The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-22

It Is claimed for a young woman clerk
In Philadelphia book store that in the
thousands Of books there on sale she
IS able to place any sentence on any
subject asked for, telling without hesi-
tation where it is to be found. And Oh,
what whopper!
They are talking about short sessions
bf the legislatures of New York and
New Jersey The Philadelphia Press,
which has had experience Of what long
sessions may bring to pass in it's own
State, thinks there is not State in the
Union In which all legitimate legisla-
tive business cannot be transacted in
three months or less.
In Prussia during the last seventy
years IS, $685. 1852 children have been born;
these include ee6,S31 pairs Of twins, 7,7s1
sets Of trip1ets, 106 cases Of four chill
dren at one birth, and three instances
of five. The Prussian statistics are
carefully kept, so that the figures Civ
en- afford some ground for the computa-
tion Of domestic possibilities.
IA bronze arquebus fished out of Brest
harbor during recent dredging opera
tions was in perfect state of preserva-
tion, though it had lain in the water
for over three hundred years. The
metal was corroded chiefly on the side
touching the bottom. Cast iron can
non balls immersed for two hundred
ana forty years were found to be 50
soft that they could be cut with
knife. The wrought iron objects found,
though much rusted, preserved core
of sound metal.
u One Of the bugbears of the travelling
woman in late years has been the sub
stitution Of electricity for gas in hotel
bedrooms. The incandescent film gives
q good enough light, but it has the
very serious drawback that 1t is abso-
Iuely useless for the purpose of heating
scurling-iro There are few women
who do not use the irons on few stray
locks, but in these electricity-lighted
hotels the fair stranger in a strange
land Is sadly at a loss unless she has
brought along the necessary apparatus
Tor supplying an alcohol flame and the
chances are ten to one that she has not.
However, the last new palatial hosiery
In New York has had her plight in
mind and has remedied it with an cleo
trio curling-iro heater. This is sim
pie hole in the wall in which the irons
are inserted. The introduction of the
irons turns on the current and in a
couple Of minutes the curriers' are heated
to Just the right temperature.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the Italian now
elist and dramatist, hopes to bring
about the erection of a theatre, built
after the style of the ancient classical
theatres, to stand on the shores of the
lake of Albano, near Rome. He ex-
poets it to be opened in the spring of
1899, and has at his disposition, so he
says, money enough-3,00O, 900 or 1000.
900 francs-to carry out the project.
It is to be open two months of the year
only. In it he desires to produce TRACE
I dies in which an absolutely modern in
SEPARATION will be paired with purity of
form worthy of the best days of Ath-
ems. Music is not to be excluded from
these productions; like the dance, il
will serve to adorn the works that will
be chosen and to heighten their mean.
ing. Mr.. d'Annunzio proposes to leave
the freest hand to the authors and their
interpreters. "Whoever has a fine idea
and the power of expressing it in &C.
cordance with Graeco-Italian ideas Of
beauty may obtain the SURFACES of this
new city of life," he says. Besides
tragedies, eclogues, pastorales an6
satfrical dramas will be performed
French plays may be done in French
and italian. Nine. Sarah Bernhard
will be invited to give several perform
ances. Mr.. d'AnnunZio himself is nov
working on adaptations of ''Antigone'
and "Agamemnon," which will be giver
in the theatre. Finally, it is ALREADY
announced that the first work to b,
performed will be Mr.. d'Annunzio'
Dead City," played by Nine. Duse.
The question Of the pauperization Of
the community through free medica