Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The parade yesterday afternoon and the ball last night were fine affairs.

The parade yesterday afternoon and the ball last night were fine affairs.
 The fight in New York waxes warm. Davenport is accused of being aristocratic, hard hearted, and interested in wine com pany, while Hill is called "a pal of Tweed. !"
 The new industry of ostrich raising is re- ported to be meeting with success in Cali fornia and large additions to the focks of the huge birds will soon be on their way from South Africa.
 A curious experiment is about to be made in England. Lady Granville Gordon and a distinguished graduate of Girton college are to open stores for dressmaking and millinery. It is said that their main purpose is not to make money, but to encourage national taste in dress and to found, if possible, distinct ly English school. This sounds well and we hope the ladies will make some money.
 The large chart that was prepared by MT. Burt of the Forestry division in the Agricul- tural department at Washington for the use of the recent Forestry Congress" that met in Boston disclosed some interesting facts. The data are known to be generally accurate and they show that there are 2S, ,OOO, 900 acres of improved land, 445, ,OO0, 900 acres of forest, and 73O. 900, 900 acres of unimproved and waste untimbered land. Incidentally it is shown that forests are disappearing at the rate of 25, 1000, 900 acres each yearl The forest product during the census year was 1S,O0O,- 900, ,000 feet, broad measurement. Last year it was 2S, 900, 900, ,0O0 feet.
 Whale fishing in small steamers of the coast of New England is getting to be busi- ness of some importance, four steamers hay ing been steadily engaged during the past season. They cruise off the Maine and Mass achusetts coast as far south as Cape Cod. A bomb lance, fired from gun held at the shoulder, is the weapon employed in killing the whales, about fifty of which have been taken this year. They will average sixty feet in length and twenty-five tons ill weight. Each one yields about twenty barrels of oil, two barrels of meat, five tons of dry chum and two tons of bone, the value of which amounts to about four hundred dollars. As the men become expert in the capture the whales become shy and keep more in deep
 
 at present conducted, since dead whale us- ually sinks and can hardly be recovered from a depth of more than forty fathoms.
 The Supreme court of New York has 1e- gently decided that if wife obtains di- vorce from her husband and subsequently, the husband dies she is not his widow and is not entitled to share of his personal ss- tate. The court holds that the decree of di- vorce dissolves the marriage contract and ends the marriage relation. When the man dies the woman is not his wife; consequent ly she is not his widow after his death. To the argument that the law was not intended to de- prive an innocent wife divorced from guilty husband of her share in his property, the re- ply is made that the apparent injustice is remedied by the alimony allowed her. This decision applies to personal property. It has been held in New Ycrk that divorce ob- tained by the wife does not cut off her right