Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-10
NEW HAVEN, CONN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY a.

tnat pexuculaf mecnlne gun, ou to affect great advance In tn.
 efficiency of all msching suna The motol
 is detachable. is of one-horse power, is vsry
 small, weighing but . trihe over fifty
 pounds, and Is placed in the breech of the
 gun. amply protected. The motor increases
 the present rate of firing, 1900 shots [
 minute, to more than 5000 shots minute,
 There were ss. .1ss locomotives engaged
 in hauling passengers and freight over the
 railroads of this country last year, S,s48 ir
 hauling passenger trains alons. To trans.
 port the passenger trsfao of the country 2S, ,S75 oars were in operation, while for
 tho convsyance of freight nearly . million
 cars were required. A striking compre-
 hension of these facts is had in consider ing that the locomotives. placed end to end,
 would make 6 train 875 miles long. while the freight trains, marshaIled on e single track, would make . train 2, OBS miles long, that Is, they would make . single train of cars reaching scross the continent and back, and back again as far west as Chi- csgo. >
 A queer story with first class reoommen- -datiop comes all the way from England
 Thirty three years ago, in 1880, . member of the Chaplin family died at Blanknsy, Lincolnshire, and was laid in the family tomb. This particular Chaplin was e nat uralist, and, among his other pets. had e large gray bat. That bat was permitted to enter the tomb and was sealed up alive along with the corpse of his dead master. In 1866 the vault was opened, and to the surprise of all the bat was alive and fat. On four different occasions since the Chap lins have looked after the welfare of their dead relative's pet, and each time 1t has been reported that the bat was still in the land of the living, although occupying qusrters with the dead. He was last seen In 1899.
 Wisconsin, although . northwestern State, grows c considerable amount of tobacco. Two million dollars is the aver sge sum which the farmers realize from 1t. 4AO CoukoEb Ol tuo AhouotEy ok0 luo towns of Edgerton, Janesville and Stough- ton, all of which support tobacco journals. The imposing houses In theee places be- long to commission men, who have made fortunes out of their dealings In the state tobacco. The growers are Scandinsvlans and Americans, with 6 sprinfling of Ger mans and Irish. Of the towns mentioned Edgerton has been the most thriving, ,hav- ing no less than thirty eight tobacco warehouses, with . storage capacity of 10,- GOO, 900 pounds of tobacco, or about 34,- 900 cases. The largest of the warehouses belong to Eastern cigar and tobacco deal CTS. The population of Edgerton is 2,000. At present its bu:insss is suffering from the prevailing depression. - Besides this town and Jsnesville and Stoughton, there are many places that have two or more warehouses, among them being Deer field, Madison, Evansville, Milton, London, Beloit and Sun Prairie. The following rather curious explanation is offered to account for the etagnstion in the Wiscon- sin tobacco business: "The demand for Connecticut tobacco has, since the McKin- ley law went into effect, been universal. The questionis: Did Connecticut supply all the demandi An interesting question to solve also would be: How much of Wisconsin tobacco has been passed off by the specu- lators for the Connecticut produoti In 1891 Wisconsin produced nearly 62.000 cases. The dealers and speculators have made the growers believe that their tobac- co is good for nothing except binders and filters. Is this true, Has not very large portion of the wi,consin product sold and been used for wrsppsrsi There are cigar in Milwaukee ready to tes- tify under oath that they have used up thousands of pounds of Wisconsin tobacco for wrappers within the past two years."