The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-26
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Divorce has been legal in France now
for eight years.. The first year the
number granted was 100: the second,
1000; in 1894 it was 5000; the total for
eight years is 100000 The working
classes supply the largest proportion,
AZ per cent; the peasants the smallest,
per cent. Incombatability of temper
was the case in $4,000 cases. The most
common time for suit is the fifth year
after marriage.
The superintendent Of the Soldiers
home at Quincy, Illinois, has issued
orders that any veteran under the care
of the home who shall marry shall be
dishonorably discharged. because Of an
extraordinary law, which makes veter-
ans and their families a, county charge,
ON the order of any Grand Army post.
Add to free county rations a pension
and care at the home, ana the veteran
becomes matrimonial prize.
The relics Of Lord Nelson recently
sold in London were offered to the Brit
isl government some time ago for $685.
900. The offer was refused, but the
government afterwards bought In some
of the relics including the orders and
decorations worn by the hero Of the
Nile at the moment he was killed on
the deck OF his ship, the Victory. But
the gold sword -hilts. gold boxes con-
tanning the freedom Of cities, pieces Of
massive plate and other interesting his
toric relics went elsewhere. Who's
Nelson? What do people. care about
Nelson nowadays?" asks the ironical
London Telegraph.
In the August Lippir1cott's Mr.. John
Gilner Speed calls attention to the ser
vice which the bicycle Is prepared to
render in time Of war. The volunteer
service Of Great Britain includes about
1000 bicyclists, and for several years
The signal corps Of the Connecticut mill
tia has been equipped with bicycles in
one section. The war department of
Belgium has gone even further IN the
utilization of the wheel. 1t is there
used for the quick moving of troops,
and General Miles recognized a year
ago that during the next great war
the bicycle will become a most import
ant machine for military purposes"
An interesting exhibit at the Atlanta
exposition will be sent by the women
at Cobb County, Georgia. 1t Is. the cell
ebrated "battle-scarfed cabin" from the
battlefield of the Kennesaw mountain.
1T Is a, plain log cabin about twenty
feet square, and was situated just be-
hind the Confederate 'breastworks. 1t
offered a good mark for some of Sher-
mans batteries, and was bored in every
part with shells and peppered with bull
lets. but did not take fire. There are
over thirty clean holes through its walls
made by Federal shells, and many
hundreds OF bullets are buried in the
logs.
John Sherman has been talking again
/ to a Cincinnati Commercial Gazette in
terviewer. He says: II shall do all
can for the election of Ex-Governor
Foraker to the Senate. I believe the
Ohio people want him there and that
they will elect a legislature that will
put him there" Speaking of the past
the Senator said Arthur was put
on the ticket to placate Conkling, and
don't believe he ought to have been
there to become President of the United
States. He made good President, but
the veriest child could have filed the
place at that time AS to the duties
of President, he said: ''All the selec-
the Cabinet, and the President should
be given time for the consideration
of graver questions. Cleveland's cab
met officers let him make them mere
clerks
A gigantic undertaking, the bridging
over of Folks Strait separating the
island of Ceylon from the mainland of
India, is seriously proposed BY the Cey-
Ion government. The strait is forty
one miles broad at it's narrowest point,
double the width Of the English Chan
mel, but is very shallow. in many places
only six feet deep. The islands, reefs,
and channels in it have been recently
surveyed, and the cost of works, ex-
orrav> 81 Y,ailac