The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-12

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1t is said in London that the tricycle.,
after several years of eclipse, Is fast
returning to popular favor. 1t is espe-
cially in demand now by riders who
prefer a bicycle, but find the nervous
strain of riding one too wearing.
Thirty-nine persons, corporations and
trustees pay 10 per cent. of Boston's
taxes, their bills being more than $780,
600 each. The Boston and Albany Rail
road company leads ALL paying S1S1 2S6.
Only three Of the thirty-nine are indi-
yiduals, they being Joshua M. Sears,
who pays s51,S57; Arioch Wentworth,
whose assessment is $50, 1856, and Henry
Bigelow Williams, $22,72o.
Russia's big cruiser Rossia, the larg-
est ship in the navy, which ran
aground last November while being
taken from the shipyard to Cronstadt
after it had been launched, has just
been fioated. 1t was expected that the
vessel would have to remain in it's posi-
tion till the ice broke UP in the spring,
but a. massage was opened for 1t by
steam ice breakers. 1t took fifty-one
days, working continuously day and
night. to get the ship af1oat again.
The retail grocers of Atlanta have
adopted d novel scheme to protect
themselves from bad debts. They re-
uuire all purchasers, who do not pay
cash, to state their monthly or yearly
income. the amount of purchases they
propose to make each month or each
year, to give histories of their lives and
what are essentially recommendations,
including the names OF those with
whom they have traded for two years
past. The grocers are In combina-
tion. and the householders who object
to such searching investigations must
pay cash or buy outside of Atlanta.
Governor Powers of Maine calls at
tention to a law of that State, given
place in the statute book in 1895, when
he was himself a member Of the legis-
lature, which practically shuts off
every possibility of new public enter
prise in fields where corporations have
been organized to do the same or SINH
lar work, even if the first companies
have not carried their plans into sue
cessful operation Only by consent,
purchase or legislative permission
could further enterprise in the same
line be attempted. Such law seems
to give the rights of the people over to
the tender care of corporations, and it
Is not strange that the governor asks
for it's immediate repeal.
An interesting man in the new
French Chamber of Deputies is DR..
Philippe Grenier, member for Pontar-
lier. who is a Jealous convert to Ma
hometanism. While he was practising
medicine in his younger days his health
gave way and he went to Arabia for
rest. There he embraced Islamism and
entered monastery of muftis. DR..
Gsrenier is scrupulously exact in the OBJ
seryance of the rites of his religion,
no matter where he may be, and at the
hours prescribed by the Koran he pros
trates himself on the floor or ground,
bangs his forehead against 1t, much to
the bewilderment of the spectators
and washes his hands in the nearest
gutter while invoking the name of
Xllah in loud and fervent tones.
Ten or fifteen years ago, says bust
ness man quoted by the Philadelphia
Record, 'the canned meats put up in
square tins by American houses were
sold in great quantities in Samoa. Il
was not long before Australia and New
Zealand packers saw that they were
missing good thing, so they sent out
agents who circulated story among
the natives to the effect that cheap
American meats were composed in part
of human flesh. They said that in the
process of preparing the bones of dead
Cinnamon for shipment to the Celestial
Empire from San Francisco the meat
was canned and labelled beef for Pa
cific island consumption. The story
gained credence to such an extent that
the natives summed the square tins
and could only be induced to buy the
round, fiat tins put out by Australian
and New Zealand houses. That preju-
dice exists to-day to such an extent
that United States Consul Mulligan
has mentioned it in his report to the
State department"
1t fell to Judge Johnson of Milwaukee
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