The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-30

OWL lmmp0IHte DUSIHFSS ..4 :
unobjectionable) and their contracts 40 no'
include Wants. To Let. For sale. etc.
"A newsboy has died of yellow fever
In Beaumont Texas, and there are
those there who say that he contracted ,
the disease from the New Orleans pa
pers he handled. Perhaps he was
scared to death by the scare heads"
"Oxen could become as Intelligent
and highly trained as horses If the OK
had the same advantages of breeding"
was the assertion Of an Anglican cler-
gynan to the recent Congress of Veg
etarians in London. He also proposed
that pigs might be used as pets 'to So
lace mans hours Of loneliness. Such
companionship, besides charging the
stock of human happiness, softens and
enlarges our whole nature"
Governor Johnson of Alabama seems
to have more backbone that some gov
errors. He has refused to pardon a
prisoner convicted OF attempting muir
der, Notwithstanding that the petition
in his behalf was signed by one thou
sand citizens, including nearly all the
county and municipal officers, the
county solicitor, the judge who tried
the case and eleven of the twelve jur-
ors The governor holds that the man
was fairly convicted, and that, in his
mind, settles the question
People who go to Chicago should be
warned by the misfortune of the Rev.
]. J. James Of Elkwood, Ind, who,when
he went to Chicago the other day was
determined not to be done out of his
money by any trick or device on his
way to that city or while in it. By
holding himself aloof from all COM
panionship in the train he got to Chi
cago with his money. When he got out
into the street he counted his money
under an electric light and had just
COIlSTdtu1dIG ullIlSGll LIlcL IL was Ciil
there when three negroes grabbed it
and ran away.
italian organ grinders in London
have been discovered to be making
money out Of being arrested for play
ing during the hours when the law
forbids them to play on the streets.
When one of them is brought to court
for thus infringing the law he feigns
total ignorance of the English language
and this involves the hiring Of an inter
prefer. Occasionally they have been
lucky enough to bring about the APP
pointment of a compatriot who would
divide up with them after the trial,
and as the usual fine is 2 shillings
pence, and the interpreters fee is z
shfllings 6 pence, they have shillings
profit on the game.
Those who talk and write baseball
can't beat those who talk and write
cricket. Here is a part of descrip-
ton Of a recent cricket game. Haines
came in and Grave at once pulled Bull
to square leg for double and in the
same over cut the same bowler through
the slips for three. Haines at this
point brought himself into prominence
by pretty hit to square leg at Stocks
expense, and then off drove the same
bowler which on the overthrow added
another single, while Graves put Bull to
the off for three. Two more were add
ed through Stocks inability to get a
move on and then the second wicket
of the morning fell, Graves being caught
by Marriott at cover-point off Bull.
For many years local legend in
Frankfort had it that big
treasure of gold lay buried in the Main
river just beneath the big old bridge.
On moonlight nights, it was said, one
could see the gold glisten in the water
Recently the fact became patent that
there must be foundation for this
old tradition, for shippers steadily fish
ed up gold pieces from the river bed in
the vicinity named. At last the Prus-
sian government made thorough in
vestigation, and within week one
treasure at least was brought to light
about $500 French gold coins of the
times from Louis XIV. to Louis XVIII,
as well as of the first republic. This
is evidently part of French war treas
ure lost or buried there during the
troublous Napoleonic period. Search
is being continued now, as it is proba-
BILE that more of this treasure is to he
had for the finding.
Some Cinnamon are shrewd. Wher
the new Japanese coinage law wa,
adopted, last March, the ratio of silve,
to gold was fixed at 80 Is to /. BY the
fall in the price of silver bullion sine,
that time the actual market ratio o
silver to gold has changed to about S41
to 1. There was no intention to con
tinue the coinage of silver, even at tn
1,