The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-04


own immediate business TALL matter to De
1nobie ctionabe). and their contracts do not
srrlndo Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
A New Zealand inventor has bicycle
which is fitted with row of small
pumps around the rim of each wheel,
the pistons running on the ground to
compress air which is designed to be
stored in the frame and used to propel
the wheels.
Charles Lozano of Washington has
just brought suit for Islander against
Adolph Lichtenstein for ten thousand
dollars damages for SANDER and
against Mrs. Jane Tribbey for the
same sum. Lozano charges that each
Of the defendants has called him a
Spaniard and seriously injured his
trade. He has good case, as he was
born in the United States of American
parents.
The Green Mountain boys are all
right, including Rear Admiral Dewey.
IA young Vermonter who wanted to join
the army was rejected because it was
found that the second toe on each of
his feet overlapped the big toe. Asking
If he would be accepted should he sub
NIT to the amputation of the interior
ing toes, he received an affirmative re-
ply. Accordingly those toes We're cut
off and the patriotic youth is now with
his regiment.
According to the treasury statement,
the expenditures for May were $47, S49,-
T 900, and the receipts $30,O74,S16, showing
deficit Of $17,775, 091. This result is
attributable wholly to the war, as is
\ also the increase of s19,341, 900 in the net
debt Of the nation. The revenue has
been nearly 100000 more than for May
of last year, in spite Of the Interrupt
ton of trade, and the receipts have
ness day, which would give gross an
nual revenue of 1857 100000. This would
amply support the government upon a
< peace basis.
A recent dynamite explosion in a
Kursk (Russia) monastery turns out to
have been the work of the ingenious
monks themselves who took that
means of attracting attention to the
miraculous powers Of their image of
the Virgin. The image was removed
to place of safety before the dyna-
mite was fired, and then put back so
that while the walls of the building
were shattered the image was unhurt
Crowds Of pilgrims were attracted to
the monastery by the miracle, but the
government has put the monks under
arrest.
The most priceless possession of
Spain, writes ex-Minister Taylor, ''is
Maria Christina, because she alone bars
the door to the renewal of the civil
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destructive to the country. In this dark
hour of Spain's misfortune her purely
womanly character shines forth like a
light in dark place, around which all
patriotic Spaniards should gather. If
monarchial institutions survive, her
overthrow means the accession of Don
Carlos, who, apart from his utter and
admitted worthlessness as a man, rep
resents a set of medieval ideas and
aspirations that would set Spain far
into the past-at least a century"
A st. Paul man has concocted a plan
whereby the people of ST. Paul and
gence Of the Thirteenth Minnesota regi-
ment during its stay in the Philippines.
There are a great many relatives of
our soldier boys living in the twin
cities, and they want better commune
cation with the absent ones than is
offered by the ordinary methods. The
ScHGulG Is 10 IOfIu dl dSSOCldllOH WHICH
shall subscribe to a common fund to
defray the expense of a ten-word
cablegram from Manila every week A
good deal can be said in ten-word
message by using the cipher code, and,
as the cost is only about $25, the ex-
pense to any individual subscriber
would be very light.
That is useful work which the Wis
consin Free Library commission has
undertaken. Travelling libraries are
fostered in that State as nowhere else,
and those in charge of that service
have conceived of the good idea of ex-
tending it for the benefit of the soldiers
of the State who have gone to the war
Time hangs heavily on the hands of
the soldiers when all the stories have
become "twice-told tales" and a limit
even to cards and tobacco has been
found. To enliyen the unoecupied