The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-08


Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business (all matter TO De
and their contracts 40 not
include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
Some Of the projectiles recently or
dered for the big guns will cost s212
each.
A bank in Cameron, Kansas, has this
appropriate notice where people can
see it: "Never address your CONVERSE
ton to person engaged in adding a
column of figures. There is nothing SO
deaf as an adder"
"A New Jersey court has upheld a
railroad company in refusing to accept
a torn treasury note, declaring that,
while the government is bound to re-
deem mutllated bills of this character,
private parties are not obliged to ac-
cept them as legal tender. That seems
good sense as well as good law.
Mrs. Richard Boyle of London, after
years of endeavor for the reform Of
women with reference to wearing birds
as ornaments, has been forced to the
sad conclusion that where fashion is
concerned, the world of women are ut
ter1y callous and blind to every consid-
GRAFTON except their own selfish van
ity."
A Canadian has designed a sleigh
which can be used where the snow Is
liable to be blown off some portions Of
the road and the sleighing is good in
others, two small wheels being attach
ed to the sides of the sleigh body. with
lever to drop them down and relieve
{ the load on the runners when the going
I is bad.
1t is announced in foreign papers that
DIR. Karl Auer Won Welsbach, the in
ventor Of the incandescent gas-lamp,
has recently patented an incandescent
electric light which it is claimed will
have the same effect in electric light
ing as has been obtained with the gas
-lan1p. While as yet the new invention
has not been tested for durability and
cost, it is believed that it will afford
an increase of illumination with a re-
duction of the energy expended.
The emperor Of Abyssinia should not
be entirely forgotten in these troublous
times He is about six feet in stature
without shoes and is stoutly built. His
skin Is very dark, and he wears short
curly beard and mustache. His face Is
heavy in cast, but is redeemed from
positive plainness by an extremely
pleasant expression and a pair of most
intelligent eyes. His smile takes in a
wider section of the circumference of
his head than is common and displays
particularly fine set of teeth He
y generally wears a large black Quaker
hat over white silk handkerchief tied
around his head, and black silk. gold
embroidered cloak over a profuslon of
white linen Undertaking.
Miss Emma Stoddard, United States
mail carrier, is all right. Regardless
of the rigors of winter, she has made
her eighteen mile journey between
Canton, Mississippi, and Ponkapoae
postoffice every twentyfour hours
since she was awarded the contract
last fall. She is required to make two
trips each way daily. In carrying the
evening mail it is necessary, in these
short days, to make the trip after
dark, and 1t was predicted that wher
she struck this part of her work sht
void weaken and throw UP the job
This was especially the opinion Of Johl
Abbott, the veteran mail carrier, wht
had held the contract for sixteen years
but was underbid this time by Mis-
Stoddard. Miss Stoddard is % year,
old. Her contract expires in 1901.
Bank officers salaries in Kansas nee6
not excite the envy Of Populists. Of
the 375 presidents of State and private
banks, less than rs draw salaries Three
of the 20 receive $500 a year, and &
dozen or more only $500 a year, thu
average compensation being less thar
$1,000. That is also the average TO,
cashiers. A number draw from 81, S0
to $500, but these are offset by the 2O
or more who get from $500 to $72O
year. The cashier of the largest banl
in the State gets only $500. The, cash
Ter of the largest western Kansas banl
gets SIS a month and boards himself
Neither are the clerks overpaid. Som
of them get as much as $1,000, but tn
average wage is $3.50. "Clerk hire, 5000
is a familiar entry on the statements
Only one bank in the State spent owe
$4,000 year for running expenses. TIL
next highest was $500, and the thir
$3.50, and the fourth $4,790. The res