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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
TNCERTAIN.

His Lordship (after heated discus
sion)-"What do you suppose I'm on the
bench for?" Smart Counsel-"Ah my
lord, you have me there''-Tit- Bits.
MRS. Strucket affects the antique in
her house decorations" Yes, she
told me she couldn't get the shades of
her ancestors for her parlor windows"
Truth.
Patrice-'I don't think you will find
another husband like mine in the whole
world" Patience-"The world must be
getting better, then, h-Yonkers States
man.
Bride Counting your change,
George? 1t has been an expensive trip,
hasn't it?" George-"That's right. 1t
looks as if this honeymoon would soon
be on it's last quarter."-Puck.
THE self-made man." remarked the
observer of men and things, would give
more general satisfaction, doubtless, if
he tried himself on time or two before
he was done. Detroit Journal.
"a man in Birmingham has got him
self into trouble by marrying two
wives" THAT is nothing. Many
man in this town has got into sufficient
trouble through marrying only one y
Tit-Bits.
ELLA, you have been playing all the
afternoon with these toy soldiers. That's
not proper amusement for a big girl
like you," said her mother. But, MAN.
ma, 1 am not playing with the soldiers.
picked out the officers and played with
them. '-Tit-Bits.
1T is very nice in your wife to buy
cigars for you," remarked one man.
Yes" replied the other, after some re-
| Fiction; cts a delicate and considerate
way of keeping me from spelling her
lace curtains with tobacco smoke
| Washington Star
Three different walters al a hotel ask
| ed a prim, precise little professor at
| dinner if he would have soup. little
annoyed, he said to the last waiter who
F, asked the question, "Is it compulsory"
| mo, sir" said the waiter; 81 think it's
mock turtle. Tit Bits
Partial Diagnosis.-"what's the mat
| ter with him, doctor?" asked the wor-
ried father. The young physician took
| another look at the boys tongue, felt
his pulse again, noted his temperature,
| and proceeded to pour out some medi-
cine. 1--WE forgotten the technical
name for it, he replied But it ends
in tits I'll fetch him out of it all
right. Chicago Tribune.
The Liberal Movement-"No, sab"
continued Deacon Jones, chairman of
the committee on church discipline,
waving the new pastor to silence. eve
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
A TRAGIC RECORD.

Last year did not prove to be Happy
New Year to all who entered it with
the hope and the wish that it might be-
The record kept by the Chicago Tribune
shows the number Of suicides through
out the country during the year as
$500, which is large increase over the
record Of previous years. The list in
cludes actors, lawyers, editors, business
men and elergymen, but physicians are
the most numerous, as in years past.
Dependency is given as the motive for
nearly one-half of these tragedies, while
disappointed love figures as an impor-
tant factor In the remainder. Poison
still remains the favor route out of the
world, 1854 having chosen that method
of Kidding themselves of life; 2,136 shot
themselves, $40 preferred hanging, SOC
thought drowning easier, and 357 cut
their throats. The others sought death
in front of a locomotive, threw them
selves from windows or roofs stabbed,
burned or starved themselves or blew
themselves up with dynamite Suicide
appears to be a greater favorite with
men than with women, as last years
list included 5,186 of the former and
1,414 of the latter.
Sad and solemn figures. Let us hope
that the wretched ones found death
more bearahle than the life they could
not endure.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
A CoLLEGE-BRED PORTER.

A well-known Utica lawyer told a
good story the other night, as follows:
II was in Cincinnati two years ago last
summer, and desiring to come east l
entered sleeping-car. The only berth
could get was the end one on the left
hand side. Presently my attention was
attracted to the porter, who was a big
numbering, shutting negro, SO black
that the ace of spades would have made
white mark on his skin. He was
making up the berths, with phenomenal
awkwardness, and as mine was the last
had abundant opportunity to watch
him. Finally as he approached me /
was moved to remark: You don't seem
to be very sl1ilful in that line OF BUSH
ness No, sir" he answered with a
grin, this is my first week of work
What did you do before@ I asked
Well he answered modestly I am a
senior in Harvard college, and I'm try
ing to pick up something during vaca-
ton "A senior at Harvard" I ex-
claimed, and what did you elect to take
for your closing year?" 1 chose a
course in Political Economy and Adj
vanced Philosophy and Biology said
the negro porter. Put it there said
the lawyer, stretching out his hand.
i am graduate of Harvard myself,
and l am proud to meet YOU So We
sat and talked for time and then |
| tumbled into bed. When awoke in the
morning I was troubled in my mind as
| to whether I should offer a quarter to
| this Harvard scholar to the possible
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
FASHION NOTES.

Contracted Standards for Wells and Hats.
Big dot wells are avoided except by
women who deliberately dress showily
Even heavy mesh is voted vulgar The
correct veil of the moment is one OF
fine mesh, either without dots or with
a tiny sprinkling of them. Black and
brown are the only colors worn, and all
fancy wells are voted impossible. The
real lace veil Is not worn over the face,
This winter if you have real lace veil
it may be draped about the hat brim.
While the rulings in wells tend toward
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

quietness and simplicity there is more
than an offset in the details permitted
atop hats. Nightmare birds perch there
in impossible attitudes, and It's all
right, even has a fashionable 20. X"
when the weird fowl spreads all over
the top OF the hat as in this picture
1t doesn't seem possible that such milli-
merry can last long, but It's entirely cor
rect just now. Besides Its distressed
and distressing owl, this hat was
trimmed with pink velvet, this last and
its material-gray felt-matching it
with the pictured dress, This was of
pale gray cloth for the skirt and Of the
same shade of silk hrocaded with pale
pink roses and foliage for tho pretty
jacket bodice. This was sIashed across
the front, white chiffon ruffies pushing
out and the edges of the slashes were
piped with pink velvet, Belt stock col,
lar and revers were pink velvet, and the
chemisette was white chiffon finished
with a lace jabot
The really swell tie is still the velvet
one. mirror velvet, with ends widened
a little and finished with knotted fringe
of the same color as the scarf. Such a
tie is worn either inside or outside the
street cloak, and is tied with one loop,
one end longer than the other. A most
| unbecoming pale amethyst color Is Of
ten seen, though white, black and the
new orange are offered. Such tie is
suited to young matron than to girl,
but girls wear whatever they please
these days, and when not denied point
lace, diamonds and silk velvet, why
call halt at fringed mirror scarfs?
FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
a Mayor ON THE nreHr TRACK.

4 MAYOR ON THE KIGHT TRACK.
Mayor Quincy Of Boston said several
good things in his inaugural address,
For instance, he announced that he
should not run again for office. II say
this" he added, "in order that it may
be clearly understood that have no
other aim during the coming two years
than to serve the interests of this city,
and to utilize all Of my strength and all
of my powers for the advancement Of
Boston and the improvement Of It's gov
ernment,"
This is cheering talk for Boston. A
mayor who has at least one eye on a
reelection is more apt to do things for
himself than for his city. Unfortunate
ly it is not the general belief among
mayors that the best way to get re-
elected is to do public duty without re-
gard to politics. And unfortunately the
general belief of mayors concerning the
best way to get reelected is too we'll
founded on facts, But a mayor who
does not want to be reelected can pur-
sue the path of duty without wavering
or turning. He may not find that path
the way to glory, but there is some sat
isfaction for him and some benefit for
the public in 1t.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

be impossible to gather it in such guam
titles as would be necessary for the
feeding of Ave hundred deer in trans
portation from Norway to Alaska The
deer themselves seemed to know how
to gather it better than human beings,
He believes that IL five hundred rein
deer should be shipped from Norway 1t
would be impossible to keep more than
a small percentage of them alive until
Alaska should be reached,
If Nansen is right very expensive
and ill-considered job has been under
taken, Time will tell.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent a Word each IN
sertiou. Five Cents Word for full week
(seyen times). .
Display advertisements, per inch, one IN n
Scrtion, $1.20; each subsequent insertiohs A.
cents; one week, $500; one month, Slo;
One year, $40. -
Obituary Notices. In prose or verse, 10
cents per line. Notices Of Births, MAI
Local Notices Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to theil
own immediate business (all matter 10 DC
unobjectionable) and their contracts GO MOI
include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

The invalid pension act of 1890 is con-
denned by Encampment No. / Of the
Union Veteran Legion of Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania, whose membership Is
made up of over one thousand soldiers
who served, on the average, over three
years and two months in the civil war.
They ought to be able to speak with
authority.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06
Al Chicago court has given a decision
that poetry is worth twenty cents line.

An attempt has been made in Paris
to discourage murder as business by
showing that it does not pay. Out Of
the twenty-one recent murders the ay-
erage profit to each assassin was $16.S7,
and in many of these cases the muir
derer was caught and executed.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

ADULTERATING MOLASsEs.
The complaint in New York is that
the adulteration Of molasses is so over
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

DELIVERED By CARRIERS in THE CITY. 10
CENTS A WEEK. GENTS A MONTH. $s FOR
SIX MONTHS, 81 A YEAR. The SAME TERMS
BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

Y There is Society in Wichita, Kansas,
too. Here is a Society note from the
Wichita Eagle: Mrs. Horwortle's par
ty Friday evening was great success.
The large pearl-handled knives which
were used at the luncheon belonged to
Mrs. Hardin, Mrs. Horwortle's neigh
Dor. The silver spoons Mrs. Horwortle
borrowed from Mrs. Grandther.''
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-06

THE CARRINGTONP UBLISHINGC co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET..
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

at not less than $500, ,000, 900 n year, 10
which must be added another 81 900,
10000 for drinks, making the total for
food and drink more than could be pur.
chased by the entire gold supply Of the
world. or this expenditure, roughly,
81 900, 100000 goes for meat and fish,
500 100000 for eggs and dairy pro-
duets. $500000.000 for wheat and other
grains. an equal amount for fruits and
sugar, and S300,000,0O0 for vegetables.
The 10000, 100000 pounds of food con,
sumed Is about | 200 pounds year for
each person. On a fair average the
Americans may be considered a we'll
fed people. The statement In billions of
pounds of the food consumed by the ma.
| ton is impressive, but far less so than
! If one could actually see these enormous
quantities. As an aid in measuring one
days food Of the American people. i'm
| agine that giant 1000 feet tall were
to land on this continent from distant
planet. Larger by far than the most
famous giants found by Gulllrer in the
| land of the Brobdlngnag, this monster
would tower four times as high as tho
Washington monument.
Taking a seat on the Chicago Masonic
Temple roof, suppose he were to call
upon the nations 10 supply him with
! food. He would need an amount equal
to that consumed by 73,000,000 people.
Set his daily supply before him and see
what it would be- On a bread plate
! half as big as city block would rest
loaf of bread 800 feet long and half
as broad. Beside It would stand a pie
as large rs gas house. From saucer
the size of q tugboat he would sip his
oatmeal, with Il spoon whose bowl
would hold a trolley car. A smoking
| piece of beefsteak would be twenty i've
feet thick and extend over an area
equal to ten city lots; covered dish
contains three mammoth white pota-
toes and a sweet potato, each 100 feet
long. His pat of butter would measure
100 feet in diameter. BY his side is a
glass of milk as large as the tower OF
the North Side water works, an egg 100
| feet long, an apple of equal height and
600-foot cube of sugar, making ur
most of the days food
But this giant does not forget to ask
/ for drink. Besides two or three glasses
of water, each the height of a tall Office
building, he drinks half the beer from q
bottle which towers above twenty
story structure, takes sip of wine and
two (gianD fingers Of whisky. A nam
moth cup of coffee and another nearly
as large of tea are disposed of during
the day. Yet all this food and drink
represents only the quantities of thes,
articles that disappear down the throat,
of the American people every twenty
| four hours.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

900 bushels of buckwheat enter each
year into the composition of American
pancakes. The exact amount of these
various grains used directly for human
food cannot be determined, but proba'
bly, another 100000 pounds must be
added TO the wheat -four, making total
of 20,0O0. 900, 900 pounds used each year
as food. Large as this seems In the ag-
gregate. 1t Is less than three-quarters
Of n pound day to each person-not a
very ample meal in itself, but quite suf-
ticlent when taken with the abundant
varieties OF other foods
Look at the enormous quantity of 9th
er favorite American food products.
The average potato crop In recent years
has been about 225, 100000 bushels
Some 46.000,000 bushels of sweet pota-
toes are raised for the annual consump-
tion. The yield of peas IL 5000, 200
bushels. of beans 100000, and of
bushels Of Spanish and Bermuda onions
are imported each year. Half of the
300,000,000 pounds of rice used during
the year comes from other countries.
The consumption of sugar reaches the
astonishing total of $500, 1000, 900
pounds, but only one-eighth OF this Is
raised at home. Dairy products play a
most important part in the food supply.
To spread the bread, make the pies and
concoct other appetizing dainties re-.
quires all annual supply of not less than
| $3.50, ,O00, 900 pounds of butter. Cheese
is used 10 the extent of 100000, 900
pounds yearly. Made into one gigantic
cheese it would measure $50 feet in dl-
ameter and half as many feet In height.
The milk supply amounts TO no less
than 7000,000000 quarts annually, yet
this is only half pint a day to each
person or this supply of milk Chicago
takes 46,000,000 quarts and greater New
York e34 900 900 quarts. Then there are
the eggs, of which s50,OO0,O00 dozen
are used each year. Placed end to end
they would grdle the world twelve
times at the equator. But the egg sup
ply Is not excessive, since it allows less
than three eggs week to each person.
No people in the world eat as much
meat as the Americans. The Secretary
of Agriculture places the annual meat
bill at $900,000000. Figures can only
be approximate, yet fair estimate
places the beef consumed at 5,000,000
600 pounds, pork at 4,000,000,000 and
mutton at S0O,000,000 pounds. With
poultry and game the total meat eaten
annually cannot be less than 10000, ,000,-
900 pounds, which is nearly two pounds
day for each family Of FIVE persons.
The exports of meat products are enor-
| nous. *.
Then there Is the drink question. Last
wear Americans drank 100000, 900 gal.
Ions Of coffee and 1,100,000,000 gallons
of tea. To these must be added beer
1 200, 10000 gallons, wines 25,000,000
land distilled spirits, such as whisky
brandy and rum, 00,000,000 gallons
This gives a grand total of over 5000,
OOO, 900 gallons, or about forty eight gal
Ions for each man, woman and child
II YOU add the cocoa, soft" drinks, min
eral waters, etc, the total. not including
plain water used for drinking purposes
/ is easily swelled to 1000, 900, 900 gallons
or more than q gallon a person per weei
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

use corn almost exclusively In prefer
enee to wheat -four.
OF the other grains which are partly
used for food there is the oat crop, aver,
aging 700,000,000 bushels, most of
which remains in this country. Then
there is the barley crop of some 10000
600 bushels. Aud the usual yield Of rye
yearly is 5000, 900 bushels, very little OF
which is exported But barley and rye
are largely reduced to fluid fprm be
fore the American consents 10 take
them into his stomach. Some 10000
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

w,,h Hall which cannot beequalled in South
,.a.,aTn Nevada . For rterifs Theatrical Mala'
sers viii address the Proprietor
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30
Brain Worthy OF Him.

Prince Blsmarck's brain, according
to the fattering estimate OF the an.
thropologlst Otto Ammon, was proba.
bly, the heaviest known TO anatomical
science.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

When a married man gets sick, his
mother is an exception among women
II she doesn't lay 1t to her daughter-in.
laws cooking.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30
Vast Food Consum m ption.

All told, the consumption OF solid food
by this one nation during the year
amounts in its raw state 10 some 9o,-
600 900, 900 pounds, or little more than
three pounds a day for each person.
This means that the people ent their
own weight of food about once in each
month. The total cost must be placed
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

Some men become crooked In trying
TO make both ends meet.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30

of liquids other than clear water. On
the average a person drinks his own
weight of these drinks every three
months.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1898-11-30
TF the strength of country be /,

TF the strength OF country be
measured by the abundance aud
L nutrltive value of It's food, then the
United States stands easily at the head
of the dominant nations of the world
Not only can the farmers. the meadows
and the orchards supply the needs OF
our own citizens, but there Is left an
immense surplus TO be shipped TO other
countries.
Take wheat, for example, one of the
leading staples. During the past ten
years the nations wheat crop has ay-
eraged about 465, 600, 600 bushels rang
ing from less than 400,0000O0 bushels
In 1893 TO over 600,000000 two years
earlier The average yearly exports of
this wheat for the same decade were
lac, 100000 bushels, leaving 325,000,WO
for home consumption. Excluding the
wheat used for seed and for purposes
other than human food. the present con
sumption Is estimated TO be little less
than one barrel of -four per capita, or
10000, 900 barrels for the nearly -15, co.,
900 population. That means an annual
consumption of II, 900, ,000, 900 pounds of
tlour-a bulk which, put into Il single
receptacle. would require barrel twice
the height of Washington monument
and correspondlngly big in clrcumfer-
ence. Were all this -four made into
bread 1t would yield 10000, 100000
pound loaves. Reversing the metaphor
of the sermon on the mount and giving
bread for n stone" these loayes would
pave a roadway 36 feet wide and ex-
tending around tho world. II bakery
wagons were loaded each with 1000 or
the loaves. 20,00OO00 would be ueeded
TO move the bread. They would make
II procession over 10000 miles long OF
1S abreast from ocean to ocean. or
course, not all the Hour Is made into
bread. since millions of pies, cakes and
other products of the cooks art come
from these 70,0O0,000 -four barrels.
Last year the farms of the country
raised wheat sufficient to supply this
enormous demand at home. besides
sending 143,OOO,000 bushels to other
countries. or this export two thirds
went to Great Britain and less than n
tenth to the rest of Europe. Six bush
els in 100 went TO our nelghb0r on the
north and nine more to the other Amer
lean countries. Australia and Asia took
! 10000, 900 bushels and Africa 100000
bushels. But unless the nations farms
Yield larger wheat crop less will be
exported In the future. At the present
rate Of consumption the increased popu-
lation will demand the entire product
In another decade.
The American Corn Crop.
But. while wheat Is the staple, Amerl-
cans do not live by bread alone. The
corn crop Is about four. times as large
as that of wheat, and about 1,700000,-
600 bushels remain for consumption in
our own country. But only fraction
of this reaches the stomach of man di-
rect For the most part 1t Is taken In
the pork, beef, milk, butter, eggs and
other products of animals that fatten
on It's substance. In recent years, ap-
parently. the direct use OF corn for
mans food Is increasing In the form OF
..mixed" -four, patent food preparations,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-07-15

Madrid, July ia Royal decree
waa published today suspending
throughout Spain the rights OF iudi-
yiduals as guaranteed in the cOnsti-
tuition. The decree IL accepted here
as Il proof that Spain is ready to sue
for peace. Sagasta rays that SPAN
wants peace. but it must he nm hon
orable peace.
Washington, July lj.-1he Presi-
dent says he hopes for mn carly peace
now.
The War Department says there
we're % new caa"s Of yellow fever and
deaths at Siboney within the last
81 hours. The type Of the disease il
mild.
Portsmouth, July l5.-Tho liar.
ward has arrived with 1000 Spanish
prisoners. An examination showed
that more than half Of them were
sick.
Washington, July lh-General
Miles cables tlnt the Commissioners
on the part ~ the United States to
arrange the terms OF surrender. Gen.
eral Wheeler and Lawton and Lieu.
tenant Miley, met the Spanish Com.
missioncrs until II late hour yea.
terdny and resumed the meeting this
morning. rlle details will be lin.
nished today.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-07-15
United states GrnIn Crop.

Tho monthly statement Of the grain
condition Of the United Statcs by the
Bureau az Agriculture shows TINT the
winter wheat average was SJ.T or 81
points lower than Mt the same time
Inst month, but 10 points higher than
Tint OF tho corresponding time last
year. and i3 points higher than the
average for the pnst ten ycnra. Aver.
age in principal States ia M follows:
Pennsylvania 81. Michigan %. Mary
land SO, Indinnna 81. Tcnncaecc so.
Illinois GG, Kentucky 81. Missouri Gs.
OHIO 80, Kansas 80, California 10.
Average Of spring wheat ia %. or 38
points above the corresponding date
Inst year md 60 points above tho
average Of the last ten years. 1t 10
the best July report except two in
thirteen years. State averages are:
Minnesota 81, South Dakota 50,
North Dakota J2. Iowa 81, Nebraska
l02. Washington 100, Oregon 10l.
Spring and winter wheat combined
average is Sal, or - points above
that OF the came time in 1897 and q
points above that OF 1890.