The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-08


Sweden is suffering from boom In
manufacturing which has drawn thou
sands of the country people to the
larger towns and caused house rents to
advance 20 or 80 per cent. Many OF the
manufacturers have invested beyond
their capital and are in distress. Money
is very scarce and a crisis is threat
ened.
The way in which the Associated
Press handled the election returns
Tuesday night merits praise. The SER
vice was prompt, full and accurate. AT
its office in this city everything pos
sible was done for the help of the Con-
necticut members of the association,
and the work was a shining success
The London Statist predicts a great
boom for shipbuilding in the United
States, whether ship bounties are
granted by the government or not. This
expansion will be due primarily to
cheap materials, such as iron and
steel, in which we now have an advan-
tage over any other country in the
world, and secondarily to the demands
OF an increasing ocean commerce, par
ticularly from the export of coal, which
promises to develop amazingly in the
near future.
The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle says
that at, recent spiritualistic meeting
the spirit of Elijah Crosser was called
for. Elijah Crosser had died there in
an early day, but was remembered for
his immense stature, six feet five
inches A voice in the darkness said he
was Elijah. Are you in heaven?'
asked an old timer. Yes" came the
answer. "Are you an angel, Lige?'
"Yes." The questioner paused, evident
1y having exhausted his fund of ques-
tions, and then suddenly inquired:
sWhat do you measure from tip to tip,
Lige?"
There are nineteen cities which have
d population of 100000 or more in 1900
Tn 1880 there were twenty cities in the
United States with a population of over
100 900. In 1900 there are thirty-eight.
In 1880 there were thirtyfve cities with
a population of over $4,000. In 1900 |
there are seventyeight. There are 1853
cities having more than $4,000 in 1900.
The entire population of these 1853 cities
Is 1854. 625. or more than one-fourth of |
the entire population Of the country. |
The population of these cities has just
about doubled in twenty years.
The officers whose duty it is to enforce
the game law of Kansas recently had
reason to suspect aht some market hun
tiers were illegally shipping quail from
wellington, but the gathering of evil
dence was found to be an almost i'm
possible task Finally the officers bor-
rowed pointer dog and took it to the
freight depot, and the animal promptly
centered it's attention upon a large egg
case. The case was opened, and under
its two top layers of eggs We're found
several dozen quail. The lawbreakers
were found without difficulty upon ref
erence to the railroad companys books,
and arrests promptly followed.
Italians are displacing negroes not
only on the sugar plantations in Louis
lana, but also in the river steamboat {
service. This change in roustabouts on
the boats at New Orleans followed an I
attempt of the negroes to raise the
wages from $50 to $50 a month. There s
Is scarcity of negro labor, many of the
rolored men having taken the first OPP
to leave New Orleans after the
assaults on members of their race by t
white mobs few months ago. Those a
are not organized, but they v
pushed their demands beyond the pa
hence Of the boat owners, or their abili- I
" to pay Whether the Italians can do p
he work which the negroes have been Il
loing remains to be seen. "The negro" p
me steamboat captain says, lis an al =
most indispensable adjunct to Mississip- G.
ii steamboating. Time and again we t
lave attempted to dispense with his W
erviees, but it has always been found c.
lecessary to fall back upon him in the u
ong run. The white man, no matter So
What his environments may have been W
n the past, appears to be utterly I'M al
BILE to fare with the lack of quarters &C
nd the irregular hours that is demand HI
d of steamboat labor tt
The Greek government has just pl
igned contract for the construction ce
f railroad 272 miles long between We
'iraenus, the port of Athens, to Dem al