Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-26

Professor Bell thinks the time occupied
by inventors In working out the problem
of aerial navigation by the usual inflated
gas bags and methods of steering them Is
wasted. He thinks feasible means of
propslling and directing an airship would
be by-s kind of trolley system where the
rod would hang down from the car to the
stretched wire, instead of extending up
ward. He recommends the idea to inven-
tors.
Telephonemeter is the new word naming
an instrument to register the time of each
conversation at the telephone from the time
of ringing up the exchange to the ringing
off signal. Such a system would reduce
rentals of telephones to a scale according to
the service, instead of a fixed charge to q
business firm or occasional user alike. The
instrument has been constructed at the
invitation of ths German telephone depart
ment and is to control the duration of tele-
phone conversations.
Love will go where 1t Is sent. A CEN
tsnsrisn soldier of Russia committed sui
eide the other day because of hopeless
passion for the daughter of q neighbor, a
girl of sixteen. The aged officer, veteran
of Leipzig and Beresins, would soon have
been hundred years old. he was hale
and hearty, and his townspeople were get
ting ready a public celebration of the
event, but unmindful of the honor In store
for him, when he found that the lady
would not listen to his proteststion of love,
he drank nearly quart of brandy and
hanged himself. In the empty flask he
placed carefully written letter, giving the
public his reason for committing suicide.
Sir Edwin Arnold's glorifcation of the
women of Japan is backed up by James
Hermann, a wealthy San Francisco mer-
chant, who knows Japan as we'll as he
knows California, and deposes that Mr..
Clement Scott is slanderer and man de-
void of taste and gallsntry. "Purer
women than those Of Japan can be found
nowhere in the world" says Mr.. Herr
mann. "The reckless journalist must
have seen the seamy eide of Japan by gas
light and imagined that the abandoned
characters of the Yoshiusra were the
leaders of society. AS a matter of fact,
SO discreet is the department of Japanese
women that the divorce court does not
exist and has never even been thought of.
If the game strict morality prevailed in
other countries the world would be better
thanit is."
The Grand Army of the Republic Is to
be asked to declare its position In relation
to pension reform at it's September meeting
in indianapolis. The issue will come NJ
indirectly on the appeal of Farnham post
of Brooklyn against the action of the Off
GERS of the department of New York In
susperding the post. This whole matter
will be thoroughly ventilated snd dis
cussed, and the Army asked to undo the
injustice done this post under the guise OF
punishment for it's technical violation of &
forgotten regulation. The Grand Army
will also be asked to vote on resolutions
approving a thorough examination and re
vision of the pension rolls, for the purpose
| of dropping from tn, m all unworthy re
cipients of government bounty. The sd
vocates of these resolutions, and of pen
sion reform, cay that they expect TO bt
voted down, IL not choked of, before they
have a chance to fairly defend their posi-.
ton, because the Grand Army Is so COM
| pletely dominated by the pension agents.
1t seems that the hollow of the Atlantic
is not strictly basin whose depth in
cresses regularly toward the center, the
latest Investigations showing that 1t is
rather a saucer or dish like one, 60 even is
the contour of its bed. II is found that,
proceeding westward from the Irish coast,
the ocean bed deepens very graduslly-in
fact, for the fret two bundled snd thirty
miles the gradient is bat six feet to the
mile, though in the next twenty miles the
fall Is more than nine thousand feet, so
precipitous being this sudden descent that,
In many places, depths Of twelve hundred
| to sixteen hundred fathoms are encounter.
ed In very close proximity to the one
| hundred -fathom line. With the depth OF
eighteen hundred to two thousand fsthoms,
the sea bed In this part of the Atlantic be
comes slightly undulsting plain, whose
gradients are go light as to show bat little
alteration of depth for some twelve hun
dred miles: the extraordinary hstness ot
these submarine prsiries, therefore, rem
dering the familiar idea of basin rather
inappropriate. The greatest depth in the
Atlantic is clsimed to have been fount
some one hundred miles to the northwsrt
of the island of st. Thomas, where thu
soundings of 1875 fathoms were obtained
The seas around Great Britain, instead o
forming part OF the great Atlantic hollow
as heretofore generally regarded, are nov
alleged to be rather a part of the platform
banks of the great European continen
which the ocean has ov-Ifiowed.
FASHION NOTES.
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