The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-25

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include Wants To Let For SAFE. etc.-
According to the registrar-generals
latest blue book, Scotland still contains
many more women than men.
Salt has only Just been put In the al
1owance of food which the British gov
eminent gives It's sailors, though other
condiments were allowed in the ratlons.
When "salt horse was the main staple
of diet there was no need of it, but al
though this was changed on memoir
war long ago, the Admiralty has only
recently discovered that the men nave
no salt. They have been obliged to buy
it out of their wages for years.
The Jacksonville Combine says: "On
the tables of hotels this winter a new
luxury will advertise Florida and sug-
gest the fragrant breezes Of the flow
ery peninsula to those condemned by
the weather elsewhere to live within
doors and dream of sunshine and the
ozone of the open air. For the fashion
able fad will be pineapple syrup, and
it will add poetry to breakfast ana
glory to the buckwheat. And we can
furnish enough for everybody, since an
acre will give 1900 gallons and the
supply can be made to fit the demand"
There are some pretty mean men IN
the great, free and generous west. A.
C. Wait Of Salina, Kansas, had little
girl arrested for stealing fruit from
tree on his premises although she only
took what she could eat. and from limbs
that hung over the fence into her own
ward, So anxious was Wait to make a
clear case that he hired man to watch
the tree from his barn, and having thus
caught the girl in the act he proceeded
against her Without leaving their
seats the jury acquitted the girl and fix
ed $50 in costs against Wait.
1t doesn't do any good to lie to New
York bicycle cops" They use a speed
indicator When they chase .bicyclist
who is going faster than the law allows,
this instrument shows their speed, and
that of the pursued is pretty nearly the
same. The old defence that the rider
was not going more than eight miles
an hour is disposed of. One man who
maintained that he was riding very
slowly was confronted the other day
with evidence of the speed recorder
which showed that he was travelling at
about fifteen miles an hour, as the po-
liceman who caught him went at the
rate of fifteen and one-half miles an
hour.
Go to the Dismal Swamp if you would
be healthy and happy. "Architect and
Building" says that we have many
"Switzerlands in America" and health
resorts without number from Maine to
Colorado, of more or less prestige, but
these are to be rivaled if not eclipsed
soon by the Dismal Swamp of Virginia
The swamp is said to be entirely of
green timber, there is no decaying wood,
as the trees which fall turn into peat.
There is nothing in the swamp to
create miasma, all Is fresh and sweet
and the air Is laden with balmy odors'
The water is tinged with Juniper to a
faint wine hue and is thought to pos
sess valuable sanitary qualities" In a
cask on sea voyage 1t keeps fresh and
sweet for years. A trip through the
Dismal Swamp canal is not only most
enjoyable but it will break up a fever.
Those who live near it declare that the
swamp is the most healthful place on
the continent.
The cost of running trolley car a
mile is found to vary greatly in differ
emit places. A Brooklyn company gets
the best result, running car one mile
for So mills. Binghamton company
does it for "a mills. Cheap coal and
sound engineering seem to explain the
low cost in these places. The annual
reports of the railroad commissioners of
New York and Massachusetts show that
usually the cost is much higher OF the
five companies operating over 100000
car miles per year one obtains it's power
at less than l cent a car mile; three
between l and 2 cents, and one, between
and cents. Of nineteen companies