Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-31
WzHAVEN CONN, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 81, 1898.


says: The corporations have been downed
The factory kings are kings no longer
The tariff robbers rob no more. For ths
first time in its hirtory not spindle Il
turning on the Amory; for the first time
in half century not loom is working Oh
the Amoskeag. Half the Stark is idle and
the Manchester runs four days In week
''Ths white slave" is free; free to go and
| come as he pleases; free to do anything ex
cept work and get his pay for 1t.
An ingenious inventor has devised g
genuine burglar-proof safe for railroad
trains. 1t is arranged with two combina,
ton locks. Just when the bold train rob
Der darkens the car doorway, pistol in
hand, the express messenger touches lit,
tie spring. In an instant the safe Is locked
on new combination of numbers which
the messenger himself does not know and
could not give to save his life. The agent
at the main station has that combination
set down in his books, and he must hunt
1t out before the safe can be opened.
With this device the robber, the messen-
ger and the station agent must all be in
robbed.
The experiment of Lieutenant Peary to
utilize burros in his Arctic expedition to
transport supplies from the foothills of the
-ko1- - L., d., t..
predicted by those who have had experience
with them, proven a failure. He believed
that the burros would easily survive the
winter in the polar regions, and should
they die the meat could be stored In q
cache for an emergency. Reports from the
expedition show that these animals died
before reaching the Greenland coast. AS
pack-horses had been successfully used in
Alaska, and ponies, with snowshoes, had
been used In parts of Norway, he believed
the burros would prove a successful ex-
pertinent.
Most people wouldn't allow themselves
to be cut open for 5000, but there are
people who will. The physicians who ad-
vertised in New York paper for a man
who in confederation of a payment of
ST, 900 would submit to a surgical opera
ton that might prove fatal are said to have
secured him, and to have received answers
from 141 other men, q large part of whom
took the matter seriously and were ready
to make the bargain. 1t seems they wish
to make an opening into the subjects
stomach in order to study the digestion of
various foods. They advertised from
Guyaquil, and the man is going out there.
The chances of recovery are estimated at
about 90 per cent.
The London Chamber of Arbitration,
inaugurated some six months ago under
the joint auspices of the Corporation and
the Chamber of Commerce, was at Its In
ception regarded with favor by lawyers
and Judges, and six months experience OF
It's working tended to at least sustain
them in that view. But the legal element
was not represented on the Board of Ar
bitrators, and this fact naturally inter
posed to prevent lawyers from sending to
the Chamber many cases that otherwise
they would have taken there for settle
ment had they the assurance that the sub.
sidiary legal points involved would be
adequately treated. The Chamber has
now taken the first step toward populsriz.
ing the tribunal with the legal element by
adding to its twelve hundred other arbi
traitors a number of gentlemen of high
legal standing in London, chiefly solici.
tors, who may not only act in the settle
ment of disputes between their confreres,
but may also be called on to assist, as
legal assessors, in trade differences where
difficult questions of law may be incident.
ally involved.
What testimony sometimes is is well IL.
lustrated by something which has happened
In San Francisco. A famous tea set oi
silver, which cost 81, 500 and was presented
to John Daggett, now Superintendent OF
the San Francisco mint, in 1872, wal
placed soon after fer safekeeping in thu
custody of firm of that city. Thirteer
years later Mr.. Dsggett went for his silver
The box was not to be found. The senio
member of the firm admitted that he ere
membered the chest as we'll as If he hat
screwed down the lid yesterday" 81 hsv
the screwdriver yet," he added. Safes
cellars, lofts were rsnsscked, but no ches
with q screwed lid could be found. Thel
appeal was made to the courts. The cas-
was shuttlecooked from one to another fo
seven long years. The other day the JUNO
partner of the firm dusted an old, un
marked box, which the traditions of tn
establishment said belonged to people b
the name of Ober, who lived in Oakland
"Its been here twenty years or more,
said he; "I1l ses what there Is in it." Th
lock was rusty and mechanic was calle
In. Opened, the box revealed Dsggett'
silver service. 1t was in the original bo
and packings. And several men hs
sworn in court that that lid was screwe
on in their presence.