Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A young woman of Dakota is sure that there is such thing as luck in this uncer tain world. She moved few months ago from the Black Hills, and, while debating whether or not to move her old cook stove also, was offered ,0e0 shares of Iron Hill stock for it. The stock was then thought to be worth just about as much as the paper on which it was printed. She took the offer, has already been offered $2 900 for her stock, is holding on for more money, and the shares are still rising.
 whose progress will be watched with interest is that of Wong Chung against two men who led the anti-Chinese mob in Oregon City the other day. Wong Chung has had these men charged with breaking the federal law of 1874 known as the kluklux statute. This measure was passed in order to protect the negroes of the South against midnight visitations, and punishes with fines from $500 to $5,O0O and imprisonment from six months to six years all persons "who conspirs or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of anot ther for the purpose of depriving either directly or indirectly any person or class of persons of the equal pro- lection of the laws.''
 Some experiments on dog with reference ts the effects of sundry beverages on diges-
 tion have been recently described by Signor
 Ogata. The observations were made by
 means of stomaohal fistula (quite healed);
 the dog was fed on horsefesh and fbrin from OK blood. The following conclusions (which
 may not be strictly applicable to man, accus- toned to the drinks named) were reached; CD Water, water containing carbonic acid, tea and coffee in moderate amounts, do not disturb digestion. @ Beer, wine and bran dy retard digestion considerably at first, un- til absorbed: and in the case of beer the ex- tractive matters act thus as well as the alec hol Thus beer retards digestion more than wine containing the same quantity of alco- hol. (3) Sugar (cane and grape) retards digss- tion considerably. (9 Common salt accele rates it distinctly.
 Hugh T. McMurtry of St. Louis, who is an official of high rank in the Knights of Labor, expresses his fears that the order has grown too fast and has not strength in proportion te its bulk. He says: Even now I believe the organization is about to break in two in the middle simply of it's own weight. It has grown too rapidly, the sole object being to increase the number of it's members, regard less of all other features. Political dena- gogues have got into it, and there are already fights under the surface everywhere for the control locally of the assemblies But the worst feature is that reckless men of very low grade of intelligence and men of turbu-
 lent and criminal characteristics have gained admission to the order in such numbers that there are everywhere advocates of agitation and men eager to ''strike" on the least or even on no provocation.
 During the recent struggle of the Union Pacific with the snow blockade newly ap- pointed official found an opportunity to make himself very ridiculous. Hitherto it had l been the custom to send out heavy trains, which had to break the snow, with four or ! five engines coupled together in the ordinary
 fashion The official in question, after
 studying the problem, decided that it would
 be fine scheme to have the engines coupled
 together by means of long timbers placed on
 either side, and riveted strongly to each To- comotive. In this way all the engines would
 move at once against the drift and scatter it l to the four winds of heaven. The scheme
 was tried. Everything went swimmingly
 until sharp curve was met. The engines
 being coupled together in manner which
 left no play of action, it was impossible to
 round the curve Before the danger was mo- l ticed, however, it was too late, and every
 one of the five engines was ditched.
 A great many cities and towns of this country will be interested in the experience of