The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-22

vessels at work sounding ana cndftlHS
the ocean beds to find out where dan
gers Turk. Last year ten thousand
square miles We're carefully charted in
different parts of the world--Asia, Afri-
ca and the South Pacific.
OF the twenty-four lynchings in
Georgia thus far this year five We're due
to incendiarisn, five to robbery, three
to completely in murder, one to MUIR
DER one to resisting arrest, one to race
prejudice, one to the use of violent lam
guage, leaving only seven that were in
any manner connected with crimes
against women.
A planter in Yazoo county, Mississip-
pi, reposes faith in the katydid as pre-
dieter of frost. He says the katydid
began to play his little fiddle this year
about June g. and that if the first frost
comes In Just four months from that
time, "as it surely WILL" it will 50 re-
duce the cotton crop that it will bring a
good price and good times in the South
will follow.
The husband of a Chicago colored
woman has disappeared and the de-
serted wife advertses that she will
pay a suitable reward for his return.
The reporters went to ask what she
would consider a suitable reward and
she said she supposed she could pay
pretty nearly as much as $25 Hus-
bands she remarked, are not very
costly article nowadays, but this one
was mighty good man.
Cherrapunzi, in Assam, northeast of
Calcutta, has the reputation Of being
the wettest place In the earth, the aver
while it has the record of one month
in which 147.17 inches fell. This year
1t seems bound to beat all previous
records 267.S4 inches of rain having
fallen between January / and the mid
die of June, five months and a half
while 1873 inches, over six feet of
water, fell in single week
Corn is doing well in Kansas this
year. 1t is related that a farmer in
Marshall county wanted to get couple
of ears of new corn. He went out into
the field to pick them. The stalks We're
SO tall that the ears We're beyond his
reach. He boosted his boy up to get
the ears The boy did not come down
that day, nor the next, nor the next
week. The old farmer died. When he
got up to heaven he asked If his boy
was there. He was told that a boy
answering the description had Just
passed through the day before ON
cornstalk.
Firmin Moindrou, a California sea
captain. is making his plans to attend
the Paris Exposition, and is going to
sail In the trunk of redwood tree. II
will build a schooner from one of the
largest trees in Humboldt county" he
says. "The hull will be one solid piece
simply the trunk of the tree followed
out and heMn into shape. will take
tree from % to "a feet in diameter for
my boat. She will be As feet long, Is
feet beam and 10 feet deep, and will be
rugged as a schooner I will sail from
here, go around Cape Horn or through
the Strait of Magellan, cross the Allan
tic and down the Seine to Paris. I
reach Cape Horn about the last of De-
cember Of this year, so that will arrive
in Paris by May of 1900"
some time ago in France has lately
made favorable report upon scheme
for the construction of mountain
railroad to the top of Mont Blanc, and
it is not improbable that the remark
able project will be carried out accord
ing to the plan proposed, as the various
rack lines up the Swiss peaks have
been successful from almost every
point of view. The most difficult point, |
the Mechanical Engineer remarks, |
would be the three and a quarter miles |
from Aiguille de Glaze to the summit, |
but here the line would be carried on |
a special gallery, which, though in |
volving laborious detail. is deemed the |
most practical of the different methods |