Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

There Is clamor in New York for putting the electric light wires under ground. It is not thought just right to leave them where they can continue to kill people.
 Heavy machinery is now run by artesian well power in many parts of France, and the experience of the French shows that the deeper the well the greater the pressure and the higher the temperature. The famous Grenelle well, sunk to the depth of 1,S00 feet, and flowing daily some 500, 900 gallons, has pressure of sixty pounds to the square inch, the water being also so hot that it is used for heating the hospitals.
 Bismarck. thinks about many and great things, hut he keeps his eyes open. Recent ly, while in social converse with friend, in answer to question, he remarked that in the course of his long and eyentful life he had never met with but one thing that really mysti6ed him. ttI cannot" he said, s'ae- count for the fact that group of wax figures never by any chance look at an object they are supposed to be interested in, or at each other"
 It is related that an American gentleman who was recently visiting in England thought he would try an experiment to test the credulity of Englishmen in regard to the United States. So one day when he was with number of fairly intelligent English men he gravely told them that on various machines run by intricate clockwork on which is inscribed the legend: "Drop ten silver dollars in the slot and get divorce. {" Half of his auditors believed the story and the other half accepted it Tn it's main fea- lures, but criticised certain details.
 Says Dr. Norman Kerr, the well known writer en the physiological aspects of ineb- riety: The temperance of the Jews is pro- verbal. Extensive as my professional inter course has been with them, have never been consulted for insbriety in the person of Jew, while my advice has been sought for this complaint by very large number of Christians. In my opinion their general freedom from inebriety in almost every cline and under almost all conditions Ghere are very few exceptions to this ruIel is as much due to racial as to hygienic, and more
 
 to racial than to religious influences.
 Spanish executions are conducted in pc. culiar way. The other day young woman, her lover and an aceomplioe were garrotted in Madrid, the first executions there in five years. Twenty-four hours before the time fixed for their death they were first told when they would cease to live. Then they were taken to the prison chapel and kept there until they were marched to the scaffold. One of tho condemned was so violent in his terror that it took six warders to dress him and get him out of his cell In the chapel they received hundreds of visitors, received all the food and drink they wanted, and spent part of their time, when the wine had neryed them up, and between prayers, in playing cards. The scaffold upon which they were throttIed was erected in the prison yard, but higher than the walls. so that the 20,0 ,00G spectators gathered in the street might enjoy the spectacle. Finally the dead bodies were kept exposed to the public gaze until sunset The pressure of traffic in the Susz canal ii