The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-20

forget his humble origin He kept a
portrait of himself, dressed in the rude
costume Of the tannery, hanging above
his desk in the Eysee as cherished
memory and an inspiration.
London's crowded streets have been
relieved by a new police order directing
cabmen to drive into the nearest side
street as soon as they have discharged
their passengers. No empty cabs are
allowed on the main thoroughfares. The
rule keeps the streets clearer, but the
rabmen object that they miss many GUS
Momers and the Londoners that they can
no longer find cabs where they want
q Them most
6a Luther G. Tibbetts, who was the first
\ man to propagate the navel orange in
3 this country and thus did great SER
vice to orange-growers and orange-eat-
ers is now pauper at Riverside, Cali
fornia. He is eighty years old, and be-
came well to do by selling cuttings Of
his orange. Then he lost all he had and
the business he started is one of the
most important in the country.
III Congressman John ]. Lentz, who Is
up in Insurance matters, figures out
that, according to Expectations" Gen.
kral Eagan will have eleven years to live
after his retirement, and that If he does
he will draw total of $7S,375 from the
treasury Of the United States. This,
Mr.. Lentz points out, will be without
any work on the generals part and
4 will be the punishment a man gets for
saying the commanding general of the
army is all kinds of liar.
Wisconsins tax commission has rec
commended State tax Of per cent. on
1ineal inheritances in excess of $4,000,
and s per cent. on collateral Uncertain
ces in excess of 5000. Eff a way can be
found" say the commissioners 'by
which vast accommodations Of personal
property can be brought from their hid
ing places at least once each genera
lion and contribute their part toward
the support Of the government, 1t would
at least be one step toward the equali-
Eation of taxes"
1t has recently been found possible
ito make use of glass for pipes, and it
Is announced that a firm of glass-man-
ufacturers in western Pennsylvania is
NOW ready to furnish glass tubes that
age. Naturally the glass does not cor
rode, but it is quite impervious to cleo
trolysis when used under ground in the
vicinity Of electric tracks or conduits.
ent ID also claimed that it is more dura-
bile and less likely to leak than iron.
IAN Ohio company is putting in a line of
gas pipes, and this will afford a prac-
Hical test of it's advantages, as the line |
Us to be about one hundred miles in |
length.
IL Frenchmen, stimulated by the devel-
ppment of automobile carriages, the
building of which has now become one |
jpf the many money making industries, |
paying great profits, have devoted
study to motor bicycles. 1t is said that
pne inventor has succeeded. He calls
Ibis machine the motorcyclette. It
weighs thirty pounds and will make
something line 10 miles an hour on or
binary highways. The expense of run
ming motorcyclette go miles is 20
cents for petroleum-one-t third of a cent
d mile. The motor is applied to the
front wheel, which thus becomes both
Hirector and motor of the machine The
weight of the motor gives steadiness
and the rider Of the motorcyclette goes
gaily by the ordinary bikeman in tick
lish places. The French invention takes
up no more room than the ordinary BIZ
cycle, and it runs smoothly.
! The valuable paper communicated by
M. Renson to the recent International
Railway congress, and translated by {
the Scientific American, shows the re-
suits gained during some twenty years
of experimental work carried out by
The Liege-L imburg railway, Belgium,
jpn which various kinds of metal ties
have been tested on different sections
of the road. For comparison, a part of
the road was laid with oak sleepers, and |
Identical conditions assured as to ma
fure of roadbed, drainage, weight of
rail, care in maintenance, etc. The
metal ties varied in shape and quality, !
from the crude forms Of the earliest ties
ito the more scientifically designed later S
article. 1t vas found that the average u