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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

Gentlemen of the Board of Public
Works we hear that 1t is your great re-
gard for the convenience, the comfort
and the safety of horses that compels
you to keep the watering carts from wa
tering nowadays. We also hear ducks.
They say that you are afraid that Il
you water the streets now you Will
make them SO icy that the horses will
slip. If you really do feel like this you
are certainly dear, kind gentlemen. ana
you deserve to be elected honorary
members of the Society for the Preven-
tioa of Cruelty to English Sparrows.
But. gentlemen, are you actually afraid
tina: you will put water enough on the
dusty streets to make any horse slip On
the ice thereof? If you should happen
to it would be the first time you evel
did such a thing, and you would surely
be forgiven for any such excess of zeal.
Our horse editor, who has managed to
acquire some horse sense, assures Us
that horse that would slip on any
such ice as you would be likely to be
the means of making in the dusty
st1 eets with a watering cart would be
to call horse. Such an animal would
slip on the pavement after a sun show
er Surely the passage of a watering
cart in a state of eruption even If fol-
lowed hard after by Jack Frost wouldn't
make ice enough to be dangerous to any
horse that had ordinary command OF
his heavy feet. And it would fix the
dast SO that that couldn't slip around
as it has been doing. No, kind gentle
men of the Board of Public Works, you
need not refrain, even in this weather,
from watering the streets at least once
day on account of your regard for
the horse. And oh, kind gentlemen who
would not see a horse Inconvenience,
VIVA. IS the matter with being kind to
the human beings in whose interest you
are supposed to act? Can't you pity
the blind, and those who are otherwise
suffering from the dust? Are not their
convenience, their comfort and their
health of as much concern to you as the
convenience, the comfort and the safe
ty Of the horses in whose interests you
are said to be acting, or sitting still?
Or to put it in another way, can you
not be as kind to the asses who keep
you in office and do you honor as you
are said to be inclined to be to the
horses who have not votes?
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GFJTS.

What has become of all your fine
diamonds? They are still in the family,
I hope?" ooh, yes, my uncle has them.
Tit Bits.
Unique.--"She is the most original
woman l ever knew" How is that?'
When she hasn't anything to say she
doesn't talk."-Life.
cab owner had the word Excel
sior' painted on the door panel of all
motto was hire. Judy
Willie doesn't seem to have had as
good a time as the rest of the boys?''
Nom" why is that?' ''Y' see, we
had our fun with Chicago
Record.
She-You know you would be just as
happy if you did not kiss me. He
But do you suppose 1 am selfish enough
to think only of myself?-Rehoboth
Sunday Herald.
Swellington cat the soiree)-I wonder
If that plain woman over there is really
trying to fiirt with me? Cooler (polite-
ly)--I can easily find out, sir, by ask
ing her. She's my wife.--Tit- Bits.
Sidelight. -"Wonder why so many
eligible women WON'T come into our
Daughters of the Revolution" ''They
are afraid we shall find out how little
they know about history. "-Chicasc
Record.
McFadlen--W'y can't desc noospape,
guys write English? Wot does dis duck
mean by calm de play last night de
cadent?' Madden-I dunno wot he
means, but know de play was rotten
Cincinnati Enquirer.
My first child said the professor OF
mathematics, was a boy Then there
were twins, and then triplets. That re-
lieved my mind" 1T did," yes.
was afraid it might be a case of geo.
metrical progression. Puck.
Talk of man. roared the female
emancipator, what has man ever done
for woman?" Furnished a model for
her to initiate" said voice in the rear
of the hall, and then an awful quiet
reigned. (Mass) Freeman.
1--WE got a personal letter from the
editor OF the Houston Bugle,' remark
ed the editor of the Galveston from
bone, laughing heartily. What is there
funny about it," inquired the manager
He calls me an ass, and signs it yours
fraternally' Texas Sitter.
Miss Cayenne paid me compliment
lawst night" said Willie Washington
One of the sort of which she makes a
speciality. She told me she thought ]
had a pleasant disposition How did
she know?" That's what I asked her
She said any one could see that l was
easy to please by the way in which ]
laughed at some Of my own remarks. -
Washington Star
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GOOD ROADS.

An impressive illustration of the
value and the economy of good roads
is going the rounds. The census re-
turns show that there are in the United
States about 100000 horses, over q
900, 900 mules and $4,000 asses. The
annual cost of feed for these animals
is about $1,5760O0,OO0. On fine stone
roads one horse can haul as much as
three horses can haul over the average
dirt road of this country. 1t is estimated
that it would be necessary to build
about 100000 miles of macadamized
road in the United States in order to
have as good a system of public high
ways as is found in several European
involve an outlay of $4,000, 100000, a
pretty large sum of money. But if one
half of the draft animals could be dis
pensed with by the building of such
roads, there would be an annual saving
of S73S, 600, 900 in the feed bill. This is
per cent interest on s26, 600, O0o, 600.
Consequently, if road bonds were is
sued bearing per cent interest, more
than 100000 miles of macadamized
road could be built without increasing
the annual expenses one dollar. The
people are actually paying per cent.
on $4,000, 100000 in order to keep UP
the present bad roads, while it would
rot cost them one-sixth of that sum
annually to build the 100000 miles
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ty after an aproned nurse wore an us
ter literally to his heels. OF navy blue
chinchilla cloth, it's collar turned up
about his ears and between it's reared
points his pink chin stuck out over a
cross strap like a rosy pet in a pad
dock. A double cape was flung from
the little square shoulders by the bust
ling wind, and his chubby hands We're
tucked into muff pockets at either side
of the row of big black buttons that in
double array made the front of the coat
tremendously dignified. An admirara
cap of color to match the coat was set
over the little chaps arched brows, and
his curling lashes scarcely lifted over
his eyes, so proud was he. 1t costs no
more to dress a little boy in this way
than it does to keep him till the age of
five in nondescript killings and Faunt-
leroy freakishness, and the boy is twice
as happy in clothes that make man of
him at once. But the main point to the
mother who must scrimp is that few
dollars In such a coat goes long way
just now
A jaunty suit that is warm enough
to enable an older boy of lively spirits
to so without an overcoat from now on
is shown herewith, and will make a
strong appeal to him because of the
abundance of it's pockets Its double
breasted coat has five pockets-think of
it! What cares its owner about such a
details as cut and stuffs? But let it be
durable and of a color that not only
doesn't show. but, il possible, hides
dust and CRIME, and then mother and
son will be suited.
This lads companion in the sketch Is
not 50 careless of details, but try her
with this little gown in brown cheviot.
It's skirt is gathered to the band with
equal fuiness all around. The sailor
blouse has a plastron and stock collar,
the former with a narrow p1eat In the
center and tucks on either side of it, In
addition to a row of small gold buttons
on the pleat The revers show a row Of
yellow silk stitching at the edges. In
back is q sailor collar with edge
stitched in yellow silk. FLORETTE.
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f-IsIi.o, .oI@a.
For Growing Ones.


The writer is assured by a man OF
middle age that one of the dread re-
membranes of his childhood Is OF be-
ing yearly taken, very late in the sea-
SON, to a clothing store, to be fitted out
with garments that We're several sizes
too large. These he had to wear III
their awkward largeness for the re-
nainder of the season, and he was eX-
peeted to grow to tit them by a season
or two later. 1t is not the intention
here to suggest what win in future be
unpleasant memories, but close reckon
ers on the outlay for the youngsters can
buy overcoats to excellent advantage
justnow. Styles for the wee men change
but little, though just now there is o
fancy for putting tiny fellows of three
or four into manly listers. One little
chap that toddled with delicious digni-
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AZ thls &&&r6lkce in Hauran, while
W*Verything remained UNI
Except the news that Edhem
'ashaT announced his victories, The
TDruses at length succeeded in blocking
all the roads connecting Souieldieh with
Sheikh Chimeskin as well as the other
roads from Damascus Souieidleh be-
| came virtually besieged, and famine
ragged in the army, so that the Druses
remaining at Souieidieh with Chibli al
Atrash sold them basket of rice for
lis francs and a loaf OF bread for Sh
! francs The true situation then became
known by pure chance at Damascus,
Badri Pasha, the mutesarif of Hauran,
accompanied the army. While he was
| asleep in his tent one night, amid tor
rents of rain and high wind, three
Albanian soldiers, sleepless and wet
through, took refuge in his tent, which
was left unguarded, and began to relate
their sufferings and how the govern
ment had sent them barefoot and with
out food, not to put down it's enemies,
but to punish the poor soldiers. Badri
Pasha pretended to be asleep, but next
day he sent his brother to Damascus,
where, after encountering many obsta-
cles, he told the marshal the whole
truth as to the temper of the soldiers.
Osman Pasha telegraphed part of it
to Constantinople, and the minister of
war ordered him TO send his highest
subordinate to take command of the
army and to summon the other generals
to Damascus for explanations. The con-
dition OF the soldiers was thus much
amelorated, and the early submission
of the Druses is now talked of.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06
ICEB0UND IN SILTLAKE.
An unsupported Happening in Water
That Never Freezes.
lFrom the san Francisco Cbroniele.l

That Never Freezes,
From the San Francisco Chronice)
The large percentage of salt in the
Great Salt Lake prevents it's waters
ever freezing over, and yet curious
incident was related to me of how a
small pleasure steamer got icebound a
dozen years ago off the east end of An
telope Island My informant was the
captain of the cattle boat that makes
irregulafltrips back and forth to carry
stock to and from this largest of the
Salt Lake islands. will give the story
as nearly as possible in his own words;
1T was curious thing that once
happened to me an Cap'n Dahls, he
began, with q preliminary undoing of
the knot of his soiled neckerchief Il
want much used to sailoring at the
time, an the Cap'n often took me with
him on short trips he made with his
small steamer the Susie. One day he
got word that a boat was becalmed off
North Antelope We steamed out to
see an found a sheep boat bound for
Darlington Island. There was three
men aboard an two hundred sheep, an
they'd ben out ten days an he'd no food
an scarcely any water left. We give
em fair divide of the grub aboard the
steamer, an, takin 'em in tow, made
our way out in the main body of the
lake, where we left EN- close to Car
rington. 1t was getting late when we
started back an just op'site Bear Riv-
er Bay we found ourselves in a stream
of ice which had come down from the
swollen rivers that empty into the lake
hereabout At first ii was only provok-
ing to be hfndered by the broken sheets
of ice but fin'ly it got so we couldn't
make no Roadway. The cap'n said he'd
sailed around the world four times and
never was icebound before-an' that,
too, in lake that's too salt ever to
freeze He was actin as engineer, and
at last got so mad that he cussed an
swore an complained o. my steering.
"At last we had to give it up till
morning, an then it want no better.
There was no wind to break UP the ice,
an it KEEP closing bout us till we could
see nauthing but it on ali sides. The
cap'n's temper got worse when the
bread an bacon was all gone, an he
growied out: 'Keteh me ever going to
sea again with green hand fer crew!
+ was pretty riled. an said something
back bout o fool OF a cap'n who
thought himself at the North Pole.
We'd always ben good friends. but af-
ter that neither of us spoke more'n we's
'bliged to all that day an the next
night. When the second morning came
an we saw it was still calm, we got up
steam an commenced bucking ice at a
great rate. We saw the CLASSY sheets
give way to right an left, an fin'ly we
was clear of it, SO we could go right
ahead 1T was Sunday morning. an
the sea an mountains looked SO bright
an peaceful that saw the pucker in
the cap'n's ,for'ed smooth out an he
commenced to whistle soft an ole hymn
tune we both knowed. I struck in
where the line repeats, an when we'd
ended up he said: Say, Duffy, you
l
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ONLY Sa5. 900. 600.

With that last deficit of s127 $40, we
governments receipts and expenditures
for two thirds of the current fiscal year.
and they furnish some indication Of
what will be the revenue situation at
the end of June. The receipts from all
regular sources during the past eight
months-that is, of course. exclusive~of
the proceeds of loans-aggregate SPA
56S, 500. At that rate the total income
for the year would be about 1887 900, 000
or about IS, 600, 900 less than the estimate
made by Secretary Carlisle in his an
nual report last December On the
other hand, the total expenditures from
July to the end of February have
been s242, 085, 54S, at which rate they
would amount for the entire year to
about 1863, 100000. That would be a
million more than the Secretarys De-
cember estimate. and the resulting
deficit for the year would be, on that
reckoning, $25,00O 600 instead of ST., 000,-
900, as the Secretary figured it, This is
not allowing for any Improvement in
the receipts during the four months to
come.
If the Democratic government doesn't
go out of this year more than $25,000 900
behind it and the country will be lucky.
And such a very moderate deficit will
furnish something to be pointed with
pride to by the Democratic papers and
orators in the next campaign.
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finished and ready for hosting to it's
place on the dome. Then it was dis
covered that its wings offered too much
sail space, and that they would I'M
doubtedly in the first high wind pull
the angel down from Its perch, The
shoulder blades We're too narrow for
the wings to be properly hraced, So
the wings We're sawed off and o wiGg-
less angel viii surmount the dome.
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Charles Broadway Rouss, the New
York commission merchant who has
amassed fortune of $7,5O0,o0o and lost
his eyesight from overwork, says: 1.-THE
dream of my early days was to make a
million and be somebody. Well, made
the million and others back of it, and
then I found that I wasn't anybody,
after ALL Wise man, at last.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

The world has viewed
with wonder what has
seemed the sudden and
phenomenal leap of the
bicycle into public fav-
or during the past year.
The most cultured and
fashionable society of
our metropolitan cities
are fascinated. Tiffany
& Go. recently sold a
Wheel at $4,000 and are
said to have another in
process valued at 5000.
The George Fl. Ford
Company Of this city have
taken the Agency for the
Humber, which attracted
SO much attention at the
recent Cycle Show. This
Company have for IS
years been engaged in the
manufacture of Wheels
with factories at Wow
champion, Coventry,
Paris, Moscow, Lisbon,
and in this country, and
is famed the World
over. Their patrons in
clude one-quarter Of a
million riders.
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Some hate dies hard. More than fifty
Boston men, including Colonel Henry
Lee, John C. Roper and Francis I,
Amory, have petitioned the legislature
not to authorize any statue of Butler to
be put up, as his friends desire.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

One of the principal decoration feat
ures of the new City Hall in San Fran
cisco was to have been a great white
metal angel, with outspread wings,
poised on top of the big dome. This
grabbed controversy between the gruff
mayor, Mr.. Sutre, and the commission
ers. The mayor criticised the angel Sc
vere1y and rather ridieuled the whole
thing. But last week the big angel was
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

An expert is responsible for the opin'
ion that the heart of a cyclist accom-
plishes in twenty-four hours a labor
equal to lifting 100 tons one foot from
the earth.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

Wecannot accept anonymous or return re-
jected communications. In all eases the
name of the writer will be required, not Tor
publication, but as II guarantee OF good falth.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

The Car of Russia has set aside 200,-
600 roubles (almost s1OO,0Oo) to be dis
tributed among the charitable institu-
tions of Moscow, in honor of his corona
tion. His Majesty is taking great in
terest in the preparations for the cere-
mony Among other things, the famous
old Kremlin is to be lighted with 500, COO
lanterns and $4,000 small electric lights
are to illumine the tower.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-06

Of all the sovereigns of the world the
Shah of Persia is said to possess the
largest treasure in Jewels and gold or
naments, it being valued at $60,000,000.
The chief object of value is the old
crown of Persian rulers, in the form of
a pot of flowers, which is surmounted
by an uncut ruby the size of hens
egg. The diamonds in another symbol
of his rank are said to weigh almost
twenty pounds There is also a jewelled
sabre, valued at s1,60O609. Another
thing that the Shah prizes is silver
vase ornamented with 100 emeralds,
whose equals, it is said, are not to be
found III the world. In the collection
there is cube of amber which tradi-
ton says fell from heaven in the days
of Mahonlet, and insures the possessor
against bodily harm.
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Joseph Mayer the Christus of the
Oberammergau play, has not lost his
leg, it appears, after all, but hopes to
recover from his recent accident and
resume his part at the next perform
ance. In a letter to a private friend
published in the Frankfurter Zeitung,
he writes that he had a most merciful
escape. "If the horses had not kept
quite still on the smooth, slippery
mountain slope the left foot would have
been torn out of the socket and COM
pletely crushed Now it is only injur-
ed Amidst my severe sufferings the
kind letters I have received from every
part of the world have given me great
joy
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needed in order TO put this country on
a par with France in the matter OF
good roads.
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don't mind my havin' ben sharp with
you in that blamed ice, do YEP up
and slapped him on the back, an an
swered, hearty like: fCap'n Dahls. !
never served under a better cap'n than
yourself
1--WE shook hands, an his big voice
was bit husky when he blurted out:
Say nauthing bout it, my boy.
I'm certain sure l never he'd a more
able seaman than you've showed to
bo''
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The Swedish minister at Washington
has sent official notices to all the con-
sul5 representing Norway and Sweden
In this country, calling their attention
to the fact that Professor Andre will
start in his balloon next July to at
tempt to reach the North Pole. The
purpose Of this communication is to
ask the consuls to spread the news
northward as they may have opportu-
nifty, SO as to apprise the natives to be
on the lookout for the balloon, and
should descent be made near them, to
treat its occupants kindly and render
them what aid they can.
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Some startling statistics of the decay
of the Russian nobility are given in
a list of mortgaged estates furnished
by the British consul at st. Petersburg
At present more than 100000 estates,
or Al per cent. of the entire area owned
by mobiles, are burdened by mortgages,
and the amount of money advanced on
them has reached $685., 500, 600, of which
1886, 100000 remains unpaid. The Nobil
ity Land bank, created by the govern
ment to make loans to stranded land
lords, has advanced nearly its entire
capital Of 100000, 900, and received but
little in return.
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RAILROAD DOOMsDAY.
CarOIina's Lawmakers Again After
the Corporations.

Columbia, S. c.. Feb. 5.-To-day was a
sort of doomsday for railroads in the
House Of Representatives. All the radi-
cal bills aimed at the railroad corpora
tiOns We're called up. and were passed.
Even the Jim Crow car bill, which has
haunted every general assembly calen-
dar for a decade was passed. The House
was in a humor to go for the railroads
and no time was lost in doing so, the
action Of the night before in adopting the
bill providing for forfeiture of charters
for failure to operate rates fixed by the
state railroad commission having set the
pace
A bill was passed to-day fixing an ar
bitrary first-class passenger rate of 3
cents per mile and a second-class rate
of 2lsc per mile. Then the separate
coach bill was passed.
Tonight the House came very near
passing a bill to absolutely prohibit the
running of any freight train between -
o'clock Saturday night and II o'clock
Sunday night.
A new bill was introduced to-day to
regulate the movement of cars, trains and
traffic between lines connecting within
this state and to prevent any discrim-
ination in the rates charged or facilities
offered such connecting lines. and to pre-
vent all discrimination and to require
equal facilities and advantages to all
railroad companies within or without the
state with which they directly or indi-
rectly connect, and to provide for the
issuance and recognition of through bills
of lading by all railroads doing business
In this state; to prevent the division of
freight and TO provide penalties for it's
misdemeanor, and to provide punishment
therefor.