Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-07

shown new application of the metal
aluminium. He has made violin of II,
and the instrument, which was given @
public test at concert before O number OF
musical experts, has been pronounced emf
nently satisfactory in the purity and
sweetness of its tone. The maker said that
SO oents' worth of aluminium suffioed for
the construction of the instrument.
The London Society of Telegraph En-
gineers and Electricians have been making
soundings along the coast of Africa with a
view of laying cable from England to
Cape Town. At the mouth of the Congo
they found remarkable state of affairs,
their maps and soundings showing that
that rivers mouth Is an extraordinary
marine gully of no less depth than !, ,452
feet. The mouth of the Mississippi at an
equal distance from shore would only show
thirty-three feet and the. Thames forty
feet. The Congo's Incredible depths were
traced for more than 100 miles out at sea.
Another bill providing for the submis-
sion of the question of Sunday liquor SELL
ing to the people has been introduced ia
the New York legislature. 1t differs from
the Kempner bill in applying to all cities
of 100000 inhabitants or more, and in
providing that in case of a favorable vote
the excise authorities shall make the neces-
sary regulations, and the traffic shall be
permitted during the prescribed hours
without further legislation. The Kempner
bill provides only for submitting the
question to a vote, and leaves to further
legislation the actual authoriz alton of the
sale.
DR.. Dawson Burns Of the United King
dom alliance has just published England's
"drink bill" for 1892. 1t is rather lower
than that for the previous year. Its total
amount was s140, Ss6, ,262 as against e141,- =
220,675, showing a net decrease of 1884,
Alb. Comparing the total expenditure
with the estimated population of the
United Kingdom 1t appears that the aver
age expenditure per head was e3 13s. lid, /,
in 1892, as against e3 15s. in 1891, and
e3 14s 4d. in 1890. Thus the drink bill
which rose Sd. per head between 1890 and
1891, has fallen I'D. per head between 1891
and 1892, and now stands sd. per head
lower than it did in 1890, before the inter
mediate rise took place. The diminution
is too small in itself, and is extended over
too narrow period, to Justify any sup
position that 1t ia due to the growth of
temperance rather than the depression of
trade and kindred influences. DR.. Dawson
Burns says that considering that through
out 1892 complaints of depression in trsde
were constant, the slightness in the de-
cline in drink expenditures of the nation is
a striking evidence of the power of alco-
holic indulgence in the face of diminished
private resources" 1t estimated that go
per cent. of the expenditure for drink is
paid by the working classes. Commenting
upon this calculation DR.. Burns remarks:
.tEven were this estimate reduced to so
per cent, 1t would follow that in 1892
more than s70, 1000, 900 came out of the
wages of this class; and, as their entire
earnings are calculated at about 1900, ,000,-
900, it would appear that nearly one
eighth of what Is thus earned is spent In
manner productive Of far more loss than
benefit"