The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-30

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New York's Dewey arch is just like
that of Titus at Rome, which was erect
ed about two thousand years ago. 1t is
therefore practically a new production
to this generation.
womans university is to be estab-
ity Of wealthy Russian engineer, who
recently gave 100000 toward the foun-
dalton Of the institution.
]. Endicott of Auckland, New Zealand,
claims to have invented an electric can
non which is noseless and smokeless.
The weapon is five feet in circumfer-
ence and will carry five miles.
Consul General Holloway reports to
the State department from ST. Peters,
burg that 1t is reliably stated that Eng
1ish capitalists have recently invested
$9,000,000 in petroleum lands in Russia
The value of horses owned by farmers
In this country is $452 GAG, 1896, or con-
sderably more than one-fifth of the to-
tai United States currency, including
gold, silver and paper money, in circu-
lation to-day.
In Germany potato bread is used by
the natives of Thuringia to feed their
horses especially when they are worked
hard in very cold weather. The animals
thrive on it, and their health and
strength are excellent.
Ma 80, ,oJ ~oxt,, ~,
Chicago this year for taxation is more
than double the amount assessed last
year. And yet nobody supposes that
anything like complete and equitable
assessment has been made.
DR.. Laborde a French physician, de-
clares that unless measures are taken
at once to prevent it, the French work
ing class in a few years will become
habitual drunkards. One might mag
inc from the Dreyfus excitement in
France that about everybody over there
drank to excess.
e. S. Holmes, jr., an expert Of the
StdtlStlcdl bureau OIL the department OIL
agriculture, has just completed report
embodying the result Of journey
through the flood devastated region of
Texas and making a careful estimate of
the damage done, the aggregate of
which he places at $7,414,0OO.
Bryan can't come to help at the OPEN
ing of the Democratic campaign in New
England, and so his bimetallic brethren
who will set the ball rolling at Crescent
Beach in Rhode Island next Saturday
will have to do without his magnetic
presence. Bryan seems to fight shy of
New England.
The Hamburg American line is con-
tinuing it's experiment with carrier pig
cons for the purpose of conveying news
from the vessels at sea either to New
York or Hamburg. The Augusta Vic
toria recently set several pigeons free
during a voyage to New York; one of
these homed from midocean, fifteen
hundred miles to Hamburg, inside of
two days.
"Will" Broadinax is the most notori-
pus chicken thief Atlanta has ever had,
says the Constitution. He has been
caught time and time again with chick
ems which he candidly confessed We're
stolen, but the officers had to content
themselves with having him sent to the
stockade for a few days and could not
take him to higher court, The reason
for this is that the abandoned wretch
picks his stolen chickens at once and