The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-05
\ In Australia 1t is only 124 degrees In
The shade.

the shade.
There were women in business long
ago. Miss Emeline z. Woodward, who
has recently died, was bookkeeper in a
Boston house for nearly fifty years,
and another woman was her predeces-
sor in the same position.
The pension department rules that
veterans widow who owns real and
personal property to the value of near
ly $4,000 has other means Of support
than her daily labor, and so cannot OBJ
tain a pension under the law of June,
1890.
"A Tennessee correspondent of the
New York Tribune sends the following
incident, which. he says, recently hap
pened in that State: Teacher of Infant
Glass in Sunday school-Did any of
you children ever know or hear of any
one who never commits sin in thought,
word or deed? Little Johnnie eagerly
II know. Teacher-Well, Johnnie, who
Is it? Johnnie-McK
The increase of the worlds popula-
ton will be checked some by the black
plague, which has reached China. As
there is no civilized and enlightened
government there to push the matter
Of its suppression, it is making fearful
ravages and it's spread is only limited
by food to feed on. In one village six
hundred people have died Of 1t already,
and the density of Chinese population
seems likely to be thinned very materi-
ally through it's effects.
Venice has asserted the right of
ownership over the famous pigeons of
st. Mark. Some enterprising street
boys who had made business OF kill
ing the birds when brought up in court
pleaded that the pigeons had no legal
owners, as they were fed by the public
on the Piazza San Marco. The city
authorities maintained that the pigeons
were the wards of the old republic and
therefore of the present municipality,
"a view that was adopted by the court.
Japan is planning to raise money to
pay for her new $2O0,000,000 navy by
creating a tobacco monopoly. Under
the plan in contemplation a farmer
who wants to grow tobacco must take
out license specifying the number of
acres he intends to plant, and he is
also required to sell his entire crop to
the government at a certain specified
price. The government will then resell
the tobacco to manufacturers and deal
ers at an advance of 80 per cent. over
first cost. the expectation being that
the system would yield an annual rev.
enue of s1O.00O,ooO.
Here is paragraph which the COM
piIer warrants to make trouble for
anybody who tries to correctly pro-
nounce all the words in it: "Cleo-
patra, isolated in the oasis, soon be-
came acclimated and had ample leisure
to contemplate all the economic details
of her inextricable sword. The wound
resisted the allopathic misogynist, who
gave courteous diagnosis and humbly
craved precedence for tiny idyl in the
form of a vase, with an aesthetic,
acoustic apparatus. This told the
news like book, but it might have
been a dog living in squalor, from the
look she launched at him when he
wrote down his address. She ate her
breakfast and then fraternized with a
national expert in appendicitis, who at
tended the obsequies.'
An extraordinary discovery, and one
which is just now exciting considera-
BILE interest in antiquarian circles in
Lancashire and Cheshire, has been
made at Stockport, England. During
the excavations in the construction of
sewage works for the town, the work
men came across what has since PROV
ed to be massive oak tree, with two
immense branches. Professor Boyd
Dawkins, the well-known antiquary,
is of opinion that the tree is one of
the giants of prehistoric times and he
says that it is certainly 10000 years old
The corporation of Stockport are at a
loss what to do with the gigantic fos-
sill, which is supposed to weigh about
forty tons and, as it is necessary that
it should be removed, proposal has
been made to blow it up with dyna-
mite. This has aroused the indigna-
ton of large section of the public
and efforts are being made to bring
pressure to bear upon the council to
preserve the tree.
Ethel-"What is the proper way to
conduct yourself when you are en-
gagged 7' Edith-"Just as though Won