Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-06-02
EDTTORIAL NOTES.

pers are discouraged.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The British army authorities are pushing
experiments in military cycling. A regular
bicycle corps has been formed, with 100 men,
of whom eleven are officers.
Many people believe that the Jews are in
clined to drive hard bargains, not only with
their customers, but with those in their en-
ploy; yet the recent official investigation of
the 'tsweating'' system in vogue in the Lon
don clothing trade showed that the best
prices are paid by Jewish houses, and their
employees get the best treatment. One Jewish
firm offered to raise the remuneration % pea
cent. if the trade would adopt the principle
generally, but the other dealers would not
agree to it.
An English physician has shown why some
people can digest milk readily and others can
not. He says: In the digestive fluids of the
stomach there exists special ferment by
which the fleah-forming part of the milk, the
cheese or caseine, is speedily digested. This
ferment continues in action throughout life
in some persons, but not in all; SO that there
are some who can digest milk at all times,
and others who cannot digest it at any time.
In those who too exclusively feed on flesh
meat and starchy substances the particular
milk ferment ceases to be produced, and the
digestion of milk ceases to be q natural act
Milwaukee has large German population,
and it has had German taught in the public
schools, but q sentiment is developing in the
city which may lead TO the abolition of the
study to make room for more generally USE
full courses. st. Louis has only recently
abolished German-the high and normal
schools of course retain the study-and the
falling off in attendance which had been pre-
dicted has not taken place. On the contrary
there was a gain in the total enrolment and
in the average daily attendance. Twelve per
cent. of the school time was formerly given
to German, but is now used for writing, lam
guage lessons and arithmetic.
Colorado has had this spring heavier
rainfall than was ever known there. It has
extended throughout tho State, and the
| region formerly known as the great Ameri
can desert is blooming like q garden. The
| irrigating bitches, made at enormous cost,
are for the present useless, because drainage
| is more needed than watering. Heavy crops
of hay will be taken this year from lands
that have never before produced anything,
and great Yields of all kinds of farm pro-
duce are expected. The Colorado people
think the increased rainfall is caused by the
breaking up of SO much new land by settlers
| and the planting of trees and shrubbery.
Although glass pipes of large diameter have
not yet been successfully produced, the opin-
| ion has been expressed by those engaged in
| the manufacture of glass on a large scale that
| the time is not far distant when some method
| of casting such pipes satisfactorily and cheap
| Iy will be devised; and it is believed that,
made in similar form to the present cast iron
| pipes, with some suitable mechanism for q
Joint, and of malleable glass, water pipe
would thus be formed to which there could
scarcely be an objection. Strong, tough.
| smooth and indestructible, and made of a
| material that is found almost anywhere, it is
thought not improbable that in time when
ever large quantity of pipe is required in
| any one locality furnace will be erected and
the pipes be there made.
An Englishman who has been recently Wis
| iting American ranches owned by English
men has this to gsay about one of these
ranches in the London Economist: found
on that ranch manager drawing salary OF
S25, 900 a year and an assistant manager
drawing salary of s6, $50. In addition to
| this they had spent thousands of pounds OF
4 "a
least as the cattle business is concerned. ]
found on that western prairie ranch located
many, many miles from railroad, servants
dressed in red livery, and-many other things
| fully as ridiculous. The men who should
have devoted the greater part of their time
to the management of the company's busi-
ness spent most of their time hunting and
fishing, very pleasant pastime.
The North American Review has obtained
from the captains of a number Of the best
concerning the relative safety of fast and
slow vessels Almost all of them incline tc
the belief that a fast steamer is safer than 8
slow one, especially to the passengers that
happen to be upon board of her. Indeed
one nautical authority seems to make the
point that those venturing upon the ses
should choose swift ship for the reason thai
in a collision the chances are that they would
Eeome out scot free, while those on the othel
craft would be sent very quickly to the bot
tom. Another captain makes the point tina
when the headway of steamer is reduced
as, for example. in fog, she cannot be SO
readily managed; that is, she will not respon'
', SO quickly to her helm, cannot be backed a
full speed, while, in reducing the pressure o
steam, the noise is necessarily 80 great as t.