The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-30

Great White Bear, great-grandson of
Tall Tree, once chief of the Crows, is a
bugler in the United States Navy.
One Of the finest patches of opal ever
found in Australia has been unearthed
at White Cliffs. The parcel, which
realized $4,000. contains some of the
largest and most brilliant opals yet
found. One, stone weighs twenty-one
ounces.
In the center of Kildine, an island in
the North Sea, is perhaps the most Gu
rious lake in the world. The surface
Of its waters is quite fresh and supports
fresh water creatures, but deep down it
is as salt as the greatest depths of the
sea, and salt water fish live in it,
Alexander Robertson, former teller of
the Wells Fargo bank, who was serv-
ing time for stealing $4,000 from that
institution, was pardoned recently. In
the recent outbreak at the State prison
he risked his life to prevent the escape
of five condemned murderers, and his
freedom was his reward.
The fine mosque at Larissa, which
stood near the bridge over the Peneios,
and was such a familiar object to all
who were in that part of Thessaly dur
ing the Greco-Turkish war, has been
destroyed by an accidental fire. The
most picturesque Turkish relic in
Greece has thus disappeared.
The Sultan's notion of a first-class
newspaper correspondent for Macedonia
is one who will write to order and, like
a scurvy politician, seem to see the
things he does not" 1t was not in that
way that the Russells, Stanleys, Mac
Gahans and Blowitzes were made.
The hunters score of deer in the Ad-
irondacks SO far this season foots up
nearly fifteen hundred, the Robin
Hoods native to the region asserting
that the woods are still full of them.
The number taken is big yield, but,
according to the same authority, it is
less than the increase under the present
efficient nroteetiva Flaws
Even the poor in the United States
and England eat white bread. In most
Of the continental countries of Europe
rye bread is the staple. The Russians
eat buckwheat. The Laplanders have
bread made of oaten meal mixed with
pine bark, and the Icelanders make
their flour from lichens. Banana flour
is used in the South Sea Islands.
The capitol at Washington being
"dry" nowadays, the saloons in the i'm
mediate vicinity do thriving business.
The saloon nearest to the capitol on
Pennsylvania avenue now displays a
sign which reads, from the capitol side
First Chance" On the side which one
sees on approaching the capitol is the
legend: Last Chance"
To the Montreal Gazette a correspon-
dent at st. Johns, Newfoundland,
writes: Confederation will not be a
plank with any party at the elections in
November, 1904. The prosperous condi-
tion of the great bulk of the people will
render them satisfied as they are with
out risking the uncertainties of union
with the strong Dominion
"A peculiar business transaction was
recorded in Lebanon, Pennsylvania,
when Grocer John Light transferred to
Baker William A. Garrett a fifteen-acre
farm in Berks county for a considera-
tion Of 1000 loaves of bread. The bread
is to be delivered in quantities such as
may be needed to supply the daily de-
mand of patrons at Grocer Lights
store.
The Spectator thinks that Plus X. is
visibly falling under. the spell of the pa
pal system, but also thinks that his
character is not as yet clearly develop
ed; "he remains a separate, possibly a
marked. personality" 1t considers
Francis Joseph's lot an unenviable one,
even though he is "still regarded by the
courtesy Of Europe as the first secular
monarch In the world"
A quaint, but not impractical, device
Cor enabling passengers who have
alighted from a railway carriage to find
their compartment again is that which
has been tried on a French railway. 1t
is a system Of pictures. On the window
Of the end compartment of each car
rage is different picture. A windmill
or q soldier or horse. This makes
recognition easy. It is difficult in Eng
land and on the continent to find the