The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-19

Deaths and Funerals, so cents each. Local
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
Immediate business (ali matter to be I'M
objectlonable), and their contracts do not
inciude Wants, To Let, For Sale, ETC.
Mormon missionary work is being
pushed in Pennsylvania and Tennessee
and recent report from elders at work
showed one hundred and twenty-four
conversions in one month in one Penn
sylvania county.
It's an i'll wind that blows no good.
an the neighborhood of Wahoo, Nep,,
the Russian thistle is no longer in
weighed against, the cattle having de-
tected in it staple food supply; and
the law intended to encourage it's ex-
ternainatio has been repealed.
Woman is getting the better of man
I'm every way that she can think of.
During the last twenty years, ac-
cording to the life insurance statistics,
the average of woman's life has in
creased more than per cent, while the
per cent
A street-car official of Boston says
That it is necessary to so to Canada to
secure men of "a proper tone for ser
vice on the street-cars of Boston. This
is an interesting statement, and 1t
would be interesting to know whether
the tone needed on the Boston street.
cars Is high or low.
Much that has been written lately
concerning the alleged decadence of the
Michigan lumber industry would seem
to be unfounded. A recent report of
Edwin d. Cowes, a lumber statistician
of Saginaw, keeps Michigan still in the
lead among the lumber producing
States. Out Of the output from Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota in 1896,
Michigan produced nearly one-half of
the lumber and little more than one
half of the shingles. 1t was poor year
for the lumbermen though, the Michi-
gan output, as compared with 1895,
showing a decrease of 565, 100000 feet,
and a decrease of 1866 000,0 600 feet as
compared with 1892
Keep your eyes and your mouth open
for the Chinese artichoke, recently in
troduced into this country from Japan.
According to the Philadelphia Record,
it is fully equal to the potato as food
and yields twice as many bushels per
acre 1t grows to the height of about
twelve inches, the tubers being formed
like four or five round radishes grow
ing together. The tubers are more
nuire no peeling, as the skin is very
fhin and they also keep we'll in win
ter, 1t is said that a single plant has
been known to produce 200 tubers and
the crop yields 500 bushels per acre.
Add to this that the tubers can be
cooked in as many ways as the po-
tato.
The editor and publisher OF the Chi
rago Dispatch. Joseph r. Dunlop, will
serve two years in the penitentiary,
now that his last appeal has been
1hrown out by the United States Su-
preme court Mr.. Dunlop opened his
vice, and drew great revenue there
from. reckoning came however,
when the western society for the sup
preston of vice prosecuted the editor
under the United States statute which
forbids the circulation OF obscene mat
ter through the mails. Judge Grosscup
held that the advertisements COM
blamed of in the Dispatch were obscene,
and as the paper went through the
mails a clear case was made out,
which has now been sustained by the
Supreme court of the United States.
Mr. Prater, of st. Louis, who has
studied the cornstalk scientifically,
thinks that within a few years the
farmers of the country will be receiving
from SIS to $25 per acre for their corn
stalks Mills will be established il the
South and other parts Of the country,
he says, and pretty nearly the whole
crop of cornstalks, at any rate, that
part of the crop which is grown on
farms contiguous to railway lines-will
be used in the mills. The market for
the manufactured products is already
made, as the products will be staple ar
ticles in constant demand. OF the pro-
ducts that may be evolved from the
matured constalk-the stalk which has
borne its grain-Mr. Prater enumer-
ates cellulose. celluloid. smokeless gun
powder, lacquer, cattle feed, roofing