Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The members of the Church Congress which begins it's meetings to-day are heartily well comed to New Haven. We hope their stay here will be entirely pleasant.
 Paper is put to queer uses nowadays. A manufacturer in Bres,au has recently built at his factory chimney over fifty feet in height entirely of paper. The blocks used in it's construction, instead of being brick or stone, were made of layers of compressed pa per joined with silicious cement. The ad- vantages are the fireproof nature of the ma- terial, the minimum of danger from light ming, and great elasticity.
 The Minneapolis Tribune makes good who have recently held their national gather ing in that city. It thinks that the family idea has got to be weakened great al be- fore this movement succeeds. "On the av- erage," it says. ''the man does fairly repre- sent the sentiments of his household in out ward and public matters. The average man is family man, and the presumption is that women will not be solitary atoms, but con- neeted in some intimate way with a house. nOlO. 1u6 COLACS LAOlClOIO oS thO social unit and the primary political unit.
 The black citizens of Kentucky think it about time for them to make protest, and they are going to hold State convention at Lexington the 26th of next month to discuss their exclusion from the jury box. the police force and fire departments of the towns, and the passenger cars on the railroads, the heavy sentences inflicted On them by the courts, the frequent lynching of accused negroes without trial, etc, and to make an appeal to their white neighbors for justice and fair play. They probably will not get justice and fair play immediately, but if their meeting is judiciously conducted it will have 8 good effect.
 Everybody who knows anything about him knows that the New York goat is an en- terprising animal, but the latest story that is told of him shows his enterprise in new light A lady living on St. Nicholas avenue left her front door open. While policeman was standing on the opposite corner goat walked calmly across the street, entered the house, went up to the second story and into bedroom, which the lady had prepared for company. When the lady showed her com pany up stairs to the room she found the goat lying in the middle of the bed, chewing it's cud, while over on the opposite corner of the street still stood the model policeman, chewing his cud.
 Professor Preece recommends as among the essentials to be observed in attaching light ming conductors to houses that there should be no joint, unless it be well sol dered one. Chain-link rods, braided rope, tubing, etc., are to be avoided. The ground connection must be sound and good. Each conductor, if there be more than one, should have separate ground connection, but are also to be connected together, also connected with the lead roofing and all masses Of metal in their neighborhood. It is, he says, not necessary to insulate these conductors, and there should be no points or acute angles in the conductor-the straighte- and more di- rect it's course to the earth the better. Tel egraph wire, one-fourth of an inch in diameter, is claimed to be superior for this purpose, and is largely employed in Eng land. It is also believed to be safe estimate that the area protected by conductor is equal to it's height above the ground.
 A comparative table of the strength of the