rather than coin.
Protected laborers are doing pretty well
in New Jersey. The annual report of the
bureau of statistics of that State shows
that during the past year the workingmen
and women added So, 562, ,4S1 to their in
vestments in building and loan associa-
tions, 81, ,345,03 to their savings banks
deposits and built for themselves 2,700
new homes, 600 more than during the pre-
vious year. The shareholders in the build
ing and loan associations number 7S, 725, a
gain of nearly 10 per cent. over the pre-
vious year.
They've got it, even in North Borneo.
The British consular agent there says that
on the west coast several people have been
seriously hurt by trying to fly out of cocoa
nut trees, and in some districts the paddy
planting season has been allowed to pass
without planting the crop. This is due to
a curious superstition about Forthcoming
general jubilee when everything may be
left to take care of itself, when paddy will
spring up of it's own accord and people get
wings and fly through the air.
We can learn something from japan.
One of the first effects of introducing par
llaments into Japan has been to stimulate
inventors to discover some means of doing
away with lobby divisions. Prof. Zama-
kawa of the University of Toxic has de-
vised an electrical machine by which each
member can record his vote without leav-
ing his seat. There will be board placed
back of the presidents chair, like hotel
bell board. The yeas being first called,
each member desiring to vote yea presses
his aye button and records his vote, and
the same way with the noes.
Polygamy is hard to kill, whether 1t be
punched or consecutive. The Utah com
mission declares in it's report that polyg-
amy is still practiced to considerable eI-
tent in that territory. President Wood
tufts famous manifesto advising the
Latter Day Saints to abandon this practice
has been obeyed only SO far as the saints
felt inclined. The commission say they
have evidence of over 300 such cases, and
of several who have contracted polygs-
nous marriages within the year covered
by their report. Now hear the Mormons
deny it.