Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-02

or her own lead and slste pencils, instead
of having them collected each day and dis
tributed indiscriminately the next. 1t is
thought that diseases have been spread
among the children through the habit of
putting into the mouth pencils which
others had used in the same manner.
Mr.. Burnham, director of works at the
Worlds fair, has an interesting plan for
disposing of the buildings after the fair Ii
closed. he proposes to touch torch to
them after they have been gutted, and
allow them to burn. He thinks that most
of the staff and woodwork would be de-
stroyed, and that the iron girders and
arches would not be injured. To afford a
revenue, Mr.. Burnham proposes to burn
one building night and charge fifty cents
entrance fee to the grounds.
We hear much about poverty In Italy.
In the womsn's building st the fair the
other morning the Countess di Brazil, who
is the representative of Queen Margherita
of Italy at the fair, read paper on THE
italian Woman of the People In the Clties."
In 1t she said that, while Italy is not
wealthy as a country, the habits of the
people are so frugal, the charities are so
well conducted and the climate is 60 bene-
hcent, that there Is practically no such
thing as suffering among the poor.
1t is not generally knownthst the great
est grape growing region in the world Is
not the champagne district of France, nor
the vslleys of Southern California, but
western New York, which has so, 600
acres devoted to grape culture. In the
Keuks lake region there are $4,000 acres
of vineyards and In the Chautsuqus region
20, 600 acres. The great harvest will begin
ne xt week, and more than 10000 women
and girls will be employed in picking the
grapes, which 1t is Estimated, will fill 49,
000, 900 nine pound baskets.
The Superintendent of Construction of
the dome on the Capitol at Washington
was g. F. Thomas, who is still living at
the age of eighty in Chicago. When the
big statue of liberty with the Indian
hesddress WAS hoisted to its place, Mr..
Thomas stood on the feathers of the he'll
met after the scafolding had been partly
removed. In this position he was photo
grsphed, and then, with q hammer and
steel dies, he stamped an inscription on
the topmost feather of the plume. These
words, which no one has ever seen but Mr..
Thomas himself, are: ga. Lincoln, Presi
dent of the United States; B. B. French,
F. Thomas, Superintendent of Construc-
tion of the new dome"
1t might pay boy to rob some birds
nests if he could find them. Among the
rare eggs of birds still living that of the
blue red-winged grosbesk is probably the
most valuable, a we'll marked set being
worth anywhere between 81 500 and $2,-
600. At e recent auction sale of geological
rsrities in London fine set of goldsn
eagles eggs, Two IN numbsr, were knocked
down" at $40, and $l5 were exchanged
evenly for one egg of the swallow-tailed
kite. The egg of the Psliss esnd grouse is
usually quoted by dealers in natural his
tory specimens at about So, but there are
exceptions to this as to all other rules. 1t
is an Aslstic species and was never known
to nest farther west than India until the
year 1880, when set was taken in Eng
| land. The identity of bothsbird and egg
| was certain, aud the egg collectors went
wild forthwith. The first offered ten times
the market value of such eggs, but compe-
tition was SO lively that they Cthere were
two of them) were finally sold for 5000,
100 times usual "ltst prizes"
According t" Dutch government report
| just issned, the labor question is practical
ly unknown in the Netherlands. Strange
| as IL may seem, tbs Dutch workmen like
long hours and are content to live on forty
cents day. The reason they prefer lopg
hours to short Is because they can work In
| the SLOW and lrisurely manner that suits
them best AID can indulge their national
conscience in the matter of thoroughness;
| aud they are content with low wages
because they know how 10 make
| them go q long way. The Dutchmsn
is not fond of striking and gets On we'll
with his employers, resenting Stats inter
ference in his relations with them as calcu-
lated TO imperil that freedom and inde,
pendence for which his ancestors fought go
nobly. The only thing that in any way re-
sembles labor question in Holland lie con-
nected with the introduction of machinery,
which puts the true Dutchman ont of gear
altogether, forces him to work briekly and
even makes him discover that old fashioned
wages are not quite up to new-fashioned
/ ideas.