The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-20


unobJectlonable) and their contracts do not
include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
The flushing pumps of New Orleans
are now pumping 100000 gallons of
river water through the cutters daily
for the purpose of cleansing them Of
sewage.
Oranges will be plenty enough this
winter. The California crop will be
far larger than last year and the Flor
ida product will be easily twice as
great as in 1896.
Goats have brought as high as fifty
dollars each in Victoria, British Column
bia, the demand for them for packing
along the Klondike trails being so
great. One day recently not goat
could be found in the city.
Music hath power, etc. Soldiers in
the French army, who have hitherto
been compelled by army discipline to
maintain a strict silence while on the
march, are now allowed to sing when
marching if they choose to do so. 1t
has also been arranged so that any
soldier who can play upon any Of the
smaller instruments which can be car
ried along without trouble shall be pro-
vided with such Instruments at the ex-
pense Of the State.
Among the conclusions arrived at by
the International Leprosy conference,
which has just closed it's meeting in
Berlin, was one to the effect that the
conference regards treatment of the
disease as palliative only, and that the
ference in this respect. 1t was decided
that the true cause of the disease is a
bacillus, which is found only in man,
and that the disease, while contagious,
is not hereditary. 1t was held that iso-
lation is desirable, and under certain
circumstances is to be recommended.
Editor White of Emporia, Kansas,
has increased his unpopularity with the
populists. In his address at the OPEN
ing of the State university he said:
Any attempt to remove the evils at
tending selfishness by passing laws
against the so-called plutocrats will be
as futile as an attempt to becalm the
ocean by pouring oil on the big waves
while the little waves rage on. All the
legislatures and congresses on the globe
cannot better conditions so long as the
greed exists which the farmer hates in
the banker, the hired man finds in the
farmer, and the storekeeper has to out
fight in the hired man.
The English Jockey Club has aroused
great interest throughout the racing
world of Europe by introducing the
starting machine which for some years
has been employed on the Australian
turf. The apparatus consists of lengths
of webbing, stretched across the course
and attached to poles on either side.
las soon as the horses take up their po-
sition lever Is pulled, the webbing
shoots UP and leaves the course clear
for the horses to jump away. With
the machine false start is impossible.
1t was tried for the first time at New
market the other day in the welter ham
dicap race in the presence Of the Prince
of Wales, Lord Rosebery, Lord Durham
horses evinced a Discrimination to face
the webbing, yet there is every reason
to believe that they will soon grow &C
customed to it, and that the machine
will become just as popular in England
as 1t is in Australia, where no racing
man would dream of doing without it.
In commenting on the automatic
hot-water supply now furnished in GER
tain parts of London by dropping a
penny in a slot machine attached to a
lamppost, the London Telegraph sug-
gested that food may soon be furnished
in the same way. Whereupon a CORE
spondent writes: ''It may interest
some Of your readers to know that the
problem is already solved, and that in
the exhibition grounds at Brussels
there is a cafe which provides hot and
cold luncheons entirely by the auto
matte method, and I can say from ex-
perience that they are very good. BY
placing a franc in the slot a chop or
steak, with potatoes, can be procured,
hot and well cooked; another franc will
produce a half-bottle Of wine; half a
franc will supply a plate of cold meat
with salad and roll, and a nickel of ter
centimes will extract piece of bread
and butter and cheese, or 'brioche.
Besides all this, nickel will draw ar
excellent glass of hook from one of the
two large vessels in the center of the
cafe"
Militarism in Germany even defe
I,