The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-12-01


power gas dynanos are reported.
The wealth of New York state is now
approximately $4,000, 100000 a gain of
more than $4,000 900 in four years.
In the course of time New York is like
iy to become a large and influential
state outside of the United States SEN
ate.
The latest scientific estimate Is that
this country's coal deposits will last
for 5000 years to come. That will give
us for some time to come enough for
our own burning and enable us to help
out other less fortuante nations-if they
are ready to pay the price.
The Preston (Eng) free library COM
mittee has decided to distribute hun
dreds Of pictures among the elementary
schools of the town, with the object Of
teaching them history The pictures
deal with the poetry, legends and his
tory of the country and the great
events Of the world.
From Calcutta Consul General Mi
chael reports that the successful dry
ing of tea leaves by exposure to the
sunshine on the Pinehurst plantation
In South Carolina has attracted the at
tention of tea growers in India and
Ceylon This method of drying is said
to preserve the natural flavor Of the
tea unimpaired
Professor Henry r. Armstrong, the
distinguished London scientist, has
Joined Lord Kelvin in protest against
the proposition submitted to the Brit
tsh association that the production of
helium from radium has established
the fact of the evolution of one ele-
nent into others Professor Armstrong
says that no one has yet handled, radi-
UNI in sufficient quantities to be able
to say precisely what it is.
An electric lamp inclosed in pref
ny little cage formed of fine metallic
chains almost touching one another
and held rigid by metallic rings above
and below, is the very latest thing in
lethal chambers. It's destined victim is
the mosquito. BY this inventon-re-
Gently shown to the savants of the
Paris academy by M, Chauln-the in
sect is pleasantly attracted to its doom.
An unseen alternating electric current
passing through the chains kills it as
1T endeavors to investigate the attract
i've luminous object inside.
AT strasburg, Germany, a dental
clinic has been opened at the university
Tor the treatment of school children
Hither all the school children are sent,
In order, by their teachers Each child
is quickly examined, as many as eighty
children being dealt with in an hour
and nearly 300 a day by a single doc
tor. Teaching goes hand in hand with
treatment. The doctor tells the child
how to use tooth brush, sees that he
uses one, and sends him home to prac-
tice with it. The movement is spread
ing. In Wiesbaden and Mulhausen
school dental clinics are to be erected.
''The decisive vote of 80 to A. says
the World. "by which the New York
Board of Education bars the Brander
Matthews spelling from the public
schools of New York reflects accurate
" the state of the public mind with re-
gard to this 'simpllfied' fad. II ought
to be one of the causes leading to a
speedy decline of the movement to mix
up a language. Congress is expected
to help forward the fall of the reform
ers by taking early action with regard
TO the photography of public docu-
ments, under pain of executive dis
pleasure"
Teheran sends this interesting bit Of
neKs to st, Petersburg; THE Ham