The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-29
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Henry George says: "The voice OF
God has spoken and shall be elected"
Henry would do well to wait until next
Tuesday night before making such
speech.
The colored brother has made HIM
self felt. One hundred and seventy
nine negroes have been appointed to
Office since last March, with an aggre-
gate salary list of $129,320.
Governor Atkinson makes a notable
suggestion to the Georgia legislature.
He advises that the law be changed
SO that prisoners may be armed when
attacked by mobs, and allowed to de-
fend their lives.
Bicycles are used for smuggling on
the frontier of France and Belgium.
The customs officers at Tourcoing took
to pieces the machine ridden by a man
they suspected and found that all the
hollow tubing was stuffed with to-
bacco.
The League of American Wheelmen
now boasts a membership of more than
ic fo,s 10
citation of it's kind in the world. And
yet it's membership includes only a
small part of all the people who ride
the wheel.
"A Partisan who suspects that the
food or drink that he purchased is
adulterated can have the article analy-
zed free of cost at the municipal labora-
tory. If impurities are found the city
undertakes the prosecution of the
tradesman, and after conviction the Of
fender is not only liable to fine and
Imprisonment but may be obliged to
display in his window a sign reading
"ConVicted OF Adulteratlon.
Mr.. Breidenthal, the Kansas Com
missioner Of Banks, reports that 374
banks in the State have $22,000,0O0 in
deposits, which, added to the deposits
in National banks, will run up to $40,-
100000 This is an increase in one year
q q ~
$4,000, 900 81, 100000 more than last
year. The reserve Of cash and sight
exchange has increased 70 per cent.
Last year this item exceeded $4,000, 900,
and this year it is over $10,000,000. The
reduction in bills payable is 80 per cent.
The item "due from other banks" is
over $1,000, 0OO-almost double what it
was in October, 1895.
Chauncey Depew, in speaking of
american directness in diplomacy as
contrasted with the European circumlo-
cution, told this story at the Lotos club
dinned to Anthony Hope: "War Gov
ernor Brough of Ohio was man Of in
tense energy, great executive ability
and very economical in the use Of his
words. A reporter applied through the
private secretary for improper informa-
ton in regard to the Ohio troops. The
governor said impatiently to his private
secretary: Give him an evasive an
swer' The secretary said, We'll, gov
ernor, how shall put it?' The COVER
nor answered: Tell him to go to hell "
"a Paris jury has distinguished itself
by acquitting two criminals who had
confessed their crime in court, and
whose lawyers had only pleaded for a
light sentence. The secretary of MN
Oppenleim, the bankers, had embez-
zled $4,000 at the instigation of his mis-
stress; previous theft of money by
him to spend on the woman had beer
detected by his employers and forgiven
while the woman had twice served time
in prison for swindling. The Paris
Oppenheims being Catholics, anti
semitic feeling cannot account for the
jury's verdict; the only other plausible
explanation, aside from stupidity, is
that it is due to prejudice against CAPT.
talists.
England has a disused law which pro.
vides that every citizen between eigh-
teen and thirty years old, with few
exceptions, such as peers, constables
and poor men having more than one
child, is liable to be chosen by ballot
to serve five years as a private in the
militia. 1t has not been enforced in
years, but England's isolated position
practically, without allies-has drawn
attention to it as a possible resource in
an emergency. While England is look.
ing toward army increase, France i:
looking in the opposite direction ant
there is significant and growing re.
volt against the conservation which