Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-03-24

customer suspscting it. The paper is usei
only in the body and on the under side o,
the texture and proves both cheaper and
stronger than shoddy and mungo.
Wheat production in the Argentine Re
public is increasing at an astonishing rate
Some Q, ,100, 900 acres were sown to the
grain Last year against only 2.s00s 900 acres
In 1890 and 4so, 900 acres In 1880. One
wheat farm was cultivated In the province
Of Buenos Ayres In Argentine last year of
some 60, 900 acres, and thst, too. by an
italian who not long ago went to the coun-
try as an assisted emigrant.
A firm of New York carpet manufactur.
ers has created constsrnation In Great
Britain by sending to that country 10. 600
rolls of carpet that were offered at rates
considerably below those asked for Eng.
lish and Scotch carpets of like grade. The
result Was IN immediate reduction of from
10 to 20 per cent. In the price of the native
product, and an order to produce at the
mills special grades to compete With the
American product. Meanwhile prejudice
against American manufactures is indus
trioukly sown among the possible British
purchasers. .t
An electric locomotive which LAS for q
long time past been under construction at
the works of the inventor, n. Heilmann,
was recently delivered to the Paris and
Havre Conpsgnie de rOueat at It's Paris
station, and has since been submitted to
every possible kind of test In railroad
work. II is said to have gone through all
successfully, and is pronounced all that
could be desired for first class railroad 10.
connective. Its greatest speed, with an average
train, is fifty miles an hour. The company
will probably adopt electric locomotives to
supplant steam engines.
1t is an interesting fact that no lees than
four thousands persons now living in for
eign countries receive quarterly checks
from the Washington agency in payment
of pensions. These people are scattered
all over the world. There are two thou
sand In Canada, who are psid $345, 900 a
year; six hundred In Germany who re-
oeive $98, 900 year, and seven hundred
and fifty In Great Britain, whose yearly
checks aggregate $126, 900. One man in
the Fill Islands is paid 500 year. Four
times ayear checks aggregating $sOl are
sent to four men In Africa.
The exhibition ut Antwerp, which is to
be opened by the king of the Bslgians on
the 9Th of May, promises to be raost suc-
cessful flair. The necessary buildings
have been erected with great rapidity and
are said to present a most imposing and
beautiful appearance. Although the space
is double that of the exhibition of 1885, all
of 1t will be occupied. Belgian manufao-
turers have retained q space of $50, 900
square feet, and the United States comes
next In order with 175.000. France and
Germany, who are brisk competitors for
Belgian trade, have each bsspoken ITO, 900
square feet, while Great Britain has co.
600. Italy. Russia, Spain, Portugal, Nor
way, Sweden, Canada and Peru also will
be we'll represented. An extensive space
in the park has been Get aside for eastern
countries. Here will be found streets In
Cairo and Constantinople. dancing and
bowling derviahes, priests, caravans and
"fantasiss," not to mention the Congo
section, which will be remarkable not only
for the producfs exhibited in o separate
palace and dioramss showing the country,
but also for the presence Of q large num-
Der of natives chosen from the principal
tribes of the future Belgian colony, and
living in their habitual fashion. The
browning attraction of the exhibition will
be the reproduction In fac simils of part
of old Antwerp in the sixteenth century,
which is to be marvel of picturesque a.
delity.
The Dsutsehe Revue publishes the fol-
lowing as an illustration Of Prince Bis
msrck's good nature: After he had &C.
cepted the ministry of commerce the Prince
was struck by the insigniaoanos of many
matters he had to decide. If, for instance,
anybody had been caught illicitly hawking
goods and had been sentence to fine, bu,
had to be pardoned on the SCORE of poverty
|1t was necessary for the remission of the
fine, to obtain the consent of two minis.
ters-the minister of finance and the min.
lister of commerce. Bismarck had tsker
special note of case of this kind. A ped
Ter had been sentenced to fine of 20 mark
(sbout q sovereignty, and the under score
tary of state reported to the new minister
of commerce that he was q poor devil wht
had to maintain . wife and child, and
would sink into still deeper misery II the
fine were converted into Imprisonment
He therefore begged Bismarck to sign a,
immediate report, advising the King t,
pardon the psdler. The Prince emphatic
ally refused to do 80, for. said he, If tn
King had to be advised to use his right o
pardon in all such cases, justice would be
come dead letter. The pedler has simpl
not to pay the fine, and must escape i'm
| prisonment in order to save himself an
his family from absolute ruin. The under
secretary of State then referred to tn
traditional practice, and appealed to th
heart of his chief, who auswered: ga
right. I'll give the poor devil the 20 mark
out of my own pocket, but you shall nc
have my signature to the thing
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
l Written for tho JOURNAL AND CoyRIKR.1