The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-26

nundredth D1rtnday IS to- De celeDraIeu, |
entered her convent eighty years ago |
and has never set foot out of it since.
There will be more than thirty-three
thousand persons on the pay roll of the
greater New York, and the total sal
aries will exceed $33, 100000. There will
be 245 department heads to be appoint
ed by the mayor, and their salaries will
$4,000.
An experienced man who has just re-
turned from Alaska tells the Fargo Ar
gus how to cure the KIondike fever.
''Pick out a morning next winter" he
says, when the mercury is below zero,
shoulder a pick and go into the woods
before breakfast; dig a hole sixteen
feet deep; come back to the house at
night and eat a small piece Of stewed
buffalo robe and sleep in the woodshed.
Repeat the dose as often as necessary"
The Virginia State board Of education
is about to adopt southern history"
for use in the public schools and it will
be one that will make no pretensions
to impartia1ity, according to the Rich
mond Dispatch. ITO be candid says
that paper, 1--WE do not expect to see
any non-partisan history written. The
time may come when such a history
will be written, but we fancy that it is
far, far off," An ideal southern his
tory" therefore, is called for.
Herr Liebknecht, the Social Demo-
crat leader, has had the sentence of
four months Imprisonment for indirect
lese majestic, inflicted on him by a
Breslau court, confirmed by the SUI
preme court at Leipzig. Although he
did not mention the Kaiser, the court
held that some Of his words might
seem to the hearers aimed against him,
and by the doctrine Of dolus eventualis
1t might be held that in his thoughts he
was insulting the ruler of free Ger
many.
The death of George M. Pullman re-
calls a story told about his adventures
with Abraham Lincoln. In the early
days Of sleeping-ears two men slept in
one BERTH One day tall, lanky man
/, engaged a berth from Pullman. Pull
man handed him the check and said:
IT shall sell the other check to that
berth to another man, of course" The
lanky man wound himself up to his full
height; then unwound himself again.
f'Young man." he said, "the person who
can get into one Of your berths when
T am wound up in it is welcome to the
accommodation" This man was Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Do not kill the birds. Birds are ma
lures great check on the excess of in
sects, and keep the balance between
plants and insect life. Ten thousand
caterpillars, it has been estimated
SOoid 0SoliOy SNOly DlouC VI 6IdSS vi
an acre Of cultivated ground In thirty
days from the time it is Matched an or
binary caterpillar increases 10000 tines
In bulk, and the food it lives and grows
on is vegetable. The insect population
of single cherry tree infested with
aphides was calculated by a prominent
entomologist at no less than $4,000 600
The bird population of cultivated coun-
try districts has been estimated from
700 to 1000 per square mile. This is
small compared with the number of in,
sects, yet as each bird consumes hun.
dreds Of insects every day the latter
are prevented from becoming the
scourge they would be but for theil
feathered enemies.
"A woman has just been appointed
substitute truant agent at Chicago, in
that under the new law the truant
agent must yank the truants back to
school by force, or have them arrested
Several women have been appointed
before. One member of the board said
This is one of the cheerful humbugs
of this board having sixteen women
and one man in the only department
where policemen are required. The la.
dies who occupy these fat positions
cannot arrest fly, let alone boy
had one Of the lady truant agents
pointed out to me the other day.
would be afraid to see her go around
the Masonic Temple corner in higl
wind for fear she would land on tn,
roof of the Schiller building. 1 pro
test against the selection of women fo
this work" 1t was also objected tina
the candidate in question was nomi
mated only because she is niece of ;
member of the board. But after a 10
of talk, the appointment was made.
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What He Wanted.-"Have you rea
1.-THE Choir Invisible?'" mo; what
want to learn is The Choir Inaudible.'
cleveland Record.