The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-16

vi bicycle lHulcdtlHS WHICH eAplesS
trains carry wheels.
The citizens of Otsego, Wisconsin,
have sent the following cablegram to
Captain Alfred Dreyfus: We hope for
your pardon If granted, we extend a
cordial invitation to make your home in
Dtsego.
About eighteen months ago the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
company bought lot of steel rails to
take the place OF some worn out iron
rails Last week the iron rails were
sold as scrap for $13 more a ton than
The steel rails cost.
The death of Miss Alice Knott of
Washington, d. c., was strange one.
She had parrot, whose favorite perch
was on gas jet, and it was a common
trick of the bird to pull the tips off the
Jets with it's claws, and hide them
Miss Knott was not feeling we'll, one
TO lie down. taking the parrot with her.
She was called an hour or so later, but
did not answer. The door OF her room
was found open. She was lying on the
floor, dead, and the unconscious body
of the parrot was beside her.
1t is encouraging to read that the rail-
roads are bringing their car equipment
up to the requirements of the act of
Congress relative to automatic couplers
and train brakes. Reports to the inter-
for the first six months of this year 49,
233 additional freight cars were brought
under the law as to couplers, and 70 55i
were added to the class equipped w,h
train brakes. Some SO per cent of all
The freight cars in the country now
have automatic couplers. and Sc per
cent. have train brakes. All but about
Z per cent. of the locomotives are pro-
vided with driving wheel brakes.
BY virtue of his office the Lord Mayor
of London Is Admiral of the Port of
London, gauger Of wine and oil and of
other articles, measurer Of Goals, grain
salt and fruit, and inspector of butter
hops, soap, cheese, etc. He is governor
of four hospitals trustee of st. PauPs |
Cathedral and magistrate Gin several
places" He Is also coroner. The dis
tribution of livery cloth is a curious
survival The Court of Aldermen send |
every year to the Lord Chancellor the |
Lord Chief Justice and some ten other
officials, national and municipal. four
and half yards each of the best black |
cloth. The town clerk has six yards of
green and six of black CLOTH and the
principal clerk at the Guldhall four
yards of each
In one of the letters of Cardinal New
imam to a nephew, published in the Sep
tember Contemporary, occurs the fol-
lowing passage about the massacre of
St Bartholomew: 1 think such insane
acts as st. Bartholomew Massacre
were prompted by mortal fear. The
French court considered Brightly or
wrongly that If they did not murder
the Huguenots the Huguenots would
murder them. Thus I explain Pope
Gregory's hasty appreciation of SO great
n crime, without waiting to hear both
sides. After period of luxury and
sloth, the sudden outburst of the Refor-
NATION frightened the court of Rome
nut of its wits. and there were those
who thought the one thing needful was
IN nut it down anyhow, as the destruc-
tion. at least eventually, of all religion,
and society. Perhaps they were
right in this fear and thus they got
mixed I'D with mere politicians, I'M
scrupulous men, and became in the eyes
of posteritv answerable for deeds which
were not properly theirs.
Thomas r. Roddy. of Chicago, will
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Winnebago tribe of Indians. The old
chief died a few days ago. In the win
ter of 1897, realizing MS approaching
end he asked the tribe to name his sue
cessor. and indicated as his choice Rod
Nv. who had been born among the VIM
nebagos, reared in their midst and who
spoke their language and that of the
neighboring Chippewas and PottaWato-
mics. There was a general consent to
The succession going to the white man.
who had been the constant friend OF the
.ribesmen during his mature years
Black Hawks request was not acted
mon by the council until after DIS
leath. when the council registered his
lesire by declaring in favor of Roddy' c
rbe new chief, whose name will be !
White Buffalo," is forty years old. lie