Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-08
Jurisprudence" The women won the
prizes.

An English correspondent OF the Boston
Herald has found in Dictionary of the
Isle of Wight Dialect" number of words
which English writer's usually class as
American provincisisms. Among them
are "cute" and "pert." found also in one
of George Eliot's novels; ''backed up"
"call," in the sense of reason or neces-
sity; "ohipper," "darn," as a mild oath;
"fall," for autumn; e'galluses," ''heft,"
chunk" 'jaw," meaning to scold; "jiffy,"
'tget out of kilter," "rsre," in the sense of
underdone; "thick," for intimate; ''gump-
tion," "tan," meaning to thrash; ''spells"
of weather, "put to rights" etc. Thesub-
ject is an interesting one.
"Ever faithful" A. A. Miller, onoe a
well-to-do If not wealthy merchant Of Cor
ry, Pennsylvania, fell into bad ways, lost
all of his money and all of his friends save
one and wound up in New York Tombs
police court the other day, having stolen a
bundle of papers from a news stand. His
one friend was faithful fox terrier who
stuck close by his master during the trial
and followed to the jsil door when Miller
was committed. The man begged to be
allowed to take the dog in with him and
the dog seemed to realize that his master
was in trouble and to be anxious to share
1t with him. However, the rules of the
prison forbade the sacrifice and the dog
was shut out, but he refused to leave the
door of the prison until dragged away at
the end of rope.
All the electric railroads using the troll
ley system, and there are said to be more
than six hundred of them, are interested
in the suits instituted in Toledo, Ohio,
over the ownership of the trolley patent.
The suits are brought by Benson Bidwell
of Rochester, Indiana, and allege an in
fringement of patent. Behind Bidwell is
a company which is backing him for the
control of the trolley system through Ger
tain Indispensable patents which go with
ing of the cars with the same current
which runs the cars, and the other is for
the "underside spring contact" Both
these suits will be pushed against the To-
ledo company as test cases, and on their
issue will depend, to a certain extent, the
interests of all the six hundred roads now
using those devices.
The enormous size of the pension bust
ness is indicated by the fact that there
were on June 80, 1892, SIG, ,06S pensioners
borne upon the rolls, being 1919. .90S more
than were upon the rolls at the cloae of the
last fiscal year. Among these are twenty
two widows and daughters of soldiers of
the Revolution, and 165 survivors of the
war of 1912. The total amount expended
for pensions during the year was $139, ,035,-
612 SO, and it is estimated that the appro-
priation for 1893 of $144, 95s, 900 will leave
a deficiency of $40, ,509, ,621. There have
been filed up to date of October 10, 1892,
920, ,957 claims under the aot of June 81
$780, and there have been issued thus far
of these claims 403, $50 certificates. The
total number of certificates issued during
the year was 81, $50. The total number
of pensioners dropped from the rolls was
25,206. The average annual value of each
pension on the roll is $13341
A tax on house rent has been substituted
for the proposed income tax in Russia, and
it is intended that the amount shall vary
in accordance not only with the size and
Importance of the town, but with the posi-
ton of the house of each taxpayer with re-
gard to central point. The necessity of
raising money is obvious from the publish
ed returns Of the expenditure during the
last twenty-five years of the Food Supply
Guarantee fund, which has replaced the
former village grain reserve magazines for
that period with disastrous results. From
1867 to 1880, inclusive, thirtytwo millions
and quarter was expended in relief; in
1891 alone the amount was over
eighty-six millions and a quarter; in
1892, from January to October,
the expenditure was ffty-one and
quarter millions. Thus the relief for
last year and ten months of the present
year cost more than four times the total
expenditure In the previous twenty-fouI
years. The Guarantee Fund is unable
alone to meet the demand upon it. 1t has
received nearly 1876, 900, 900 from the impe.
rial chest, which has now to be repaid.
AS the hamlets and villsges are not to be
subject to the house-rent tax, the govern
ment apparently contemplates recovering
great part of the debt of the agricultural
classes from the trading and industrial ele-
| ments of the population.