The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-18

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for four years from the date of the law
taking effect.
A rich man of Birmingham, England,
who made most of his fortune manu-
featuring idols for the people of India
to worship, is going to give handsome
sum of money, after his death, to help
the missionaries in India make war
against idol worship.
A manufacturer of car wheels says In
THE Street Railway Journal that he is
obliged to use the cheapest kind of
scrap because the managers of some
electric roads refuse to pay for good
iron. If this is so the managers of
some roads are more economical than
wise.
In the Roman Campagna the mair.
scheme Of drainage which is to reclaim
vast tracts Of agricultural land to free,
Rome from the malarial exhalations
a-ysing from the swamps has been car
riea out, and only works Of secondary
importance remain to be done. SO far ST.
500, 900 hasa been spent on thsswork. The
question ota bringing thsaland under
cultivation ii already. Mnder considera-
ton. ~.
rS~.a r,rsx,t J,rfss "a !, q lI1r ,etfraS from
the stage, and has gone to live in
Washington with her step-daughter.
She Is mere than seventy years of age
now, but remembers wildly how she
trudged twenty-five miles on foot to
secure her first engagement None of
her family, which lived in the town Of
Huddersfeld, in northern England,
where she was born, had ever been
on the stage, but her determination
to become an actress, even if she had
ito walk twenty-five miles for an en-
gagement, was too strong for their
opposition. IT had lots of hard knocks
at the outset" she used to say when
she was acting at Wallack's, "and I
am SO coddled and cuddled now that I
often wonder if am really the same
woman who had to trudge twenty-five
miles along a country road to get an
engagement and felt that had done
very well when I got it,"
The big whaleback steamship City Of
Everett, the largest vessel of the type
ever built, which was recently launched
from a State of Washington shipyard,
has been put on the route between San
francisco and Panama as an expert
ment to determine the value of the
whaleback type of steamship in the
ocean carrying trade, from the stand
point of economy and speed, as well
as seaworthiness. If this boat proves a
success another wkaleback of equal or
greater size will be built, and regular
line established over this route. The
company backing the experiment be-
lieyes that better time and quicker de-
than by the ordinary type of steamship
The first experiments with the whaleback
as an ocean going vessel were not sue
cessful, but they were made some years
ago, and 1t is believed that the defects
then discovered have all been remedied
The attorney general of Texas has
decided that prize fighting is illega
In that State and has called upon tht
sheriff of Dallas county to prevent tht
violation of the law against it by stop
ping the fight between Corbett and Fitz
simmons. advertised to take place ii
that city. A law was passed in 1891 for
bidding prize fighting In Texas anC
making prize fighters and their abettori
guilty of felony, but imposing only tht
punishment for misdemeanor; the ac
seems to be loosely drawn in several re
spects. The civil code of 1889, which
licenses prize fighting, is also part o
Texas law, and this civil code was re
yised and adopted in its revised form
with the permission to license prize
fighting retained-later than the enact
inent of the law of 1891 which forbid
prize fighting. This mixture and ap