Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-30
NEW HAVEN, CONN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 80 1888
ried back to the earth In the shape of solu-
BILE iron salts.

BILE iron salts.
The dust of the streets of Paris and
Naples has been analysed. In Paris 9
little pinch of sixteen grains of dust CON.
tanned 1So, 900 bscterim, including bacilll
of cholera, typhus, diphtheris, and eri.
sypelas. In Naples the same quantity of
dust had 1000, 900 microbes in similar
variety, with those of consumption and
lockjaw added. And yet there are several
people in Paris and Naples who are still
alive.
A recent application of electricity Is In
tended to thwart the plans of horse thieves
The apparatus is so arranged that the horse
cannot be backed out of Its stall without
stepping upon q section of flooring which,
being depressed the fraction of an inch by
the animals weight, forms the connection
on the wires that rings an alarm In the
Jockeys sleeping room, In the owners
home, in the more distant police station,
or elsewhere, as may be desired.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who has
made study of elms, says that the larg-
est elm he ever saw was In Oxford, Eng
land, and measured 25 feet In circzmfer-
ence. There was an elm of about the
same dzs in Springfield, Massachusetts,,
some years ago. The doctor estimates
the life of the American elm at between
200 and 800 years. If any survive to be
800 years, he thinks, It Is as wrecks,
liable to go to pieces in the frat heavy
storm.
A call is out for q meeting of colored
lawyers at Chattanooga, Georgia, on Octo-
ter protection of the negroes of the south
from lynoh-lsw and persecution to which
no other class of citizens is subjected. The
conference is to be composed of this pro
fessionsl clsss and they will strive to de-
vice some legal ways to put stop to the
burning and lynching of colorsd men and
boys by mcbs of angry, and often mis-
guided, citizens.
A report upon the sanitary condition of
tenemeBts at Boston has just been Issued
by Horace @. Wsdlin, chief of the bureau
of statistics of labor, the result showing
that n per cent. of families occupy
rented tenements that ke classed as excel
lent, while nearly al per cent. are good and
81 per cent. fair. There are 1913 people
living in tenements that have poor or bad
outside sanitary conditions. constituting
oE g. haN sf tka
tenements. There were III per cent. Of
all the families living In tenements that
were unclean.
Thomas A. Edison has been expressing
himself vigorously to Chicago reporter
against the patent system of the United
States, which, he ssys, deprfyes the real
inventor Of any chance to benefit by his In
ventiona. The patent law, he says, is sll
right, and the intention of the Government
to aid inventors sincere; but the difficulty
lies in the United States circuit courts and
their method of procedure. Ha advocates
a change, so that inventors who charge in
fringement should have a preliminary in
junction against the alleged pirates, who
should be compelled to prove that the
patent is not valid.
Hull House, in Chicago, has now added
to its other philanthropic departments a
model kitchen and coffee house. Here
all kinds of food, cooked in the most
scientific manner, at the lowest possible
cost, will be sold to working people at q
low rate. There will be q restaurant at
teched to the kitchen, where meats. soups
and coffee will be sold for consumption at
home, as well as in the building. This