The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-18

Local Notices. Is ceE.s per line.
yearly advertisers are limited 20 .he ~,
unobjectionable).. and their contracts 90 no'
include Wants. TO Let. For Sale. etc.
1t is admitted that the ice crop was
good, and now they say that Dig
peach crop is in sight in Delaware and
Georgia. What's getting into people?
The oil boom in Texas IL lively one
Since the Lucas petroleum geyser was
struck January 10. ninety-six oil COM
panies have been chartered in Texas
and four in other States, to- develop the
oil resources of Texas, principally in the
Beaumont field. These one hundred
companies have an aggregate capital of
$2s.5s7,ooo.
Rome win soon be connected with
Paris by a telephone line. The work
has been in progress for many months
ana the italian government has COM
pleted the installation Of the wires on
Sthe italian slope of the Alps. The
French government is at work on the
line on it's side, and it is thought that
communication between the two cities
will be accomplished during the sum
mer.
The Polish novelist, Sienkiewicz, is
very fond Of the chase, especially boar
hunting, and the walls of his home in
Warsaw are decorated with his tro-
phies some of them from Africa. One
large bookcase in his library is filled
with his own books in foreign Ian
guages He writes from ten in the
morning till. two. and in the evening
from nine to twelve, attends to his
correspondence, and makes notes for
future work. His house is plainly furn-
ished, and his diet very simple.
"A young man at College Point, Long
Island, while operating an ice machine
the other day caught his hand between
the fywheel and the churn crushing
one Of his fingers. His mother reproved
her son for his carelessness, and while
he went to have his hand dressed by
the doctor, undertook to finish the work |
he had begun. She had hardly started |
the machinery when her hand was |
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fingers badly lacerated and the nail !
torn off.
Canada, in view of the object lesson |
In South Africa, proposes to encourage
craftsmanship. A new law framed to |
that end divides rifle clubs which APP |
ply to the government for guns and |
ammunition into two classes, the first
to consist of members of the militia,
each member of which will receive two
hundred rounds of ammunition a year;
the other class, made UP of private
members, will get one hundred rounds
The private clubs are under military
control, however, and the members will
be sworn in for three months service.
One OF the most humorous spectacles
Of the time said Rev. Dr. Moxom to the
Congregational Club, lis to
zee whole State, from governor down,
shaking in their boots in front OF a
title woman with a Ratchet. 1t is SIM
ply an Indication that they are over
whelmed because they have failed to do
heir duty. When the saloon is attack
ID nationally, you will find the men will
1e ready to join in the movement, but :
lot Until then. The fact that the saloon
q a product of humanity seems to have :
,een lost sight of. 1T is the club of the
majority of men Of certain class and
lot until you are ready to put some
hing in it's place can it be removed" I
A United States court of appeals has t
ately decided that a statute of Kansas 6
Il |
md take stock in mills erected to man ,
fracture sugar and syrup out Of ! t
orghum cane is unconstitutional The t
ecis.on Is in harmony with several 6
theirs in it's general principles. In the {
ase at bar q township had issued thir- g
y bonds of $500 each. Twenty-Five of Is
hese bonds were purchased by one t
erson. Subsequently payment of the e
,terest coupons was refused on the r
round that the statute was unconsti- r
utional and void, and therefore the act | /
the township authorizing the bonds | h
5as void. The citizen lcaes his money | !,
invested under the provisions Of law G
I the State, presumed to be competent. t
his makes hard case. 1t
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|"Cats were much larger formerly
nan now
''What proof have your" II
"Wlen those T[ilknnr,v "a rs fo,1rTt IN | -