The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-09


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Include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
Senator Ford of the New York legis.
lature is preparing a franchise tax law
amendment fixing an absolute value or
franchises.
The reduction of our forces in the
Philippines is giving general satisfac,
ton, indicating as it does the belief OF
our government that the war in those
islands is steadily dwindling.
The House has agreed to vote on the
Currency bill conference report at 4:3C
O'Clock next Tuesday afternoon and the
gold standard question will then be set
tied for years.
General Wheeler, the plucky southern
fighter, has come back from the Philip
pines full of hope and expectation as to
the great trade possibilities before the
United States in the Orient.
Predictions are made in London that
money rates will continue high in Ger
many all of this year. This condition
results from the large amount of cap
ital locked up in industrial invest
anents.
The exports of coal, coke, cinders and
briquettes from the United Kingdom for
January were 3,0S7,532 tons, as COM
pared with 3,032,343 tons in January,
1899. Values averaged $3.4S per ton,
against $242 per ton in January, 1892
The amount of copper produced in the
United States last year-estimatin the
output of December-was 1854, 800 tons.
This amount includes the copper in sui
phate and shows an increase over the
production of 1898 by about 1915 per
cent.
Our compliments to Professor w. G.
Sumner of Yale. He knows when to
keep still He lectures in the lecture
room and not in the papers, and let's
Nhese idle criticisms of his talk on
marriage wear themselves out while
he is attending to business--Hartford
Courant.
Wireless telegraphy is being very
thoroughly tested in the South African
campaign. Six instruments are in use
at widely scattered places. At De Aar,
Modder River, Belmont, Orange River
and Enslin they have been kept con-
stantly busy, the longest interval over
which messages are sent being seventy
miles, between De Aar and Orange
River.
Pine needles Of South Oregon are now
being utilized. The needles, are first
boiled and then run between horizontal
wooden rollers, which extracts the juice.
This is called pine-needle oil, which is
supposed to possess medical properties.
The pulp is used as a indicated mate
rial for upholtering, and is also said to
be q good substitute for horsehair.
The celebrated old estate Of 'Berle-
ley" in Charles City county, Virginia,
is for SALE 1t is said by awriter in the
Richmond Dispatch to have been the |
home Of seven Benjamin Harrisons in
succeeding generations. 1t was acquir- |
ed by an ancestor of the Harrisons in |
1885. The first President Harrison Clip |
pecanoe) was born at Berkeley in 1878. |
1t is still noticeably fine old mansion |
of English brick.
Bishop. Clark of Rhode Island is now |
in his eighty eighth year. He was grad
uated at Yale in 1881 Nearly all his
classmates have preceded him into the
other world-among them Bishop Kip
of California, Dr. Noah Porter, Senator
Trusten Polk of Missouri and the Rev.
w. w. Andrews of Hartford. One of |
the most delightful series of lectures
ever given at Yale before the Divinity
school was Bishop Cark's series in the
Lyman Beecher course.
"There is no reason in the world why
we cannot raise rubber in Hawaii" said
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson yester-
day. 1.-THE climate is ideal in most
parts of the islands, and as there are all
kinds of soils it looks as though all that !
were needed to put the growing of rub
Der trees upon a paying basis is the
trees themselves and the proper care de-