Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-16
NEW HAVEN, CONN, FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH l6 1894.

knew moro about athletics than we shall learn in ., a,hundrsd years, held their olym. pie games once in four ysars, while today the college students want at least foul contests every year.
 The foreman of sn Evansville qndians) paper has brought on strike by an order prohibiting profanity in the composing room. The men do not swear, but they want to know that they can If they should be overcome by any of the accidents which happen in e composing room.
 The atssntion that ia given to fruit grow ing in oklahoma, considering the short time that the country has been settled, is really wonderful. Late statistios show the young territory has now SsS, 900 growing apple trees, 64s. 900 peach trees, 60.00o cherry trees, 51. 900 pear trees and great variety of other fruit trees and vines of every description. The profits on this va ried investment have not begun to come in yet SO that their value can be estimated, but the trees, whsn bearing. will be one of oklahoma's most proliac sources of wealth.
 Some people might think that e silver bsthtubis not an especially tasteful we'd ding present, but Fred Qebhsrd thinks 1t is. The silver bsthtub he gave his bride is fine one. The exterior resembles . perfectly laid out flower garden In minis- ture, while the interior Is delicately chased. On the bottom of the tub are engroesed Miss Morris initials in huge lettsrs. The tub weighs two hundred pounds avoirdu- pois weight. The market price for silver ct present Is e3 cents an ounce, and as it contains 6, 200 ounces, the metal value Is $2.01s, while the entire cost was some thing like 5000.
 An official report of the instantly avail able battle ships of the six great powers shows that of first class vessels England has 15, France Q, Rusaia 8 and the Triple Alliance 10, of which are Italian and l German. All the English vessels steam 16i knots and upward, 3 being 1si; none of the French Is over 168 knots; while of the Russians are under 16, the third reaching IFS. In second class ships Eng land leads with 12, France has Q, Russia and the Triple Alliance Il, of which Ger many owns and Austria 4- Here there Is no such superiority of speed on the Fog fish side, three being under 18 knots, while no French vessel gees 60 low as that figure and all the Russians steam 1& knots and over.
 The fue volume called "PennsylvAnia at Gettysburg," which is being printed at the expense of the State, Is making quite 6 disturbance. The publication was author fixed by the legislature of 1891, whose mem bers meant to have the patronage of this sumptuous gift in their own hands, and voted 5000 copies for the senate and 10.- 900 for the house. But the book required two years for preparation, and now the legislature of 1893 holds that the words "present legislature" In the act apply to the legislature in power when the books are given out. Meanwhile the members of both bodies are being deluged with impor- tunitiss, and ss some of the members of the 1891 legislature are dead, speculators are approaching their heirs with offers to purchase the books that fall to their lot
 Owing to last sumner's heavy rainA in the grazing regions of the southwest ter ritoriss, there is this season an abundance of winter feed for the animals that graEe the range. During . wet summer the buffalo grass grows thick and long, then in the drouth of autumn, curing on the stalk, which ourls in drying. 1t becomes q matted mass, several inches long, and the best natural hay in the world. It is % nutritious that cattle thrive and keep in good condition upon 1t, even In cold westh. CT, with snow so deep that they must paw 1t from the grass. Now, at the end of the winter, the New Mexico ranchmen are sending many car loads of beef cattle week. ly over the Atchison railroad, as ordinari- ly they would do only in autumn and De esmber, and the beasts, to use the stock inspectors oppression, "look as fat and sleek as If they had just come of mid.