The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-02

immaculate DdSlneSs tlll mutler ~ po w
OBJECTIONABLE, and their contracts 40 not
include Wants, 10 Let, For Sale, etc.
The school chrildren of Sweden plant
a.out six hundred thousand trees every
year.
1t is thought that the oldest woman
in England is Sarah Thomas, who on
February will be 1909 years of age.
Mrs. Thomas has been wise or foolish
enough to sraoke a clay pipe for sixty
years.
The English government has just es-
tablished place of refuge for the Al
rican elephant in the coast area OF
Somaliland. Within the reserve shoot
ing Of elephants is strictly forbidden,
and the observance of this rule will be
an essential condition to shoot other
animals within the prescribed area.
The New York court of appeals has
decided thar a street car conductor Is
not compelled to make change for any
Sill over So. Therefore, any passenger
with no bill smaller than fve-doiiar
one will have to get off or be par off
Ire car unless the conductor is cour-
teous enough to make the ehange for
him.
An Ohio man has patented machine
for writing music, operated substan-
TALLY the same as typewriter. Inc
sheet of paper containing the lines is
placed on a flat bed, and type keys, up
on which the notes are placed can be
depressed at any desired position on
the paper, the different keys containing
all the signs and characters necessary
for use in writing music. This ma
chine is very handy in copying where
more than one sheet of music of the
same kind is wanted.
People who do not 'take" when vac
cinated will be interested in the report
Of the government board of London,
which shows that of 8S,S75 cases treat
ed by the public vaccinator not one
proved insusceptible, and the same was
the experience of the public vaccinator
at Reading, England, who treated 14,0o0
cases. With these facts in view the
London Lancet expresses the opin-
ion that insusceptibility Of vaccination
is something which does not exist save
where there is a bungling application
Or when improper material is used.
Minnesota's forestry act for the en-
enlargement Of planting is work
ing successfully. The State pays a
bounty % $3.50 per acre planted with
trees, limiting the amount to be paid
to any one person to $25 annually for
six consecutive years. The appropria-
tion for 1896 was $4,000. and there
were so many claimants that the boun-
ty had to be scaled to $2.25 an acre.
The general average of each claimant
this year is five acres, and the total
acreage planted during the year is s.
$50. In one county 1896 acres We're
planted, In another SIT, and in third
T37. Thirty-two. other counties report
a lesser acreage, showing that bounty
encouraged tree culture is quite general
throughout the State.
Graham Wallas, member Of the
London School board and O. University
Extension lecturer, will begin a course
of lectures on University Extension in
Philadelphia on Saturday evening.
London, he says, "had to face the same
problem, So perplexing to all large
cities, of how to provide sufH cient
schools for children in the crowded dis
tricts. This was done, however, by
making full use of the power given by
Parliament to the School Board of cb-
tanning sitos compulsorily In that
way only have we succeeded in provid-
ing ample room, SO that even now in
the worst crowded districts we are
enabled to furnish our schools with
Fairgrounds at least half an acre in
area, even when this entails the neces-
sity of pulling down fifteen or twenty
small buildings. The owners of such
buildings are made an offer for their
property which fully equals the selling
value. ard if they refuse 1t an arbiter
is appoint+d to determine The value,
whici. is then paid them, plus 10 per
cent for the disturbance. In this man.
ner we have made room for over five
hundred thousand children since the
creation of the School Board by act of
Parliament in 1870 though at the enor-