The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-28


big cotton mills of Massachusetts, es-
pecially the girls, have taken up with
the once characteristic southern habit
of snuff-dipping.
A Chicago horse took a woman's hat
from her head and ate it. No wonder.
The cats often feel tempted by the ami
mails that are interespersed among the
heritage on women's hats.
Tt has long been known that it is not
more dangerous to travel than to stay
at home. Last year $50 persons were
killed in the city of London alone by
falling out of windows or from build
ings, and during the same period the
railroads of all Great Britain killed only
1856
Mrs. Kaye, who has just died near
Leeds, England, invented the metal
boxes in which fares are still deposited
by passengers on omnibuses and horse
cars in Great Britain and her provinces.
Before them turnstiles were used in en-
tering cars, and Mrs. Kaye, being incon-
yenienced by them, as she wore a crino-
line, set her wits to work and devised
the box.
Cats are to be dropped from the Ger
man military establishment; they have
now an allowance of $3.50 year apiece
for training, medical care, food, and
badges. They are employed to protect
the depots of military stores from mice.
Professor Loeff1er, however, having dis
covered typhus bacillus fatal to mice,
this will be substituted for the cats.
A foreign letter tells of French med
zeal student who failed in his examina-
lions and thereby lost his exemption
from military duty And then knowing
that IL he served his two years in the
army he would have no chance to make
up his deficiencies in scholarship he
proceeded to kill his father so that as a
Widows son he would be exempt from
coR-cription. He did not succeed in
making his mother a widow, however,
and the father, recovering from his in
juries, used his utmost efforts to save
his son from the penalty Of his deed
The result was ten-year sentence for
the young man.
The Nebraska. State Journal tells a
story Of Lincoln man who is a church
member, and who has been in the habit
for some years of taking his son to the
circus, ostensibly to see the animals.
The son is now fifteen years old, and
/. he recently announced to his father
that he was big enough to go alone.
The father was taken considerably
aback, for he had not counted on being
deprived OF the excuse for going this
year he had always used before. ''Why
do you want to go alone?" the father
asked. 81 don't know" replied the
boy, in a reluctant manner. Eyes, you
do" said his father. you wouldn't
tell me that you want to go alone with
out reason" "Well papa" he said,
''I want to stay out in the animal tent
longer than you do"
People can be too fresh" but they
can also eat too much salt. The New
York Journal of Hygiene discusses what
1t calls "the salt habit''-the excessive
use Of salt in food. Some salt is neces-
sary in food, perhaps, but many per-
sons take it ON articles with which it is
unnecessary They want their meat,
fish, potatoes, melons, butter, tomatoes,
turnips, bread, ETC., positively salty.
They hold that salt brings out the
flavor" and consider 1t in the same class
with sugar-as a sweetener. The result
is that the skin and kidneys are excess
sively taxed to get rid of the salt, and
both are injured by it. Few people have
healthy skins, and it is believed that
many cases of arrangement of the kid
neys are due to the salt habit
One of the most common objections to
the use of rubber in its various appli-
cations is its quality of crumbling or
breaking after it has been in use a
while, this being characteristic of all
varieties of the article A number of in
genious methods for the prevention of
this inconvenience have from time ia
time been proposed, but according to
the San Francisco Scientific Press. the
most reliable of these seems to be the
least complicated, namely, the occa-
sional immersion of the rubber articles
in a per cent solution of carbolic acid
Though very simply and inexpensive
process, rubber tubing treated in sucf
a manner is found to remain in excellent
condition. even after many years of use
in fact rubber bands given an occa