The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1894-06-27

The Brooklyn gas company that has
reduced the price Of gas to 30 cents n
thousand feet announces that IL will re-
luce the price to - cents next fall, and
perhaps even further.
Human nature hasn't changed in some
respects In good many years. In the
loyal library of Ncbuchadnezzar. re-
.cntIy uuenrthcd nj Babylon, there were
iound "innumcrable tax lists and tax
'ecords paid ana unpaid"
There are many hippophagists among
.he French. During he year 1893 the peo-
pic Of J'uris consumed y, POI horses, 30
ionkeyH and 40 mules, the total amount
VI such meat sold in the markets of the
french capital being set down in round
numbers Mt 4,615 tons.
The election of successor TO the
murdered Carnot will take place to-day.
The term of the president of the Repub-
lie Of France is seven years from the
time of his election, and NJ. Carnot was
chosen on the 81 of December. 1887
An election would, therefore, have been
ncld in December of this year. But in
ease Of vacancy the two chambers
Immediately unite in joint meeting and
flect new president. There are IN the
two chambers at present 800 senators
and 5S4 deputies. OF the former go are
Republicans, and of the latter, some 40
of various shades, the remainder being
Conservatives and Socialists.
There has been Il good deal of talk
about the presence Of the home secrc-
tary at the royal birth in England. The
origin of the custom was, it is said, in
the dispute that followed the birth of
the eldest son of King James. When
that son was born the kings enemies
maintained that his heir was not the
offspring of the queen, but an infant
that had been procured elsewhere for
the purpose. Other foes of King James
claimed that the queen had given birth
to girl, who had nj once been eX-
changed for a boy, and these doubts
contributed greatly to slackcn the hold
of the house of Stuart upon public af-
III, ,.,,s,t
has always been present in the room
when a royal birth has taken place, and
The custom has been adopted to all the
continental courts.
For nearly century the old block
house in Pittsburg known as Boquet's
redOubt, famous during the Revolution,
was surrounded by tenements so as to
be invisible from the streets in the
ucighborhood. 1t was reached by q
mail and unsavory alley from Fort
nreet and was occupied by a family of
,quatters. A Mrs. Schcnley, who owned
;he blOckhouse and a row of small
prick houses extending ont to Fort
ytreet, recently gave the ground OH
which they all stand to the Daughters
Of the American Revolution. The
lquatters have been eyicted from the
redOubt, the brick houses, which were
old and dilapidated, have been RACED,
and the relic is to be appropriately pre-
served. The ground around the block.
house will be levellcd and sodded, con.
crete walks will be laid, Il pretty iron
Fence will surround the small park, and
fountain will probably play in tht
yard fronting Oh Fort street. There
p;ll doubtless be q small fee for admis.
-;on to the blockhouse to defray the OK.
pelses of maintenance. Inside there
will be a museum of colonial relics.
Mr. Lionel Garden, British consu
general at the City of Mexico, has re-
Gently made an interesting report OF
the depreciation of silver in Mexico
Especially interesting is that part O.
the report which deals with the bearln;
which the deprecated currency has OF
the capital invested III the railroads O
the country. The bonded indebted
ness of the railroads, Mr.. Garden says
is equal to the public debt Of the coun
try, which in round numbers amounts
to 500, 0O0, 0O0 OF course this is il
standard or gold money, and it is no
hard to see that it amounts to owe
TWICE that sum in MexicO's silve
money. A. the larger part of the CAPT
tai invested in the roads was obtained
from English sources, it is necessar.
TO convert all earnings devoted
10 interest payments into thu
precious metal, and when the bond
fall due gold will be required to canoe
them. Many supplies also have to b.
purchased in gold. About one-third o
the gross expenditure on most of tn,
lines is spent for supplies, it is said, 81