Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-01
~ feet beyond the wall on every side, af-
fording shade for quite ss many more.

iofolng anade Tor quite as many more.
Indianapolis comes to the front with q
very mysteKious murder case. A man
named william Kline was murdered In his
home, which was in . thickly settled
neighborhood. No one was seen to enter
or leave the house, though the crime was
committed in the daytime. Ths victims
wife was the only person known to be
about the promises at the time. The map
was killed by blows on the head with a
Ratchet, and the wifs's clothing was
stainad with blood when the crime was
discovered. krs. Kline. however, denies
any knowledge of the affair and says thst
the first she knew of the murder was whom
she returned from brief visit to shed
in the rear of the house, and found her
husband dead She accounts for the blood
on her garments by saying that she tried
to lift the body from the floor. The police
are inclined to believe her story.
Sixty years after its frst production, the
performance of Cherubini's Requiem" has
been forbidden in Norway. 1t was to be
played in the cathedral of Bergen for the
benefit of the families of the victims of
the disaster at Vsrdaelen. Herr Baug, the
Minister of Culture and Worship, how
ever, ordered it stricken from the pro-
gramme. When an Interpolation was
made regarding the incident in the Ssorth-
ing, the Minister replied that he had acted
in accordance with several paragraphs of
the Constitution. forbidding the presenta-
ton in Norwegian districts of anything
contrary to the word of God and the Augs-
burg confession" He had therefore for
bidden the playing of the requiem as 80
Catholic mass for the dead" M. Michelsen
upbrsided NJ, Baug for his action, declaring
that such an opinion should not be held
by Minister of Worship in the year 1898
The Storthing decided to postpone the
confederation of the question.
Here AID there In the highways and by
ways Of the world many legends and super
stitions still linRer and continue to retain
their ancient prestige. Ia Gslicis, the
province northeast of Hungary, the peas
ants believe that when star falls to earth
1t is at once transformed into a rarely
beautiful woman with long hsi:, blonde
and glittering. This splendid creature,
miraculoualy sngendered, exercises on all
who come in contact with her a magical
influence. Every handsome youth unfor-
tunate enough to attract her attention be
comes her victim. Thus having allured
them to her she encircles them in an en-
brace that becomes gradually tighter aud
tighter until the poor dupes are strangled
to death. If certain words are murmured
the moment the star starts to fa.l they
cauae her allurements to lose their power.
From this superstition springs the custom
of wishing while star is seen hurrying
through the air, Wish said surely to come
true If completely formulated before the
light is extipgu!shed. The Spsniards saw
in the falling stars the souls of their dead
friends, tho thread of whose existence was
cut short by destiny. The Arabs thought
these stars to be burning stones thrown by
the angels On to the heads Of devils who
attempted to enter paradise.
An Ingenious Freachman, N. Tavernier
by name, has recently invented an sppar-
atus for registering rlss of temperature
through friction In any part of a machine
or in q mass of grain through fermentation.
The apparatus consists of q small metallic
bulb half filled with ether, the bulb being
Theoretically sealed by u corrugated cover.
Any elevation of temperature in the medi-
um In which the bulb is placed causes,
through the expansion of the ether vapor,
Strengthening out of the cover, which Is
thus made to complete an electric circuit
friend has doubtless told NJ. Tavernier that
in certain diseases-rheumatio fever, for
instance-the discovery of a sudden in
crease of temperature Ia of the utmos.
Importance. Nothing can be easier, he
says, than to fix his bulb in the axilla of
the patient, any sudden rise in whose
| body-heat would be announced at once
by the ringing of the bell. But he
goes even further than this, and dreams OF
time when whole series of patients in 8
ward shall wear his apparatus tucked in
| their armpite, each bulb being connected
with a numbered indicator placed in the
house surgeons room SO that the dresser
or house physician will only have to lift
his eyes from his plate and read on thu
indicator the intelligence that No. or
in such and such wsrd has developed al
alarming degree of temperature.