Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-05-26
forty-four pounds, and the whole weight of
the machine Ia to be 155 pounds.

the machine is to be 155 pounds.
Two eminent English physic,ans, DR..
Warren Lombard and DR.. Vsughan Hsr-
ley, have recently made an important
SERIES of experiments regarding the influ-
ence of tobacco on muscular effort. That
influence was not SO marked in the ex-
periments of Dr.. Harley as in those Of
DR.. Lombard. The conclusion which DR..
Harley has reached is that moderate smok-
ing, in one accustomed to 1t, neither in
oreaees the capacity for work nor retards
the approach of fatigue; though, in some
cases, It may eighty diminish muscular
power and hasten the time in which fa.
tigue overcomes ihs system.
Some unpleasant information concern
ing the use of absinthe in France has just
been made public by the government of
that country. In 1885 about 81, 900 hecto-
ntres of absinthe were retailed in France;
in 1892 over 126, 900 hectolitres were SINH
larly sold, and there has been q marked
increase in the consumption OF all other
alcoholic drinks In the republic. Between
1851 and 1855 the average annual number
of condsmnations by the law courts was
go, 600; in 1885 it had risen TO l27, 900.
Increase of population had little to do
with the increase of figures, for in recent
years the excess of births over deaths in
the country had varied from 10000 to
nearly 40, 600 year.
A discovery of much interest to antigua
rians, and especially to numismatists, is
reported from Matsbelelsnd. Eight coins,
all in fair state of preservation, were
discovered few months ago by Mashona
native in the neighborhood of the famous
ruins at Zimbabye. A local collector has
now come into possession of the coins,
which are undoubtedly Roman. On the
diverse of two of them is the head of q
woman, with the words "Helena Augusta"
and on the reverse the figure of q woman
can slso be made out. Four of the coins
bear on the diverse the figure of man,
with the words "Conasantius Cos" One
bears on the reverse figures which appear
to represent Romulus and Remus being
sucked by a wolf, The coins will proba-
bly, be sent to England for fuller examine
ton.
In Louisville, Kentucky, the trolley is
used for street-sprinkling purposes. A
water tank is built in a street car. The
cars are similar in appearance to ordinary
passenger cars. Double enders, for roads
having no turntables, have an equipment
of sprinkling pipes at each end. There are
two pipes at each equipment, one to sprin-
kle the track and another to swing out, !,
from the sides of the platform, where 1t
has swivel joint connection with pipe
from tank, and sprinkles between track
and curb. The amount of water thrown
from this pipe is regulated by a sliding
cut-off within the pipe. The pipeman by
a crank lever readily swings this pipe to
any desired position, enabling him to pass
wagons or obstructions readily. Hydrants
are located between the tracks at regular
intervals and 1t is said that with care car
can be stopped, filled and started again in
two minutes.
We suppose the general notion among
the people of this country is that their
cities are growing faster than the cities of
other countries. But DR.. Albert Shaw
points out in the June Century that since
1870 Berlin has outstripped New York, in
oreasing from SOC. 900 to /, ,57s, 1914 people,
while New York increased only from 95O,-
600 to 1.5l5,sOl people. Since 1880 Ber-
Inns rate of growth has been ss fast as
Chicsgo's, and twice as fast as Philadel-
phia. Since 1878 Hamburg has grown
three times as fast as Boston, and twice as
fact az Baltimore. In the same time Lsip-
sic has outstripped San Francisco and has
grown much more rapidly than st. Louis.
Munich and Breslsu have passed Cincin-
natl, and Cologne has outpaced Cleveland,
Buffalo and Pittburg. Msgdeburg is grow
Ing much faster than Detroit and MIL
waukee and promises soon to pass them,
while many of the smaller German cities
are growing faster than such booming
towns as Minneapolis, st. Paul, Omaha and
Rochester