Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-02
NEW HAVEN, CONN, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1894.

an act juat passed by the legislature and
 signed by Governor Greenhalge bears are
 no longer permitted on the streets of Bos
 ton unless secured In e cage.
 Steering boats by telephone during foe
 Ia . new thing In the science of navigs.
 ton. A cable is laid in the sec and by
 means of detector on board the boat fl
 may be discovered when passing over it.
 Charles A. Stevenson, of London, is the
 Inventor. He says he can get c perfect
 connection on board, with the water as the
 principal conductor.
 When Professor Garner planned his sx-
 petition to Africa in search of the lan- gusge of the great apes, he hoped to take with him curious letter of introduo- ton to e savage negro chieftain. The letter was in the form of photograph message in the chisf's own language from E. J. Glave, Stanley's young lieutenant. Glsve oommsnds Garner to the good offices of the savage warrior, and as Glavs's voice is we'll known to the ohieftain, the message would doubtless have been effective. but Garner by i'll luck failed to receive the photograph before leaving England.
 The eight-hour day has been found e great success by William Mather, member of parliament and senior proprietor of the Salford iron works In England. He has recently made e report on his experiment, and claims that his 200 employees have done more work under the shorter time than they did when the work-dsy was longer. The output of the mill has, in other words, been increased without any increase of expense. He urges the gov ernment to adopt the shorter day in Its arsensls, dock-yards and other public works. It would appear from the results of this experiment, however, that the adoption of the plan would not result In increasing the area of employment, as Its advocates 60 generally claim.
 The late George ". Ohilds was strong temperance man and was especially op- posed to moderate drinking. On this sub, ject he is reported to have said: cannot lay too great a stress on the matter of strict temperance. Drinking beer, wine or spirits is a useless and dangerous habit. It does no good, and If the habit is continued 1t Is almost sure to lead to destruction and death. Taste not. Touch not. Handle not. You should have courage to say "No" if you are asked to drink. In look ing back over my life can recall many of the best and most promising of my com- panions who were ruined by the habit of drinking, not one of whom ever imagined that he would be wrecked in mind and body. and eventually fill a drunkard's grave. There is no safety in moderate drinking; every one who touches 1t at all is In danger.
 still giving the authorities of Chicago a great deal of trouble, and e recent decision of Judge Gary threatens to add to 1t. In @ case brought under the ordinance which forbids factory owners to polIuts the air with clouds of smoke, and imposes a fine for every offence, the judge held that they could not be compelled to burn hard coal. "Proprietors of such nuisances," says the chief smoke inspector, "belisvs that Judge Gary's decision practically nullifss the smoke ordinance. It shall be my duty to teach them that 1t doesn't. The city can not compel 6 man to burn hard coal, 1t is true. But 1t can and will compel him not to have large streams of smoke come from his chimneys. Any man who owns can burn soft coal, or old rags, or anything else he wants to, so long as he doesn't create too much smoke. But If he makes e smoke nuisance 1t will cost him $50 day in fines. When he has paid $500 8 week for a few months he may decide that 1t will be cheaper in the future to burn hard coal and make less smoke. We shall also get at smoke offenders in another way. We shall enforce the city ordinance which provides that all engineers or stokers who willfully permit dense volumes of smoke to issue from their chimnsys ehsll forfeit their licenses"