Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-29

wv, tUU,UOO pensions WILL be suspended.
| this enormous number it is probable
mat nearly 80 per cent. will, upon further
| investigation and in default of new evil
dence, be dropped from the rolls, involving
more than s11. 100000.
Montreal is in the same condition that
good many other cities are in, and it is
trying to find a way out of 1t. The COM
mittee having the matter in hand has de-
vised a new scheme which Is calculated to
keep the regular taxes st the usual limit
by placing this extra burden of taxation
upon tho shoulders of concerns that do
not at present pay into the city treasury
an amount equal to the protection and ad-
vantsges which they are given 1t is
proposed to tax stock brokers $500 per
annum, insurance companies $1,000 per
year. manufacturers agents $500 per
year, and real estate agents $3.50 per year.
In addition to this, it is proposed to tax
the foreign railroad companies, steamboat
lines, loan companies, ETC., in fact, all
those who do not at present pay their fair
share towards the ordinary expenditure of
the city.
1t has been taught by some, even among
civilized people, that heaven is place
where what has been lacking on earth will
be supplied. The natives of Botacudes,
one of the hottest regions of the earth, be-
lleye that heaven will be land of cool
streams and shady groves entirely cleared
of all underbrush and cacti, All desert
dwellers, 1t is said, die expecting to awake
In wooded land supplied bountifully with
cold water. Natives of the frozen north
have paradise pictured ss land of warm
sunshine with glowing fires overhung with
pots of boiling whales blubber and easeful
couches of fur scattered here and there.
The Caroline Islanders, who are passion
ately fond of liquor but who are in mortal
dread of breaking their -necks by falling
from one of the millions of cliffs with
which their islands abound, believe that
paradise will be a land as level as a floor,
where one can get drunk and not be in
constant dread of cracking his cervicsl YER
tebre.
1t begins to look as if the days of gun
powder, as a charge for the guns in the
British navy, were numbered. Recent ex-
periments just concluded at the govern
ment proofbutts, Woolwich, appear to
prove the decided superiority of cordite.
A six inch quick-fring gun was loaded
with twenty mine pounds twelve ounces of
the ordinary black gunpowder, and yielded
a velocity of 800 feet per second, with
pressure strain on the gun of fifteen tons
per square inch. The same gun was
charged with fourteen pounds three
ounces of cordite, and gave velocity of
2,274 feet per second and a pressure of
15.2 tons. More important still, after 250
rounds had been fred there were no signs
of erosion. The new substance is manu-
faotured at the government powder mills,
Walthsm Abbey, and contains 5S
per cent. of nitro glycerlne, 81 of gun-cot-
ton, and of mineral jelly. The velocity
of the shot along the bore of the six-inch
gun was calculated to the millionth of a
second from the first moment of being set
Lieutenant 81. Watkin, R. A has invented
an instrument which, 1t Is said, will meas
ure fractions Of time to the nine-bilhonth
part of secondl About fifty of the six
inch quick firing guns have been supplied
to the navy, and the authorities at the
royal gun factories have begun the manu-
facture of larger guns of the same pat
tern, with a velocity of 1900 miles per
hour.
Theodore Thomas isn't appreciated in
Chicago any more than he is in some other
places. This is the way the Chicago Her
aid talks about him: Four hundred and
eleven persons-most of them probably
deadheads-do not constitute a large audi
ence for an orchestra which is costing the
worlds fair about $4,000 month, yet
those are the figures of the attendance at
the symphony concert in Music hall on
| Tuesday afternoon. The proposition Is
now made to split up the orchestra of ia
| pieces into several sections and distribute
them about the grounds to play for the
entertainment of visitors. This plan is o
good one, if the programmes to bs render
ed shall be of popular character. If,
however, the ears of passers-by srs to be
asssailed by the dismal discords of Wag-
merriam masterpieces, the whole orchestra
would better be kept together in some spot
as remote as possible from the tide of
travel on the exposition grounds. The
disease should be localized. At present
people can keep away from the cave CT
harmony wherein Mr.. Thomas men veS
the ambient air with "Lohengrip," the
"Gotterdammerune" and other morceaux
but if the tomtomming is to be distributed
over the length and breadth of the exposi
ton, the unfortunate victims of Wagner
ism will not know which way to turn t.
escape the pandernonium. Either let th'
/, exposition orchestra remain in statu qu'
, | or let # bs understood that the division
, into which It is to be split up shall pls,
music that will not drive auditors t,
, drink.