Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-08
NyV HAVEN, CONN, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8. 1894.

There are 108, ,S20, ,0G0 pounds of unsold domestic wool against 6S, ,SH. eco last year and 2S, ,572, ,500 pounds of foreign wool against 13. .sss, ,075 last year. Prices have fallen one-third since last March.
 The mayor of a small village in Ger many has discovered an e6ectual way of stopping duelllng among the hotheaded citizens of that place. A few weeks ago two physicians quarrelled at . public din- rer and challenged one another to fight with pistols. The village chief magistrate heard of the quarrel. He informed the machine, they proceeded to the lonely spot in the woods where the encounter was to take place. Just as the seconds had stepped of the distance . heavy stream of water struck one of the physi clans in the neck. A moment later the second doctor was drenched to the skin also. The would-be fighters, in their drip ping clothes, looked SO ridiculous that they both burst out laughing, shook hands and returned to their homes, thanking the Mayor for his intervention.
 Ex-Governor John H. Gear of Iowa, who is . candidate for United States senator in ness" from a celebrated notice he served on the officials of railroad during the winter of 1879. At that time the northern part of Iowa was visited by . severe blizzard. which snowed under the line of the St. Paul railroad, and, the company taking no steps to clear the tracks, great hardship was suffered by the settlers, who ran short of fuel and other necessaries. The situs- ton was explained to Governor Gear, and, becoming satisfed that greater hsrdship would result if the road was not opened, he sent the following dispatch: "To the officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad: If you don't open up the Milwaukee road to Emmetsburg, I will. JOHN H. GEAR, Governor" The road was opened after the receipt of this telegram.
 Go to Oklahoma if you want to get an "easy divorce" A law firm of Perry, Oklahoma, Is advertising the unusually lax divorce laws of that territory. Resi- dencs of the person applying for divorce may be limited to thres months, as in South Dakota before the code was amended. The cause for which divorces may be granted are ten in number, among which are abandonment for one year and ''gross neglect of duty" The other causes obtain in many of the states. Gross neglect of duty Is the provision relied upon to fit almost any case of do- nestle infelicity. Service upon a non resident may be made personally or by publication. There is said to be no statute requiring corroborative proof as in South Dakota. One clause in the law Is particu- lsrly significant. It Is: "Whsn the par ties appear to be in equal wrong, the court may, in Its discretion, refuse to grant c divorce" from which it may be inferred that the court could grant divorce where the parties were both in fault Altogether, the Oklahoma divorce laws seem to be ss disgrscefal as were those in Dakota in Its most notorious days.
 Jeanne d'Aro, according to reports from Rome, is not to be canonizsd. The pro- posAl to make saint of the brave French girl came from the clergy of her native country, and for time 1t was believed that 1t would be received with favor at Rome. But the "Advoostus disboli," as that member of the osnonisation commis- sion is called whose duty 1t is to present req sons against a proposed modification, has presented an adverse report. It declares, Roman papers ssy, that essential conditions of placing Jeanne d'Arc's name in the Calendar of Saints is lacking. "The es- teem in which the Maid of Orlesnsi Is held," the Advocatus is reported to have written, ''is only consequence of the patriotic part which she played in France, and this has been greatly overestimsted by the French and the French Catholics. It is to bs added that no single miracle was &C., complished by he- prayers or intercession -so that other necessary conditions of csuonization are absent. The Church, in its decision ss to such important ques- tions, cannot allow itself to be influenced by national or other reasons, but must ad here strictly to the law" It Is believed that the decision of the Advocstus will be upheld.