The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-21

1000 more buildings and to spend 49,
100000 more on them than the Chicago
figures indicate.
In the sunken wreck of Russian flag
ship which went down in Greek waters
In ITO, divers have already recovered
gold coins to the value of $4,000 and re-
port great stores of silver and jewels
washed out from the hulk of the old
wreck by the storms of over century.
The Prussian government is about to
start sewing schools for the peasants.
not the fancy needlework school famil-
lar in America, but glove sewing
schools. 1t appears that while nearly
$1,oO0,O00 worth Of gloves are made in
Breslau each year, the gloves have to be
sent to Austria and Belgium to be sew
ed, the German girls never having ac-
uuired the knack.
Congo Free State negroes are being
Christianized by hand organ. Captain
Becker, Free State official, thoughtful
ly took one to his post, and, finding that
the natives enjoyed the music, and be-
ing also DESTROYS that they should marry
in Christian fashion, he announced that
the organ would be played at every
Christian wedding. The result was that
weddings took place almost daily, and
1t was discovered that many couples
married more than once in order to pro-
cure the music.
The Vesta cotton mill, which is being
operated at Charleston, South Caro-
lima, with colored labor, has made its
first shipment Of goods since the ma
chinery was started under the reorgan-
ization. The shipment was made to ST.
Louis and the goods manufactured
were said to be of very high class and
quality. The mill has only been running
a short time with colored operatives,
though the plan is working well, and is
the cause of much encouragement and
satisfaction to the management. The
.president of the company, Mr.. Mont
gomery, who is practical mill opera
tor, says he has carefully watched the
work Of the colored operatives and is
much pleased with what has been ac-
complished.
There is one place in the civilized
world where they don't seem to be SEN
timental about the name of Dewey. A
patriotic American physician resident in !
Zurich wanted his latest born to bear
the name of the admiral. Over there |
these things are all matters of legal pro-
cedure, and the doctor, upon taking the |
necessary steps, was confronted with |
the Swiss regulation that no child shall |
be baptized with a name not used in |
either of the three languages spoken in |
Switzerland, French, German and Ital- |
ian. In the abstract this is law for |
which most helpless infants should be |
thankful But the doctor was not
helpless infant. He storlned and threat
ened the little republic with the ven-
geance of it's big brother, and found
that he was a helpless adult. The au-
thorities have remained obdurate.
A regiment of Prussian artillery, quar-
tered at Glogau, in Silesia has been
carving out some interesting expert
ments in taking it's guns across the
Oder. Three barrels were fastened to the
axle of each wheel, and another to the
pole. in such a way as not to interfere
with the immediate Use of the guns
on land Arriving at the bank, the
horses were detached, and the guns
were pushed into the river and guided
to the other side by artillerymen in pom
ICONS, each of which had five men. The
harness was taken across in pontoons
manned b. the rest Of the soldiers, who
also looked after the horses in the wa
ter. The experiment proved very Sue
cessful and the military authorities de-
cided that the system could be adopted
with great advantage in cases of emer-
hand to build bridges.
An interesting monument is to be |
erected on the Gettysburg battlefield in
September by the survivors Of the Thir- |
teenth Vermont regiment. The statue
will show the bronze figure of an Off
Ger, his right hand appraised holding a
Ratchet The story as to the design of |
the statue is told as follows: First Lieu I
tenant Stephen F. Brown of Company
X. Thirteenth Vermont volunteers, was
the model for the statue Just before
the battle he was placed under arrest |