Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-05-31
EDITORIAL MOTIFS.
Judge Thurman Is no candidate, according
to himself, and he ought to know.

Mr.. Blaine leaves the arena with honor. A
large majority of the voters in the Reppbli-
can party are sincerely sorry that they will
not have a chance to vote for him, and not
few of them feel like certain Mr.. Bray Of
the Plumed Knights own State, who is
credited with saying that he'd vote for Blaine
if Blaine were dead. eyes, by thunder; I'd
vote for his administrator"
An American business man, writing from
Bradford, England, says that business there
is very poor, and every one in trade circles
asks about the prospects for the Mills bill.
Their idea is that if passed it will give Eng-
lish manufactures splendid boom. This
correspondent says that several of the largest
manufacturers in Yorkshire are discussing
States in case our tariff is not reduced to q
considerable extent.
To illustrate the result of high license in
Philadelphia it is stated that the saloons in
1887, if set side by side, allowing each an
average of twenty feet front, would form a
line nearly twenty miles long, which would
stretch from Philadelphia to Bristol. Under
the new arrangement the line would be lit
tie more than four miles long. This week
4, 426 saloons will be closed up in Philadel-
phia, leaving only !, ,347 places where intoxi-
cants may lawfully be sold to sober adults.
The license fees from this reduced number of
saloons will bring to the city the snug sum
of $673, 900.
All the Mormons are not discouraged.
''We need not be disturbed by the dark
clouds, )" says Apostle Snow. "There never
was time when we SEere moving more
swiftly in the path of exaltation. Some of
the Elders have been to the psnitentiary, and
they came out better looking and they will
grow better looking. How far these perse-
cutions may go it is not for me to know. 1t
is not for me to care. Prosecutions become
pleasure to those who suffer for righteous
ness. 1t was SO with the three Hebrew chill
dren. There is no point at which we can
say we have suffered enough to receive the
rewards that God has promised us. We
ought never to say we have had enough"
The Prophetic conference, which has just
been held in Exeter Hall, London, laid out
quite q programme. If we are to believe the
seers who were present there will be within
the next three years such wars and revolu-
tions in Europe as shall change twenty-three
kingdoms into ten. On March 5, 1896, rain
or shine, there is to be grand hegira of
144, 600 living Christians to heaven. From
that time on the Christians who remain are
to be massacred by the million, and universal
pestilence, famines and earthquakes are to
devastate the globe. Finally, on April Il, {,
1901, Our Lord is to descend again to earth.
All this was firmly agreed on by the CONFER
ence, and published to the unheeding world
con the authority of the Prophet Daniel"
London Truth sensibly remarks 1t ia q
curious fact that despite every imaginable
combination of foreign names. the whole of
the Covent Garden sopranos. with one excep-
tion, are English or American artists. There
are, of course. reasons why Mrs. Gye should
call herself Nine. Albani, why Mrs. Cover
should shine forth as Mme. Nordica, Mrs.
Wartegg as Mime. Minnie Hauek and Mrs.
Hutchinson as Nine. Valleria, because it was
by their maiden or stage titles that their
celebrity was first established But why, in
Australian lady from Melbourne call herself
Madame Melba," an American soprano dub
herself Madame Columbia" or-to pass
from the ladies to the gentlemen-should
that clever basso, Mr.. Nash of Salisbury seek
to conceal his identity under the ridiculous
title of ''Signor Novarss" The only soprano
in the party who retains her English title OF
"Miss" is pretty girl named Margaret Nc
i Intyre from Perth.
Bsllite, tbs new explosive which has beer
invented by M. Lamm of Stockholm, seems
to be very effective affair. Some instruc.
tive experiments have been made with it II
France under the superintendent of NJ. .Lamn
himself. A tremendous lump of rock wai
drilled, and the bellite being put into ths
hole was caused to explode by contact witt
Illuminating mercury. The explosion wa'
not loud, nor did the fragments fly danger
ously into the air, as is the case with blast
ing by dynamite. On the contrary the rocl
gave way in huge flakes. Experiments were
then made to show the safety of the ex
Dlosive as compared with the matter used b.
the Invinoibles. Bellite was placed on al
iron rail and was struck with sledge ham
mer, when it merely became heated, but die
not explode. A small eartouche of the ma
terial was placed on strong iron rail ant
ignited. 1t reduced the rail into fragments
some of which few into perilous proxfmit.
to persons who were placidly looking on from
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