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Daily camera., 1897-04-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


The air is so clear in the Arctic re-
gions that conversation can be carried
on easily by persons two miles apart.
| 1t has also been asserted on good au
/ thority that at Gibraltar the human
voice has been distinctly heard at dis
/ tance of ten miles
/ I'm Kew, England, watches are sub
/ jected to severe tests ere they are con-
/ sidered perfect. Two of these tests are
/ to. heat them in an oven and to freeze
them in an ice pail. If this treatment
does not affect their works, the watches
are deemed perfect timekeepers.
, The eyeball rests in a cushion of
fat, by which it is surrounded on every
side. When the system becomes ~reat-
/ ly emaciated through disease, this fat
is absorbed and the eye sinks further
into the head, thus giving the sunken
appearance so common in disease.
The extent to which the tramway
system, which was only generally
adopted in comparatively recent times,
has developed in England is strikingly
shown by parliamentary return issued
| recently The length of line open for
public traffic in England and Wales is
1872 miles; the number of horses en-
ployed by the companies was 27,175, and
the total number of passengers carried
was 5S5,O48,162 last year. The gross
receipts amounted to e 1922 ,964, and
the working expenses to G 1895
The total yearly demand for ivory
billiard balls, when trade in general is
good, is estimated to be about 10000
to 115,000 balls, of which America and
France absorb half, the remainder be-
ing used by England, Germany and
other countries. Bad times reduce the
number of balls required to about SO,-
600 to $4,000 per year. As those ele
plants teeth which are most adapted
for billiard balls are getting scarcer
and scarcer, great difficulty is expert
enced in meeting the present demand,
and prices accordingly rapidly advance,
being at present more than 16 shillings
per pound.
High civilization does not seem to
favor extreme length Of life. A Ger
man statistician finds that the German
empire has but rs subjects over 100 years
ofage; France, ,213; England, 14G; Ireland,
SIS; Scotland, 46; Denmark, 2; Belgium,
5; Sweden, 10; Norway, 30; Switzerland,
none; Spain, 40; Servia, SIS; Roumania,
1854; Bulgaria, 1883. The last named
country has a centenarian for every
1000 inhabitants. The oldest man in
the world is believed to be Bruno Cot
rim, negro of Rio Janeiro, whose age
is $50. A Moscow cabman is in his
140th year, and Servia, in 1890, had three
inhabitants between 1876 and 14O, with
19 between 1875 and 1876.
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THE GIDDY OYSTER.
It's Home Now Sold to Road Makers
and Gas Works.

The waters of Maryland produce one
third of the total oyster supply Of the
world. It yields twice as many of these
luscious bivalves as are grown in all for
eign countries combined. During the
present century it has put on the mar
ket 400 100000 bushels of the toothsome
mollusks. These have sold for the
enormous sum of $25O,OOO,00O. Almost
all of this country is dependent for the
abundance and cheapness Of this edible
on the supply of the Chesapeake. From
here also come very nearly all of the
oysters used for canning. In fact, the
output of this industry in Maryland is
equal to one-sixth of all the fisheries of
the United States put together.
The quantity of oyster shells landed
upon the shores of Maryland during
the last century has been reclloned at
100000 tons. Until lately the can
ming firms have had much trouble in
getting rid of the shells, having to pay,
in fact, for the removal Of all they could
not give away. Recently, however,
they have been able to sell them. They
are now shipped to all parts of the
country and are utilized variously for
roads, for lime, and employed in max
ing coal gas. They have also been
found to serve almost as well as stone in
the manufacture of special grades of
iron for railway beds. Cultivators of
oysters also employ them, having found
that they afford suitable surfaces for
young oysters to attach themselves to.
They are likewise used to some extent
as chicken food. They are very good
for hens, the shells of eggs being large
ly made of them. The trade receives
$4,000 in a single year for the empty
shells.
Starfshes ore the oysters worst
enemy. Other animals the young oys-
ters have to guard against are crabs and
boring snails. They are also in danger
of being stifled by mud. In Pacific wa
ters stringrays are their most dreaded
foes. The little crab that lives in the
shell of the oyster has always excited
much interest. 1t is found in about
five per cent of the bivalves. 1t is sort
of parasite of the oyster, whose shell
protects it and whose food-supports it.
-Philadelphia Times.
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France Wants More Fish.

A large quantity of salmon eggs were
recently exported from this country
to France, where an effort is being
made to rectify the extreme scarcity of
fish. Some interesting data have been
published on this subject. In the course
of seven years 3,s14 tons of salmon
from Great Britain reached the Paris
market, during which period only
7S0 tons of French salmon were sold
there. At what is v>ry modest price
for salmon on the other side of the At
lantic, two shillings a pound, this rep
resents sum of about S4,000,000 paid
to Scotch and English vendors. Dur
ing period of ten years the imports
into France of other fresh water fish
reached nearly 10000 tons, and of sea
fish nearly 10000 tons per annum. To
remedy this state of affairs it is now
suggested to levy licenses, varying in
amount in proportion to the style
of fishing contemplated, the money to
go to the expenses of maintaining an
efficient system of inspectors and
agents. OF these officials there are in
France only 333 for 25oo00 miles of
rivers and streams.-N. Y. Journal.
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BOSTON'S NEGLECT OF POE.
Memory of Her Most Famous Man of
Letters Ignored.

| have mentioned the circumstance
that it has never occurred to the town
OF Boston to erect a monument to Poe,
who, next to Franklin, probably has
the most worldwide fame of all the
men OF letters native to that town, and
Poe was connected with Boston not
alone by the important accident OF his
birth, but by the commencement there
of his literary career, itself an event
worth commemoration. So far as | am
aware, Boston never awarded TO Poe
the honor which, in the case of her dead
literary men of emiRence, she some
times deems worthy to be taken in lien
of any further monumental attention
namely, the calling Of a public meeting
by the mayor, at which addresses are
made and complimentary resolutions
adopted. The name of Poe is indeed
carved on the outer wall of the public
library at Boston; so are several other
names. Their purpose is chiefly dec
orative.
However, Boston's neglect in respect
of Pee was but the neglect of all the
rest Of the country. His kindred left
lis q fc at Baltimore unmarked, and
fund q about $1,000 had to be raised by
public subscription to place above his
ashes the unbeautiful mortuary monu-
ment which now bears his name. Ii an
erterprising commercial person had
not hired the cottage in which Poe
lived at Fordham, just out of New York,
and nut up above its door the large
sign: Poe Laundry" )" surmounting it
with the figure of raven, thereby
arousing the wrath of many people, in
Guiding the owner of the cottage, and
shaming them into protest, it is proba-
BILE that the poets fame would still be
quite destitute of any public memorial.
Atlantic.
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WORK HORSES TO LET.
Many of Them Are Hired by the Day
in New Work.

|
in New Work.
a man who had seen, at one time
and another. here and there, in town,
sign like this: Good Work Horses
to Let" and had a vague idea that he
few work horses that were let must
be hired by men who were not able
to buy horse, found upon inquiry
that his ideas on this subject We're very
inadequate. 1t is, of course, possible
that a work horse might be hired by
a man not able to buy one, but it would
quite as likely be hired by a man or a
firm that could afford to buy thousand
horses if il were desirable to do so. AS
a matter of fact, work horses are hired
by a great variety of men.
There are stable owners who make
business of letting work horses, and
work hoI sses are sometimes let by other
large bua,ness concerns employing
many horses, which might not all be
fully employed the year round; SO
might be the case, for example, with
the horses Of an ice company, or a
street sprinkling concern or other en-
terprise using many horses whose bust
ness runs more or less in seasons. 1t
doe not by amy means follow that be-
cause a man hires a work horse he
must take a poor one; he certainly
wouldn't take poor one if he could
get a good one, and he usually can get
good horse. Many of the work horses
that are let are of the very best grade,
fine draught horses that are well cared
for and are in perfect condition. Work
horses are let mostly to trucllmen, but
they are also let to many other users
of horses.
At one establishment where work
horses are let no horse is ever let to
go out of the city. Most stables have
customers who come to them when they
want horse and are known. The
stranger is asked for a reference. The
superintendent of stables where work
ing horses are let have wide acQuain-
tance among truckmen. They know
personally many of them; and the
stranger is likely to be able to refer
to somebody who is known. A man
who has been for years in charge of
a large stable which lets work horses
in this manner, said that he had never
lost horse.
Horses generally are better treated
now than they formerly were, owing
to the stringent enforcement of the
laws against cruelty to animals and to
greater consideration on the part of
drivers. Of course, there have always
been men who treated horses kindly;
there are more than ever of them now.
No establishment owning work horses
which it lets will ever let twice to a
man who ill-treats a horse.
Horses are cheaper than they used to
be, and the price of hiring a work horse
is less. Formerly two dollars day was
charged for the hire of work horse;
now a good work horse can be hired
for S1.5O a day, and the owner gives
with the horse when it goes out a
suitable MONDAY feed. A man who
knows about these things says that,
taking them altogether, there are thou
sands of work horses hired in this city
daily.-N. Y. Sun.
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Bridal Wreaths,

The bridal wreath is usually formed
in Germany of myrtle branches, In
France and England of orange bios
SONS, in Italy and French Switzerland
of white roses, in Spain of red roses and
pinks, in the islands of Greece of vine
leaves, in Bohemia of rosemary, in Ger
man Switzerland of crown of artificial
lowers.-Albany Argus.
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Where Prices Are High.

Prices are high at Johannesburg,
South Africa The smallest coin is
worth six cents, and copper coin is un-
known. A pony of brandy costs 25
cents, bottle of genuine champagne,
$3.50. Miners and artisans receive from
five to seven dollars a day, bakers. six
dollars.-Albany Argus.
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Desnerate measure.

What do you mean, Spitely, by teach
ing your little grandson to swear?"
I'm not going to have his mother go
ing around boring people by telling
them the smart things he says."-De-
troit Free Press.
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One Important Change.

'Time brings many changes" she
said, musingly.
That's So" he assented. "The boy
that will not go to bed at night until
he is whipped will refuse to get up in the
morning.'-N. Y. Journal.
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Which IA 4 FAct.

She-No. don't prefer men who are
known to be rich.
"How can that be?
''They don't spend their money so
freely as men who want to be known as
rich,'.N. Y. Times.
Daily camera., 1897-04-29

81 have travelled on most of the importan
railroads in America and Europe and have
dned on such of them as have restaurant cars.
would rather dine on the Burlington Route
dining Car that leaves Chicago at $50 p. m. for
Kansas City than on any dining car that know
of in the world. S. S. MCCLURE,
Publisher McCluTe'S Magazine"
The dining car service on the "Vestibued
Flyer, which leaves Denver at $50 p. m. daily
for Omaha, Peoria, Chicago Kansas City and
ST. Louis is identical with that between Chicago
and Kansas City, referred to by Mr.. Mcclure.
Ii is believed to be better than that OF any other
western railroad. Thousands of Coloradans
familiar with it and will gladly testify to its
unvarylng excellence.
Tickets and timetables at all D. & r. G..
and U. P. D. & G. ticket offices.
G. w. VALLERY, Gen'l Agent,
1899 18th St., Denver, Col.
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An Up-to-Date Clergyman.

Ella-Won't you go to church with
me Sunday? Our minister is going 70
talk on the bicycle.
Stella-I should think he would
rather talk from the pulpit.-N. Y.
Tribune.
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Yes he said thoughtfully, at is
true that l am welded to my art, but
lie paused and shook his head regret
fully.
& 1 must admit that [ have been
greatly disappointed in the matter of
her dowry. Chicago Post
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NOT ICE !!
TO THE PUBLIC

TO THE PUBLIC
having opened a new Under
taking Establishment at 2O28
18th street, | am prepared to an
swer all calls day or night when
in need of anything in my line.
ssg@Work guaranteed and prices
as low as the lowest.
Respectfully,
G. E. HARRIS, Mgr.
The Boulder Undertaking Co.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
DECADENCB OF INDUSTRIES.

Ex-Senator Lucas Explains It So Far
 as It Relates to Our Rural Towns.
 A drive through Connecticut will re- veal the existence of many little shops and mills, once active with the hum of industry and the center of a small vil- lage. Now these buildings are rapidly falling into decay and furnish pictur- esque material for the painter The consolidation of small factories and the supply of ready-made articles to be found in the country store accounts for the decadence of some of the smaller industries in rural towns.
 This is illustrated in the case of the blacksmithing business in Goshen, one of the older and thriving towns of Ltchfield county. Ex-Senator Lucas, in a. recent paper on ancient Goshen, re- cords that in 17S0 there were thirty blacksmiths ia the town, while at this time there are but three. In the early years of this century there was forge in the village, the iron ore being brought from Salisbury. The iron TO- duced was sold to the blacksmith shops in town and vicinity. This was no small trade either, as the blacksmith made many things, nails and door trim mings, blow points, chains etc., almost everything made of iron. To-day most of these articles are bought at the vil- lage stores at cheaper rates than a blacksmith could afford to work them out by hand.
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PETITION FOR PARDON.
Prominent Men Sign It for the Mur-
 derer "Frenchy."

Prominent Men Sign It for the Mur-
 derer "FTenchy."
 Albany, N. Y, Nov. S.-Formal appli- cation has been made to Governor Black for the pardon of Amer Ben Ali, better known as "Frenchy," who was convicted in New York city in 1891 of manslaughter, first degree, for the kill ing of an old woman known as "Old Shakespeare" The petition praying for executive clemency is signed by many men of national and information al repute. Among them are Edward Bruwaert, the French consul-general; A. E. Olarouski, the Russian consul general; J. B. Eustis, ambassador to France, Alfred Colin of the United States navy, Frederick R, Coudert, Frederick Gibbs and Louis Coudert. One April morning in 1891 "Old Shakes peare'' was mutilated on her bed in a cheap lodging house in New York city. Frenchy occupied a room across the hall from that of the ord woman. He was arrested and upon circumstantial evidence was railroaded through a trial and was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Although not insane he has spent six years of i'm prisonment in the Mattewan state hos pital for criminal insane.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
COUNTY HOME MEETING.

The annual meeting of the board of the County home will be held at the home, corner Shelton avenue and Bas- sett street, tomorrow at Il o'clock a. m. Luncheon will be served by Flem- ing.
 Following is the list of officers and names of those who have been in terested in caring for the children and finding homes for them Mrs. G. F.. Newcomb, secretary, New Haven: Mrs. G. W. Bacon New Haven; Mrs. B. J. Lum, New Haven; Miss M. D. Skinner New Haven; Mrs. r. F.. Cas- tie, Waterbury; Mrs. Julia A. Hart, Beacon Falls; Mrs. Jerome A. Downs, Bethany; Mrs. Norman Platt, Ches- hire; Mrs. A. B. Shaw, Derby; Mrs. F. O. Blatchley, Guilford; Miss Caro- lyn Dickerman, Hamden; Mrs. Jose phine Scranton, Madison; Mrs. Eli I. Merriman, Meriden; Miss M. L. Town send, Middlebury; Miss J. Beach, Mill ford; Mrs. B. B. Tuttle Naugatuck; Mrs. George Buck Naugatuck; Mrs. Nathan Harrison, North Branford; Mrs. P. B. Olcutt, North Haven; Mrs. Stiles Woodruff, Orange; Mrs. s. P. Sanford, Oxford; Mrs. w. H. Phipps, Prospect; Mrs. A. T. Dunham, Sey- mour: Mrs. Merwin Mitchell, South Britain; Mrs. M. Cartre, Wolcott; Mrs. I. R. T. Todd, Wolcott, and Mrs. Leroy c. Beecher, Woodbridge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
SARAH T. DEACON

VS.
 HARRY T. DEACON.
 Superior Court, New Haven County,
 the 2d day of November, A. D. 1897.
 COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. Ordered-That additional notice of the pendency of the complaint in the above en- titled case be given by publishing this order once a week for two weeks successively in the Journal and Courier, beginning on or before the 4th day of November, A; D; 1897. By the Court JOHN $. FOWLER, n4 Assistant Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
CoTONET.DBAN's sIrCCEss.

Colonel Charles L. Dean, formerly of Ashford, was reelected to the Massa- chusetts legislature last week from the city of Maiden. Colonel Dean was an aide on the staff of Governor Andrews staff, this state, in 1879 and 1880, and member of the Connecticut legislature in 1881 and 1882 from the town of Ash ford. He has been president of the First National bank of Stafford Springs from it's organization in 1888. Colonel Dean was a member of the ways and means committee last year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
BUSINESS PROSPERITY,


 Big Rubber Manufactures Booming
 The John Adt & Son Factory to Run
 Night and Day-Other Notes.
 Charles s. Johnson, treasurer of the
 U. Candee Rubber company of this city,
 and formerly sales agent of the United
 States Rubber company, who has re-
 gently returned from Europe, where he
 spent several months for the benefit
 of his health, has accepted the reap pointment to the position of general sales agent.
 MT. Johnson is eminently fitted for
 the duties of this position. His office will be in New York city, as heretofore. Candee company.
 The business of the L. Candee com
 pany has been booming for the past year. There has been constant de- | mand for their product and they are compelled to run a force of about 1,600 or 1,7G0 people to fill their orders. ] The United States Rubber company's branch at Naugatuck has been busy l for many months past and are now be- | hind in, their orders.
 | As evidence of tho many improve
 ments in business in this city. the firm | of John Adt & Son, Franklin B. Shus- ter, proprietor, manufacturers of spe- cial machinery, yesterday announced that they would be compelled to put on a force of hands to work at night. They have been rushed with business 1 for several months, the hands working evenings, but lately received orders | that will keep them working night and | day for the next five months. This is
 most welcome news to all and especial | ly at this season of the year. Their factory is on State street, corner Mill | River street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
FOR RENT,
MODERATE RENTS

UPPER and lower; healthiest section, choicest neighborhood; six rooms, bath, toilet, range, boiler, stone tubs, gas, hard wood ''sh, elegantly papered; entrances, yeranu 5 and cellars separate; good school Apply 303 FERRY STREET.
 (Take State st. car to Ferry.) nS If
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THE GREATEsT SHOW.

The Atlantic transport steamer Mas sachusetts arrived in New York from London. Saturday. She will sail this week with the army of employees of the Barnum & Bailey show and some of the animals oE the menagerie. The Michigan of the Atlantic Transport line will also be used to help carry the big show across the-sea.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
GMamts.

One Cent a Word each insertion, i've cents Word for full Week, seven times.
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Millions of suffering women should know that those painful irregularities peculiar to the sex can be relieved at once with Aplo- line. Price S1. Druggists. apS tn tn Sd If
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 November 9th, 1897.

ESTATE of JULIA M SWIFT. late of
 Hamden, in said District, deceased.
 An instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of said de- ceased, having been presented in Court, and Edwin D. Swift of Hamden having same may be probated, and that letters tes- tamentary may be granted, as by said, ap- plication on file in this Court more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED - That said application be heard asd determined at Court of Pro- bate to be held at New Haven, in said Dis trict, on the 18th day of November, 1897, public notice of the pendency of said ap- plication, and of the time and place of the nearing thereon, be given to all parties in terested in said estate, by publishing this order three times in a newspaper having a circulation in said District.
 LIVINGSTON w. CLEAVELAND, nS 2t Judge
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-09
AUCTION.

WILL be sold at Public Auction Wednes- day, Nov. 10th, at 10 q. m., at 5S3 Win chester avenue: 12 Milch Cows 1 Bull, 4 Horses, 1 fine six-year-old Horse, fast, sired by Westmont 2:24; 1 two-year-old Colt, sired by Garnet Rock 2:2714 80 Pigs; Wagons, single and double; Harnesses, der, Flows and Cultiyators and Farming Implements too numerous to mention. Sale to take place on the premises, rain or shine, at 10 o'clock. GEORGE l.. AN DREWS, Auctioneer. n9 2t*
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s,se,tIcs Turn Believers and Are Cured

"When read that Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder could relieve Catarrh in 10 minutes I was far from being convinced. l tried it-a single puff through the blower afford ed instant relief, stopped pain over the eyes and cleansed the nasal passages. To day am free from eatarrh." E. L. Eagans thousands of others and may be yours.- Sold by E. A. Gessner, E.Hewitt & Colo.
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NtsceIIamen11s.

MRS. B. COHEN
 IS now ready to deal in Ladies and Gentle. mems cast-off Clothing, Carpets, etc. ~ postal card directed to 697 GRAND AVE. will receive prompt attention n2 14t
The sun., 1897-11-22
TAKE THEM IN TIME

The masses will have what
they want, cost what it may.
High-priced medicines have had
their day and the poor and af-
tlicted may now enjoy the bene-
fits of carefully prepared, pure
remedies at practically nominal
prices. The physicians con-
nected with Louisiana Specific
Laboratory have prepared a num-
Der Of standard cures which are
offered to the public at the lowest
prices convenient with pure
preparations.
These standard cures cannot
be bought of druggists. By send
ing your orders direct to the
Louisiana Specific Laboratory,
Lake Charles, Louisiana, you
are sure to receive pure, fresh
drugs properly compounded and
carefully packed.
In. ordering the following
standard cures please give the
number of the remedy needed.
If taken in time one supply will
effect a permanent cure,