The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-30

Acdrlv duferllSerS dre lilhileu ~ 1890
own immediate business (oll matter to be
A unobjectionablc). and their contracts do moi
Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.
ing new and Is centimes stamps. Five
hundred competitive designs have been
sent IN
Russell Sage has become, rather late
In life, billiard enthusiast and spends
several evenings week in that form
Of relaxation, in which he has become
an expert.
One thousand and forty million gal
Ions Of beer brewed yearly in the
United Kingdom equals the total
amount brewed by America, France
and Austria.
Letters written by Queen Victoria are
already increasing in value in London,
and the other day brief three-line
note of hers, written in her own hand,
sold for e25.
The Paris automobile postal vans
have given so much satisfaction since
their Inauguration, on March rs, that
the postal authorities have given or
ders for the construction of five more
vehicles.
It seems to be impossible to compel
the South to stop the disfranchisemen
of the negro, but there is an action that
Congress can and should take, and that
Is to make the delegation in Congress
conform to the number of legal voters.
Springfield, Mass, Union.
In 1900 the Indian canoe was practi-
cally the only floating vehicle on the
great lakes, which hold one-third of all
the fresh water in the world. To-day
the lake fleet numbers several thou
6and steel steamers, with seventy ship
yards on the shores of the lakes to add
constantly to the number
Manly Dr. I,ainsford has addressed
the following note of apology to various
Of the leading New York journals: "A
day or two ago. under the influence of
strong feeling, in a public address, /
spake unadvisedly with my lips
wish to say, as publicly, that I regret
it," 1t takes brave and good man to
thus publicly acknowledge an error,
and DR.. Rainsford is both.
The Lone Star State is happy at last,
and as the New York Tribune says, 1--WE
now hear much more Of kerosene spout
ers and gusf1ers than Of the coiners of
oleaginous phrases, metaphors and Pc
rotations. Oil has supplanted eloquence.
and that colossal commonwealth is 'ex-
ulting in an expansion of prosperity
loftier and larger than any of its not
able achievements of the past"
believing says the editor of The
Gaylord (Kan) Herald that 1t is the |
duty Of every man to be as good to his |
wife as circumstances will permit, we |
have just bought our better half nice
new hoe and garden rake, and If some
Of our subscribers, who ought to have
done SO long ago, will pay up we shall |
buy her a wheelbarrow and shovel"
The editor evidently does not realize
how much more he would enjoy himself
If he had bought his better half fine
new spring hat.
The Providence Journal truly enough
remarks: "a man who, a short time
ago, had money in good investments
yielding him an average of four per
cent, now sometimes has to realize that
he security which he thought so valu-
able has become a loss of one or two
Der cent. 1t is worth more than for
lie cannot obtain larger return from
t. If he allows his money to remain
where it is he is the poorer for not
eizing an opportunity to sell out If
lie sells out he no longer has so good
n investment to store away" {
80
An outbreak of typhoid fever has &C.
urred in Lambeth, Eng, owing to in
ected mangles. Forty-one cases oc- ,
urred in twenty-four hours, all within !
restricted area. There was much in i;
communication between places and /,
antilles living in different houses. Many +
f the inhabitants, after washing their r
lothes in their own homes, took them I
o some neighbor to be mangled. Owing +
D this custom, bedding and clothing of +
hose i'll with typhoid fever We're man +
led in the same machine, thus spread