The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-19

Ex-President Harrison is taking BIZ
cycle lessons.
The Ohio Supreme court has just de-
clared that the Winn law, which holds
landlord liable for the evil deeds of
his tenants, constitutional. The CASH
cir Of a company lost $1,000 in gambling
and under the courts decision, the own
er of the premises is responsible for the
amount lost.
According to report issued by the
Illinois bureau of labor statistics, the
properties of the gas companies of Chi
cago can be duplicated for $15.o0o,0Oo,
and yet they are capitalized at $51 1885,
O00 Since 1886 the capital of the COM
panies has been more than doubled,
but in the same time their assessment
900 to about S1,3oo,oO0. But it may not
be entirely safe to go short of Chicago
Gas" on these figures.
The Court of Queens Bench has just
decided that $500 is fair price for
procuring a peer as a director in a
stock company. The Earl of West
moreland was the peer in question.
Mr.. Justice Day said in giving judg-
ment: ct confess do not understand
this buying and selling of peers or any
one else. 1t appears, however to be a
practice, and the plaintiff, having COM
pleted his part of the bargain, Is enti-
He'd to Judgment"
A patent has been taken out in Ger
many for an apparatus that 1t is claim
ed will actually consume smoke. and
It is predicted that the day is not far
distant when both smoke and fog will
be dissipated by this or some other
means in all the large cities. 1t is no
great surprise to know that it is done
by new application Of electricity,
chimney and the current applied in
such a manner as to consume the
blacklist smoke.
To-day famous and picturesque Col
pnel William r. Cody will be again seen
In New Haven, where he is always
heartily welcomed and greatly admired.
Colonel Cody has had wonderful career
in this and other countries He won
ilization in the far West, and he has
fwon distinction and wealth in other
fields of effort. That he has been able
to be such a. conspicuous figure as he
has been in both life ON the border and
life In the heart of civilization shows
min to be a man of uncommon quality
A new railroad route to India propos-
ed In London by Mr.. G. E. D. Black
extends from Port Said eastward across
the peninsula of Sinai to the Gulf of
Akabah, and thence along the Both par
hIlel of latitude to Basra. From Bas-
ra the line would cross the Shatt-el-
Arab and Karun rivers and follow the
coast line Of the Persian gulf and Max
ran to Karachi, In India. Thus the line
would be in regions near the sea where
British influence predominates. 1t
would be some 2,400 miles long. and
cost, with rolling stock, $75,000,00O, and
produce gross revenue of $105OOOOO.
A gigantic carousal has been design
ed for the Trans Mississippi exposition
at Omaha. It's mechanism resembles
the framework of a gigantic umbrella
The part corresponding to the stick of
the umbrella is an immense cylindrical
shaft thirty feet in diameter, con-
structed of steel plates, firmly riveted
making a "standpipe" which rears its
above the level of the ground. At the
top of this shaft are fastened twelve
long arms, resembling the ribs of an
umbrella. These are steel trusses, the
points of which may be lowered almost
to the ground. AT the extremity OF
each of these trusses is suspended a car
having a capacity of twenty persons
The arms are intended to revolve
around the central shaft
An article in the Railroad Gazette
saws that the forcing Of civilization
upon China is dangerous business
There is present profit, of course, in
conquering the apathy of conserva-
tive people and in bestowing upor
them, despite frantic opposition from
the Mandarin class, the benefits of Oc-
cidental inventions and methods, but
asks the writer, has anyone ever con-
sidered what will be the result when q
reiuvenated race, conscious of its OWL