The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-02

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include Wants. To Let For Sale. etc.
Greater New York is big place, but
a New Havener can afford to indulge
in smile of superiority when he sees
the New York Herald clamoring for
stoves in the horse cars.
Kangaroos are being exterminated in
Australia nearly as fast as the seals
in the Behring Sea. In Queensland
alone 28S,65S kangaroos and s522, 653
wallabies We're destroyed last year.
Kangaroo tails for soup are being ship
ped to London by the ton.
1t don't take one dollar to carry
another to the heather, according to
the report of the officers Of the Ameri-
can Board, made from Boston recently,
in which they state that 921a per cent.
of all money received goes directly to
foreign missions and only the remain
ing TX per cent. is needed to cover all
expenses Of collecting. transmitting,
etc
The tobacco industry seems to be in
healthy condition. 1t appears from
The revenue returns that the govern
ment receipts on account of tobacco
manufactures during the month Of Oc-
tober alone amounted to $3,0S8, 652,
against $2633,257 for the corresponding
month last year. From plug tobacco
alone the receipts were $1,522, 54S,
against $1,3O5335 for October last year.
The League Of American Wheelmen
Is, with the cooperation Of the local
authorities and the Long Island Rail-
road, putting signboards along every
considerable road in Long Island. H.
B. Fullerton. chairman of the commit
tee, says that Long Island will soon
be easier to travel than any city, as the
signboards not only give name, but
direction and mileage. Good work, and
a good example.
A radical reform is to be made in the
opera at Vienna by refusing to admit
those who come late until an interval
in the performance. Those who come
after the overture begins must wait un-
til it is over. and in the case of Wag-
ner's operas. where there is no break
between the overture and the first act,
late Corners cannot get into their seats
until after the first act is over In the
Goetterdammerung, there is no break
between the overture and the first act,
and this act lasts an hour and half.
Ernest Bruncken. the secretary Of
The Forestry commission of Wiscon-
sin, is making jealous efforts to Sc
cure the reforesting Of the cut-over
lands of the State with pine trees. He
announces that the 'pine kings have
promised to replant their cut-over
lands with trees a year old, il the
State will see that the fire law per-
tanning to forests is strictly enforced.
1t is estimated that the planting can be
done at cost Of SO a thousand trees.
and that thousand will cover an
acre of land.
Family life in China, if we may ac-
cept without qualification the testimony
of a Chinese writer, is wholly admir-
able thing. Col. Toheng-Fi-Kong COM
plains that Of all countries on the globe
China is the least known, and says
that there is space enough for China's
four hundred millions Of inhabitants.
He further declares that the family is
the institution upon which is based the
whole social and political edif1ce of
China, and that Chinese society may be
defined as an aggregation of families
The family is, in fact, kind of relig-
ious order with all it's resources united
in single fund. The Chinese ideal is.
apparently, quite admirable, and west
ern nations might not disdain to learn
something from the five general princi-
Piles which by education form and
maintain the family tie; fidelity to the
sovereign, respect toward parents, con-
cord between the married. harmony be-
tween brothers and constancy in friend
ship.
That is a curious use which is made
of the intestines of the Spanish silk
worm in the production Of fishing lines.
It appears from the report of the
United States consular agent at Grao.
Valencia, that, since the decline of silk
culture in Spain. the gut industry. as
it is called, has increased, until now
about per cent. of the Spanish silk