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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

happened to be at leisure and in a
mood to be gracious. at is as good as
anything else, and keeps the pen from
corroding,"
HaVe you ever made an estimate"
asked the stranger, leaning forward
ana speaking in a confidential tone, "of
the probable effect of the general adop-
ton Of the potato as a pen-wiper, or
rather pen-sticker?"
don't think have" said the clerk.
IT is worth your while, sir" reto!ned
the man in black, speaking earnestly
and hurriedly.
There are in this town to-day prob
ably not less than two hundred hotels
that habitually use potat toes to stick
their pens in. Each one takes a fresh
potato every morning. That uses up
Two hundred potatoes a day. In a
pushel there are about one hundred pu-
tatoes of the size of this one you are
using. That makes two bushels a day,
or seven hundred and thirty bushels a
year. Do you begin to see-"
My friend"
Wait moment. That is merely tie
beginning. I have spoken only of the
hotels. The use of the potato as a per-
sticker is growing constantly. 1t is
spreading to mercantile establishments.
Imagine what will be the consequence
When the hotels and stores, and offices
OF this town use up one hundred thou
sand selected potatoes every day.!
Think Of it! The enormous total of
thirtV-Giy
toes, or three hundred and sixty-fve
thousand bushels in one years, in Chi
cago alone! And every blamed potato
gone to waste! A potato, sir, is no
good when it is stuck full of ink. 1t is
rendered absolutely valueless. Imag-
inc, if you cam"
Say, are you-'
mo, sir, I am not Mayor Pingree in
disguise. I am not potato enthusiast.
am plain citizen, with a head for
figures to show for it. With view of
doing what one can do to prevent a
custom thoughtlessly and inadvertent-
ly adopted from becoming a national
calamity" he proceeded, opening his
Ualise, IT have invented a little ar.
rangement of wood, leather and tissue
paper. call it the Comprehensive
Pen-Wiper. 1t is, as you see, very
much more ornamental than potato.
1t is cheaper 1t involves no waste of a
useful food product. Renewed once a
week 1t will last a year. at a total ex-
pense Of"
II don't want it,
cat a total expense. 1 was about to
say
Il don't care what the expense is. I
don't want it."
you don't, hey?"
mo. I wouldn't have a car load of
them as gift"
"Oh, you wouldn't! You don't care
how soon there comes a shortage in the
potato crop and the price runs up to
ten dollars bushel! That's the sort of
man you are, is it? You're willing to
go ahead and plunge the country into
a potato famine, are you? Rather than
spend twenty-five cents for a useful in
vention you'd see the whole dIarned
country starve, would you? A man,
sir, that will stand right up in the face
of facts and statisties-a man that
can't be reached by figures and doesn't
care for f1gures-is a man, sir, that
would have committed the crime of
1873 if he'd had the chance. That's all,
sir
He put the Comprehensive Pen-wiper
back in his valise, shut the latter with
a loud snap, and with look of lordly
scorn strobe away,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24
SOME PLAIN FIGURES.

A Waste of Food Product That Needs
Only to be Understood to be Apprecia-
ted.
From the Chicago Daily Tribune.l
A spare, demonstrating man, ar
rayed in a rusty suit of black and car
rying small valise in his hand, went
into one of the leading hotels and ad-
dressed himself to the clerk.
I see you use a raw potato as PEN
wiper" he observed.
Yes" replied the hotel clerk, who
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

The trolley party notion has been so
popular in Brooklyn that the Brooklyn
trolley company has ordered cars Tor
this service in winter, which are to be so
sumptuously furnished and the interior
so conveniently arranged that they will
be in demand for cold weather. The
company requires that the builders shall
turn them out with electric heaters and
the finest possible arrangement5of lights
and seats.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

Two energetic young women are en-
ployed by Uncle Sam in Brooklyn as
deputy collectors of internal revenue.
They are Miss Lucie Ball and Miss Ma
bel Butler, and their names We're the
first of their sex to be entered on the
government payrolls as deputy collec-
tors Of internal revenue.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

The late William Minot, of Boston,
preserved a bottle of Madeira which had
belonged to his father, William Minot,
the secretary of the Harvard class of
1902 and the bottle is now in the pos
session of William Minot, the third of
the name, who was graduated from the
Harvard Law School in 1868. The wine
is apparently in excellent condition, and
it is to be kept until 1902, when it will be
drunk to the health Of the class in whose
year it was bottled.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24
FASHION NOTES.
The Philosophy Of odds and Ends.

The Philosophy of Odds and Ends.
All sorts of ornate trimming of com
bination of fur, Jet and spangles are
being shown. If you have, perhaps, a
lot of old fur, or a fur garment that is
fit only to be stripped into ribbons, then
you might take advantage of the fash
Ion and so make use of the worn peltry,
but 1t seems shame to put fresh mon
ey into these elaborate combinations of
what, after all, are certainly no better
than odds and ends. It's all right to
make use of ones own odds and ends,
especially when fashion backs up the
process, but it doesn't seem right to
buy other folks bits, and at high
price, too.
These glittering ornaments are to be
an important factor in trimmings, and
they are to be used so literally that
they will constitute a big item in the
cost of such dress as that pictured
here. The dark green silk of the bodice
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

One of the interesting things to be
seen at Atlanta, Georgia, outside of the
exhibition is a house said to be con-
structed entirely of paper from founda-
tlon to chimney. Georgians say this Is
the only house of the kind in the coun-
try.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24
Notice.

wecapnot accept anonymous or return re-
jected communications. In all cases the name
OF the writer will be required. not for publica-
tjCn but as a guarantee uood fsttb.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
TIME Board of Assessors Of the town OF
J. New Haven will be in session at their
room, No. s, City Hall, from Oct. LIST to Nov.
1st inclusive, for the purpose of receiving
tax lists as per law provided.
CHARLES A. BALDWIN
GEORGE c. NEAL,
WILLIAM +. SHANNON
EDWARD MERRILL,
OSCAR p. IVES,
s23 Bot Assessors
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

One of the latest electrical inventions
is a figure of man worked by the cur
rent. Tonawanda has one which drags
a cart about the streets, and Brook
1yn clothing dealer has two which are
used as models When it rains they are
pointed for the store door and set 60
ing, with the result that the suits have
no time to shrink. The firm which man
ufactures them uses the power general
ed by Niagara Falls, and expects to
make one which will run by storage bat
teries and carry q photograph stored
away in it's internal economy.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

COMMITTEE ON ORDINANCES.
TIME Committee on Ordinances will meet in
Il Room 16, City Hall, on Wednesday, Sept.
rs, 1896, at 8p M, for the purpose of consfd-
erlng the following matters:
Proposed amendment to Section 392 of the
Charter and Ordinances of the City of New
Haven relating to the laying or relaying of
brick sidewalks.
Report of the special committee on street
sprinkling in reference to assessments, ETC.
All persons interested in any of the forego-
ing are hereby notified to appear and be
heard thereon without further netice
JAMES D. DEwELL, JR,,
Councilmanic Chairman.
Attest: EDWARD A. STREET,
s23 3t Assistant City Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

Mr. Gladstone no longer reads the les
sons at the parish church at Hawarden,
nor do the infirmities of advancing age
permit his longer attending the daily
mathis. He is. however, frequently to
he seen at weekday evensong and wor-
ships regularly on Sunday mornings and
evenings with children and grandchil-
dren gathered around him. The grand
old mans face shows signs of age, but
his marvellous vitality finds it's more eff
fective expression in his voice, which is
as fine as when its owner was in the
prime of life.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

A man from Birmingham, Georgia,
tells in the Atlanta Constitution of a
very effective way in which the anti
bloomer enthusiasts of that city check
ed and forever killed the growth of the
craze in that up-to-date city. So far, it
seems, none but young girls have ap-
peared publicly in boomers but it be-
came whispered around that some of
the youngwomenwere having them con-
structed. Thereupon the anti-bloomer-
ties secured the services of an enormous
negress, whom they dressed in a gro
tesque bloomer costume. consisting of a
red waist, blue trousers, with a broad
white stripe down the sides and bright
yellow hose. This ridiculous figure has
been made TO parade the streets on a
bicycle for several days past, perspiring
at every pore. She has served, it is
said, to forever kill the bloomer craze
in the Magic city.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

In a recent address to an African
Methodist conference, the Rev. DR.. Cot
fin, a prominent negro preacher of Phil
\ cial rights. There is no such thing.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-24

The oil fever is spreading rapidly and
Increasing in virulence in California
and other far western States, and all
the incidents of specializing in options
and prospects that characterized the
craze in the eastern fields years ago are
being reproduced there. Oil prospect
ing is going on all over the coast coun-
try, and some notable strikes have been
made particularly in California. The
oil fields of Fullerton, Orange county
are said to be especially productive.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
The Largest Sailing Ship.

The now five masted sailing ship Potosi, recently launched at the Tecklenborg yard, Bremen, Germany, for the Hamburg firm of F. Laeisz & Co.,, is tho largest sailing vessel now afloat. The Potosi, which is built of Siemens- Martin steel, is 394 feet in length over all, 49 feet 9 inches wide over the plating amidships, and 3l feet 215 inches deep from upper edge of keel to un- der the main deck amidships. Her regis
 tered tonnage is 3,955 gross tons, and her displacement, on an average draft of 25 feet is 8, 5S0 tons, with a carrying capacity of 6,510 tons. The masts and larger yards are of steel. The height of the mainmast from keel to truck is 210 feet, and its di- ameter at the deck 34 inches. All the standing tackle is of galvanized steel wire, and the running. gear partly of wire and partly of hemp. The spread of canvas with llsails set will be about ], 900 square yards Special stitching and strengthen ing arrangements have been adopted in view of the heavy masts and enormous wind pressure on the SailS-Iron Age
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
The Billville Banner.

Billville is to have silver convention. Be sure and bring your silver with you. There hasn't been enough of it around here to jingle in the past six months.
 As we are constantly kept running by our creditors, we have decided that we might as we'll enter tho senatorial race. We are satisfied we can distance all com petitors.
 A railroad train ran over our left leg last week, and we got S2, 900 damages. We always said there was money in the newspaper business.
 We made run on n bank recently. The sheriff was after us and we got away by way of the banks roof
 There are no boomers in Billville, but all the women are predicting in their hus bands clothes
 We understand that Governor Atkinson had seven doctors and still he recovered.
 Somebody has invented horseless car riago. What we want in this section is a mulcloss plow.-Atlanta Constitution.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
Great Is the Bicycle.

Littlo more of conquest seems left for the bicycle. Even the wild rcdskin and his fiery cayuse have been subdued. Two Indians on horseback were cutting up ca pers in Pendleton, Or, last week and broke several city ordinances in few min utcs. Marshal Means started to arrest them, and the Indians put spurs to their horses and made for the prairie The mar shal is an expert bicyclist, and he mounted his wheel, and with one hand grasping the handle bar and the other clutching his gun he put after the fleeing redskins. Before he had. reached the city limits he had winged ono, and few hundred yards far ther he caught up with the other and brought him back in triumph.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
A BIT OF HISTORY.
Recalled by tie Recent Death of an Aus
 tralian Millionaire.

lNcCallCu Dy JIG hcccnt Dtsttu Ot stb Aus
 tralian Millionaire.
 The London newspapers record the death of Robert Pate, an Australian millionaire.
 Few people today will recollect the cir cumstances which made Pate so much talked about at one time. About 40 years ago he was dashing lieutenant in the Tenth Hussars, which is always command cd by the heir to the throne. He was pop ular in society and apparently had bright future, but one day he yielded to an in- sane impulse and struck Queen Victoria with cane when she was leaving the death bed of her unclo tho late Duke of Cambridge. The blow fell on the queens face and left mark which is still visible
 It was gross insult, and in some coun- tries Pate would have been sent to the gal lows or to prison for life. He lost his com mission and was sentenced to seven years penal servitudo in Australia. In few years he was released on ticket of leave, but was ordered to remain where he was Ho worked hard, made good investments and in time became leading millionaire
 But this ex-convict, cultured, rich and respectable in the colony, was virtually prisoner He was closely watched by the police until the day of his death, although he enjoyed unlimited freedom so long IS he remained in Australia. It was gencr- ally believed that Pate had no motive in striking the quoen and that ho was the victim of momcntary attack of insanity, but the good conduct of lifetime could not gain for him permission to visit his native land. During the last 30 years of his life however, Inc was man of intlu- ence and lived in luxury. hiladelphia Record
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
An Oddly Hidden Treasure Found.

G. w. Inscor, from Marion, N. C., tells very weird story of hidden treasure.
 He says that his brother John, a miner, was authorized by one Charles Austin of Asheville, N O., to proceed down the Ten nessee river until he came to bluff an- swering the description written on a way bill'' left to Mrs. Austin by her father, a Mir. Boone, on his death bed. The narra- tive claimed that in time far past Boone had hidden SC, 900 in gold coin and s1, 900 worth of gold dust. The hiding place de- scribed corresponded with the ledge in the face of Paint Rock bluff, 16 miles below Guntersville. So the story goes that this John Inscor stopped there and tapped the face of the bluff 200 feet above the water until on July he struck a cemented re- cess, which soon yielded to the blows of his hammer and revealed small sheet iron box containing tho treasure as alleged. The narrator claims that John Inscor left on the 9th for Asheville with the treasure. Atlanta Constitution.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
oHRIsTs SECOND COMING.
4 Convention of Ministers to Discuss the
 Bible Prophecies.

"A convention or Ministers to Discuss the
 Bible Prophecies.
 Arrangements arc being madc for con vention in Pittsburg for the study of tho Bible prophecies in regard to the second coming of Christ.
 A prominent minister who is committed to the doctrine that will be under consid eration said:
 "We arc not classod as cranks, but hold doctrine which is gaining rapidly. It is assorted by ono of tho leading ministers of the Presbyterian church that there arc at present five minister's committed to this interpretation of tho prophecies where there was one ten years ago. Some of the greatest minds of the country arc in line on this subject, and we will show this in the convention which will doubtless be held.
 "What VIC believe is simply this: A thousand years before the final judgment Christ will come personally to the earth and inaugurate his kingdom of righteous ness. At that time there will be n rcsur- rcction of all the righteous dead The resurrection of the wicked will not take place until tho end of the thousand years, and then tho final judgment will be held. Whether the Lord will remain on tho earth during the millennial period VIC do not pretend to say"
 When asked what was held in regard to the final abode of tho righteous and the eternal habitation of the wicked, he saiG: "Wc do not know-at least at this time we cannot understand what is written on these points. That is one purpose of our meeting, to try to throw some light upon what is now comparatively dark to us. However, we are all clear as to the correct ness of the position on which we have de- clared ourselves. ''-Pittsburg Dispatch to Philadelphia Bulletin.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
A Baby Elephant Girl.

A baby girl has just arrived in the little town of Southwest City, Mo-, who will be the biggest woman on earth if she lives.
 The very day she made her appearance in the world tho mammoth youngster tip Ped the scales at 63 pounds. She is now more than 6s pounds in weight and meas ures 80 inches around the waist. Her arms are 10 inches in circumference and her hands and feet are as large as mans
 This champion fat baby is the daughter of T. J. Matthews, farmer, who lives in the Cherokee Nation. He is small person; so is the little girls mother. If the fat girl keeps on growing as rapidly as she has since her birth, she will soon weigh more than the combined weight of her papa and mamma. New York Recorder.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28

Peoples Tribune, Birmingham.
 Dr. Y. B. Holloway Is undoubtedly the most successful physician in the South in the treatment of private diseases, We'll does he merit the splendid reputation he has achiev d. He is famous not only at home, but abroad. Many sufferers, through neglect and bad management, are in the very worst condition, and yet they are quickly and permanently cured by this great specialist. With him you have noth- ing to lose and all to gain, as he guarantees you a cure. He is perfectly reliable, strictly honest and financially responsible for any promise that he makes you. As specialist Dr. Holloway stands unexcelIed. if not unequaled. Thousands testify to his skill in the treatment of diseases of pri- vate nature. True merit always receives it's reward. Birmingham may well be proud to have his institution located in her midst,
 Labor Advocate
 Step by step, year by year, Dr. Hollo. way has acquired his national rep- utation as a specialist and which, with his genial nature and open hearted public spirit and unusual skin in his chosen field, is rapidly winning for himself unlimited social and professional honors aud the most fattering practice, both at homo and abroad.
 Mountain Home, Tailadega, Ala.l
 The excellent and praiseworthy reputa- tibn of Dr. Y. E. Holloway is well de- served by him. We are personally ae- quainted with the doctor and know him to 'be a man who is straight and square. His superior ability in his line is recognized by ell who know ot him.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28

Birmingham Age Herald
 Little did we think years ago when Dr. Holloway, our great southern specialist, located in Birmingham and modestly an- nounced through the columns of the Her aid that he would treat only special class of diseases that he would ever achieve an international reputation. To our personal knowledge from across the ocean, in far away England, they have learned of his skill and fame and consult him. We be- lieve with the doctor that truth, merit and honor always win. He stands at the head "a pleasant gentleman, an able physician and is recognized as the leading author ity in the treatment of all private diseases. Birmin gham may well be proud of him.
 Birmingham Daily News.
 No specialist in the south is more fa- miliar with the treatment of private troubles than Dr. Y. B. Holloway. Dur ing his long residence in this city he has successfully treated many thousands of pa- tients suffering with private troubles of every conceivable form. This great expe- rience, together with his skill and ability, not only places the doctor at the head of his profession in such matters, but is 8 guarantee to all that place themselves un- der his care that they will receive the best treatment possible to be obtained.
 Sumter County Sun.l
 We have a great specialist in Alabama. In point of ability he is second to none, and has been longer in Birmingham than any specialist there. s'Truth, merit and honor always win.'' and in that line pr. Helloway stands in the front rank.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28

Solid trains through between Birmingha n and Macon, making close connection for Sa- vannah.
 Connect ions at Savannah with Ocean Steam ship comp apy's steamers for New York, Bos- ton and the east.
 Sleeping cars on night trains Macon to Savannah. Tor further information relative to rates. teltdulee, etc. apply to
 |. A. CAMP, T. P. A., Columbus, Ga. tCION JACOBS, c. A., Birmingham. Ala. A. Ii. kTEVEHS, Agent, Birmin gham, Ala.
 JACK W. JOHNSON, U. T. A.,
 Birmingham, Al i.s W. sHELLMAN, Traffic Manager,
 Savannah, Gl.-i=| J. C. HALLE, Gen. Pass. Agent.
 savannah (71.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28

Robinson will leave Chicago Aug 10 clad in neat gray bloomers and expects to ar rive in Mexico Sept. :. This stupendous task is not the outcome of a wager. Miss Robinson believes she can make the run in 3s days, barring accidents, and has the dar- ing to undertake it. She will ride alone. Louisville Courier onrnal.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
PRIVATE DISEASES.

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  victim to form stage of blood poison which kind of specially just such for speedy Bladder Diseases Pmpe, Botche Eczema Tumors Womb Troubles disease of either
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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
This Is Good News.

A prominent Ohio physician makes the cheering announcement that smallpox is so near extinction in this country that 1t is difficult to find cases enough for pur- poses of instruction.-St. Louis Globe naYnocraf
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
Tho disposition to consider the valkyrie
In Dioomers and Alone.

Miss Jessie Robinson, handsome young lady of 20, who resides in Indianapolis, has completed arrangements to mako a bi- cycle run from Chicago to the City of
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
An Exoept,on.l Younx one.

It is repor' ed again on apparently trust worthy authority that everything Is quiet at Gray Gables." The new baby must be an exceptionally good one.-Chicago Trib- una