The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-08

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Switzerland's monopoly of the alcohol
trade for 1898 is estimated to be worth
about 6,76o, 600 francs clear profit.
English foxes are so tame that two of
them recently had a fight on a mans
lawn, and were separated with difficulty
by the use of a stick.
Never too old to learn. The Yarmouth
(Maine) Gazette tells of Grandma Ma
bry, aged ninety-four years, who re-
Gently rode on bicycle.
A paradise for the legal fraternity.
The people of India are the most prone
to litigation Of any on the globe; there
are 100000 lawsuits every year.
Godstow, near Oxford, with the ruins
of the nunnery where Henry II. first
saw Fair Rosamond and where Queen
Elinor put her to death, has just been
sold at auction.
Experiment with seawater for street
sprinkling has been pronounced sue
cess in San Francisco, as it is found
that the streets do not require sprink-
ling SO frequently as when fresh water
is used.
A special dispatch announces that
MRS. Antonio Delayr Of Orange, New
Jersey, has presented her husband with
the twentieth child inside Of eighteen
years, the entire family being alive and
in excellent health.
Several slight earthquakes have re-
Gently been reported throughout the
northwest. An exchange remarks
"Perhaps the farms are shaking off
their mortgages or they are laughing at
the calamity walters"
The Real Estate Owners association
Of Montreal, Canada, is about to send
vigorous protest to Quebec against
the municipality being permitted to in
crease its borrowing power before new
sources of revenue to meet the interest
become apparent,
Ohio River steamboat men look ask
ance at the bell Of the recently wrecked
Cincinnati and Louisville steamer Tele-
graph, dolefully shake their wise old
heads, and say that it had previously
done kfateful duty on three other YES
sells that met untimely fate by wreck or
fire.
Mont st. Michael on the Breton coast
is likely to be spoiled from an artistic !
standpoint, as the department authori- !
ties are planning to build railroad to |
the mount from Pontorson, the road |
running over the dyke and on the ram |
parts, and the station being at the foot
of the mount
Medford Center, Maine, has a remark
able citizen In the person Of James
Smart, most aptly named, who. at the
age Of seventy-eight years, is capital
skater Last week he was on the ice
for the first time this season, frisky as
boy Of twenty He says that "the way
to keep well is to keep your joints linn
bered up, and skating is a good way to
do it,
The royal baron of beef which always !
appears cold on Queen Victora's side
board Christmas day at Osborne is in
variably cut from one Of the bullocks
bought at the queens annual sale of
fat stock at the Flemish farm, Wind
sor great farm, early in December. This
year there will be $50 sheep, 100 swine
and 80 bullocks to be sold.