The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-18


rlages. Deaths, and Funerals. 80 cents eaen'
Lnca! Notices 10 cents per line, .he,r
Yearly advertisers are limited 70 oh1 ha
0wn immediate business (all matter !" ~
nnoDJectlonable), and their contracts w no'
include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
The Thomas B. Reed campaign but
ton for 1900 is being worn conspicuous
ly In New York.
A convention of the Order Of Hoodoos
has been held at Denver. The gather
ing was called to order by N. A. Glad
ding, of indianapolis, Grand Shark of
the universe and the business trans
acted included reports from Scrivenator
J. H. Baird of Nashville, Boojum r.
w. English of Denver and Jabberwock
r.. d. Inman of Portland, Oregon.
An interesting application Of the
proft-sharing idea Is reported in New
York, where a large owner of apart
ment houses shares with his tenants all
profits above five per cent. The exper-
iment is reported to work extremely
well in securing permanency of ten
ants, regular payment of rents and
ecrupulous care of the premises.
Some folks aren't afraid Of thirteen.
who has Just come into fortune was
born on the thirteenth day of the month,
entered preparatory school for West
Point on the thirteenth day of the
month, and the thirteenth day Of vari-
Gus months marked his admittance to
West Point, his being made an officer
in his company, his first battle and the
announcement of his inheritance.
Mrs. Lulu c. Jenkins, widow of a col
ored man who was lynched at Versail-
les, indiana, in 1897, has filed three suits
On the United States court in Indianap-
oils asking heavy damages against the
sheriff Of Ripley county and the citi-
zens Of Versailles. There ought to be
good law that will give Mrs. Jenkins
what she demands In the papers fill
ed Is long list Of citizens of Versailles
who are represented as members of the.
mob, and the sheriff is charged with
aiding and abetting the outrage
One of the most formidable battle
ships of the German imperial navy IS
the Welssenburg, just completed at the
Vulcan Works at Stettin. She is ,54
feet long, Ga feet beam and draws %
feet of water. The steel hull has 120
water-tight compartments, a double
bottom and belt of armor fifteen and
three-quarters inches thick, backed up
by eight inches of teak. Her decks
fore and aft are two and one-haf inch
es thick. The engines develop $500
horsepower, and, on the trial trip,
drove her through the water at the rate
of sixteen and one-half knots an hour.
The Weissenburg carries six eleven
inch guns placed in pairs, in three har-
bettes, six four-inch and eight three
and one-half inch rapid-fire guns
According to Mr.. Tegetmeier there is
a tremendous amount of nonsense talk
ed on the subject of the homing in
stinct of birds. In fact, he states that
pigeons, which are generally supposed
to possess it in such large degree
have simply none and that it was
CD I'M, !,
pigeons which Andree took with him
should return. Pigeons, Mr.. Tegetmei-
err says, must know the road they are
to travel, or they can do nothing, and |
that when he decided to fly them be-
tween Belgium and London his birds |
were taken several times over the route |
that they might know 1t we'll At first |
they were taken out five miles, then |
ten, and so on until they knew the |
whole distance over which they had to |
fly. 1t is easy for pigeons to judge |
where they are going, for at certain
height one can see a very long distance
This Is fact well known to aeronauts,
by finding how much farther they can
see from balloon than would be posi-
BILE from the highest building
And still they come. The Rev. A w.
Hobson, pastor of an independent
church in Lyons, Nebraska, is known
as 1.-The Man in Red from the fact that
ne always breaches in red roba
"When people ask me-" he says, what
the red robe means I tell them that
they have made the same Inquiry ex-
actly that the Prophet Isaiah did $50
wears before Christ. | am not permit
ted to divulge the secret of the red
robe at present Though it will gradual
" be done as the days go by) further
than to say, whatever else it means, for
the present it is emphatically a 1ues-
ton mark, viz, Why are thou red in
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