Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-20

| bought q second hand heaIss In Boston
Maine, intending to use the wheels for q
farm wagon and the body as q potato bin,
has given up the notion. His neighbors,
who thought his undertaking an uncsnny
one, made bonfire of the hearse.
The Delaware and Maryland peninsuls
Is making ready for a great tomato crop,
grown not so much for immediate con-
sumption as for canning. Last year was n
bad tomato season, and It is expected that
this will be good one. The area In toma-
toes Is larger from year to year, and the
cost of production Ia lower. So, too, Is
the cost of canning, and the consumer may
get at least part of the benefit of all this
chespening.
The latest suggestion for 9 new design
for postage stamp is made by Washing
ton newspaper man, who thinks the ma
tionsl flag would be patriotic and appro-
pirate blszon. He says there are out-of-
ths-wsy parts of the country where people
may be found who have never seen the flag
and have no idea what Il looks like, and he
would remedy this state of affairs by hsv-
ing every letter carry the stars and stripes.
His reasoning doesn't strike rs as very
good, but the flag Idea does.
Mrs. Philip Sheridan is said to be almost
the only widow of q great war chief who
has absolutely declined purses, funds and
any such testimonials after his death, and
to have resolutely opposed all offers from
military societies and others who wished
to erect his monument. She said she
wished no other provision than General
Sheridan had himself made for his family,
and that the erection of his tombstone was
too precious a duty to be assigned to any
one else.
A recent decision of the New York
court of appeals that savings banks are
preferred creditors Is an important one. It
is based upon the failure of the Elmirs
National bank, in which the Elmira Saw
ings bank had deposit of about $50, 900.
The officers of the savings bank demanded
the amount as preferred creditor. The de-
msnd was resisted on the ground that the
savings bank had no standing In that res
pect. But the court of appeals holds to
the contrary and directs that the bank
must be psid in full.
Complaints have frequently been made
with regards to the unrelisbility of many
of the Paris guides, who make living by
showing strangers the sights of the city,
more particularly the nocturnal ones In
the hsunts of Its less reputable quarters.
1t is said that some of these guides are in
league with rogues and reprobates, who
make 1t point to fleece the too-conhding
sight-seers and share the pronts with The
guides. A petition has recently been pre-
sented to the municipal council asking that
body to appoint a special set of guides,
responsible to the authorities.
1t appears that there are others. In a
recent address before the Geographical So
clety of Paris the African explorer Dybow.
ski made light of Mr.. Gamers visit to
Gorilla land. His story, which he said he
obtained on the spot, Is that Mr.. Garner
spent three months at a monastery; that
his famous cage was set up in the edge of
the forest, only twenty-eight minutes walk
from the mission; that Mr.. Garner spent
only three nights in the cage, and that no
gorillas came in sight, though the boy who
accompanied him thinks they heard them
one night. Then, according TO Dy ybowski,
Mr.. Garner set out for the interior, was
taken sick after two days, was laid up for
two months and then went to England.
The Philadelphia Record Gays that the
Psnnypscker family probably sent more
soldiers to the civil war than any other
family. OF he descendants of Hendrick
Pannetecker. Dutch surveyor, who came
to Pennsylvania before the year 100, IA
were in the Union or Confederate armies,
| and 81 of the IA were commissioned off,
cers, two of them being generals aud four
colonies. There were 103 soldiers in the
Union army and Al in the Confederate ser
vice. These statistics are from Judge PEN
pypscker's biography of his ancestor,
which has recently been printed. Hend-
rick Psnnebecker was a surveyor for the
Penns, and surveyed their manors and
many of the townships and present roads
of Montgomery Chen Philadelphis) coun-
ty. General Galusha Pennypacke- was
the youngest off ser in the Union armies to
attain the full rank of general, having
been made brigadler and brevet major
general at the age of twenty-five.