The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-11

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include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
Mrs. Milton Fl. Losee, of Kansas City
has a plan for establishing a college
costing 100000, for the training OF
housekeepers and domestics. Cooking
nursing chamber work. sweeping, dish
washing and other household tasks are
to be taught. She has sent out cir
cular to ascertain the views of others
ON the subject and has received favora-
BILE replies.
It's dangerous to be safe nowadays
George W. Hartwell yardmaster of
the Chicago division of the Chicago
Rock Msland & Pacific railroad lacked
faith IN banks Consequently he car
ried about with him all the money he
had saved during a number Of years,
amounting to $1,000. Last Saturday
night he was waylaid by highwamen
and robbed of his money.
Governor Gambler, of Georgia, says
that nearly every one in his State who
can speak a little French feels called
upon to offer to represent Georgia at
the Paris exposition. He wants it I'M
tlerstood that the two State commits
sioners who will be sent will be men.
that they will have no salaries, and
that they will have to pay their own
the number of candidates.
A man in New York has been SEN
fenced to term of eighteen months in
prison for voting in three different cleo
tion districts on the 18th of last Novem-
Der. His only defense was that he was
drunk at the time, and the court and
the jury held that this was not a good
excuse. Quite right. A man who will
get drunk and then vote three times on
the same day isn't irresponsible.
The commonly accepted notion that
there is no fire risk involved in the use
spf electric lamps is declared to be erro-
neous, and the Association of Individual
Underwriters at Boston has prepared a
set Of rules for the use Of it's members.
Among them is one forbidding the tying
Of knots in the flexible cords attached
to lamps, the reason given being that
the resistance Of the wire is thereby in.
creased which causes the lamp to gen.
srate more heat.
The most remarkable clock in the
world is owned by Hindoo prince In
the place of an ordinary dial is a gong,
and beneath it, on a metal plate, lie
artificial human bones and skulls in a
heap. there being sufficient number
to form twelve perfect skeletons. At
O'Clock the number of bones forming a
single skeleton come together with a
snap, the skeleton. by invisible mechan-
ism, springs to it's feet, saizes mallet |
and strikes the gong once and return |
ing to the heap fails to pieces again.
according to the hour the number of |
skeletons which rise from the heap va
ries, and when the whole twelve rise |
together at noon and midnight the |
spectacle is said to be most grewsome. |
The Marine society of New York, at |
Its annual meeting, adopted resolutions |
in support of the shipping bill now be- |
fore congress. : The reasons given are !
that American vessels in the foreign !
carrying trade carry but 9 per- cent of |
the exports and imports of this coun
try against former percentage of So /
per cent; that s200,00o,00o are annual
Nv paid by American citizens TO foreign
ship owners as freight and passenger
and that the bill is best calcu-
lated to promote the development and
of the products of Ameri-
can labor by the extension of the mer-
chant marine of the United States and
10 establish thereby more intimate COM
mercial intercourse with other coun-
tries. Still another and a strong rea-
son given is that the value of a mer-
chant marine as a naval reserve was
In both our Civil war and
the Spanish war.
1t sounds grewsome, writes Julian
Ralph from Orange river, Ito lken the
sending out of an army to the return
Of dust to dust, and yet if the reader
could see an army or any number of
soldiers in khaki out on the veldt he
would at once think of the smile.
South Africa looks now as if it were
The dustbn of creation. Its ground is
loose dust Its air is flying dust. It's