The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-04

the Rothschilds recently received a
modest request from young man, who
stated that the cooper's trade, to which
he had been apprenticed, was distaste-
''an apprentice millionaire" promising
diligence and all application in learning
1.-THE business
Those who have seen Kansas corn
will be prepared to believe the story of
man who was ON train in a south
ern Kansas few days ago. and saw
farmer, his wife, and their daughter,
standing on the roof Of fourteen-foot
kitchen in order to see the train go by.
They had to get on top of the kitchen
In order to see over the growing corn
A young civil engineer of London,
who was recently sued for breach Of
promise asserted in his defense that
his sweetheart grew cold and indiffer-
emit The plaintiff, as an offset to this
charge, set forth with documentary evil
dence that when she wrote to her
fiance with as much warmth as she
was capable of he returned her letters
with faults of photography and gram
mar corrected in red ink.
The Sydney (Australia) cycle track
has been lighted in a novel way by
means of inverted arc lights. Fifty
five arc lights and seventy incandes-
cents are placed around the track at in
tervals Of thirty-five feet, the lamps be-
ing inverted, with the reflectors imme-
diately over the arc There are abso
lutely no shadows cast and leading cy-
clists are Of the opinion that it is safer
to ride at night under this light than by
daylight
NJ George Averoff, the Greek banker
OF Alexandria, whose munficence made
possible the Olympic games at Athens
two years ago, is dead. He made many
PaOilC OSquSSNa III Ills WIZ u
francs for the completion of the station
at Athens, million each for technical
school there, for an agricultural school
at Larissa and for his native town,
million and half for the Greeks of
Alexandria, two and a half millions for
training ship and half million francs
Lord .Wimburne's new golf course at
Broadstone, In Dorsetshire, England, is
one of the finest in the world. The
found at st. Andrews. Adam john
stone Is custodian of the course and
the charge for playing is IS pence per
day. Lord Wimburne hopes that the
laying out of the course will give an i'm
petus to building operations at Broad |
stone, where there are picturesque
heaths and pine woods He is the land
lord of the whole district
Justice Kennedy of the high court Of |
in his address before the |
American Bar association, strongly con-
demned the modern theory that crime
is the result of physical defects. He
said that we can never separate the
idea of right and wrong from the idea
of punishment without an infinite deg
10 of lot
freedom of the will, the liberty of
choice between right and wrong, the
spiritual power of resisting and con-
impulses Of greed and violence,
and lust, are immortal truths which
grid justice with the sword
Kansas, Is full of hope. According to
the vow she took when she became a
member Miss May Williams was mar
Red the other day to Private Dawson,
Of Company H, Twentieth Kansas Vol
lnteers Every member must wed a
Twentieth Kansas hero or none. Miss
Williams was the pTeSluell Oh the CluD. |
t was organized about two months ago.
Ind there We're fifty girls of the little
college town of Winfield who pledged
themselves to marry no other men than
members Of the famous Funston regi-
nent. Private Dawson recently came
rom Philadelphia. On Sunday he was
MT in a park and tainted from the heat.
Nav Williams ran to his rescue. That
light they were married.
Tn a recent address before the Royal
institute of Architects of Ireland, Sir i
,harles Cameron not only expressed his
o,,bts of the commonly assumed neces
itv for sewer ventilation--based upon
he hypothetical risk of the sewer air
p gases, as they are termed, attaining
uffcient pressure to force the traps Of Il
ouse drains connected with the sewer :
ut proposed a system of ventilation as u
substitute for the aspiring shafts I