Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-06

dressing the HOUSE is pleasantly and graph
ically described as that of "a warm heart
struggling with hot potato"
There have been a great many high
bodied men in Indiana, as well as some
| high-minded men. OF tue Indiana men
who enlisted in the Union army, II ,Se2
were six fee. in height or more, 2.6l4 were
| eft. 1in., / 1857 were eft. Bin, 406 were eft.
3ln., and S03 were over eft. Sin.
The Philadelphia County Medical Society
has appealed to the city's board of health
to place tuberculosis, or consumption,
upon the list of diseases to be treated as
contagious. 1t asserts that 1t has been
proved by long and careful investigation
tina. this disease is infectious In Its charac-
ter, though 1t takes longer time to develop
than email pox and typhoid fever.
The prophets are not all dead. J.. F.
Hobbs, who was mixed up in the great
English building and loan frauds, was a
man of wealth and influence and, as 9 mat
ter of course, magistrate The last Gaze
he tried was that of o wifebester, whom he
sentenced to seven days in jail. 'It's
seven years you'll get when you stand In
my place" shouted the prisoner, and sure
enough the next time HOBBS appeared in
court 1t was In the dock instead of on the
bench and seven years was the sentence he
got.
Several prominent sportsmen of BraZoria
and Matagords counties, Texas, are about
to orgauizs an association for the protec-
tion of slligators, which they believe will
bring a good financial return. Hundreds
of young slligators are shot every month
of the warm season by people who are de-
sirous to kill something and do not know
or care for the value of alligator skins
and teeth. There are now several slligs-
tor farms In Texas which are regarded as
good investments, for, Decides devouring
the csrrion that makes the water in
furious to stock, the all:gstors clear 1t of
the gsrs that are SO destructive to black
bass and the fish the southerners call
s'trout"
King Behsnzin, of Dahomey, is a fol-
lower of modern fashion in his CORES
pondence, for he has selected a gorgeous
coat of arms, which embellishes all his
letters. His letters are written By his
secretary, aud bear the official stamp of
Behanzin. The King is said to be fabu-
lously wealthy, and to an English cores
pondent he deplored the loss of 100 pots
of gold stolen from him after his retreat
before the French. He recently sent q
cable message to England by way of Lagos
that cost e130 for Its transmission. In
payment the King sent down to the coast
coin that had evidently been buried for
generations, and including currency of
many nations.
The jew, saya Rabbi Joseph SIlverman
of New York, ''has but one important re.
quest to present to Christian preachers,
and 1t ia to refrain from saying that the
Jews crueified Jesus of Nazareth. 1t was
the Romans, not the Jews, who crrcihed
the great Nazsrene teacher" Rabbi Sill
vermsn says further: sit is an error to
speak of the Jews as O particular race.
Hebrew is the name of an ancient race
from which the Jew is descended, but
there have been 80 many sdmixtures to the
original race that scarcely trace of it ex-
its in the modern Jews. Intermsrriage
with Egyptians, the various Canaanitish
nations, the Midisnites and Syrians are
frequently mentioned In the Bible"
A big uil6:ng of twelve stories in eourse
of construction in Chicago presents a eight
that would dumbfouud an architect of the
old school. The steel skeleton framework
is iniehed up to the twelfth story, and the
stonework is done from the foundation to
the fret story. Then there Is a skip of
two stories, and the exterior walls Of terra
Gotta, in imitation of stone, have been
started at the third story aud are being
run up from that point In other words,
the exterior of the npper part cf the build
ing is being completed while the lower
stories are mere skeletons of uprights and
cross p!eces, but b-iug Of iron, they fur
nish strong enough support for the
operations Of the builders This method
of construction Is becoming very
common in Chicago, and 1t lie
thus explained: According to contrsct,
the building must be ready for occupancy
by next May, aud tie contractors cannot
afford to waste any of the brief time al
lowed them. The walis of the frst three
stories are to To stone, and as this portion
of the work will not bs completed for two
months yet, the contractors started the
terra Gotta section of the walls where the
| stone will leave off and are travelling up
ward, leaving the stone work of the lower
tories TO follow. The terra Gotta blocks
are go made that they fit exactly around
the big upright steel beams. At the same
time eteel rods, or anchors, ss they are
called, are run through tbs interior of the
blocks and through the wings of the beams,
thereby snchoring tbs former TO the latter.
1t is these anchors that hold the terra ootta
walls in place aud furnish the supports for
the blocks TO rest upon.