Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-30

than $500 tons dead weight. This is said
to be much more than the average cargo of
salt water steamers and for the same
draught is without precedent. When the
projected improvements in canals are COM
pleted she will carry over 5000 tons. She
will have a speed of thirteen miles an hour
and will be ready for service next spring.
The London Lancet has word of warn
ing for long distance bicycle racers, allud-
ing particularly to the carriers of dis
patches. 1t says: "In some instances such
is the tension that the man literally pro-
pels himself in what may be called blind
ness. His legs work automatically, and
his course is directed In manner very lit
tie different" 1t adds that man is not an
engine of iron and steel, and that If he
treats himself as one he will soon become
an engine so disabled that his better self
will fall into death before he has reached
what in others better trained would be the
prime period of vital strength and activity.
1t is authoritatively announced that Wis
itors to the worlds fair will be furnished
with drinking water free of charge. The
announcement is timely in view OF the re-
ports which have been circulated to the
effect that the only water on the exposi-
ton grounds available for drinking pur-
poses would be that supplied by mineral
springs company at fixed price ar glass.
It turns out fortunately that the monopoly
for supplying drinking water at the fair,
granted to a private company, applies only
to "natural spring mineral water un-
charged" This exclusive privilege does
not shut out the city water. Had 1t done
30 the fair would have been discredited
and the management involved in q most
disgraceful scandal. It Is said that drink
ing places will be established throughout
the grounds for furnishing city water
which will be sterilized or filtered 30 as to
make 1t absolutely harmless and whole
some.
The factory act of 1890, in India, was
passed at the earnest request of a large
number of spirited persons both In Eng
land and India, with the intent of giving
some measure of relief to the oppressed
women and children working in the East
India mills. By this it was provided that
there should be no work on Sunday, and
that work for women and minors during
the other days in the week should be lin
tied to eleven hours, with recesses of an
hour and half, making the hours of act
ual work nine and one-haf per diem. The
complaint is made that this law has be-
come practically dead letter, the mill
owners failing TO observe 1t and the gov
ernment inspectors taking care to ignore
their violations. The consequence is that,
according to reports, the women and chill
dren in India are worked twelve and
half hours day, exclusive of meal times,
for seven days in each week, with the wear
upon the physical and mental system
which such continuous strain cannot fail
to produce.
Henry Clews makes a suggestion which
seems to be worth considering, that the
system of exchange which prevsils in this
country be extended to international none
tary transactions. We use no gold to
speak of in our exchanges, hut our bal
snoes are settled with paper representa-
tives of values. Mr.. Clews points out that
the transfer of gold from one country to
another in settlement of balances leads to
constant arrangement of the mechanism of
credit. In place of gold he would substi-
tute $500, 1000, 900 in gold bonds bearing
low rate of interest, issued jointly In equal
amounts by England, France, Germany
and the United States, and running for
long term of years. These bonds would
be as good as gold all over the world, and
would be used to settle international trade
balances rather than ship gold from coun-
try to country. Such use of bonds would
practically diminish the demand for gold
and give greater stability to exchange.