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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-07
JAPANESE PRAYER Bags.
Strange Evidences of Idolatry Found in a
Lot of Coolies.
-. cs-iI

Lot of Coolies.
from the San Francisco CALL
The immigration inspector at San
Francisco examined lot of Japanese
coolies a few days ago and found that
each one had strung about his neck a
kamisama, or praying bag These
bags contain prayers written on silk or
stout paper and are specially addressed
to the possessors household god.
Y The Japs pay their Buddhist and
Shinto priests from one to two cents for
these prayers, which serve the double
purpose of being lucky charms as well
as prayers. The priests bless the
charm upon receipt of the cash. The
possessor prays by sliding the little
pouch UP and down the strings and
saying something similar to "These are
my sentiments" He is very particular
that these prayer bags and charms
shall not be profaned by the touch of a
Christian forefinger and resists the
deputys efforts to find letters near the
little sacred pouch which reposes on the
stomach Of the faithful. For this req
son the intelligent Jap does not carry
letters near the bag. When the Jap is
particularly anxious to have his god
answer his prayer he removes the COW
er from the top of the pouch and prays
with the paper in his hands.
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let through powerful pumping works
into the Bayou Bienvenu and thence
into Lake Borgne, far from the city and
its water supply, The sewerage system
of New Orleans is independent of it's
drainage system, 1t consists of sewers
emptying into a central reservoir,
whence the sewage is pumped over the
levees into the river, Recently q plan
has been adopted for reinforcing the
old system by new canal and reservoir
which shall receive the flow of the old
sewers. The new reservoir viii be
twenty-seven feet below the gulf level
and will be fitted with pumping en-
sines capable of discharging $4,000, 900
gallons day. 1t is expected that the
system as planned will provide a rapid
current in the sewers, and the effective
and speedy discharge of all sewage into
the river current at a point far enough
below the city to insure perfect santa
ton.
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Having clearly stated this rule, the
next bit of depletion, both descriptive
and pictured is an exception to it, But
when, in dress matters, a rule has be-
come almost universally followed is it
not time to break the law? Surely it is,
if 1t can be done by such daintiness as
that in this Illustration, which shows
one of the latest princess models. OF
mordore crepon, 1T is made with plain
front and overlapping side edges that
form pleats, narrow in the waist where
they are decorated with large buttons,
and widening toward the shoulders and
hem Of the skirt. The back Is plain and
has the natural number of pieces which
form stiffened godets in the skirt. Silk
passementerie appears on the epau-
lettes and yoke.
Some of the very handsomest winter
gowns are being shown in velvet with
skirt and sleeves to match and with a
bloused bodice of fur. Nothing could
be richer. An example of this is a cloth
gown made with a sleeveless and
bloused affair of fur that when put on
gives the effect of a fur-bodiced gown.
Deep cuffs of fur are added, and fur
muff and toque are worn. These fur
bodices are made with invisible fasten-
ing, and as much as possible is cut
away in the necessary pleating at the
waist so that the effect is not clumsy.
A truly royal gown of this style is made
of deep blue velvet for skirt and sleeves.
the blouse of the bodice being ermine.
With ermine toque cuffs and muff the
effect was fitting princess.
FLORETTE.
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4 UNIQUE BUREAU.

They have curious things in Chicago.
One of them is a bureau to investigate
and pass upon the applications to rail-
roads from clergymen and others en-
gagged in religious work for half-fare
permits. Clergymen regularly in charge
of churches, presiding elders and Sis
ters of Charity are given permits direct,
by each railroad, upon endorsement of
local railroad agents; but all other ap-
plications for ministerial or clerical
tickets are referred to the bureau.
which has headquarters in Chicago. In
Guided in the information made public
in the first report of this unique bureau
is the fact that these classes of citizens
are recognized as deserving of the half
fare charity: Superannuated or retired
clergy1nen: clergymen temporarily
without charges; clergymen who may
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= take him shopping with me, walk
him around until he can't stand, and
then wind up in a bonnet store. He'll
buy anything to get home.-New York
Weekly.
She-No, Ned, it wouldn't be judicious
for us to marry until after you have
had your salary increased. He (plead-
ingly)-But two can live cheaper than
one, you know, Nellie. She-Yes,
know that's what people say. AS a
matter of fact, they have to,-Somer-
vile Journal.
A small boy had taken the prize for
an exceptionally well drawn map At
ter the examination the teacher, lit
tie doubtful, asked the lad; who help
ed you with this map, James?" 'No-
body, sir" Come, now, tell me the
truth. Didn't your brother help you?"
mo, sir; he did it all, "-Eousehold
Words.
Gentleman Ito cigar dealeD-Have
you any of the X. Y 2. brand in stock
how are they? Observation-Disclosures sir
This last lot is an extremely fine one,
Gentleman departing)-Thanks; you
wrote to say they were very poor, but
ann pleased to find you were mistak-
en-, I am the manufacturer. Good day.
-Waif.
A Taking Way.--Mrs. Ebony-Dat's
a perfectly won'rful revival Eldah Black
am habbin' at Zion church. heah he
hab converted youth huban'. Mrs.
Darkk-Dat's so, Mrs. Ebony. My hus-
ban done got religion turrible. I neb-
Der seen such a repentant sinnah. FL
dab Black do hab de mos takin' way o.
putin things, He caught my good-fer-
nothin' wufiess ole husban' jes' like a
fish on a hook. Mrs. Ebony-What did
de eldah say to him? Mrs. Darkk--De
eldah tole him dere was muffin ter do in
hebben but lay aroun' an eat, an de
angels nd furnish de chickens.-New
York Weekly.
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Some of the Things we owe to Helm
Eoltz.

Some of the Things we Owe to Helm
Holtz.
When one studies the progress which
natural science has made during the
last fifty years, he cannot fail to no
tice the unchallenged supremacy OF the
role which Herman Won Helmholtz has
been playing. Had his first important
have been compelled to place him
among the leading scientists of his age.
1t is this first great work of his which
stands as the foundation-stone of all
science. 1t is this formulation by him
of the principle OF the conservation Of
energy which, with one blow, brought
all branches of scientifs investigation
under one and the same law. That he
was thus able to state a law so general
as at once to embrace all natural phe-
nomena is a first proof of the compre-
hensiveness of his mind.
To appreciate his many-sidedness,
we have but to follow the development
of his life. While his first work was
mainly mathematical, his second was
in quite different field. 1t consisted
in the measurement of the velocity of
propagation of sensation by the nerves.
To accomplish this he must needs have
been an anatomist, too.
His labors in the line of psychology
cal optics show that he was also a mas
ter of psychology.
But perhaps it is by his achievements
in the realm of music that he is best
known and most celebrated. In his
book, The Sensations of Tone he
solved completely that riddle of nature
which had puzzled the world since the
time of Pythagoras, Thus to give a
rational numerical explanation of the
intricacies of harmony, and their effect
on the ear. there was need not only of
a mathematician, an anatomist, a
physicist and a psychologist, but also
of a musician, all united in one man.
Helnholtz was all this and even more.
&C. Riborg Mann in Scribner's.
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[From the Westminster Gazette.l
The next field in which M. Pasteur
disciples hope to achieve great results
is that covered by snake bites in India.
Professor Percy FARMLAND, in his ad-
dress on Pasteur's work to the British
association, referred to his subject as
follows:
The possibilities of securing protec-
tion by means of the serum of immu-
nized animals extends even beyond the
boundaries of infectious disease, for
Calmette, In France, and Fraser, in
Edinburgh, have been able to gradual
ly accustom animals to larger and
larger doses of snake venom, and have
found the blood serum of such animals
endowed with the power of protecting
other animals into which the venom is
injected. When we remember" said
the lecturer, that twenty thousand Of
our Indian subjects perish annually
from snake bites, and that the new
method of treatment extends the pros
pect of saving many, if not all, of these,
1t is obvious that we are here again
face TO face with a subject of stupen-
dous Importance, and which affects us
above all other nations of Europe"
Let us hope that this dream will be
realized. But one would not be sur
prised if the civilized power in India
regarded these successive victories of
the medical and sanitary authorities
with not altogether unmixed feelings.
For each fresh decrease in the Indian
death-rate means a fresh problem for
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GOOD.


She-No man is good enough for me.
Hell know that, but am I bad
enough ?-Life.
Bobby-Papa, Jack Mason said his
father gave him so cents, an Papa
Well? Bobby-Pd like to say the same
of you.-Harper's Bazaar.
Triggs-What is your plan of life now
you are divorced?
Briggs-Installment plan.
Triggs-Installment plan! How's
that?
Briggs-I have to pay so much a
week.-New York World.
oh, the ni-Good-looking young
girl-Will you do something for me, Mr..
B.? with pleasure, my dear Miss A.
What is it?" well, 1 wish you would
propose to me so that 1 may crow over
my cousin. I promise 1 won't accept
you."-FIiegende Batter.
Mrs. Brickrow-How do you manage
to persuade your husband to buy you
such expensive bonnets? Mrs. Tophatte
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-07
Highest Trees in the World

In the Victorian state forest, on the
slopes of the mountains dividing Gipps
Land from the rest of the Australian
colony of Victoria, grow the highest
trees in the world, the noble gum trees
of the genus eucalyptus. These trees
range from three hundred and fifty
feet to five hundred feet in height.
One of the large, trees that had fallen
was found, by actual measurement
with a tape, to be four hundred ana
thirty-three feet from the roots to
where the trunk had been broken off
by the fall, and at that point the tree
was three feet in diameter. A cedar
tree recently felled near Ocosta, Wash,
measured four hundred and sixty-sev-
en- feet in height and seventy feet IN
circumference. DR.. James gives some
interesting particulars of these gum
trees. The eucalyptus globulus grow
forty feet high in four years, in FNlori-
da, with stem a foot in diameter.
Trees of the same species In Guatema-
la grew one hundred and twenty feet
in twelve years, and had a stem dame
ter of nine feet Other species also at
tain enormous eucalyptus d.
versicolor is known to grow four hun
dred feet high, and trees have been
measured three hundred feet long
without a branch Boards twelve feet
wide can frequently be obtained. In
1860 a monster petrified tree was found
in Baker county, Oregon. 1t was just
six hundred and sixty-six feet in diam
eter. Amber-like beads of petrified
gum adhered to the sides of the trunk
for distance of one hundred feet or
more.
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Still another evidence of japanese SUI
perstltion is shown by the lucky stones
that nearly all (professed Christians
as Weld carry in their pockets, In ia
pan the women place smooth stones
the size OF walnuts at the feet of their
idols. After a certain time these locks
of hair and the stones become sacred
and are either carried in their gar
ments or worn suspended around their
necks to protect the wearer from evil
and harm. The Japanese immigrants
wear and carry the prayer bags and
sacred stones until they reach the mis-
sions, when they are hidden, so as TO
prevent white Christians from discov-
ering these evidences of idolatry.
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Modern Author. and Their Methods.


There is now an author before the
public whose writings have a wide au-
dience, but who has been recently told
by the critics that his work is deterio-
rating. This is true, and it is not
strange that it should be so. He is a
man who as a writer shows the highest
art in his work, and his earlier books
demonstrate this fact beyond a doubt.
But he has come under the influence of
the dollar, and now writes what is
called ito order" Not long ago mag
azine editor approached this author for
his next work, and found him just
starting upon it,
II would like it, said the editor.
What will you pay for it?" was the
authors first question.
'tHow long will it probably be?" IN
quired the editor
'Oh, I can make it just as long or as
short as you want it," said the oblig-
ing author. Then he added: 1T de-
Ponds upon the price. l can make a
forty thousand word story of it if you
like, and then it will cost you six thou
sand dollars. Or, I can spin it out to
sixty thousand words-and that is real
ly what ought to have to let the story
tell itself; but then will want seventy
five hundred dollars for it. OF course,
if you can't pay more than six thou
sand dollars, can trim it according
ly."
The real question of the story itself
Hi, -
simply a matter of price, You paid so
much and got so much. If you paid a
little more, you received a little more.
1t was Anthony Trollope over again
e. W. Box in the Forum.
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FASHION NOTES.
A Rule and its Exception.

Tailor-made gowns are almost all
made with some adaptation of the box
pleat front, and the style lends itself
well to an effect of trimness, which af-
ter all, is the only essential of the tailor
dress. A very pretty little affair of
black serge, with deep rib, is made with
a perfectly plain and swirling skirt, a
bodice that fits absolutely, with the ex-
ception Of a mathematical pleat down
the front that is buttoned close from the
collar to the round of the bust and that
falls full below that turning under at
the patent leather belt That is all.
The buttons are enormous ones of cut
jet and with the patent leather belt give
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Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small
advertisements, one Cent u Word each In
sertion. Five cents word for full week
(seyen times.)
Display Adyertisements-Pe inch, one in.
sertion, Sl.20; each subsequent insertion, 40
cents; one week, $3.50; one month, $40; one
year, $40
Obituary notices. in prose- or verse, ID cents
per line. Notices of births, Marriages, Deaths
and Funerals. so cents each. Local notices,
IS cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
immediate business (all matter to DC uhoo-
jectionable), and their contracts 40 not ln-
clude Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
Discounts-On two inches or more, one
month and over, 10 per cent; on four lnches
or more. one month and over. 10 per cent.
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They say Woman is not much of an
Inventor, but new bicycle tire, which
is said to be an improvement over those
in general use, has been invented and
patented by Miss E. S. Hutchins of Big
Rapids Michigan. In the middle of the rim
of an ordinary style pneumatic rubber
tire is a groove, into which is fitted a
smaller tire of leather, which,it is claim
ed, is much more durable that the pres
ent style of all-rubber tires while equal
ly elastic and light.
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An old gentleman of Odessa has left a
million rubles apiece to four nieces on
condition that they work for fifteen
months as chambermaids, cooks or farm
servants. Trey will probably accept
the condition.
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the administrator and the politician.
In this case, however, they are likely 20
have some LITTLE time for consideration
before M. Pasteur's followers restore
as it We're, to life twenty thousand per-
sons per annum.
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China is waking up. She is about to
establish new foreign university at
Tientsin, where science, civil, electrical
and mechanical engineering, mining
and law will be taught by foreign pro-
fessors.
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We cannot accept anonymous or return re-
jeeted communications. In all cases, the
name of the writer will be required, not Tor
publication, but as guarantee OF goou faltn.
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Burrell Bond, a colored planter Of
Crittenden county, Arkansas, has just
consigned two hundred pounds of tea
to a Memphis grocery firm. 1t was
grown on his farm, and is said to be
the first consignment of American
grown tea ever put on the market.
Bond is an ex-slave who has become
very prosperous. Tea-planting is his
own idea. He procured the seed from
New Orleans, and raised small crop
last year for the first time. He says
the enterprise is so profitable that he
will abandon cotton next year and de-
vote all his land to tea culture.
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Nebraska is excited over her newly
discovered gold fields. The latest con-
firmation of the value of the deposits
comes from Professor Herbert Bartlett,
an expert, who has been employed in
gold fields in Colorado, South Africa and
Honduras, and who has just been en-
ployed to examine the field near Mil
ford. This consists of a gravel deposit
two miles square and very deep, and
tests from various sections have shown
from So to $50 yield of gold in each
ton, while the middle field of Australia,
of similar character, only yielded from
S1.25 to $3.50 a ton, and yet PANIED out
100000 clear profit. This kind of de-
post is very easily worked when there
is a supply of water, and it is confident
1y expected that plenty can be secured
from artesian wells.
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The average annual rainfall in New
Orleans amounts to sixty or seventy
inches, and showers yielding from two
TO four inches are not uncommon. All
this water is collected in drainage canals
and is lifted over the levees into the
river and into Lake Ponchartrain by
means of pumps. The old system, how
ever, is inadequate for the present needs
of the city, and a new plan is proposed
to drain the central part of the city by
means of great canal finding its out
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Science has yet produced for the prevention
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IT IS THE KIND PHYSICIANS PRES SCRIBE.
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Slavery still flourishes beneath the
British flag. Both Zanzibar and Pemba
are English possessions; yet out of the
population of half a million, twothirds,
according to the statistics furnished
at meeting of the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery society held in London a
fortnight ago, are in a state of slavery.
About ten thousand slaves are imported
into Zanzibar and Pemba from the
mainland very year, while in the town
of Zanzibar itself women slaves may
be seen every day chained together in
gangs passing in front of the gates of
the British residency. Moreover, as in
the olden slavery days of this country,
masters can put their slaves to death
without any let or hindrance on the
part of the authorities.
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Concerning the report that the recent
earthquakes have increased the flow of
natural gas in the Indiana wells by six
ty per cent, Professor James f. Kent
of Columbia says: A shock of earth
quake, such as that felt in Indiana re-
Gently, would almost of necessity so jar
the limestone strata as to accelerate the
escape Of gas from its interstices, and
il that gas be able to make its way
through the Gaping of shale, it must
perforce come to the surface in greater
volume than before. You therefore see,
as have said before, that the earth
quake Ia responsible for the gas and
not the gas for the earthquakes.
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Begged a Thousand Pardons.

A charming young woman, who
lives on the West Side, and her
young man found the Summit-street
cars packed to the doors last Friday
evening when they started home
from the Auditorium. Nothing
daunted, Miss West Side sought
place upon the step OF the platform.
She had barely room for one foot,
and, as the car lurched and heeled,
she chung to Charley's big, strong
hand. Occasionally, under cover OF
the darkness, she squeezed it tep-
derby, BECAUSE because she
and Charley are engaged. And SO
she held on to the hand for many
blocks.
"Charley," said she, "aren't you
about worn out holding me on the
car with your one, poor, tired hand"
"What9" cried Charley in horri-
fed tone.
Mademoiselle looked up and then
dropped the hand frantieally. She
had been holding to and squeezing
the hand OF an entire stranger, a
young fellow with black mustache
and pleasing eye.
81 beg thousand pardons" gasp
cd mademoiselle.
Don't mention it," replied the
stranger. "You were entirely well
come."-Kansas City Star.
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are paid promptly and without IN.
necessary delals. The assets OF q
company Is the best proof Of its So
lidity and ability to paw losses. The
l,st given will satisfy even The One
Hundredth Mao"
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Band Concert Tonight.

The Hawaiian band, under the
leadership Of Professor Berger, will
give a concert at Makee Island, with
the following programme;