Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-20
HAVEN CONN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20 1888

established at Berlin, Breslau, Konigsburg,
Kiel and Marburg in connection with those
universities. II has now BEEN ordered by
the Prussian government that sdministra-
tion officials, or such a. intend to pursue
that career, must take courses In hygiene,
health statistics, causes of sickness, para
sites, and dozen branches besides In that
department..
On an electric road recently built In
England trolley wire is suspended from
arms projecting from steel columns. No
guy wires are employed. At the corners
the trolley wire, instead of following q
curve of the same radius of the track, as
In the American system, Is turned on an
angle, the whole system depending on the
fexibility of the trolley arm, or side col
lector, as 1t is called, which automatically
engages the trolley wire in any position
from two to twelve feet from the side of
the car.
There are $3.50 building associations and
cooperative banks In the United States.
Pennsylvania, where the former originated
and from whence they spread all over the
Union, has no less than ], 100 of these use
full institutions. Their total membership
in thecountry is nearly /, zoe, 900, and their
assets are estimated to be worth almost
$500, 200, 900. 1t was pointed out by T. B.
Sanborn, In an address delivered before
the American Social Science association,
that these building associations were al
most entirely exempt from the effects OF
the late panic.
The stocking of Alaska with reindeer is
q pronounced success, according to the
Rev. DR.. Sheldon Jackson, United States
general agent of education In Alaska. OF
10 reindeer brought to Alaska from Sibe-
ria last year but eleven died, while eighty
eight fawns were born, of which seventy
nine were living three weeks ago. The
revenue steamer Bear made several trips
across the straits this summer and trans
ported thirty more reindeer to Alas
ka. The purpose of the scheme is to fur
nish a reliable supply of food for the ns-
tives and also to establish the use of the
deer for work purposes.
There have been some queer tripa TO
Chicago, but DR.. r. O. Mcbride of Orange,
Virginia, is going to drive to Chicago with
the queerest team the world has ever seen.
he has q ive-gander team raised from .
pair OF American wild geese, which he
trained to harness, and which draw him
around in a small wagon and in q small
boat; and now he proposes to build bal
loon of sufficient siss to float him in the
drive from Virginia to Chicago. he claims
he can make twenty five miles an hour
against a twenty-five mile wind, and that
the voyage can be readily made In this
way. He Gays his team can make a mile
and quarter a minute in quiet day, and
that after he has made his trip to Chicago
he will present his gsndsr team to Captain
Symmes to make q trip to the north pole
with, after his steamer has become Ice
bound In the polar regions. DR.. Mcbride
is cure Symmes could start north in the
morning, make three or four hundred
miles and then get back to supper.
New England is looked upon as a "set-
tied" region, but the Bangor and Aroostook
railroad, a rival to the Canadian Pacific
and its leased lines, which Is now building
from Brownville to Van Buren, Maine, will
open up a country one,third of which is as
wild as any part of the United States, and
the rest comparatively virgin soil. The
total length will be 232 miles, fact which
let's light in on the s!zs of this great Aroo-
stock county. 1t Is nearly as large as the
State of Massachusetts,, having an area of
$500 square miles. Although its populs-
tion is only 60, 900, it has soil capable of
supporting an immense population. Un-
like other New England States and even
some other parts of Maine, the surface of
Aroostook ia a dark loan without rocks,
and ss soon as The stumpa aud roots are
ont 1t is easily and proftably titled. While
the population has not increased rapidly,
the valuation of property rose from 81 Geo.
900 in 1850 to SIC, 900, 900 in 1890. Most
sheep pens, and cattle pastures. The rivers
of the territory are the st. John, st. Croix
Aroostook, and the Mattswaumkeag; and
2, 900 lakes, abounding In trout and salmon
diversity its surface. Deer, bear, and Other
wild animals are met with on every hand.
The statement that one-third of the couu
try ia wilderness must he taken In its alb
solute sense, for fully 1000 square miles
have never been touched with a plough.