Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-21
EDITORIAL NOTES,

II a Colorado town on recent Sunday
evening performance was given which was
advertised as "a Grand Sacred Dog Fight"
Dom Pedro, with s4oo, 900 year promised
to him, is perhaps in the situation that is
sometimes depicted on the variety stage.
There, 1t may be remembered, one actor asks
another, "What salary do you geta" The
reply names q large sum. Then the inquirer
leans over and asks q member of the orches-
ira what he gets. The reply is, "Four dol
lars q week" Then the inquirer says,
"YouIl Get yours"
The scheme of the Hungarian government,
already in operation, of buying up tsverns
throughout the country and turning them
Into school houses, will be watched with in
terest in all countries. Of course it compre-
hends certain paternal measures which could
be practiced only in monarohical countries,
but it is bold and interesting experiment in
social science none the less. The government
evidently buys up the places for valuation
fixed by q commission and then suppresses
them. The endesvor has a noble ring to it,
and was evidently suggested by humanita-
rian of most practical turn.
There is a rich family of the name of Loft
ing in England, whose fortune was founded
by the thimble. The first ever seen in Eng
land was made in London less than two
hundred years ago by a metal worker named
John Lofting. The usefulness of the article
commended it at once to all who used the
needle, and Lofting acquired large fortune.
The implement was then called the thumb
bell, it being worn on the thumb when in
use, and its shape suggesting the rest of the
name. This clumsy mode of utilizing 1t was
soon changed, however, but the name, soft
ened into "thimble," remains.
It is not always, perhaps net often, that an
important discovery particularly benefits the
dissoversr. The opening of the diamond
fields of South Africa, from which 81 200, =
o00, 900 worth Of diamonds was taken, was
due to the pertinacity Of a man named
O'Reilly, who was trader among the natives
and frst conceived the idea that the country
was rich in diamonds and gold. O'Reilly
himself did not 60 to the diggings and did
not profit by them. On the contrary, the
rush to the diamond fields ruined his trade
| with the natives, and South African CORE
spondent says that he is now working for his
living. There is probably a moral in this
story If we could emily get at it.
Sir Edward Sullivan of England in q
pamphlet on "Heme Industries" gives the
American free traders something to think
about, and the American workingmen even
more. Hear what he says: In spite Of ex-
cessive cheapness, there are millions in this
country who only taste fresh meat once q
week or once fortnight. The pauper class
numbers 7,0oe, 900 out of population OF
"a, ,000, 600; there are IA, 100000 receiving
less than ten shillings six pence week. The
working classes have only been allowed tc
see the face of the free trade medal; but
there is reverse even more important thar
the face. The face of the medal is cheap
ness; the reverse of it Is cheap labor.
China ID queer country. A recent fall II
the price of tea in all the great markets o.
the world caused several great merchants il
China to suspend. Instead Of going to Pari'
or Montreal to spend the remainder Of thei
lives in luxury, these heathen tea sellers com
mitted suicide or shut themselves up in mo
nasteries. A few cannot be found, dead o.
alive and IN IL rrasuuoed that &hav fhrou