The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-26

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Mr.. Bret Harte's literary popularity
In England shows no sign of waverng
His new book of short stories is an
nounced there as one of the notable
publications Of the coming spring.
Vittorio Bersezio, the Italian dramat-
ist ana novelist who died recently at
the age of sixty years, wrote among
other things history of the reign of
Victor Emmanuel II. in five volumes.
Mr.. Leslie Stephen has been seriously
i'll. but has now recovered sufficiently
to finish his forthcoming three volume
work on the English Utilitarians. 1t
will probably appear about two months
hence.
Germany sends out a post card on
which is printed a red strawberry.
When the strawberry is exposed to
heat the color of the fruit blanches and
disappears. 1t can be brought back to
its original red color by blowing upon
it.
German railway authorities are con-
sidering a proposal to abolish return
trip tickets, holiday excursions and all
special rates, thinking by this means
that they will be enabled to reduce the
regular fares one-third with no result
Ing loss.
"A new Johann Strauss is in the field.
He is son of Eduard Strauss and a
nephew of Johann II. and has already
composed an operetta. He Is going to
start this year on a trip around the
world with Johann Strauss Vienna
Orchestra
In Russia women are employed as
apothecariee. In the State and munich
pal dispensaries women prescription
clerks stand on the same footing as
!, men, while in the large cities like ST.
petersburg, Moscow and Kew there are
pharmacies in which the business is
conducted entirely by women.
IA Larned woman whose husband
hires the family washing done is re-
ported to be the most economical wo-
man in Kansas" says Austin Neal.
."Wlen she feeds the baby she puts an
apron on over it's dress, then bib over
the apron, a clean rag around the babys
neck over the bib and then holds one
hand under the baby's chin while she
feeds it with the other BY practice Of
this sort of economy she has enabled
her husband to save $4,000 in the last
seven years" At this rate her husband
should be in time Millionaire.
In addition to the known wealth of the
Philippine islands it is pointed out in
monograph just published in Germany
that they are among the few places on
earth where the trees from which gutta-
percha is procured will flourish This
material is indispensable for covering
submarine cables and electric wires and
for many other uses says the Army and
Navy Journal. No substitute has been
found, and the supply drawn from Su
matra and Borneo Is almost entirely ex-
hausted through the wasteful methods
employed in gathering it.
The Nicaragua Canal is estimated to
cost less than $3.50, O0O but no care
full man will regard the probable neces-
sary expenditure as less than 100000
O0O Canals, with the possible exception
of that at Kiel, have never been built
within the official estimates. AS exam
pies, the estimate for the Suez Canal
was $4,000, 900; actual cost, $99,000,00O.
Estimated cost Corinth Canal, $5OO0,00O;
actual cost, $13,750,0O0. Estimated cost
Manchester Ship Canal, $4600O,00O; ac-
tual cost, $75,OOO,OOo. Estimated cost
Panama Canal, $12O, 100000; expended to
date, s277, 1000, 900; estimated to finish, |
s1O2 900 900. Total, 1919, 100000.
A marble slab with a suitable inscrip-
ton is to be placed on the wall of the
little house in Venice wherein Ruskin !
made his longest sojourn. This little
house on the Zattere is known as La |
Calcinl Professor Bordiga, distin-
gushed Venetian, proposed this COM
memoration at the last municipality !
meeting, declaring in the course of his
admirable address that Rusllin ''ele-
waited the art of criticism wellnigh to
the height of a religion, uniting such
austere vigor with such refined sim !,
plicity Of thought and of form as to give
England the right to salute him as one