The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-25

Include Wants. To Let, For Sale. etc.
A Pittsburg woman has sued for di- |
vorce on the ground of extreme cruelty |
and alleges that her husband has been |
wont to throw silver dollars at her.
What does she want divorce for?
Can't she catch?
The Ornithophile League of France
is to organize an International congress
for the preservation of insectivorous
birds. The congress will be held at AK
on November 8, and a programme for
discussion has been prepared.
Some facts against a theory came out
at the Convention Of the National
Horseshoers' Association in st. Louis
last week. These facts show that, con-
trary to the general impression, there
has been no decrease in the use of the
horse but, instead, some increase.
Twenty-Five dollars a day is what
Staten Island steeple climber charged
for painting the steeple of a Baptist
church and the trustees said S. was
enough. A supreme court jury how
ever decided for $25 a day, finding, as
is presumed, that the work was extra
hazardous.
The great lakes are greater than
those who do not know about them
realize. The two steamships of $500
and $500 tons now being built at Cleve-
land for lake traffic, are said to be the
largest ever built in this country for
commercial purposes, except the st.
Paul and ST. Louis, and these latter
were made possible only by the sub
sidy granted by the general govern
ment-
The following composition on the
evils Of 1ynching was written by
Georgia schoolboy: "Lynching is
wrong. It hurts the limbs Of the beau
tiful trees where the birds sing. 1t also
hurts the people what's lynched. They
should have a regular hanging and sell
peanuts and lemonade. People what's
hung regular by law, always goes to
heaven. I don't want to go to heaven
that way"
It will not do much good to warn
young men against studying law when
they think that there's room at the top,
and when they read such things as
this: OF the SO present United States
senators, so are lawyers. OF the 35s
men in the House of Representatives,
245 are members of the bar. In both
houses there are so5 lawyers, and 142
men of other occupations. In other
words, something over two-thirds OF
the membership Of the United States
Congress are lawyers.
There has just died at Constantinople
one of the doorkeepers of the Sublime
Porte, that vast structure where the
Grand Vizier's office, the Foreign Of
fee, the Council of State Of the Turkish
government, are housed. The most in
teresting fact about this doorkeeper is
amassed fortune Of nearly 100000
which was not, probably, the result of
the saving Of his salary. He is with
out heirs, and his fortune will escheat
to the State, to which, In the present
state Of the public finance, it will be
most welcome.
England's prison authorities are abol-
oakum- picking in the penal institutions
of the United Kingdom, and are put
ting convict labor to more profitable
use. Army and navy stores, especially
the making Of garments and accoutre-
ments, are now engaging the attention
of the inmates of Her Majesty's jails,
who likewise manufacture the mailbags
of the Postal department and the
shirts, uniforms and boots of their
arch-enemies, the police. The result is
vast saving all around, and an an
nouncement is made that the govern
ment has some three hundred badly
worn treadmills for sale to the highest
bidder.
Among the queer residents in Berlin
was for many years retired munich
pal official named Max Duestrow. This
man has just died at ripe old age
Having a eoodlv fortune bob;.a L..