Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Some are expecting to see the great French copper syndicate collapse. If the truth is told about it's operations it ought to. The statement of the April fire loss in the United States and Canada shows a slight im-
 proyement. In 1887 the loss in that month
 amounted to s11, ,75O.O OoO This year it is $11 1896, $50.
 Vermont's maple sugar crop this spring is
 in quantity and in quality above the average
 owing to recently introduced Improvements
 in it's manufacture. The yield is estimated
 at 15, 1000, 900 pounds.
 Governor Swineford of Alaska again attacks
 the performances of the Alaska Commercial company. By and by perhaps the govern
 ment will pay some attention to this matter.
 If Governor Swineford knows what he Is talking about an investigation is very much needed.
 There are many ways of explaining the evil that is in the world. There is @ prominent
 lady in Philadelphia who has written for pri-
 vate circulation little social tract, in which
 she takes the view that very little mischief would happen in the world that does happen
 if men would stay home evenings with their
 wives Intemperance, crime, divorce and even political corruption she attributes to this cause.
 The agricultural distress in England is H. lustrated by 8 letter from a Bedfordshire clergyman to the London Times, who says that the few men whom the farmers are able to hire receive on an average nine shillings,
 or $2.25 a week, subject to deduction for
 days when work is interrupted by stormy weather. He says that he has assisted two strong young men to emigrate who had been earning from four shillings and sixpsnce te
 five shillings per week, with deductions for
 all time lost on account of bad weather.
 Some of the faith eurers don't appear to
 have much faith in their own cure. A regu-
 lar physician of Boston states that the most
 prominent Christian scientist 'of one of the
 six largest cities of Massachusetts" was re-
 gently taken ill with 8 slight ailment. She
 struggled along by herself for few days and
 then, pretty well alarmed, called for him to
 attend her, and she gratefully and willingly
 took all the medicine he prescribed And the
 Springfield Union says that there is physi-
 clan in Springfield who has more than once
 been called upon to cure the complaints of
 Mrs. Eddy, the very high priesteas of so- called Christian science.
 Lieutenant M. E. Hall, U.SN., has been experimenting with an automobile torpedo
 invented by himself at the torpedo station in Newport, RI. The torpedo, which is made of aluminium brass, presents some novel features. The diving rudder with the intri- cate mechanism common in fish torpedoes is done away with. The flask containing the motive power occupies eight feet of the length of the torpedo, which is twelve feet
 long. The engine employed, owing to the l novel way of mounting it and it's automatic l character, utilizes the full expansive force of | the compressed air. In the runs that have
 been made the torpedo developed high speed, | although only one-third of the maximum l pressure was carried, and the diving service
 has answered it's purpose as far as it has been
 tested. Some further trials are to be made
 shortly.
 The Monde de Ia Science describes fac- tsry which is said to be aourishing at St.