Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-12-29

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the Pesth Academy exhibit some unac.
oountable peculiarities. The plate shows
hundreds of walls or embankments seem
ingly about 200 feet high and from 125 to
200 yards in width on top. They run
parallel to each other and appear to be
from ], 900 to !, 300 yards apart.
II. Charles Fers, the well. ll.known Paris
ian authority on nervous diseases, notices
an immense increase In France of the
malsdies which are his special charge, and
thinks 1t due "to the increase In beer
drinking, Misunderstanding, and bars. 1"
DR.. Fere says that twenty-thrse years ago
there was hardly such thing as bar in
all Paris, but now zone sees them all over
the town, and always crowded"
Word has been sent to the courts of
Europe that the Shah of Persia intends to
visit Berlin, st. Petersburg, Paris and
Vienna next spring. He will start on his
journey In May or June and will remain in
Europe several months. The rulers
whom he Is to honor are in an unhappy
state of mind already on account of the
proposed visit. No living sovereign, In
all probability, is more unwelcome
guest than the shah, but his cousins In
Europe are obliged to receive him with all
the honors due to his rank. Entertaining
him is more expensive than entertaining
any other monarch. His retinus is almost
a legion.
New Orleans has the smallest police
force of any great city in the country, in
proportion to It's population and the area
to be guarded, and, though 1t has the re-
markable record of making more arrests
than some forces double or treble Its size,
the citizens of the ancient city want 1t
increased. With population of 1900,
New Orleans has police force of but 256
men, and last year these men made %, ,00S
arrests. st. Louis, with a population of
452, zoo, has q police force of 800 men,
who made but 20,729 arrests during the
same period, while the Cincinnati police
force of 4s9 men, with q population of
2o7, 900 to operate upon, made but 1894
arrests during the year.
The journeys of the emperor of Ger
many cost him a great deal of money.
According to an article recently published
In German paper, over 800, 900 marks, or
$500, 900, were spent on the trip to Italy
and Austria undertaken soon after he as
cended the throne. A heavy trunk, In
ohs-Ge Of a rrivy councillor on that COCA
zion, contained eighty diamond rings, $50
decorations. many of them iswelled; fifty
scarf pins, thirty necklaces, with diamond
pendants; six handsome sabres, three large
photographs of the emperor and his
family, framed in gold; thirty gold watch
es and 100 gold cigar-holders, with dia-
mond ornaments. The emperor pays his
own expenses when travelling on German
railways.
Oranges are not as popular In Florida as
they were a few years ago, but the pinesp-
pie is looking up. The pineapple can be
grown In the southern part of the State
with success, and the discovery of pro-
cess by which the Abrs of the pineapple
can be used for a variety of industrial pur-
poses is likely to make 1t of IS much or
more practical value for Its fibre as 1t now
is for Its fruit. In Mexico and in some of
the West India islands 1t lie used by the ma
tivss for thread, cordage. bagging, cloth
ing, hammocks, cloth and paper, and 1t Ia
said that the use of the leaves for this pur
pose does not at all impair the ability of
the tree to ripsn Its fruit. The pinespple
cloth from San Domingo was one of the
strange and interesting exhibits at Chicago.
1t was white, flexible and silky in appear
snce, and its strength when woven into q
rope three and one quarter inches in cir
numferencs has borne q strain of 5,700
pounds.
These are unpromising times for big
canal schemes, but 1t will perhaps do no
harm to talk about them. The proposal to
make ship canal between Bordeaux and
Narbonne-that Is to cay, from the Allan
tic to the Mediterrsnean-has been fire.
ausntly discussed of late years, and def
mite statement as to its dimensions and
cstlA1ntc0 SoSs A06 oCQA DhbAAnAco W m
Rene Kerviller, an eminent French engin-
eer, who says that the canal would be 800
miles In length from sea to sea, and from
IA feet to 215 feet broad, with depth of
from 28 feet to 33 feet, SO as to admit the
passage of the largest ironolads. There
are to be sidings of three-quarters of a mile
long at intervals of every eight miles, so as
to facilitate navigation and avoid delays of
traffic, while there are to be twenty-five
looks, each of which is to be about $50 feet
long by so fest broad, with fall of from
20 feet to go feet. The ships using the
canal are to BIS towsd or drawn along by
fixed engines, and II. Rene KerviIler esti-
mates that canal of this kind would cost
e27, 400, 900 and that the interest on the
capital lying dormant while the canal was
being made would amount to s3, ,000, 900
more, or ESQ, 40O, 900 in all, while the re-
ceipts, at the rate of So. G ton, would be,
less the cost of working and repairs, Ca
400, 900, representing an interest Of per
cent upon the capital invested.