Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-01-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 IS an interesting pamphlet on the re- sources of N0ithern Atizona.
 Under the high protective tlriff system even free traders are compiled to pay their workingmen good wages.
 The Chicago Milwaukee X S. Paul Railroad company talk of building an overland road 10 the Pacific coast through Aiizona.
 Tannin has been discovered as an ani- nal substance by NJ Vllion, French chemist. who finds that com weevils con- tain about three peT cent. ot It.
 Indiana republicans are already or ganizlng for the campaign this year, and propose fo roll up I maj 'Ety for the republican nominee for president.
 The San Francisco Chronicle is doing effective work for the protection of Amer ican industries, bc,h bY its suggestive cartoons and its ably written and unan- swerable arguments against free trade.
 The Cleveland cohorts knocked Sam Randall out If the first ronnd Tn Penr- sylyania at recent meeti of the state democratic central comudttee oi that state. The formef endorsed the president. l. C. Hughes IS strongly talked ot as delegate 10 the next nat'onGl democratic convention. \ better representative ct the democratic paiy, and one who has worked q sessoE and ont oi season for 1t, could not he selected.
 There was an auction sale of lots of the Churchill addition to Pnenn to-day m that city. This is one of the most beautiful and desirable pieces Of prop ety for residence purposes h Fhen~, and good puces were expected.
 A singular error Is the use cf the word "cocoa-n t. which, D. tanical authorities urge, should bs ''coc0- nut" The wrong spelling is charged upon Dr. Johnson who is sad 10 have confused .he 'coco nut" with "cocoa," which Is the produc' of the cacoa tree.
 Prescott climate Is par excellence Tor asthma, throat and pulmonary troubles. Rev. Smihey, pastor of the South Meth odist church, IF ihis place, says that ire climate has worked wonders On his health. He feels lkc q new man since taking up bis residence in Prescott.
 Aastii an engineers speak favorabiy of GieszPs pilot engine for preventing ra'l- way coils ons. l. IS worked by eiec- uitity, under the con,roI'o; the engineer and. is nn at any des.sed distance II front oi the train, which t stops auto mst.cally on encoun;e'ing sny obstacle
 Four members of the present house o representatives have already died anc three others are sligttiy and one se'l ously H. The dead ones are Moftat, o Michigan; Kane, of New York; Robert son. of Louisiana, and Piice. of Wiscon sin. The one who Is seriously Ill Is But ,erworth. oi Ohio.
 A London coroner has raised ,h' question whether a man can cough hl.n self to pieces. X broken rib was found m a deceased lunatic, when medica evidence was brought forward Io shoS that uuder certain abnormal condition bones may be broken by muscu!a efforts. or even by violent ht of cough ing.
 The responsibility of raising toe ln- terest on warrants in the various coun ties of th'S teruIoTy; of leVy'ng spe cili tax on the cl;tle industry; of raislns road taxes 10 double what they wer' beiuse and the plsssgc ofnum-rous otae laws inlmical t0 the interests Q. masses for of,he benefit oi few individuals. rests On the democratic party, which contf oileC the last lesSlture.
 What is probably he most veneraoi' piece of furniture in existence has JUS been deposited Tn the Brit tsh museum il Is the throne of Queen Hatasu, wh' reiened 10 the Nile valley some 1000 wears belore Christ and twenty-nin' years before Moses. This now dliap' dated object seems 10 he ot iienum vi,e, the carvings Of the legs being lu lad wl,h gold, and those of the bao' wi;h silver.
 The curions fact has been demonstrated by Sir John Lubbock thatcelisin kinds 0 ants are unable to exit wthoa; kee ping other ants as slaves. though why this E so he has never find 0 l. On removing the slaves from nest of fifty slave-hold ing ans, he found that the latter imme- diately commenced to die of and wer' sp. edlly reduced m number to SIX, wher the slaves were returned, and the mo- tallty ceased
 Hon. 0. C. Felton, fepnblican men ber of congress from California, has in- uoduced the only real sensible and prac tical anti-Chinese bill yet presented t congress. There IS no restrlctson, bu an entire prohibition oi Chinese imml- era,iou. Will the free uade, democrats congress pass Ii, and Hill the Presideu sienl 1t? Under its peoyis,ous none bu diplomatic representatives. and studens vii be permitted to land on Americai soil. and aii Chinese wlll De compelle' to register
 An instrument was filed for record to day which probably forebodes good to' th,e section. Ii was very voluninous the fees for recording amounting to Sf5 and was a mousage from the Cope Basin Copper company to the Farmers Loan and Trust company. oi New forK s.,,ra ,he payment ct SIoo,Cco if