The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-03
Local Weather Report.
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Brtef Mention. High water to-day, 1:45 a. m. Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.


 Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
 Assessor William F. Shannon, who has been ill two months, returned to his duties In city hall yesterday.
 The bishop of Connecticut will visit All Saints church this evening at 2 o'clock and administer the rite of con- frmation.
 The west end of the pier at Tomlin- son bridge has become much denoral- ized and the timbers are being carried away by the tides.
 The meeting of the Yale Freshman union, which was to have been held Tuesday evening, has been postponed until Tuesday evening, May 8.
 Among to repairs which are being made to the dredging apparatus the dredging work in the harbor is sus- pended for 1.-two Sor three weeks. The dredge has gone to Noank.
 Attorney James P. Bree has returned from the Adrondacks. He stopped at Saranac Lake five weeks, the trip hav 5 ing been taken for his health. At times during his stay the thermometer went QOWn to zero.
 Work has begun on the new school house that is to be built at the corner of Gamer and Livingston streets. Wharton & Bouden are at work on the foundation and one of the basement walls is being built
 Mayor Driscoll has signed the orders for the construction of brick pave- orot in, Cbl1roh atr WhitnpV avenue as far as Sachem street. He has also signed the order for a crushed stone pavement in Grove street
 James o. Smith, thirty-five years ago pressman of the Palladium of this city, now the New York agent of the Goss Printing Press Co.,, was elected presi- dent of the board of aldermen in New ark, N J., Tuesday.
 ,. The route of the Ringing Brothers circus parade to-day will be: Starting from the grounds near Elm City park at 10 o'clock, to Whalley avenue, to Howe street to Chapel, to Church, to Elm, to State, to Chapel to Church, to Congress avenue, to Howard avenue, to Whalley avenue, and. thence to the grounds.
 David Greenberg,. the only one of the 70. K gang, who did not escape with a reprimand, was yesterday committed to the Connecticut School for Boys Tuesday his father appeared and said he could do nothing with the boy, and the case was continued in order that reform school complaint might be brought.
 A very important special rehearsal of the Gounod society will be held tonight in Republican hall, beginning at 7:45 Mir Agramonte will be present and the three works to be sung at the festival next week will be carefully studied. This Is the last rehearsal to which the public will be admitted, those on Mon day and Wednesday next being strictly private.
 NATIONS OUT OF DATE.
 Where there is plain wrong there must be remedy It is impossible to believe that men, creatures of reason and of ex- perience painfully bought, will leave blind nations to the blind guidance of rude instincts which spring like mag rots from cheese, out of the union of many men. We must Shunt these guides. The surest, although the slow est ana the CluI1lSlGSl Wdy, IS IO uO away with this system of the division of man. kind into nations. Nations are organ isms which have already served their purpose in the world history; they lag superfiuous, like belated megatheria. The purpose that they were contrived to serve, the union of people of one blood, and the preservation of the purity of that blood, they have not served There is not one nation of pure blood, and na- tive blood; and people of the same race are divided into different nations-Eng- land and the United States, Spain and Mexico. Portugal and Brazil, France and the Province of Quebec, Germany and Australia. The nations occupation Is gone. They were mere temporary makeshifts to bridge a gap while man kind prepared some better means of serving it's interests. There are plenty