The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-02

factory is to be started there.
DIR. Klimpaul of Leipzig has compiled
San international dictionary of dogs
names" under the title "Wie Heisst der
Humid The names are explained in
historical and pathological notes.
Senator Allison of Iowa, who is in a
position to know, says that the money
bill Of the Senate's finance committee
will follow closely the bill prepared by
the House Republicans and published
to the country. II see no serious OBJ
Etacles in the way of a financial law
this session., he says. my personal
view is that bill will be passed"
A Lobster trust has been formed in
Maine with the object of regulating the
price of the fish. At present Holsters
are selling at the islands where they
are caught at cents apiece, and at the
principal ports of delivery at II cents.
Last winter in the stormy weather,
the great danger of catching them,
that the price rose to 81 cents each.
WV Germany Is making new artificial
paving stone. 1t is composed of coal
tar, sulphur and chlorate of lime. The
tar is mixed with the sulphur and
warmed thoroughly and the lime is
added to the semi-liquid mass. After
cooling this product is broken fine and
is added with ground glass, or blast
furnace Stag. The blocks are then sub
jected to a pressure of 5000 pounds to
the square inch.
This community has not been so
shocked for long time as it has been
by the fate of the Craig family. The
funeral services to-day will be largely
attended, and the sympathy for the
bereaved relatives will be heartfelt.
Such complete and overwhelming
tragedy is a startling reminder of the
uncertainty of life. Only firm and Sc
rene faith in the wisdom and goodness
that are over all and through all can |
mitigate its awfulness.
A collection is being made for the |
New Hampshire State library of books
and pamphlets relating to the State
and of those written by New Hamp-
shire authors, and it is thought that
fully two-thirds of such publications
have already been obtained. An effort
As also being made to collect files, as
complete as possible, of the old news
papers of the State, for one of which,
The New Hampshire Gazette, published
at Portsmouth and established there in
1756 it is claimed that it is the oldest
newspaper of continuous publication in
the United States.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
uuirer says: "Dr. Lindley, of the chair
of psychology in the Indiana Univer-
sity. has brought to that institution
Arthur Griffith, aged nineteen, for the
purpose Of investigating the limit Of
the youths remarkable power as a
.lightning calculator He knows the |
multiplication table up to 1870, has a [
knowledge of the squares UP to 100, ,
and the cubes to 1o0 He knows the
fourth powers up to twenty. His par t
ticular skill is In finding short methods
of operation. He has devised forty +
seven methods Of multiplication, six of 6
division, six of addition and three of t
subtraction. He can multiply two five ]
place numbers in six seconds. AL
Though not having studied algebra his I
mind has Appropriated the binomial S
+heorem. Griffith was born in Milford t
Kosciusko County Dr. Lindley says j.
he is not a simple calculator, but that t
he belongs to higher class
contribution to the discussion of b
the subject of home work by school v
children is made by DR.. Edward C
Brooks, superintendent of Schools in h
1t is his judgment that fl
ny definite amount of home work should o
no assigned in the first two years of a 81
cbi1d's school life. Beginning with the a
third. and especially in the fourth year, 81
some home work may be required but a
If should be wisely limited so as not to N
tecon,e burdensome to the children nor | *
Interfere with the freedom and spon-
taneity of their home life. In the b.
grammar grades the work may be b.
gradually increased in time and in def
niteness of requirements, so that the
oupils may feel that there is something !
For them to do in acquiring an educa-
ion. and that it does not all rest with cl