The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-21

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include Wants. To Let. For Sale, etc.
Journalism thus pleads in the Baum
County (Nebraska) News: Don't for
get that we are in need Of hay, corn,
vegetables and wood"
Editor Dana was very wide awake
The last year of his life he added Rus
sian to his list Of languages. grew
new rose and wrote a paper on the |
proper culture of mushrooms.
Kangaroo tails for soup have been
sent to London from Australia. A
shipment Of twenty hundred
weight was sold at the rate of So doz-
en- tails. In Australia they are consid-
cred a great delicacy.
The trustees of the University of the
South (EpiscopaD, at Sewanee, Tennes-
see have voted to re-engage Dr. Trent,
professor of history, for five years more,
in spite Of the fact that he declares the
s'old south" to be dead, and deservedly
3d.
The attorney general of New York
has decided that a man whose twenty
first birthday comes on November can
vote at the election on November 2, be-
cause he would complete his majority
on the day before the anniversary Of
his birth.
In London Truth Mrs. Emily Craw-
ford puts forward a reasonable theory.
Mrs. Crawford notes that, according to
the evidence furnished in old paintings,
grace Of bearing and Of dress in women
was ccnspicuously lacking in the per-
iod before large mirrors were generally
used. BY careful comparison Of
dates she finds that a marked improve
ment in this particular Immediately fol-
lowed the introduction of the mirror.
From this she infers that it is the large
mirror which has been the magic
agency In beautifying womankind and
causing her to be graceful and well
dressed.
How many silver dollars have been
stolen from the United States treasury
In Washington cannot be told till the
fifty clerks have finished counting the
a00,000,000 pieces Of silver, six months
hence. The bags in which the coins are
packed contain about one thousand
pieces, and ordinarily the account Is
verified by counting and weighing the
bags. This was all well enough till the
new treasurer, Mr. Roberts, caught one
of the clerks substituting lead slugs Of
the proper weight for number Of coins
That he abstracted. Then 1t was found
that many bags had been similarly
robbed. The weight was correct, but
each contained some portion Of lead
The process Of counting the dollars,
piece by piece, will cost the government
about $4,000. If there is any deficit
the retiring treasurer, D. NJ Morgan,
or his bondsmen, will be called upon to
make good the deficiency.
At the closing Of the lord mayors
fund for the relief Of the Indian fam
inc it was stated by the secretary of
state for India that the famine had
cost $50,00O,OOO. The lord mayors coll
lection was $2,750, 900, Lancashire gave
100000, other places gave large sums,
SO that the total of charitable contribu-
lions reached $7,5OO,00O. The rest was
supplied by the Indian government.
Taxes were RENTED blythe government
of India and advances were made to
cultivators on a large scale. At one
time 4,5O0,oOO persons were in receipt of
relief. The rains and improved crops
have cut the number in receipt Of re-
lief down rapidly; at present 100000
persons are receiving relief. In the
central provinces there will be need of
relief till next spring. Weakness and
susceptibility to disease are serious
consequences Of the famine. The crisis
was met vastly better than was the
famine of twenty years ago, and as
transportation facilities improve the
danger of loss Of life from famine will
continue to diminish.
Old times were not these times. Gen.
eral Joseph S. Smith, of Maine, tells
how he published a paper without a
press in Bath, Maine, many years ago:
"When I'd get my paper all set UP and
ready for the press I'd lay the type on
q washstand, get it all 1evelled down
well in the chase, or the frame in which
twas locked up, and then I'd call in
the hired girl. She weighed about two
hundred and ten pounds when she sal
down. That's what I Misunderstanding
down weight. So, after the hired CIR
came in I linked the type, laid over i