Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Mrs. Erbe, an Ohio bride of six weeks, failed to do all that he promised to do, all that he promised during his courting. Mrs. Erbe is evidently not much of philosopher.
 There is a travelling evangelist in southern California who makes people cry when he converts them. He Is not in favor with the settled clergy, one of whom said the other day that such revivalists estimate the results of their labors as whalers do theirs, namely, by the amount of blubber secured.
 There are in the Catholic paroohiaI schools of the United States 511, 900 pnpils. If the enrolment bore the same relation to the Catholics that the public school enrolment does to the people, the total number should be 1,36O,O Since 1885 the enrolment of the Catholic parochial schools has increased but four per cent, while that of the public schools has increased eight per cent.
 According to good authority horsefesh is largely eaten In Alsace, Germany. The choice cuts are retailed for about 8 cents per pound and the ordinary 6 cents. large quantity IS uBSQ III Guo luHAu4dOtu10 OA 50uSnkcSs All horses are given strict examination before and after being killed, and if found in any way diseased are rejected. In Strasburg the flesh of thirty horses is eaten every week.
 The following are said to be the sixteen American inventions of worldwide adop- tion: The cotton gin, blaming machine, grass mower and reaper, rotary printing press, steam navigation, hot air machine, sewing machine, the India rubber industry, machine manufacture of horseshoes, the sand blast for graving, gauge lathe, grain elevator, arti- fcial ice making on a large scale, the electro magnet in it's practical application and the telephone.
 John Francis Charles Herold of Baltimore committed suicide as respectfully and care fully as it can be done. Before he took the fatal dose of laudanum he paid all his bills, got all his property in the most portable con- dition and left the most minute directions foi his funeral and burial. His coffin was to cost exactly $25 the grave-digger was to receive I 30 for digging seven foot grave; there were ! to be six carriages at his funeral; the preach CT was to receive $2 and everyone who attend l ed was to be treated to beer and lunch at { total cost of $10.
 l When the harvest time for fruit in Cali fornia shall have fully come eighty carload of fruit will be sent eastward every week Even now forty carloads are being sent ou every week, and the demand in the easterI markets is so much greater than this suppl!
 that the prices have kept upvery high. It calculated that the shipment for the mex
 month will be about thirty-two hundred tons or about one hundred tons day. It will b
 easy to conceive that the raising, the piokini
 and the careful packing and shipment of thi amount of fruit becomes an important indus
 try in the material development of Califor
 mia.
 There are some women in St. Paul wn are trying to do good work. A number
 women there. leaders in charitable wor
 among their sex, are trying to raise $1O0,00
 for the estADsagfzment of 'fheadquarters of
 body of issrests and industries having espe
 cial res zon to the place and work of woma lin modern community" A buildin