The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-07

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Some London jewelers. have 100000
pounds worth of valuables in their
windows.
The whole effective strength Of the
British army, regulars and volunteers,
is 66S067.
General Sir Bindon Blood, who has
borne much Of the brunt Of the Afridi
war, is an Irishman, fifty-flve years old.
He Is popular in the army, and his SOL
diers love and believe in him.
Times are lively in st. Louis. Last
week broke the record in st. Louis in
real estate transactions, the transfers
aggregating over $1,00O,oOO in value.
This season Is usually a dull one there.
The case in Pittsburg court 1nvolv-
Ing the question as to whether a wo-
man has the right to go through her
husbands pockets opens up, says con-
temporary, wide field for currency re-
form.
The Sultan Of Turkey Is greatly influ-
enced in his public policy by Swede.
Carl Jerssen, who was common arti-
san, employed, before Abdul Hamid's
accession, in the workshops Of the Yil-
dig Kiosk.
Concerning the proposal to create an
English academy of immortals the Poet
Swinburne writes: 1.-THE notion Of an
English academy is too seriously stupid
for farce and too essentially vulgar
for comedy"
At the recent soldiers reunion at
Leavenworth, Kansas, a local undertake
err thought he was showing the proper
spirit when he displayed a banner in the
window with these words on it: "Wel-
come, Comrades!'
There are over 1000 Chinese men in
San Francisco and only 1000 Chinese
women. Of these women fully one-half
are slaves, being sold from time to time
at from $3.50 to $500 each, according
to age and beauty.
The Kings Daughters of Richmond
are to appeal to the Virginia legislature
to suppress the playing of football with
in the limits of the State. They say the
game should be discountenanced by
every civilized community.
In the Forth bridge there is hort
zontal pull Of 10000 tons on the chief
spans, and a weight of 100000 tons on
their bases. Half a dozen British IRON
clads might be hung upon them without
causing any undue strain.
John J. Sackenheim, core worker, en-
ployed In brass foundry in Springfield,
o., to commemorate the beginning Of
better times under President McKin-
ley's administration, had his infant son
christened Prosperity G. sackenheim,
Good luck and long life to Prosperity.
Professor George Kennard Greene a
Hoosier geologist and scientist, residing
at New Albany, Indiana, is credited
with having collected 100000 fossils in
his life of about sixty years. He deals
In them in dingy little shop, but it is
said Of him that he is "more devoted to
the chase than to the mercenary pro-
ceeds"
The Chicago Times+Herald remarks:
S"The Brunswick (Ga.) Times is sparing
no effort to stay at the head of the
journalistic procession in its section. 1t
says, with double-leaded earnestness:
Read The Course of True Love; or,
Blood and Butcher Knives a modern
fedHSulC SlOTy, with LOCAL TOUCHES, III
Sundays Times"
John M. Langston, who died in Wash
ington Tuesday, was the first negro to
be elected to office by a popular vote.
In 1852, after graduating from Oberln
college, he lived in the little town of
Brownheim, Lorain county, O., and was
elected township clerk by a large ma
jority. He served for three years and
returned to Oberlin in 1885, when he
was elected member of the board of
education, also by popular vote.
On the cranberry bogs of Wisconsin
descends every autumn an army of
pickers, composed in the main of Poles,
Indians and halfbreeds, the Indians be-
ing considered the best pickers, be-
cause they never strike and always ac-
cept the prices offered by the over