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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-06

FLYING M1CHIN ELS,

There has been a long lull in flying
machine talk, but the experimenters in
flying machines are still busy. Not
much of a future was predicted for
flying machines in a paper on that top
ic read at a recent meeting>of the Bos-
ton Scientific society by A. A. Merrill,
himself an enthusiastic aeronaut. The
problem, as he presented it, was in the
construction of a serviceable machine,
the parts of which would not, by their
wind-resisting surfaces, defeat the OBJ
ject sought. The margin of safety is SO
exceedingly small in machines of this
character that even the surface of the
man who is the passenger, about five
square feet, must be considered. By
carrying him horizontally, as If swim
ming, Mr.. Merrill hopes in a construc-
ton of his own to be able to make a
new machine more efficient than any
heretofore. AS to the universal use OF
the flying machine, as suggested in fan
ciful sketches of sanguine authors, Mr.
Morrill, has no faith, and he is certain
that they can never compete with sur
face methods for the carrying of great
weights, freight and express, for ex-
ample. He is somewhat sanguine him
self, however, and sketched out a
house-top scheme, with landing places
and storage barns, in which perhaps
they might be useful for single passen-
gers in their daily trips between the
house and the office. Bicycle-makers
however, are not likely to experience
any immediate competition.
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A RE4SON4BLE THEORY.

1t does not yet appear that torpedo
boats are going to be very useful, but it
does seem plain that a torpedo boat
run by electricity would have advan-
tages over a torpedo boat run by steam.
Some of these advantages as pointed
out by writer in the Electrical World,
are: Absence of noise and vibration,
since the engines must run even faster
than those of Locomotives; absence Of
light, since there would be no forced
draft of the boilers to throw flame out
Of the smokestack; greater invulner-
ability, since battery and motor would
be below the water line although the
boat drew but six feet; ease of manage
ment, since the captain at the stern
could change from full speed ahead to
full speed backward by moving a light
lever. A shot through the boiler of a
steam torpedo boat of course disables
her entirely An electric torpedo boat
might be shot through and through,
above the water line and her speed or
manageability would not be lessened
Again, the electric boat can be handled
by fewer men since no firemen are
necessary. She would of course get
her supply of stored-up energy from a
dynamo on board a battleship or cruis-
er, or charged cells would be put into
her more rapidly and quickly than coal
could be passed aboard. For harbor
defenses the electric torpedo boat
would be well adapted, and the adj
vantages it promises over the steam
type are so numerous and so decided
that the experiment is well worth try
inc
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he WRorE TOO MUCH.

Those Spaniards are sly chaps and
their honor is all Spanish. But they
write too much. Captain G. C. Dillon,
now at San Francisco on the steamer
Morgan City, but formerly an active
Cuban filibuster and commander of the
Inflated Commodore, says that ex-
Minister De LONE was engaged in writ
ing dangerous letters long before he
was found out. This, Captain Dillon
says, he knows personally from having
petitions to the island a communica-
ton, which he still has, in which the
Spanish diplomat offered him a large
sum of money if he would allow him
self to be captured by Spanish cruiser
when he had a big cargo of arms and
ammunition on board. The minister's
object, of course, was to secure ma
terial evidence supporting the allega-
ton that the United States was secret
ly supplying the insurgents with means
of resistance.
For a Spaniard who had been trained
as diplomat De LONE was strangely
indiscreet. And it doesn't appear that
he even said Burn this'' in any of his
compromising letters.
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igine's nose ring if they were not afraid
ed to the chain that will sufficiently
weight 1t, a salts bottle, pocketbook
pencil, lorgnettes, note book or a
charm. The latter attached to an elab-
crate chain is only suitable for the
house or upon a formal occasion. For
the street a plain gold chain or one of
the new clasp chains made of several
rows of silk cord held in place by
slides of enameled metal, is the only
proper wear, and attached to it should
be something presumably useful, a
small car-fare purse or q note book
Girls whose mother used to wear in
the old days an opera chain to her
watch, are rejoicing if they can secure
the same, wearing it just as it is or
slipping off the slides and having them
adjusted on narrow silk ribbon or cord.
The endorsement of bizarre effects
that is apparent in these accessories, is
also noticeable in summer silks, whose
combinations of shades, especially in
the plated ones, are often very strik-
ing. Straining for novelty by unusual
mating of colors is not so noticeable in
the figured silks, but garish plaids are
many. Yet it is possible to have a
bright plaid, one combining three or
four colors, without making any OBJ
server wish for blue glasses. Taste in
selection is all that is necessary. The
plaid of the silk shirt waist that is
pictured here had an iris colored
ground barred with blue, green and
yellow, yet the hues were balanced hap
PLY and so were entirely tasteful. This
waist was after a much liked model,
having a plain back with square yoke,
and with the fulness pleated into the
waist. In front the opening was fin
ished with white embroidery, and on
either side of this were two narrow
side-pleated ruffies extending from
shoulders to waist. A tie of the silk
came around the neck, and belt of
lavender satin ribbon finished the
waist The silk was cut bias for the
whole waist.
FLORETTEI
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Yes, my son. Patriotic cub-Say, but
didn't we lick you in 1S12?-Judge.
A Marriage Settlement-Tom-D
your father-in-law settle anything on
you at your marriage? Benedict (de-
jectedly)-Yes; himself and his whole
family!-Puck.
Mistaken in His Man.-Wallace-And
did you make him eat his words? Har-
greaYes-No. He turned out to be one
of those fellows who would rather fight
than eat.-Chicago Enquirer.
"You speak," said q fond mother,
"about people having strength of mind,
but when it comes to strength of don't
mind, my son William surpasses any
body I ever knew."-Tit-Bits.
His Remedy.-"I thought your doctor
told you that you'd have to get out of
this climate" HE did, but L couldn't
arrange my business affairs so as to be
able to get away, so 1 had to change
my doctor. Chicago News.
Rector (short- sighted)-Well, Rich
ard, hard at work, Ell? Let me see.
You are Richard, aren't you? Laborer
No, sir OF be John, sir. You had the
pleasure of buryin' Richard last week,
you remember, sir.-Punch.
81 wish you We're not always wanting
to go out riding, Clara. You ought to
pay a little more attention to the seri-
GUS things of life. Remember, you
can't go to heaven in carriage.
why, papa, Elijah did.'-Chicago Tri-
bune.
Householder-Do you pretend to say
that this meter measures the amount
of gas we burn? Inspector will en-
ter into no controversy, sir, but l will
say that the meter measures the
amount of gas you have to pay for
Detroit Free Press.
A countryman wandering about a
churchyard came upon a stone having
| the inscription, "Sic transit gloria
| mundi." What does it mean?" he
asked of the sexton, who had been ex-
| planning the inscriptions to him. The
| sexton peered toward it, and not wish
ing to show any ignorance, replied:
| Well, it means that he was sick tran
sfently, and went to glory Monday
| morning. '-Harper's Bazaar.
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would try to run by him, and treated
them as quietly as woman driving
a hen and chickens to the roost. Horn
method proves that even the much-de-
spised and much-abused mule appre-
ciates gentle tratment and is willing to
obey kind master 1t is a well known
fact that a trained army pack mule is
docile, as a rule. In some respects he
has more sense than a horse. The first
thing a horse does when he falls and
becomes entangled during action or in
an accident is to kick, but the mule lies
perfectly quiet until released. st.
Louis Globe-Democrat
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THE SINKING OF THE MERRIM4C

THE SINKING OF THE MERRIlIIC.
Admiral Cervera was SO impressed by
the courage and daring of the men who
put the Merrimac where it would do
the most good that he sent word to Ad-
miral Sampson that they were alive
and captured and would be exchanged
as prisoners of war. This action of
Cervera does him credit and indicates
that all Spaniards are not alike.
Read the full account of the exploit
of Lieutenant Hobson and his compan-
ions which we print this morning. No
tice how boldly they went to what was
almost sure to be death. Consider the
eagerness of thousands of others on the
ships to be allowed to go. See how
calmly and thoroughly the work was
done. Then give three cheers for the
United States navy, and be proud and
thankful that it is the navy of your
country
No wonder Admiral Cervera had a
thrill Of chivalry in the presence of such
men as Lieutenant Hobson and his gal
liant companions. No knights of old
ever did a Drawer deed or deserved bet
ter of those capable of being stirred by
brave deeds.
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THE TORPEDO BOATS OF OUR
NAVY

NAVY.
Torpedo boats and torpedo boat de-
stroyers are found in large numbers in
every navy except our own. The tend
ency is to increase the number of the
latter since, with added sea going
capacity, they combine many of the
advantages Of the smaller craft. The
little torpedo boats are the wasps of
the sea but a single sting is fatal. Their
work is done by stealth, against ships
at anchor or in battle under cover of
the smoke and confusion of the con-
fiict. Their mission is most danger
GUS one but deadly If successful They
are small, swift, easily handled, un-
armed, except with the torpedoes, and
entirely unarmored. If discovered they
would certainly be sunk under a hail
of rapid-ring missiles against which
they could make no defence. Three or
four would probably attack together,
and If one succeeded the loss of the
others would, from a naval point of
view, be amply compensated. OF those
we have in service the Porter, Ericsson,
Gushing, Winslow, and Dupont are
good examples, but we ought to have
ten times as many. The torpedo de-
stroyer, or torpedo boat catcher, is sim
ply a large sea going torpedo boat with
very much greater speed and an arma-
ment of rapid-fire guns to enable it
successfully to attack and destroy the
small torpedo boat, which 1t is it's mis-
sion to seek out and disable. AT sea it
would act as a torpedo boat. We have
none Of this class In our service as
yet, unless the one purchased abroad
| may rank as such. Their practical util-
| ity in actual warfare has yet to be
demonstrated, hut theoretically they
are most dangerous pppnents.-Henry
w. Raymond in The ChaUtauquan.
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A well-known admiral has asserted
that even with a moderate gale and sea
an armor-plated cruiser, If going
against the wind, will find herself in
conditions similar to those of q storm;
at least the crew will have that impress
sion. The movements of the stern of
the ship are violent and very disagree
able. The waves, pushed by the adj
vancing Prov, sweep continually over
the ship from bow to stern. All win
dows and portfolios must be closed and
the air reaches the lower decks, when
the heat increases unbearably, only
through artificial ventilators. With
the exception of the specially protected
command bridge all the uncovered
portions of the ship are impossible.
Thus the whole crew must bear as we'll
as it can the inferno of the closed
decks. In such a ship no one can feel
comfortable and when there is storm
in which sailing ship would feel COM
paratively at ease the crew of an ar
mor-plated ship imagines itself to be
in a heavy hurricane which threatens
destruction at every minute. The long,
narrow fore part of the ship-which is
not borne lightly by the water and is
rendered extremely heavy by the ram
and the armored deck and the cannon
and the torpedoes-forces the ship in a
high sea to pitchings and rollings which
are Of a kind that cannot be described.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-06

In recent paper by DR.. Dudley A.
Sargent, Of Harvard university, he re-
marks that there is not a movement
made by man to-day that has not been
made by men for ages, but that recent
ly men have not used their muscles,
and have entered on state of deterio-
ration, in cities especially. Artificial
exercise, therefore, Dr. Sargent asserts,
must now be used to train the unused
muscles, and these should be as nearly
as possible like the natural methods
exercise helping the whole body by in
screasing the respiration and quickening
the circulation. The only way, in fact,
by which the downward tendency of
the body, which indicates the approach
Of age, can be arrested is by means of
constant and proper exercise, and the
same means should be practieed to
overcome the common tendency to
droop the head.
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THE PUBLIC

ARE CAUTIONED against spurious waters served out
of refled APOLLINARIS bottles out of bottles
with labels and cork brands resembling those used for
APOLLINARIS.
The imprisonment of Philadelphia offender who was
heavily fined, and the Indictment of one in Chicago,
is assurance that all complaints made to of such illegal
practices will receive vigorous attention
United Agency Company, SOB Fifth Ave-, New York,
Sole Agents of
THE APOLLZWARZS co., LzDy LONDON.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small
advertisements, One Cent Word each In
Aertion Five Cents Word for full week
tseven times).
Display advertisements. per inch. one m,
eertiop, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, ~
cents; one. week, $500; one month. slo
one year, $40. :.
Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. Is
cents per line. Notices Of Births. Mar
riages. Deaths and Funerals. so cents each'
Local Notices 10 cents per line
own immediate business (all matter to be
unobfectionable). and their contracts do NOT
frc'rdo Wants. To Let. For Sale. ere.
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e. v. Smalley, general secretary of
the National Sound Money league, says
that the preliminary arrangements are
now complete for the national currency
convention that is to be held at the
Omaha exposition on the 18th, 18th and
18th Of September next. Leading econ
omists, journalists, bankers and social
reformers representing all sides of the
money question have promised to at
tend, deliver addresses and take part
in the debates.
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FASHION NOTES.
Rarharfc Tendencies.

The long guard chain hangs about
the neck of every other woman, and
it must be confessed that reckless taste
is displayed in this latest fad. The
most elaborate gold affair set thick
with snowy jewels and spaced with
pearls will be worn with a strict tailor
street costume, making bizarre touch
of ornamentation that is positively
savage. 1t suggests the thought that
women would willingly wear the abor-
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VfNPTCITED.

MY wife" said Tangle, sis a mind
reader" PITY my lot" said Jangle;
my wife is mind speaker. Tit Bits.
The War Spirit-Patriotic cub-Papa,
were you born in England? Papa
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Mr.. CT was reading to-day in the
paper that during the last century 100
lakes in Tyrol have disappeared. Mrs.
CT shouldn't wonder bit. You
know these tourists will take away al
most anything they can finfid.-Yonkers
Statesman.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY,
is CENTS A WEEK, so CENTS A MONTH,
So FOR SIX MONTHS, GO A YEAR. The
SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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Go away from home to get the news.
Here is one of the tales about American
customs that find credence in Englan7.
1t is from one of the leading society
weeklies: The professional bridesmaid
is one of the latest transatlantic insti-
buttons, Whether from unwillingness
to incur expense or to receive the cost
Of dress from the brides family, the
young ladies who belong to the creme
de la creme of New York society are
no longer available for this purpose.
Some say they are not invariably UP
to the accepted standard Of beauty. So
it comes about that a good-looking,
graceful girl may earn $50 and all ex-
penses for appearing at one of the
fashionable matrimonial ceremonies Of
Fifth avenue. The other day a fair
bride was followed to church by no
fewer than fifteen hired virgins to bear
her company. An exceptionally charm
ing young lady can command even
bigger remuneration, and one of the
most successful of these feminine acol-
ytes is said to expect at least $100. She
has OBLIGATED on 200 occasions and
saved $4,000, so that her own turn may
come very soon.
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All the canvas factories in the United
States are working double time and yet
cannot supply the demand of Uncle
Sam for material out of which to make
tents.
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The newest wonder in American en-
cheering has just been inaugurated at
Haughton, Michigan, viz, the Red
Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla
tire world. 1t is 1900 feet deep, and,
compared with it, the deep silver mines
of the Comstock lode in Nevada, or the
wonderful mines of Austria, worked for
many centuries past, are but shallow
pits. There are six compartments, each
equal in size to an ordinary mining
shaft, four of these being used for
hoisting rock and lowering timber, one
is used for the ladderways, and the
sixth and last compartment carries the
wires and pipes for telephones, light,
power, water and compressed air. The
underground workings of the shaft are
laid out with mathematical accuracy,
the undertaking course of the copper
bearing lode allowing work to be plan
ned thousands of feet ahead of the min
eraI picks. The great pumps which
free the mine of water are operated in
terehangeably by compressed air and
electricity. The power drills which eat
the holes for the dynamite cartridges
are run by compressed air alone, and
there are more than three hundred of
these drills, each doing the work of a
dozen men, working both day and night.
in the Calumet and Hecla mine.
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1t is announced that the composer of
What a Friend we Have in Jesus has
written music for Remember the
Maine"
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The new form Of judicial oath in
Maryland. which dispenses with the
use Of the Bible, went into effect on
Wednesday.
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THE CARRINGTONP UBLISHINGC co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Mfsee1lameut1s.
ROBERT ~. BURWELL,
UNDERTAKEN
and FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
966 Chapel Street.
Telephone 1911.
CHAS. B. MATTHEWMAN,

Attorney and Counselor at Law,
S14, S15, SOC First National Bank
Building, Az Church Street.
Resident Assistant Secretary and Attorney
Of the NATIONAL SURETY COMPANY (
of New York.
Executes Fidelity and Surety bonds ana
undertakings OF all kinds. 3nM "
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. FOR SALE.

Bailey Trap, Doctors Phaeton, One and
Two Seab Concord Buggies, Runabouts,
Blackboard, Surveys, Democrat Wagons
Top and No-top Carriages, etc.
Aburn, Milburn Olds Studebacker, and
Weber Farm Wagons and Carts, Butcher,
Grocers, Milk and Express Wagons Single
and Double Dump Carts, Ice Wagon, Trucks
and Vans.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN.
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Harness of every description in stock and
made TO order 6
The herald., 1898-02-05

to be operated hereafter as one road,
stretching from New York to Chicago.
In accordance with their plans the Cen
trail directors authorized an issue of
500, 0,000, 900 of 100-year S1s per cent col
lateral gold bonds. Each $1,000 bond is
to be given in exchange for five shares
of Lake Shore stock.
The operation which this announce
ment brings on involves the $49,4665OO
of Lake Shore stock outstanding. The
Vanderbilt holdings constitute con-
siderable majority of the outstanding
stock so that their assent to take bonds
for their shares essentially carried the
operation with it.
REDUCING SHOP FORCES
OMAHA, Feb. Am order reducing
the shop forces between Omaha and Og-
den 10 per cent was issued by the Union
Pacific tonight. Two hundred and sew
enty-five men are dismissed from the
shops at Omaha, Grand Island, North
Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie and
Ogden. One hundred of these come from
Omaha. The officers of the road decline
to say how long the reduction will be in
force. The Omaha shops worked 1000
men forty hours during the present
week.