The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-23
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Last year the people of the United
States consumed 100000 punches of
bananas.
Fifteen million COWS are required for
the milk trade of this country and they
are fed on the produce of 60, 900, 900 acres
of land.
The deepest hole in the world has
been bored in Silesia. 1t has reached a
depth of 6,420 feet and passes through
eighty-three beds of coal.
Emile Richebourg, the French novel
ist, is said to have amassed 100000
in twenty years. by writing sensational
serial stories for LIE Petit Journal.
The increasing popularity of Schu-
bert's songs Is deserved, for he is per-
haps the greatest lyric writer who ever
put poetry into piano music. He has
been called the Burns of musicians.
Wheat grown in the north Of France
has from II to &c per cent less nitro
geneous elements in it than that raised
there fifty years ago, according, to
recent report made to the Academic DIES
Sciences.
A frog makes his home in the wheel
pit of the engine room at F. w. Hunts
tannery at Island Falls, Me, and comes
up from below only before rain storm.
He is honored as a prophet in the tan
ners' country.
1t is reported in the South that an
eastern capitalist has purchased the
Stonewall furnace in Cherokee county,
Alabama, where some of the Confeder-
ate warriors cast cannon during the
war, and will develop the ore mines
there.
John w. Gates, now figuring so prom
inently in the steel pool, called a meet
ing Of campaign contributors in 1892,
and was Disguised to find it's secret
proceedings fully reported next morn
ing by a reporter whom he mistook for
O. capitalist.
Herbert Spencer has consented to let
Hubert Herkomer paint his portrait,
the money having been raised by pub
lie subscription. Eight years ago Spen-
Ger refused to allow Millias to paint
him because he wished to protest
against subscription portraits.
The Hungarian painter, Munkacsy,
who was recently stricken with paraly-
sis, is said to have been writing his
"reminiscences at the time illness over
took him. Whether they are completed
or not is unknown, but fragments at
any rate are expected to appear soon
in Paris.
Once in the course of a private chat
George Du Maurier said: ct think that
the best years Of mans life are after
he is forty. A man at forty has ceased
to hunt the moon. I would add that in
order to enjoy life after forty it is per-
haps necessary to have achieved before
reaching that age at least some sue
cess"
Joseph Jefferson has taken up the
cudgels against undue athletic training,
which, he claims kills off more people
than it cures. He says: "The strain
undermines the system, forces the heart
to task far beyond its powers, and as
a result there is a collapse of the life
machinery long before the appointed
time" Mr. Jefferson in this agrees with
some of the best physicians here and
elsewhere.
The keeping of fox-hounds grows
more and more expensive in England,
and even MIR. Arthur Wilson, the rich
owner of Tranby Croft threatens to
give up the mastership of the Holder
ness hunt unless subscription of $10,-
600 is guaranteed and punctually paid.
The cost of hunting the country is said
to amount to $4,000, and Mr.. Wilson
is willing to pay $4,000 out of his own
pocket, but no more.
Pere Jourdain, an old peasant, who
cures diseases miraculously by means
of the magnetic fluid in his body, is at
tracing crowds in Paris. The fluid is