The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-17


George B. Loving, of Texas, the pro-
moter of the proposed Consolidated
Cattle company, holds options over
100000 head of cattle and 25,0OOOOO
acres Of land.
The Russian government has decreed
that any college student who is here
after caught in the act of creating or
fnstigating any disorder shall be forci-
bly, drafted into the army.
The rapidity with which women are
coming to the front in violin playing
is illustrated by the fact that the much
coveted Sainton scholarship in London,
held for three years by the successful
M. Southgate, who succeeds Miss Flor
ence e. Moss, before whom no woman
ever held the honor.
M 0. Waggoner, of Toledo, who was
an atheist, but who has announced his
illSIllOl VI DuIIlilS HIS NdludDle COL
lection of books attacking Christianity,
says his interest in religion was arous-
ed in peculiar way He had been
stirred by the remarks of an evangelist
and he could not sleep. Getting out Of
bed, he chose at random disk of a
gramaphone with which he had been
accustomed to amuse himself When
he started the machine it gave out the
air Of praise Cod from Whom All
Blessings Flow which was followed by
Rock of Ages" Mr.. Waggoner was so
impressed that he soon after announced
his conversion in a church service He
is a lawyer, and is said to rank high in
his profession
Bill jones' citizen of ottawa. Kan
sas, has raised an interesting question.
Mr.. Jones was so drunk that he couldn't
walk, and the policeman who arrested
him called a two-horse dray and hauled
him to the station. The next morning
Mr.. Jones pleaded guilty in police court
and called for a transcript of the costs.
He found that he had been charged
fifty cents for dray hire, and against
this he filed his protest. There are
plenty of one-horse ten-cent draws in
Ottawa" said he, lone of which would
have served to carry me just as well as
the two-horse rig. To my mind, it is
the duty of every policeman to consult
the financial interests of his prisoners.
What do we have these guardians of
the public for if they are not to incul-
cate habits OF simplicity and economyn
I shall appeal this case to the district
court
A law that goes into effect in Sep
TENDER in the Province of Quebec for
bids any barber to practice his trade
or art-who has not passed searching
examination before the Graduate Bar
bers' union, and received a certificate
from the BARRIERS association. This
association has been regularly incorpor-
ated and endowed with powers by no
means insignificant. Every candidate
who appears before it must first prove
that he has served an apprenticeship
of three years, then an orthodox doctor
must vouch for the aspirant's physical
innocuousness, after which he must give
practical demonstration of his ability
to shave and to cut hair in a scientific
manner, and, last of all, he must answer
satisfactorily some rigid questioning as
to the hygienic precautions which ought
to be observed in a well regulated bar
ber's shop.
An amazing romance of high life has
been terminated in the Assize courts at
Venice by the condemnation of a Ouch
ess to twenty-five months Imprisonment
for forgery. 1t appears from the nara
tive given in the London Daily Mail
provide herself with respectable parent
age. informed the Duchesse de Beauf-
fremont, a lady famed for her piety
and philanthropy, that she was prepared
to give $4,000 to be adopted by a per-
SON If rank The Duchess accordingly
referred her to Prince Giedroye, ruin
ed nobleman, who rising to the occa-
sion. declared on seeing the adventures
that she was in very deed his daughter
and that documentary proof could be
obtained at Venice. The Duchess re- |
haired to Venice, and procured from a
priest named Cogo forged certificate
of birth. on the strength of which the
adventures married one of the Princes
Troubetzkoy. Prince Giedroye died be- !
fore his guilt came to light, but the !
princess Troubetzkoy, arrested on some |
other charge in Germany, hanged her
self in prison, having first denounced |
the Duchess and the priest as forgers.