Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-05
tides, similar to the oscillation of ses

tides.
Circulars have been issued - the de-
partment of agriculture making inquiries
regarding the existence in various parts of
the United States of broods OF "seven-
teen-year locusts." There are said to be
twenty-five different broods of these In
sects. The most deadly enemy of these
loousts is the English sparrow, which
abandons all other kinds of food and
feeds on them exclusively when 1t has
chance.
There are over eighty thousand stutter-
ing children in the schools of Germany.
The increase has been SO great during the
past four years that the defect is con-
sidered contagious. The famous DIR. Gutz-
man is authority for the statement that the
increase is due to mimicry-thst the young
mimics who initiate Sufferers soon become
involuntary Sufferers. The schools OF the
City of Breslau have total of 2,40O stut'
tering children.
1t is reported that Professor Herman
has succeeded in photographing the vowel
sounds, by speaking them into phono-
graph which reproduced them slowly. The
vibrations were recorded by a microtele-
phone, which had small mirror Ia the
vibrating drum. A ray of light reflected
from the mirror recorded Its vibrations
that is to say, the vibrations of the vowel
sounds-on travelling band of sensitized
paper.
Remarkable stories are told of the heal
ing properties of new oil which is easily
made from the yolk of hens eggs. The
eggs are first boiled hard, and the yolks are
then removed, crushed and placed over a fire,
where they are carefully stirred until the
substance is on the point of catching fire,
when the oil separates and the oil may be
poured off One yolk will yield nearly two
tesspoonfuls of oil. 1t Is In general use
among the colonists of south Russia as
means of curing cuts, bruises, etc.
According to ex Congressman George
West, of Ballston, New York, a manu-
fscturer of paper bags, his product Is q
pretty good barometer of the times. he
says that If people were not buying goods
there would be no demand for paper bags
and his factories would be closed. But his
eight factories are all a-humming on full
time and turning out $500, 900 paper bags
a day. Mr.. West says 1t is all folly to talk
about hard times. "With confidence re-
stored money will come from its hiding
places and then, with something definite
known about Cleveland's tariff policy, 1t
will be all right"
There are several ways of getting a wife
and 1t is hard to tell in what way the best
wife can be got A Canadian teacher of
Indians in the far northwest, in the Do
minien government service, realizing that
1t is not good for man to be alone, jour-
neyed down to such civilization as he
could find in Winnipeg, not long ago, in
anxious quest for wife, and with but six
days available for the search. First he
communicated with the police, but they
protested they could not aid him. Next
he sought the preachers. with equal III
success. Then he had recourse to the
press. A friendly notice in a morning
| newspaper aIlured six would-be brides
forward the same day. He was not quite
| satisfied with the appearance of any oi
them, but thought that one would do,
and set about making preparations for the
nuptials. Almost when too late a seventh
young woman appeared. Then it was g
case of love ct first sight on both sides.
The half-sccepted young woman was
quietly ignored; he married the last
| conner, and the next morning he set forth
| with his bride for his home.
| The general idea is that Philadelphia Is
| quiet enough, but 1t is barbarously noisy,
according to the Press of that city, which
pleads for ordinances against unnecessary
din and uprosr in the streets and for the
| enforcement of those ordinances that al
ready exist. 1t seems that If musicians be
gin to play before house in Philadelphia
its inmates can get rid of them only by
purchasing their silence, and that although
long blasts on steam whistles are prohib
tied, the ears of the inhabitants are spli
by sCch shrieks from the factories severa
times each day. The Press says it is al
very well to invoke the law against sucl
an outrage; that, in fact, it has been done
but only at the cost of 8 long and tediou
lawsuit "We are behind the times" i
says. "The roar of London has beer
stilled. Paris is quiet city by the side O
the Paris of thirty or forty years ago. S.
is New York. The Massachusetts, Railroad
Commission, after long fight, has reduced
the locomotive whistle to comparative 81
lence. Here In Philadelphia we endure al
the noises of the past and imagine tina
noise and energy go together. 1t is bar
barous idea. Noise is waste. The STILES
engine returns the most power for its con
sumption of coal"
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