The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-10

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A Washington paper asserts that
s'the secretary of war has issued Gre
dentials to sixty-nine journalists and
fourteen newspaper men,"
The empress of Germany has made
the remarkable discovery of $50 girls
TO- whom she could give the domestics
golden cross for having lived forty
years in the same family.
The biggest sign in the world is said
TO be, on the hillside of an islet off the
Grand Canary northwest Africa. 1t is
several hundred feet above the level
of the sea and contains the words
sGrand Canary Engineering company
In letters each fifteen feet wide and
thirty feet high, each bar of the letters
being three feet three inches broad.
The sign is 750 feet long.
The city of Cleveland, Ohio, which
pensions it's old and disabled firemen,
has enacted a new law by the terms of
which second wives or the children Of
such will not enjoy the benefits thereof
on the pensioners death. Fire and
Water says mischievous practice has
long obtained in that city, young girls
marrying widowed pensioned firemen
for the sole purpose of receiving the
pension after the firemen's death.
A Berlin beer seller, whose wife re-
Gently died, was present not long ago
at a convivial gathering of widowers,
and mentioned the fact that his wifes
coffin had cost him $50. manufac-
turer of collins, happened to be present,
offered to furnish as good an article
for SIS, and the beer seller at once de-
clared that he would take thousand
collins at that price Not long after
ward the manufacturer sent the collins,
with a bill for $4,000. But the court
has just ruled that the order was given
in fun, and did not constitute valid
contract.
pany in Philadelphia is engaged in bid
A ding for the contracts to be given out
by the quartermaster's department of
the United States army, and the other
day the manager of the concern told his
office boy to look up the proposals ad-
\ vertised in the papers, so that he could
send in a bid The boy got a paper
and looked through it carefully, page
by page, a dozen times. Finally he
went to the manager and showed him
the marriage column, saying: 'I can't
find any proposals advertised, but here
are some marriages; will they dor" The
manager succeeded in recovering in a
short time, and asked the boy what
he meant by that. "Oh," said the lad
II know they publish marriage licenses
granted and marriages, so I thought
they might publish proposals, too.
German military arif hoc
adding up the grand total of the CONT
mental armies and after noting that we
can form only vague idea of what is
meant by tens of millions, he tries to
bring home to his readers in another
way the colossal growth of modern ar
rnaments. If, he says, we could have
all the armies of the continent on a
war footing and drawn UP in one long
procession, with their guns and ammu-
milton and baggage wagons, the column
would be rather more than $4,000 miles
long and, marching day and night, it
would take nearly year to pass a CIV
en- point. To maintain this immense
host costs 100000 per annum, or
$685., 500, 900. 1t is interesting to note
that the capital value of the British
navy at the present time exceeds $470,-
100000 The first cost of the fleet which
led to the downfall of Napoleon was
but $50, 1000, 900. The fleet then comprised
between 4SO and 400 fighting vessels.
A striking feature in the management
of the new underground railroad in
London will be the standardization of
speed. The entire length of the line is
five and one half miles, the transit SER
vice being carried on by thirty-two
trains of seven cars each, the seating
capacity of each train being 1886 passen-
gers; the average speed of the trains
is to be fourteen miles an hour in
GLIDING 20-second stops at each station,
the maximum speed between stations