The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-11

"A municipal council in France has
ordered it's proceedings to be reported
by monograph.
The southern cotton mills, which ten
years ago consumed only six per cent.
Of the domestic cotton crop, consumed
last year eleven per cent. or almost
a million bales. This is real COMPETE
tion with the northern mills.
EVERY man has his vice." says
philosophic director of the Chemical
bank of New York. cashier Quinlan
had his, and 1t was that of overwork.
We should all guard against that fail
ing. 1t unnerves and deroralizes u.s."
The teacher Of city school recently
received the following note explaining
the absense Of one Of the pupils the
day before, according to "Harper's
Round Tablet" 'tPlese excoose Kenny
for absents yesterday. Him and me
got chance at ride to a funeral
In charrige, an let him stay at
home, and he had never rode in a char
rige an never went to a funeral, nor
had many other pleasures. So plese ex-
Cooze."
Egypt's population, according to the
recent census, is 9,75O,OOO, more than
double the population of 1916. The for
eign residents are 10000; Of these 49,
900 are Greeks and 24,5OO Italians, 49,
\ 800. Britishers, including the army of
occupation, and $4,000 French subjects,
Including Algerians and Tunisians.
Twelve per cent. of the native males
can read and write; the other Egyp-
tians are illiterate. Cairo has $4,000
inhabitants, Alexandria 100000, Port
Said $4,000, and Suez 1900.
In a recent talk about the Algon-
quin language DR.. Edward Everett
Hale observed that six hundred words
I OF any language are enough for HUI
man communication. six hundred
words" he said, ''are said to be suffi-
Gent for the couriers Of Europe; and
1t is the outside limit of the vocabu-
larry of the italian opera. 1t is true
intelligence, in both cases; but still it
answers for the conveyance of thought.
In the book of Judges, for instance,
there are not seven hundred different
words"
The famous lion carved from the
rock at Lucerne by Thorwaldsen In
honor of the defence of the Swiss
Guards at the Tuileries in 1892 is
slowly crumbling away Some years
ago a committee of experts made a
careful examination of the monument,
which had begun to show signs of de-
cay owing to the action Of the water,
which constantly filters through the
rock behind. A few superficial repairs
were made, but now Thorwaldsens
work Is threatened with complete de-
struction, the stone being gradually
worn away.
Near Shasta, California, one of the
gold mines is worked by means Of a
peculiar machine, called monitor, in
vented and operated by A. G. Annis,
the machine in question being sunk in
the river through the centre of boat,
twenty feet long. A cylinder of iron,
three feet in diameter at the top and
five feet at the bottom, with two win
dows at the top, is lowered through the
hole in the centre of the boat to the
bottom Of the river; the workman en-
tiers, descends to a dry surface at the
bottom Of the river to work the gravel.
The compressed air, which clears the
cylinder of water, is also applied in ele-
waiting the gravel through pipe in
side to the deck of the boat, where it
peculiar feature of construction in this
arrangement is that by which the
water is forced out of the cylinders and
the gravel up to the top through the
pipe inside. The value of this method
has been proved by thorough tests
three men working in shifts of four
hours each, as stated-the returns In
gold being eminently satisfactory.
In Oregon some ten years ago a pri-
vate organization imported from Ger
many 300 pairs of birds. including sew
eral varieties of finches, thrushes and
larks, and some starlings, linnets and
nightingales. With the exception OF
the nightingales, which disappeared in
one season, all the varieties propered
ia their new home. They have multi.
piled rapidly, have extended their
range hundreds of miles, and it is be-
lieved that they have become thor
oughly acclimated. A curious feature
of the life of these imported birds is