The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-13

Ohio.
Artificial legs have been made in Ger
many in such a way that those who are
obliged to use them can ride bicycles.
Yankee advertising agents are enter
prising, but they are behind the times
4 compared with the English advertising
firm which wants to board in the banks
OF the Suez canal and decorate them
with advertisements.
There is a story that when the Viz
caya's officers were in New York buy
ing supplies, they asked the dealers to
raise the prices on the bills, in order
that they might pocket the difference,
and everybody seems to think it was
quite Spanish.
The Sussnan electric miners lamp,
recently tried with success in Belgium,
consists Of a small accumulation of two
\ cells, with an incandescent lamp at
tached. 1t burns for twelve to sixteen
hours and gives a light from two and
a half to five times brighter than the
ordinary miners lamp. It keeps alight
+ In any position and is not extinguished
by current of air or an explosion.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
I remarks that any one who studies the
naval policy Of Spain will learn that
from times Of old until now the mass
ing Of her fleets has been her habit.
The great Armada against England,
which came to such woeful end, was not
4 the beginning of that habit, but was
only an instance of it, An unlearning
and an unchanging nation, Spain keeps
to the habit to-day.
The deserted city hall in Worcester,
4 Massachusetts,, has been sold at auc-
\ tion to the highest bidder for the
rnunificent sum of $50. The first offer
was only $40, and it was impossible to
get more than the former price from
anybody in the large crowd collected
4 to witness the disposal of the historical
building. The structure is plain one
Of wood. with a clock tower and I'M
adorned Grecian pillars. The city de-
clined to sell either the clock or the
stone UNDERMINING, and the wooden
shell did not appeal to many investors.
The Worcester Spy thinks it is easier
to find uses for ex-presidents than for
an ex-city hall.
Cooperation and debt-raising has
been undertaken by the Methodist
churches in Milwaukee. The indebted
ness of the five churches ranges from
$4,000 to $4,000, the total being about
$4,000. The suggestion to pool it came
from Edward KfYnba11, for many years
a Methodist church worker in this line,
and who is credited with being largely
instrumental in the wiping out of some
$15,000,000 of church indebtedness The
work in Milwaukee has been placed in
three representatives from each church
and headed by j. III. Van Dyke, who
has made many large contributions to
the local churches. The churches have
no difference in Standing in the enter
prise, because of inequalities in the
amount of debt, and church jealousies
according to a local paper, are lost in
the financial merger.
In recent Georgia case the n1ajori-
ty Of the court held a barber liable for
hat taken from the rack while it's
owner was being shaved. Chief Justice
Bleckley dissented: "It hath never
happened from the earliest times to
the present that BARRIERS, who are an
ancient order of small craftsmen. serv-
ing their customers for a small fee and
entertaining them the while with the
small gossip of the town or village,
nave Deeu ielu TSSpOuSlple LOT MIS-
take made by one customer whereby
he taketh the hat of another from the
common rack or hanging place appoint
ed for all customers to hang their hats.
There is no complete bailment of the
hat, the barber has no exclusive Gus
tody thereof, and the fee for shaving
is too small to compensate him for
keeping a servant to watch it. He him
self could not watch it and at the
same time shave the owner, while the
loss of one hat would absorb his earn
ings for a whole day, perhaps for many
days"
ssSo IaoRfs affair with fhe elderly