Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-07
NEW HAVEN CONN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Town in the university and governmsn examinations.

AoWA III tno oniNoAsasy eAAo 8oseEhIaons
 examinations.
 Sir William Turner, the eminent Anato-
 mist of the University of Edinburgh, Boot
 land, with the aid of Glasgow shipbuild-
 CT, has been making some calculations as
 to the strength of whale. The size and
 dimensions of great whale stranded some
 time since on the Scotch coast furnished
 the necessary data. This whale was 90 feet
 long, 20 feet across the Hsngss of the tail
 and weighed 185. 900 pounds. The profes-
 sor calculates that to attain . speed of twelve miles an hour, an ordinary rate for a whale, the animal would have to exert
 14S horse power.
 T. B. Barr, St. Louis landlord, the other day attempted to stop the funeral of the ten months old child of NJ. and Mrs. Percy Chadwick, because Chadwick owed him three days rent. When the months' rent was due Chadwick paid 1t and in tended to move, but the child died and the parents decided not to move until after the funeral. Barr wanted to collect rent for the three days, and when Chadwick refused to pay he asked for writ of at tachmens for thssissd child end coffin. The justice refused to issue it. While ths funeral sermon was being preached Barr attempted to carry the eoiau and oon- tents away after struggle. A policeman was called and succeeded in getting Barr from the house.
 Many shoe stores and some shoe factories now make 1t 6 point to prevent women from finding out what sizs shoes they are buying. That seems curious, but 1t grows out of peculisrity of womankind which gives the shoe clerks great deal of trouble. They say that the majority of women will not try shoe that is the right size. They nearly sll want them to be too small. It often happens that a woman buys @ shoe which she has declared to be the most comfortable that she has ever put on her feet. Then she gets. home and sees the number. or sees 1t before the purchase is wrapped up, and If 1t Is e shade larger than she has been in the habit of buying she will not take the purchase. On this &C., count there has grown up Q custom of marking ehoes with c cipher system, which only the manufacturers and dealers can understand. The result Is that many women are more wisely shod than ever they were before.
 There is apparently wonderful future for the wine industry in South Australia. Miss Flora Shaw, an acknowledged expert in all matters relating to the British colo nies, spoke on the subject fin an address delivered the other evening before the Royal Colonial Institute. She ssid: The immense area, the suitable soil. and the peculiarly steady climate of Australis are in every way adapted to the production of wine. It is believed that the very beet kinds of European wine can be rivaled there, If not surpassed, and that if the technical perfection in manufacture were once attained, the invarisbility of the cli- matic conditions would almost entirely do away with the European fluctuations of good years and bad years, thus giving to Australian vlntsges the superiority of un- falling trustworthiness. If so, there would be practically no limit to the value of the trade. But in order to achieve this result the utmost care and knowledge is required for the manufacture of wine, and the suc- cessful producers are those who have placed their wine-pressss under the super vision of highly paid European experts.