The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-08

Nothing can be more unlike actual
lighting" says President Eliot, than
the bodily collisions which take place
between football players" Some of
them, your excellency.
At the teachers institute in Chautau-
qua county, Missouri, each was requir-
ed to answer the question, "Why am
a teacher" One very frankly replied:
Because am an old maid with moth
Ing else to do"
Doctor Hill, recently from India, now
In Detroit, Michigan, says there are over
five hundred cases of leprosy in the
United States ten of which are in Chi
cago. He recommends more stringent
quarantine measures and the establish
ment of general asylum for lepers by
the government.
Bishop Cheshire. Of North Carolina.
who Is at present working among the
Episcopalian churches of the North to
secure funds in aid Of his work in the
South. says: 1T would probably aston
ish great many northern people to
know that the only town in North Car
olina where no negro may either live
or own foot of ground is settled en-
tirely by New Englanders, and that
there is not a southern-born adult
among it's citizens
The Hudson River tunnel scheme in
New York is very much alive New
capital has been secured and the tun-
mel will now be completed The total
Indebtedness of the old company is
nearly 100000 including unpaid inter-
est charges since 1892, when work was
suspended The excavated tunnel three
thousand feet in length at the Jersey
City end, and two hundred feet at the
New York end will be pumped out and
work will be resumed soon.
At legislative hearing in Boston the
other day Henry Faxon of Quincy, the
millionaire prohibitionist and special
policeman owned up to being an ex-
rumseller. Thirty years ago I specu-
lated in few hundred barrels Of whis-
ky" he said, land I don't care who
knows it. I made money" Represen-
tative Donahue asked him how much he
made. "About $4,000 or s3,OOO," an
swered Mr.. Faxon. "How many souls
did you ruin?" asked Representative
Donahue. II don't know" answered Mr..
Faxon, II wasn't in the retail business"
The American Packer says that more
than $5,00O,O00 has been invested in the
canning industry in the last four
months. The total pack of tomatoes in
the United States and Canada was g.
797, 806 cases in 1898. In 1897 it was A.
149,441 cases. In 1898 the pack of the
United States was 5652,249 cases. as
compared with 1884, 1855 for 1897. There
was an output Of canned corn in 1898
largely in excess of 1897, but the aver
age quality Of the pack in several
States was lower than usual. The total
corn pack Of the United States and
Canada for 1898 was 439S,567, as against |
2.9oS,74O cases in 1897.
The district authorities of Brussels |
have had their attention called to the |
fact that the Belgian dog is not beast |
I,ry
councillor, taking pity on the unfortu-
nate creatures has just formulated an
interesting petition pleading for protec-
ton from the authorities Of these poor
animals He points out that in certain
Flemish provinces the owners of dogs, |,
after working their animals for a part |
of the day, do not trouble to provide
them with food, but simply turn them
out on the streets to pick up what they
can find. The dog, he contends, is not
fitted by nature to draw or support
heavy burdens, and he urges the best !;
thing. to do would be to adopt the sys-
tenn which has been in vogue in Great
8ritsin since 1Sf2-namelv, to suppress
entirely the barbarous custom of har-
Messing dogs to carts. He ironically |
anticipates that in about fifty years
from now Belgium will be sufficiently /
civilized for such a measure to be pro-
nosed with some chance of success. In |
the meantime he trusts that the author
tiles will do what they can to tighten
the lot of the unfortunate dog.