The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-22

and the winter has only fairly begun.
Other and more dreadful stories of
hardship and death are bound to come
from the same inhospitable region as
the season advances.
"A practical man in Maine thinks the
game laws of that State should be
amended by limiting the number of
guides or fellow-sportsmen who may
be shot by deer-hunters to not exceed
ing three in any one season by any one
hunter. He says this is an amendment
greatly needed for the preservation of
guides, who are now threatened with
extinction.
Here, girls. Onions are said to be al
most the best nervine known. No med
icine, 1t is claimed, is so useful in cases
Of nervous prostration, and there is
nothing else that will so quickly relieve
and tone up a wornout system. Onions
are useful in all cases Of coughs, colds
and Influenza. Eaten every day, they
soon have clearing and whitening eff
feet on the complexion.
The following is a copy Of sign in a
remote Georgia county: "a Few Bright
Scholards Takin to Lern Writin, Spailin
and Figgers." A traveller noticing the
sign, asked the principal where he had
graduated. The principal pointed to a
cotton field near by and said: Right
over thar, sir; behind a Georgia mule,
under a July SUM-
A patriotic San Francisco carrier
pigeon fancier has given the govern
ment eight pairs of his best birds to
form the nucleus Of a carrier-pigeon
service between the more remote por-
lions of Alaska. They will be taken
north on the Bear and sent to various
points, such as St Michaels, Point Bar
row and Herschel Island, where they
will be taken care Of until they become
thoroughly acclimatized. The offspring
OF these birds will be used between iso
lated mines and the outside world.
No wonder the people Of Kansas feel
encouraged. A farmer of Ford county
Kansas, writes thus to the State Board
OF Agriculture: "There is not a. farmer
in this county but who could nav off
his debts from this years crop and still
have money enough left to pay family
expenses for the next twelve months,
The price Of cattle is out of sight. Prices
of certain farm products are higher
here than in Kansas City or Chicago
because Of home demand; not on &C
count of the bubonic plague in India"
In indianapolis the health authorities
after investigating the rapid spread Of
diphtheria and other contagious dis
eases among the children of the public |
schools, believe that they have found |
the cause in the system followed in the |
use of pen-holders and lead pencils.
All the pencils and penholders are gath |
cred together each day just before dis |
missal and placed in a box in the teach |
er's desk. The next morning the pen
ellis and penholders are redistributed. |
so that each child may get different
pencils and penholders every day.
Children place pencils or penhoIders in
their mouths when at study, and thus
disease may be communicated from
child to child The City Sanitarian is
experimenting with a preparation by
which the pencils and penholders can
be steriliZed each day.
Notwithstanding the fact that water
as a beverage isn't as popular in Wash
ington as it might be, there are people
interested in the purity of the water
supply of the national capital. A paper
read before the National Geographic So
ciety by Mr. f. H. Newell on the pollu-
and industries situated along it's upper
waters contains some important inform
alton. 1t was found, says the author
of the paper, that the streams that
empty into the Potomac above Wash
ington receive the sewage of various
towns, besides the contamination sup
piled by tanneries, pulp mills, chemical
establishments and manufactures.
Near Cumberland the conditions are
bad, and Washington may !
get the full benefit of any epidemic in
Cumberland. The Shenandoah river is
less contaminated.