Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-18
HAVEN CONN, MORNING, NOVEMBER Is,

and cites the experience of the Paddirg.or
 district in Lcndon which while burning iti garbage lights its streets for nothing anG furnishes electric power to householder | at cheap rate by using the power devel oped at the furnaces.
 When John Howard Payne, the author
 of ''Home, Sweet Home," died in Tunis, ,ir 1852, the government owed him $205 9s salary as consul at that place. Payne. heirs are now trying to get congress tc
 make an appropriation to discharge the ob liRation. If compound interest should bs rt ckoned on the sum for the forty one years that have elapsed the heirs of the poet would receive . comfortable fortune
 However, the bill that has been introduced for their relisf only appropriates the
 amount of the original claim, $205 92
 which is not enough to fight over. The government does not allow interest on un.
 claimed money left in it's possession. Overproduction has become c subject o1
 serious concern with those interested in
 several prominent industries of the West.
 A few days ego the Missouri State Horti-
 cultural society occupied itself in serious consideration of the topic. Secretary
 Goodman said that so many millions of
 apple trees have been planted in the past
 few years that soon there will be portions
 of the country where 1t will not pay to
 gather the fruit. Something like 100, 900 acres have been planted with apple trees in the past three years in southern Illinois,
 Missouri and Arkansas. One speaker thought the fruit business would meet general failure soon, and later would be- come success with few after many had gone to the wall.
 The movements of the herring have long been puzzle to nsturslists, and from the annual report of the fishery board for Scot land they seem to be puzzle still. It wss originally supposed that the herring wss bred in Arctic seas, and that, marshslled by e sort of king fish, dense shoals of them every season came south. It is known now that herring spswn off the English coasts, but all efforts toward getting at the truth about the migratory habits have been unsuccessful. All sorts of marking have been tried. Five hundred fish were cap tured and released after piece of alumin- ium wire bearing disc had been attached to their dorsal fin, but not one returned to tell it's tale. They fit about the coasts in <be positive seems to be that they never go very far away or for very long. If one fishing town has an occasional lean year there is always an abundant harvest for many others.
 Never since accurate records of mortal ity have been kept has there been go wide spread and fatal an epidemic of diphtheria in London as that which has bsen raging during the last two months, and which, it is feared, has not yet reached its height. About 4oO new cases are reported weekly, and instead of the usual average of less than thirty deaths 8 week, there have been from eighty to ninety. The disease is ter ribly fatal and it is found that, whereas scarlet fever, for example, kills less than per cent. of those whom 1t attacks, the proportion of death in the case of diph. theris Is from 90 to % per cent The great scarlet-fever epidemic of 1891 -92 killed less than half as many people ss were carried of by diphtheria, which was scarcely recognized as being especially prevalent at the time. It is only of recent years that diphtheria has gained footing in the Brit i-h metropolis. Up to 1888 it had never caused thousand deaths in single yesr, but in 1899 that number was nearly doubled, and, as in the lsst ten months 1t has claimed about 2.5OO victims, 1t is as-
 tuned that the tosAl mortality from 1t will amount to at least 8, 900 by the end of Ds- ornhap