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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
4 NEJV DISELSE.

Lots of new diseases nowadays. The
 latest was discovered by Philadelphia doctors. They call it the "silk petticoat wrist" and with all kinds of enthusiasm are looking for it's germ. The "silk pet ticoat wrist" as the Record is inform ed, attacks only young women. It is felt as stiffness or cramp in the af- fected part. What causes it is the habit young women have of holding up the skirts of their dresses. Why they do so is not known, for, though the doctors whom they consult always ask them why they seem unable to give any req son. But, as by an odd coincidence they are invariably wearing petticoats of silk when taken sick, that garment has be- come associated with the name of the malady. Young women resent this as- sociation, for it is senseless, they say, and it serves in a manner to reflect on them, but the doctors answer that no reflection is intended. Some specialists hold that there is subtle kinship be- tween the "slk petticoat wrist" and the "ankle cold" The latter disease con- fines itself to young men. It attacks them when, on sitting down, they thoughtlessly pull up their trousers very high, forgetful of the fact that their ex- tremities are thinly clad in low patent leather shoes and very brilliant and ex- pensive silk stockings.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

by the artist. This gown was pale gray albatross cloth, it's underskirt ending in a deep train and it's overskirt of prin- cess cut. The edges of the latter, both top and bottom, were embroidered handsomely with white silk floss. Yoke and collar were tucked white silk head ed with a deep band of black lace, which also furnished unlined sleeves. This was an almost startling use of black, but the rule with the newest combinations of black and white ap- pears to be to make them striking A more subdued, also a more convention al way would be to have the lace in cream shade.
 Some of the very wealthy folk are de- developing a fad for liveried maid ser wants. Already these have displaced some of the men servants of the house. hold, and how many of the liveried chaps must go down before this fancy remains to be seen. There is little dan ger, however that women will be mis- taken for walters as men in evening dress have been in the past The cor rect maid in livery wears black cloth gown, with black silk stripe from elther mp 10 the nem or the Sklrt, an eton jacket with silk faced revers, a white waistcoat, linen and black tie. Another livery is brown cloth, with eton jacket and waistcoat of orange and brown stripe fastening to the chin with little brsss buttons. It doesn't seem as if this could last long, but it appeals to folks who will go to almost any end to be different from what they term the common herd. FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

trial instance the load was twenty-two times the weight of the horse, but it was easily moved with light harness. A road thus constructed consists of two parallel lines of steel plates eight inches wide, laid at a sufficient distance apart to receive the wheels of vehicles of the standard gauge. These plates have a slightly projecting fiange upward on the inner edge, so as to prevent the wheels of ordinary vehicles which have no fanges from easily leaving the track; at the same time. the flanges, being only half an inch in height, are not sufficient to prevent vehicles from leaving the track for the purpose of passing other vehicles whenever the traveller so de- sires. These steel plates are not sup ported by wooden cross ties or longi- tudinal stringers of any kind, but are provided with flanges projecting both downward and upward These hanges are imbedded in the concrete of the roadbed, so as to form substantial part of it, and the steel plates are sup ported at every point by superstruct ure of cement or other enduring mate- rial. Roads of this kind could be used to great advantage by horseless car riages and by bicycles. The cost of constructing short sections of steel track road has been about $1 per foot, but this is held to be much in excess of the necessary cost when built in longer sec- tions The Agricultural department is of the opinion that for a considerable distance roads could be completed in this way at cost of not over $3,000 a mile.
 When Connecticut is fully equipped with "good roads" and steel track wagon roads she will be more camfort- able than she is now.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
AUTOMATIC COTPLERS.
The First Invention, it's Inventor and
 Others in Ruin

The First Invention, it's Inventor and
 Others in Ruiu
 ''The successful fight of the trainmen for automatic couplers reminds me of a curious story,' remarked a delegate to the convention now in progress in this city. The idea of a self-locking coupler suggested itself to inventors many years ago, and away back in 1856 or there abouts a prosperous Kentucky farmer named Mclean figured out device that seemed to fill the bill to a dot. It con- sisted of a pair of interloclling levers, controlled by very simple mechanism. and the model worked like charm. Mclean was satisfied he had a fortune in sight and went north to interview a certain big railroad magnate To his surprise the nlagnato failed to enthusC, and, while he admitted that the inven- ton was good thing, he declined abso- lutely to have anything to do with it. Of course, he was proceeding on the Well-known theory that it Is folly to waste money improving the service when you don't have to, but the farmer couldn't grasp the idea, and he began pilgrimage from one headquarter office to another, appuealing, eXpostulating and explaining the merits of his appara tus. What bewildered him was that everybody freely admitted the utility of the thing, but nobody would consider it's adoption. Finally the war came on, and everything else was swept into the background for four years. After peace was declared Mclean began again, con- tident as ever. He had been worth fifty
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

|
 NO malaria about here, I suppose, ; said the prospective summer boarder. | "Naw," replied the rural landlord. We hain't never had no call fer it, but 1 eff it's to be had down to the village reckon as how we'll git it fer you.'- Chicago News.
 Let me sec" said Dr. Wise, "what is your oCCupation?"
 T am one of the street-eleaning gang sir"
 Tt is as I supposed" said the doctor. You need exercise. It is the way of all persons who follow sedentary employ ment. "-Boston Transcript.
 Miss Vassar-Don't you think Miss Springglove is a charming poetess?
 Uncle Solomon-Oh, yes, a very sweet poetess and her cousin, Miss Chalmers, is charming paintress, and her Aunt Lucrece is an excellent sculptress, ana her mother used to be an excellent dish Washer,-Harlem Life.
 One day Tommy accompanied hls mother on shopping expedition, and, seeing large candy man in confec- toners window, he paused in front or it with a wistful look; then, turning away, respectfully, he said: Mamma, l could lick that fellow with both hands tied behind me. ."--Troy Times,
 Decollete.- had been unable to at tend the ball. and he had gone alone. Naturally she was anxious to khoW something about it.
 You saw Mrs. Wilkins?" she said in- quirinely.
 q did" he answered.
 ''fiow was she dressed?' she asked.
 q saw only Mrs Wilkins" he replied. Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
----------- .. THE OSSIAN MY YSTERY I


 As Hjghlander, MT. Mecneill was no doubt bound by his patriotic sentl- ments to handle the great Osslan con troversy tenderly; but his apology for Macpherson does not carry him 1ur- ther than the opinion that ne was neither absolutely the author nor merely the translator of the poems con- nected with his name. IL ossian however, is in any degree Macpherson 5 manufacture, and the reader IS lett lh the dark as to what is Osslah ana what is Macpherson, is it not clear that the interest of the poems as a relic or ancient literature must be destroyed? !? If is idle to talk of the Gaelic Ossian of 1897" while it is acknowledged that there is nothing exceptionally ancient about that composition. It is enough that it is admitted that no traces were ever found of any ancient manuscripts which Macpherson could have used Tn preparing his publication; though II IS alleged that when, provided with funds by his literary patrons, Macpherson un- dertook his famous journey through the Highlands, he received manu- scripts and took down poetry from the recitation of old people" Obviously the manuscripts, if they were not only man. uscripts, were not more authoritative, and were certainly less interesting than oral traditions which might possibly de- scend from the days of Ossian himself But who were the the old peopleE and why were they not tapped of their copious stories of old Gaelic poetry by the Highland society during their Ia nous investigation? Much vague talk, we know, lies buried in that society's report about "oYal recitation" and Highlanders who could repeat Gaelic poems; but if these gifted persons had been able to give forth even the rough sketch of the Gaelic text-say of Fin gal, an epic in six books, or "Temora," ditto in eight books-is it not certain that we should have them duly taken down and arrested? Scottish credulity about Ossian and his "Epics' must, we fear necessarily have the effect of shaking faith in some portion at least of the literature of the Highlands which furnishes the subject of MT. MacnellPs history.-London Daily News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
MECH4NICIL 1PPL1USI

A German inventor has met a long, felt want He has produced an auto- matic applauder, which initiates exact ly the sound produced when the hands are brought together to express approv- al. It consists of two leather sacks filled with air and brought violently to- gether by the aid of small machine. The machines are placed throughout a theatre and may be manipulated by the stage manager from the wings or con- trolled by persons in the orchestra seats or balcony. The invention is said to have done away entirely with the claque in several foreign theatres. The inventor declines to say in which thea- tres they are used.
 Wonderful. Now let somebody invent something that will shout Speech" until the speech comes, and all will be we'll
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

Tn order to save it's charter rights the Martha's Vineyard (Mass) Street Rall- way company had an old steam rail road baggage-car dragged through the streets of that town by horsepower the other day. The tracks for the electric cars have not been laid, owing to the fact that a location has not yet been agreed upon.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in- sertlon. Five Gents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements. per Inch, one 'n. eertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertions do cents; one week, $3.20; one month, Sl0; one year. $40 .-
 Obituary Notices, In prose or verse. ID cents per line. Notices of Births. Mar Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelr own immediate business (a.i matter to De un0bjectionable). and their contracts do not include Wants To Let. For Sale. etc
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
F.iSHION NOTES.
short Lived Sleeves.

Tight lace sleeves showing the arm through are again being worn. Women will not be pleased who remember when these were worn some years ago, and how easily they Ego" at the elbow, how they are always pulling out under the arms and how they wear out so quickly where the muscle of the arm swells But there! nothing makes q pretty arm look prettier than a close and unornamented sleeve of black lace or net, and nothing makes the skin look so warmly white and smooth. Elbow sleeves of lace wear better, but remem- Der how few women have a pretty forearm and consider yours carefully before adapting that fashion,
 The manner of their use is suggested
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
NEITHER DEAD NOR SLEEPING.

Public interest in education in New Haven isn't dead, and it doesn't even appear to be sleeping. The new board of aldermen promptly and unanimous ly voted last evening to investigate the system of supervisors, and it is ex- pected that the councilmen will do likewise, or near enough likewise to make the investigation sure. When it starts it should be thorough. The peo- pie are willing to pay well for the SUD- port of our magnificent school system, and it is probable that in spite of the impressive fears of the board of educa- tion the high school will not be closed for lack of funds to keep it open But they also want to know that their money is being well spent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06
A zULU'S OBSERVATION IN LON
 DON

Last Sunday the Hulus now appearing at Earps Court were taken out to see the sights of London and the summary of their impressions, given by one who accompanied the party is both enter tainng as well as instructive. The at titude of the savages was not of un- leaVened wonder. They were evidently depressed by the blackness of London. q never dreamed,' said one old man, that any kraal could be so great and beautiful, but it is black-black as night. In the underground city it must be blacker still'--for they Ire convinc- ed from the sight of SO many people descending flights of steps at stations, etc., that there is another and greater London lying beneath its streets. The statues-eXcept one of a MerCury-left them cold, but the lions in Trafalgar Square provoked the comment that it would be useless to face beasts of such proportions. Of the virtues of the po- lice they have evidently already heard. one old Zulu informing his son as they passed Scotland Yard "It is here that the people dwell who know everything. They find that which is lost, and they put bad men in dark holes They are much mightier than our witch-doctors. The picture posters, we learn, caused much waving of sticks and taking of snuff, behavior which we hope may be interpreted as expressing approval of the labors of Richardson Evans.-I.on don Spectator, May 20.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

"All things come round to him who will but wait" The Massachusetts man who peremptorily ordered ex-President Cleveland off of his fishing ground, not knowing who he was said he was l"about even" when he was told who the big man was who was pulling in his trout and who broke down his fences getting out of the preserve" He said that when MT. Cleveland was president he had applied for the position of post master in his town and been refused.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

BALANCING ACCOUNTS after your job money in pocket if you've used B. X K Paints. They're best because they go far thest, stay longest, and cost less in the long run. Isn't that the kind of economy thatil interest you to practice ? THOMPSON SS BELDEN, 396 and 39S State street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

The northern territories of South Aus tralia can now offer a form of sport which, it was thought, ended with the practical extinction of the bison in North America. Over fifty years ago, it seems, some enterprisirp colonists imported from India a, few of these un- gainIy monsters known to Anglo India as r-buffaloes, to serve as blow cattle. In time those colonists forsook their fields and their buffaloes, and the animals, finding the country to their liking, ran wild, throve and multiplied exceedngly--so exceedingly thatthey are now counted by thousands, much to the annoyance of stock-raisers; hence grew up the exciting industry of riding them down on horseback and shooting them for their hides It may not be very paving as a business, but as a. sport it deserves high place, for the buffalo is quick to charge man or horse, and his
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

A new flreproof material has recent ly been devised. It is made of granite chips finely powdered, moulded into form. and then fused together at tenn perature of 5000 degrees Fahr. It has a very high resistance, and is used for insulation on electric railways. It may be heated red hot, and then immersed in cold water without injury, while it will resist the action of both acids and alkalis. It has been found frost-proof by tests with liquid air at tempera- ture of $50 degrees below zero, and it required 56600 volts pressure to pene- trate piece half inch in thickness.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

The English Legitimists announce that there are now living 1,172 persons who are descendants of Mary Stuart. The list of these is contained in the "Kalen
 dar" published by the Legitimists. Of these 1,172 persons no less than 617 have better claims to the throne than Queen Victoria, for the latter enjoys only { parliamentary title," and the Legiti- mists do not recognize ''the people," Queen Victoria is a descendant of Mary Stuart; but inasmuch as she represents the female line and traces back her title through James Is daughter Eliza beth, and holds the throne by virtue of the act of Parliament which excluded the eXiled male line, the Legitimists re. gard her az "usurper."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

A Washington paper has obtained from the postoffice department some cu- rious facts regarding the issue of post age stamps during the last year. Tn 1898 the number of 2-cent stamps issued was about 2,5O0, ,000000. As this stamp is one inch long the entire number placed end to end would reach 39,OOO miles, or once and half around the globe at the equator. During the year enough 1-cent stamps were used to reach from New York city, by way of Europe and Asia, to Bombay in India,
 If all the postage stamps issued by the government in 1898 were placed one above the other they would make pile about twenty-one miles high, the num- Der of all denominations being 9,5GO, 900.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-06

The secretary of the Kansas State Agricultural Society has issued a re- port on the sheep and dog raising indus tries in the Commonwealth. He con- trasts the facts that on the 50,000,000 acres of land in the State, there is but one sheep to each 250 acres, while the number of dogs in the State is 176,0O0. Two years ago the sheep outnumbered the dogs by 30 per cent, while last year this percentage was reduced to 1T. In one county there were 909 dogs to each sheep. He thinks both sheep and dogs have their places, but deplores the pres- ent condition He notes that the dog crop is exempt from the vicissitudes of other industries and that neither the tariff nor free trade seems to affect it.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04

transmission of death through the mail
| was a comparatively easy matter.
SOUNDS THAT ARE FELT.

The deepest note that can be heard
by the human ear is produced by an
pipe so feet long. When the air-ripples
are in quite regular proportion of s. 16 and
% per second the results are perfect mu-
steal notes.
The t%hirty-two foot pipe produces 16
vibrations per second. When the Dead
March in SAUL is played on a huge Ca
thcdral organ this note from the thirty
two-foot-pipe is distinctly heard, shaking
the building, it would seem, to it's very
foundations. Were the pipe one inch long
cr the sound could not be heard.
The thunder of Niagara, which is MOTH
ing but an organ pipe 167 feet high, pro-
duCes a note such as would issue from a
wooden pipe of 100 feet. This, of course,
cannot be heard. But you can feel the
beat of the note upon your ear drum. Ii
is at the rate Of eight vibrations per Sec
ond. Even this was surpassed by the
sound made when the volcano of Krato-
koa blew up. Delicate meteorological in
struments in the great observatories all
over the world registered a sound in
which the vibrations were only four per
second. SO far as is known to mortal ear
at any distance, could be heard this
sound.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04

the Mamma of St. Nicholas de Bari, the
Installations with which they 50 success
fully summoned death to relieve them Of
such persons as We're Objectionable to
them.
The stories of the subtle use Of such
preparations by the Borgias; or Of
Nine. de Brinviliiers' experiments upon
the patients in the hospitals are typical
of the age when women poisoned as they
smiled, but they do not prove that the
present day criminal is any less dcft in
the handling of these mysterious destroy
ers of life.
The secret prisoners of the fifteenth
century were skillful without a doubt
and when they surrounded their work
with a certain air of mystery that was
made possible by the conditions of the
times, but the prisoners Of the nine
teenth century administer their drugs
even moe cleverly. And the fact that we
have no Voisins and FIlastis to make a
business of poisoning people by the whole
sale for hire is due to our modern methods
of detection of crime which make such a
trade impossible.
Nevertheless we lave as artistic pois-
oners today and they have found in the
mail one Of the most adroit methods of
administering death to the unfortunate
victim of their arts.
The poisoning of Mrs. Kate j. Adams,
a few days ago, in New York was a strili-
ing illustration of the power of poisons
and with its predecessor-the Botkin
case of California-furnishes ample evil
dence on which to base the assertion that
the secret poisoncr is not alone a fifteenth
century institution.
The poisoning of Mrs. Adams and the
killing of Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Deane,
the crime for which Mrs. Cordelia A. Bot
kin is now serving a life sentence III Cali
fornia. were strangely analogous. In
each instance the po'soner sent the death
dealing drug under the guisc of a friend
ly gift and in each Instance the poisoner
concealed identity by making use Of the
United States mail.
The box of poisoned chocolates with
which Mrs. Botkin proposed to take the
life of the wife of the man she loved was
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04
MEND YOUR BIRDS LEGS.

Your chickens and other birds fire.
quently break The bones Of their legs,
and, if properly attended to, these frac-
lures can be easily cured with very little
trouble. AS soon as the injury is no.
ticed the fracture must be carefully
cleaned and washed with warm water,
and then wrapped with a bit of antiseptic
cotton. Splints are then prepared for the
fractured limb, preferably Of split elder
wood, the pith of which is taken out.
These splints are fastened to the cotton
with a drop of glue, and held tightly in
place by being wound with linen thread.
The bandage and dressing are left un-
disturbed for from three to four weeks;
then the leg is soaked in tepid water
until the bandage comes off easily. The
fracture will have completely healed in
that time. Canaries and other pet birds
can be similarly treated in case of a
fracture of a leg, only the elder splints
are substituted by pieces of cardboard,
and the bandage is left but two weeks
on the little winged patients.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-04

Successful as they were in making the
government furnish the facilities for their
crime neither Mrs. Botkin nor the MUIR
derer of Mrs. Adams can claim any orr
iginality in the dispatching of death
through the mail.
Nearly eight years ago a Providence,
r. l., physician made use of this same
method of accomplishing a murder and
so successful was he that it was only
with the greatest difficulty that the
crime was traced to him. The murders
that have attracted so much attention
during the past few weeks and the killing
of Mrs. Josephine A. Barnaby by DR.. r.
Thatcher Graves We're so similar that it is
strange that they have not recalled the
famous old case to public notice. Eight
years ago the mysterious poisoning was
the chief topic of interest and the phrase
Death IN the mall was on every tongue.